For several weeks now, I’ve been obsessed with this score…
It’s hardly the first time. When I was a kid, before I watched a lot of movies and certainly before I know what a “Brat Pack” was, I got obsessed with this song after seeing it set to fireworks…
When I did start getting into films, it wasn’t long before this one was purchased this cassette…
A few years later, around the time I turned twelve, the budding baseball fan in me became transfixed by this track…
Just a few years later, like so many other film fans, I found myself playing this one on loop…
Not long after that, again like so many other film fans, I couldn’t get enough of these chiming tones…
Of course, as I got into the classics, I soon found myself humming this one to myself…
Like so many of you, I haven’t been able to stop playing this one for the last two years…
Likewise, anytime I’m feeling a bit nervous, I find that humming this track from three years ago settles me down quite nicely…
What is it about a great score that sticks with us? Before you know what’s hit you, the track has burrowed itself into your ear and stuck there. It reminds us both of the film we’ve watched, and those moments in our own lives we quietly wish had a movie soundtrack playing under them.
Not to underline my soundtrack geekery further, but I do have a playlist on my iPod right now with some of my favorite tracks:
What’s The Score? Playlist
- Hand Covers Bruise – Trent Reznor (THE SOCIAL NETWORK)
- The Dream is Collapsing – Hans Zimmer (INCEPTION)
- The Game Has Changed – Daft Punk (TRON LEGACY)
- Summer Overture – Clint Mansell (REQUIEM FOR A DREAM)
- Liberation – AR Rahman (127 HOURS)
- Life – Mark Streitenfeld (PROMETHEUS)
- End Titles – Tom Tykwer (CLOUD ATLAS)
- Proven Lands – Jonny Greenwood (THERE WILL BE BLOOD)
- Able-Bodied Seaman – Jonny Greenwood (THE MASTER)
- Moving On – Nick Cave (THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES)
- Postcards – Alexandre Desplat (CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON)
- Perfection – Clint Mansell (BLACK SWAN)
- The Surface of The Sun – John Murphy (SUNSHINE)
- Sonata for Cello and Piano – Mutato Muzika (RUSHMORE)
- Briony – Dario Marianelli (ATONEMENT)
- Discombobulate – Hans Zimmer (SHERLOCK HOLMES)
- Devil is In The Details – Chemical Brothers (HANNA)
- The Kings Speech – Alexandre Desplat
- The Poet Acts – Phillip Glass (THE HOURS)
- Road to Chicago – Thomas Newman (ROAD TO PERDITION)
- Foreground – Grizzly Bear (BLUE VALENTINE)
- God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi – Hans Zimmer (THE THIN RED LINE)
- Test Drive – John Murphy (HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON)
- You’re So Cool – Hans Zimmer (TRUE ROMANCE)