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The Most Powerful Soundtrack to You

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Some movies, games, and TV shows just would not be the same without their powerful soundtracks. Music sets a mood, puts viewers/players on the edge, and can tug at one's heartstrings. My question to your guys is:

What movie/game/TV show has the most powerful soundtrack? What music made you almost tear up? What music filled you with suspense?

For me, that would be Inception. Hans Zimmer is one of, if not my favorite composer around. Just about every movie soundtrack he composes is beautiful, and Inception is no exception. The music in the theater just blew me and my friends away. The track Time is especially beautiful.
 
Movie: Pirates soundtrack, first movie. I love it no matter where I hear it or what it's played on, it always sounds amazing! It's very driving and intense. It fills me with anticipation and gets me on the edge of my seat, even when I'm the one playing it XD

Game: Okami. Wow, it's almost a sin to play this game without sound.

Another Movie: The Cat Returns. I could listen to this soundtrack for hours, each song provides strong visuals that take you right back to the movie ^_^
 
For movie, it is really hard to say. But for now, I'm going to say Totoro. Totoro has a beautiful soundtrack along with an amazing story, mixed with nostalgia. I think it could make me weep with joy if I heard it at the right time.

For videogames, oddly enough it might be Harvest Moon: A wonderful life. The soundtrack is what creates the village and makes it feel very lifelike and gives you more of a connection.
Honorable mention goes to Legend of Zelda OOT and Majora's mask
 
For the movie, I'd say the soundtrack of Amélie. I love Yann Tiersen and musics of Amélie are very variant and diverse. While listening Amélie's soundtrack, I can nearly see idyllic streets of Paris, smell fresh vegetables which are sold in the market and hear, how children play and run around with each others. Fascinating.

But videogames wise, I really enjoy the soundtracks of Okami, Final Fantasy X and any Zelda games.
 
For a movie? I would have to say....The Crow. No question.
TV shows don't typically have decent soundtracks so I don't normally bother with them. Unless we're talking anime, and then I have to say I rather enjoyed the soundtrack to Gunslinger Girl. Haven't really ever played a game that had a song I cared about till the end of Mass Effect and I heard the Faunts - just blew me away.
 
Any film that John Williams has ever scored could never receive a better score from someone else. Ever.

That's NOT to say that nobody else does good scores—what would Star Trek: First Contact be without Jerry Goldsmith? The Lion King without Hans Zimmer? An American Tail without James Horner? The list goes on.

As for video game scores, I of course have to bring up Pokémon. Without Junichi Masuda's distinctive style, it just wouldn't be the same.
 
I don't really have favorite individual soundtracks so much as I do composers - Yoko Shimomura (best known for Kingdom Hearts) and John Williams are clear winners in their fields, though some individual series such as Cowboy Bebop and the Pokémon games can stand on their own marvelously. My absolute favorite really depends on what mood I'm in - I try not to isolate one absolute favorite.
 
My vote goes to the Blade Runner soundtrack, by Vangelis. True, I'm heavily biased as it's my favourite movie, but then the haunting score is one of the (many) reasons why I love it so much.
 
Movie: The Lord of the Rings (the entire trilogy). I don't think I've ever really heard something as alternately beautiful, desolate, majestic, and powerful in any one film.
Game: Super Mario Galaxy. There are only a few reasons I prefer the original Mario Galaxy to the second, but the soundtrack is definitely one of them. Also: Gusty Gardens Galaxy.
TV: Hmmm... I always thought the music of Lost complemented the nature of the show extremely well, so I guess I'll go with that. Then again, the music of Avatar: The Last Airbender was also pretty good, and the series finale was mind blowing in terms of orchestration, so it could really go either way...
 
Movie: 'Stand by Me' - The soundtrack is so fitting, and really made me cry at the time. I love all the oldies like 'Buddy Holly'
and 'Ben E King'..that was back when talent existed and music wasn't some idiot with too much make up lip synching to songs someone
else wrote for them >.>

Video Game: 'Harvest Moon Back to Nature' for PS1. It was really atmospheric and very catchy. Not annoying in the slightest, and the Winter theme is excellent. All the music was beautifully composed for a video game. I have soundtrack album on my computer, I still listen to it.

For the most catchy music in any video game EVER! It has to be 'Parappa the Rapper'..it takes music to a new level..I also love the soundtrack to 'Viv Ribbon'

That game was so underrated :.(
 
a few Bionicle songs, Hero, Creeps from the deep, Gravity Hurts, all brilliant songs.

Oh, and Dialga's fight to the finish.
 
For movies, the Star Wars saga with its beautiful score.

For games, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2 and Pokemon.
 
Movie "Inception"

Game I dunno

Music in general "A Tout Le Monde" by Megadeth or "The Man Who Sold The World" by Nirvana
 
Arc Blader said:
TV: Hmmm... I always thought the music of Lost complemented the nature of the show extremely well, so I guess I'll go with that..
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I could not agree more. I was going to post saying Lost, but since you already did I'll just quote you. :p At the very end of the final episode, that soundtrack, it literally made me want to cry at the ending (I didn't, of course, I manned up and held it in :p ). It's probably the only TV show that made feel like that because of the soundtrack, so I'll have to go with that.
 
Arc Blader said:
Movie: The Lord of the Rings (the entire trilogy). I don't think I've ever really heard something as alternately beautiful, desolate, majestic, and powerful in any one film.
Game: Super Mario Galaxy. There are only a few reasons I prefer the original Mario Galaxy to the second, but the soundtrack is definitely one of them. Also: Gusty Gardens Galaxy.
TV: Hmmm... I always thought the music of Lost complemented the nature of the show extremely well, so I guess I'll go with that. Then again, the music of Avatar: The Last Airbender was also pretty good, and the series finale was mind blowing in terms of orchestration, so it could really go either way...
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Gusty Garden Galaxy is good, yes, but nothing beats Buoy Base.
[video=youtube;WsAFpdAgh6A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsAFpdAgh6A[/video]
 
Movie: I'm going to haft to say 'Castle in (or was it 'of'?) the Sky'. I loved orchestra music in it mixed with the scenery and plot.

Game: Hmm... I don't know. I really like Okami's songs, and I also liked Mother 3's (It Is Finished... *sniffles*), as well as Chrono Trigger AND The Legend of Zelda (more specifically Twilight Princess... Midna... *sniffles*)

TV: Eh, I don't watch much TV, I go on utube so nothing to put here... Pokemon?
 
Movie: The Back to the future triology. The music just makes it extra exciting in most cases there.

Video game: Ace Attorney. Seriously, convicting criminals just doesn't feel the same without this in the background.

Tv series: I have no idea for now.
 
No soundtrack in the history of anything even compares to Giygas' background music from Earthbound.
[video=youtube;YYb9kSCkjE8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYb9kSCkjE8[/video]
If this doesn't send you down into a spiral of depression, sadness, fear, and intense pain of the brain; or you can still sleep soundly at night or listen to it well with the lights out, then you must apparently be deaf.
 
TV: Nanoha has very good music ranging from cheerful, hot blooded all the way to sadness. Nana Mizuki's singing is a plus
Movie: Lord of the rings was awesome its music always went with the right scene to make you think "that is just cool"
Video game: Final fantasy anything Nobuo Uematsu composes is inheritly awesome, Shadow of the colossus is also an awesome soundtrack.
 
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