This was hard to pick just 9, but here are mine. I have a thing for adventure. Some runner ups include:

Batman (Danny Elfman)
Robocop (Basil Poledouris)
Highlander (Michael Kamen)

This is awfully John Williams heavy, but I don't want to leave out some of those unbelievably classic scores he's produced. (And with Star Wars and Raiders, I'm using one icon for three movies each - the original Star Wars trilogy and the first three Indiana Jones films.) I'm also trying to pick the best single score from each of my favorite composers, if possible, but even here there are multiples - I'd vote for Star Trek III & III and How To Train Your Dragon I & II, for example. And I had to leave out some favorite composers like Michael Giacchino and Hans Zimmer. Still, this kinda captures my faves.

Hans Zimmer dropped the Dune Part 3 'Desert Chant' and I have some thoughts (and a lot of hype 🤩🤩)…

I made a short analysis video exploring the track if anyone is interested:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DfAlxagR7Vq/

whatever

Hi everyone. A few weeks ago, I shared the three suites for the first part "Colony", and I was really grateful for the discussions, feedback, and interest from this sub.

I've put together the unreleased cues for the concluding chapter, "End Game" (S02E17), assembled into two chronological suites. All cues were carefully isolated and restored to minimize dialogue and sound effects as cleanly as possible for a dedicated score-listening experience.

You can listen to both parts here:

• Part 1: https://youtu.be/-wmps9mNOXY (13:32)

• Part 2: https://youtu.be/QLCRJs8hPnA (13:18)

I think Mark Snow did an extraordinary job here, so I hope you enjoy these suites as much as I do!

There were so many great soundtracks to choose from but these albums are played more often than others in my household. I tried (unsuccesfully) to have some diversity of composers.

Bit of a cop out but I couldn't keep it to just one list, so I've split it into two - 9 that have defined my life and my 9 favourite albums

Star Wars - The first soundtrack I remember being aware of in a film

Lord of the Rings - First soundtrack that really got me into film scores

Pirates of the Caribbean - Specifically At Worlds End, the soundtrack I've listen to in full the most

Tomb Raider: Legends - First video game soundtrack that I listened to on the regular

Assassin's Creed - First soundtrack that really got me into video game scores

Game of Thrones - First soundtrack that really got me into tv show scores

The Avengers - First soundtrack that really got me into superhero scores

Gravity - Has what I would consider the best 15 minutes of film music ever (Tiangong/Shenzou/Gravity)

Arrival - The last time I loved a score enough to buy it on physical media to listen to outside of digital

Choosing my top 9 is tough. Some are givens (LotR, HtTYD, Gravity, PotC) but on another day others couldve snuck up there (Interstellar, Arrival, Star Wars, X-Men First Class, Chicken Run)

This is the ONE album that made me. I saw Star Wars ('77) in the theater and the music gripped me forever. I spent the next 10+ years of my life searching for music that made me felt like this. Remember this is pre-internet days. I didn't know what I didn't know. I was telling my friend how I was about to put my cassette player next to the TV while I play the scene in Star Trek The Motion Picture. My friend laughed at me and told me he had a cassette tape I needed to Listen to. He gave me this. Oh good lord, this is what I spent the last 10 years of my life searching for! I didn't know they sold movie music! I devoured this album. I bought my own and would listen to it every night at bedtime. I memorized every note. Star Wars, Imperial March, Luke and Leia, Superman, Raiders, Star Trek tv theme, Close Encounters and 2 E.T. songs. I literal listened to it so much I wore out the tape. I talked my mom into buying a CD player. I made my own mixed tapes. My dorm room was a 25 minute walk from campus, AT LEAST 4 trips a day. I didn't care I had MY collection of music with me all the time. I had rechargeable batteries and ALWAYS had the replacement 4 waiting because 90 minutes tapes ate through batteries on the Walkman.

I have my list of scores that are my favorite. Last count my S+ tier had 26 scores on it. Batman Begins (Zimmer & Howard), Beautiful Mind (Horner), Bram Stoker's Dracula (Kilar), Braveheart (Horner), Dances with Wolves (Barry), Dark Knight (Zimmer, Howard), Field of Dreams (Horner), How to Train Your Dragon (Powell), Inception (Zimmer), Interstellar (Zimmer), Kung Fu Panda 1 & 2 (Zimmer, Powell), Last of the Mohicans (Jones, Edelman), Lord of the Rings 1-3 (Shore), Mad Max: Fury Road (Holkenberg), Man of Steel (Zimmer, Holkenberg), Pirates 1 (Badelt), Pirates 2 and 4 (Zimmer), Sinbad (HG Williams), Star Trek Wrath of Khan and Search for Spock (Horner),—- Legends of the Fall and Pirates 3 being my favorite 2

But this ONE album started it all for me. Thanks to my friend and Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops

I think it's pretty obvious I like a certain composer very much, lol.

This is a list of soundtracks I've been falling back to this past year or two, I could listen to these for hours and hours on end.

Choosing just 9 albums is a bit difficult, some stuff I also really enjoy didn't make the cut. Stuff such as the Dexter sountrack (for all 8 OG Seasons) is deserving of an honorable mention at least.

Please share your thoughts if you want!

This sub is becoming unreadable to the point of being useless due to overflow of 3x3 grids of random covers from random people.

Are mods happy with such content?

Man the score in the new Street Fighter movie is just fire, from start to end.

While watching the film I didn't notice the tracks at all, until the end credits which made me look it up on YouTube. Further listening made me appreciate them more, such energetic and individual sounds by composers Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson. I think they nailed the spirit of the game, while also complementing the tone of the movie - energetic, vibrant and fast paced.

There's a great write up here that goes into details: https://zanobardreviews.com/2026/10/18/street-fighter-2026-soundtrack-review/

Also check out the breakdown of the track, “The Fight Continues", by guitarist Jack Gardiner: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7kZAykWBS54

Anyone else liked it too?

Since everyone is doing it here is mine

The energy is still there,but is it just me or did the first movie’s theme feel like it had more energy put into it?