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* Regardless of what you thought of Final Destination 5, its hard to deny that its [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIWtPkYfl9Q opening theme] is insanely epic.
* Basil Poledouris' whole score for the ''[[Conan the Barbarian (Film)|Conan the Barbarian]]'' movie is listed on many top-ten film score lists.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZY2mRG5mzg ''Anvil of Crom''] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMhRvEmG6s ''Riddle of Steel.''] With so little dialogue, John Milius asked him to write a [[Richard Wagner|Wagnerian]] [[Opera|operatic]] score that would carry the whole movie, including the nearly-wordless first ''half-hour''. "Riddle of Steel"'s later middle section was slightly reworked into no less than three trailers for ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', ''Ocarina of Time 3D'', and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'').
** "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPsL2WVhFCc Hymn to Red October]".
** ''[[Lonesome Dove]]''.
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* [[Clint Mansell]], people. Really.
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5McGN2L-E Lux Aeterna]'', made for [[Requiem for A Dream|Requiem For A Dream]], was subsequently recut for the trailers to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9tnZRs4tNE The Two Towers] and [[Sunshine (Film)|Sunshine]], as well as adapted for electric guitar to be used in ''Smokin' Aces''. This is because it is ''awesome''.
** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZuQ_r3ROY Death is the Road to Awe]'', from the soundtrack of [[The Fountain]], is at least equally amazing. Builds up till about 7:41 and then - well, it's the score to an ''[[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|exploding sun]]''. It's [[Captain Obvious|epic.]]
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MlWBawjT9c "Xibalba" / "Tree of Life"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZDpqDpIsfs "Stay With Me"] are pretty epic too.
** The reception to [[Smokin Aces]] might have been... mixed, to say the very least. However, no one can deny the ''awesome'' that is Mansell's score, most particularly [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa33P9A5iHs Dead Reckoning].
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** [[Spinal Tap|Stonehenge]] is by far the best example.
* The Rock-Comedy 'The Rocker' has the cast perform an incredible cover-version of Peter Gabriels 'In Your Eyes', which prompts the bands drummer to lose it and fire off an AWESOME and completely mood-killing drum-solo. The song isn't to be found on the OST or anywhere at all.
* While ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'' has one of the best scores of all time, one moment which is particularly crowning is at Ana's apartment, when Harold begins playing and singing the only song he knows on the guitar - Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World". When he [["Shut Up" Kiss|gets interrupted]], the soundtrack cuts in with the original track. ''Rock.''
* ''[[Amelie]]'s'' main theme, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD3WwM6l1J0 "La Valse D'Amélie"] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyCRJmerW1Q "Comptine d'un autre été: L'après-midi"], which was also used in ''[[Goodbye Lenin (Film)|Goodbye Lenin]]''. La Valse D'Amélie is so popular Yann Tiersen performs them at most of his concerts.
* ''[[City of Ember]]'s'' '''One Last Message'', perfectly fits over the credits and end sequences.
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*** katethegreat19 says otherwise. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKlsUrfbiE0&feature=channel_video_title Come Little Children]
* Peter Murphy singing 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' in the opening sequence in ''[[The Hunger (Film)|The Hunger]]'', a scene that is more or less the orgasm of goth culture.
* From ''[[The Blues Brothers]]'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTJeT2i9QU "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"] and its immediate follow-up, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9hdiUuSgIc "Sweet Home Chicago"] are the [[The Eleven O
** Cab Calloway, kicking it as cool as he'd done fifty years earlier.
** ''[[Blues Brothers]] 2000'' had its faults. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M01LyMe2YI4 "How Blue Can You Get"] featuring B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Bo Diddley, Travis Tritt, Paul Schaffer, Koko Taylor, Jimmie Vaughan, Steve Winwood, Isaac Hayes, Charlie Musselwhite, Clarence Clemons, Lou Rawls, and ''every major living blues performer from the past 50 years'', is not one of them.
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* The Famous Dambusters March, which has arguably become more famous than the movie it is from. It's even more awesome because (according to the composer's son), the piece was not actually written for the film, but as a stand-alone, Elgarian style march, as the march's composer Eric Coates disliked writing film music.
* [[The Departed]] has an amazing soundtrack, but the greatest song in the set is undoubtedly [[Dropkick Murphys]]' Shipping up to Boston. You know, the punk rock song with ''bagpipes''.
* ''[[Office Space]]'' "[[Damn, It Feels Good to Be A Gangster!]]!" Especially with Peter's stone cold indifference in that scene, as well as "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcpw8rHVgkY Still]" by Geto Boys, the music in the copier scene.
* From the ''[[Dragonlance]]'' : ''Dragons of Autumn Twilight'' movie, the 10-minute "Battle of Pax Tharkas" parts 1-2.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnw-wnVd_bo ''Vocalise''] from [[The Ninth Gate]] is exquisitely haunting, and easily the best part of the soundtrack.
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* For some strange reason the soundtrack of the Ewan Mc Gregor movie "The Serpent's kiss" never was released. It's a shame, since it featured rare gems like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPDBpQGnjuE this one.]
* For people who like [[Folk Music|Folk]], [[Bluegrass]], and [[wikipedia:Old-time music|old-time]] [[Country Music|country]], ''[[O Brother Where Art Thou]]'' is 107 minutes of awesome.
* [[UHF (Film)|Don't change your channel!]] [["Weird Al" Yankovic (Music)|Don't touch that dial!]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQGIa8xOmjg We got it all] [[Ear Worm|on UH! F!]]
* The entire soundtrack for [[Once]], but especially "Falling Slowly". Also, "Lies."
* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cObUe6OAW9A opening theme] to ''[[Cecil B Demented]]'', by [[Moby]]. Awesomely distorted.
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