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Ted Oscar® Winner	I'm kind of a newbie, so I picked the Truman Show, but the strangest score I've heard in a movie has to be the Kubrick version of the Shining. Perhaps someone else could fill me in on some more options.
posted 05-13-1999 05:18 PM PT (US)

TimT Oscar® Winner	The Akira Soundtrack is just wierd! That's the most bizarre Score I've ever heard.
posted 05-13-1999 05:37 PM PT (US)

S Smith unregistered	"12 Monkeys," but I love it.
posted 05-13-1999 06:10 PM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	Jerry Goldsmith's Planet Of The Apes is a classic bizarre score. James NP - Tombstone
posted 05-13-1999 06:45 PM PT (US)

Kevin Oscar® Winner	How about "Logan's Run?" That was weird in an electronic sort of way. Kevin
posted 05-13-1999 08:14 PM PT (US)

Al Oscar® Winner	Danny Elfman's A Simple Plan was appropriately bizarre. The de-tuned piano and guitar added to the atmosphere. Jerry Goldsmith's LINK is just plain weird. The unusual circus theme is fun. Aside from that, the string theme is quite lovely.
posted 05-13-1999 09:20 PM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	Danny Elfman´s score to Mars Attacks! is also very weird but in a clever kind of way and YES! The Shining is very weird...I have allways thought it seems a bit out of place in the movie. SFT
posted 05-14-1999 01:22 AM PT (US)

Dawk Oscar® Winner	I can think of a few that haven't been mentioned. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.. most of the movie was oldies, but when the score came up... woah, what was that? also, another one I was thinking of was The Fifth Element. most people hated it, but I thought the music was good if you listened to it with an open mind. I think a lot of people didn't like the way it didn't really "sound" like filmmusic.
posted 05-14-1999 07:45 AM PT (US)

Dawk Oscar® Winner	Oh yeah, and ghost in the shell.. never heard anything like it b4.
posted 05-14-1999 07:46 AM PT (US)

Sean Bires Oscar® Winner	"GHOST in the SHELL" and "AKIRA" are the strangest soundtracks ever, but they're great. Both films are famous japanese-animated productions. "Blade Runner" is very bizzare, especially tracks like "Tales of the Future". Despite being strange, the Blade Runner soundtrack is great and is one of my personal favorites.
posted 05-14-1999 03:40 PM PT (US)

Mike Oscar® Nominee	"PLANET OF THE APES" ranks as the most bizarre score I have ever heard. Try listening to it at night with all the lights off. You'll begin to see humanoid-apes lurking outside your windows...FREAKY!!
posted 05-16-1999 10:12 AM PT (US)

Gae Oscar® Winner	Other weird music is Lygeti's in 2001 A Space Oddysey. Also on a more mainstream note I'm surprised nobody's mentioned William's music in Close Encounters...some of that is weird and scary! Gae [This message has been edited by Gae (edited 06-05-99).]
posted 06-05-1999 03:29 PM PT (US)

Kevin Oscar® Winner	Two come to mind. "Forbidden Planet" and Herrmann's "Day the Earth Stood Still." Kevin NP - ?
posted 06-06-1999 02:50 PM PT (US)

Floyd Pepper Oscar® Winner	I think "Gothic" by Thomas Dolby was weird, not truly original, but strange in a mixtured kind of way... Kevin: Have you got a copy of "Forbidden Planet"? Can you give me the order number? Is it a normal release or a promo? I have always been interested in the Barrons' score but never got it... Thanks.
posted 06-07-1999 06:02 AM PT (US)

Steve Hughes Oscar® Winner	THE VAGRANT by Chris Young is freaky. It sounds like it's performed by a toy orchestra.
posted 06-20-1999 07:00 AM PT (US)

SFT Oscar® Winner	Come to think of it, the scores to all three Pee Wee movies are strange. Typical Elfman. And another weird score is Goldenthals Alien 3. SFT NP: The Phantom Menace, John Williams
posted 06-23-1999 10:37 AM PT (US)

scoreaholic unregistered	The most bizarre score that I have heard would have to be John Corigliano's Altered States. This is just totally wierd, trying to fit the moods of the character. This is an excellent score which I'm sure goes with the movie (I haven't seen the movie). Another bizarre score is Rachel Portman's score to The Road to Wellville. Also another bizarre movie. This score works great with the zaniness of the movie and works well alone as well.
posted 05-03-2000 08:24 AM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	Definately hve to go with the modernistic avante-garde of Planet of the Apes, & Ligeti's music used in 2001 & The Shining. quote: Originally posted by Dawk: I can think of a few that haven't been mentioned. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.. most of the movie was oldies, but when the score came up... woah, what was that? What was the score in F&L? I don't recall hearing one. Whereabouts in the film does it appear, & who wrote it? np Cominagetcha - Propellerheads
posted 05-05-2000 04:16 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Oscar® Winner	Gil Melle's score for The Andromeda Strain is even more bizarre than Forbidden Planet. I thought he'd gone out and recorded jackhammers breaking up the road. And, in a very different way, Barbarella is wondrously bizarre. Charles Fox and Bob Crewe seem to have had a whole lot of fun with that. (Strangely enough, many sources credit Maurice Jarre with the music, and even more strange is that I saw this once on TV, where the music was credited to Michel Magne, though it was the Fox/Crewe stuff of always.)
posted 05-07-2000 09:46 AM PT (US)

Marc Flake Oscar® Winner	"The most bizarre score" I've ever heard (and had the misfortune to buy) was the original soundtrack to the novel "Battlefield Earth." No joke, this was "music to read the novel by." The main character had a theme, the bad guys had a theme. And there was battle music. Whenever you got to certain parts of the book, you were supposed to drop the needle on the track with the appropriate music. I tried it . . . once. And I have never felt so cheated in my life. Ever since then I've harbored ill-feelings toward this novel and L Ron Hubbard for treating me like a rube at the carnival. I could go on, but I may offend some when I start in on his religion. There's someone else out there in MovieMusic.com land that owns this LP. I know, I've seen it on your profile page. Marc
posted 05-07-2000 07:39 PM PT (US)

Timmer Oscar® Winner	Scientology sucks big time! BOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
posted 05-10-2000 05:43 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	hmmm, Images by John Williams
posted 05-10-2000 05:48 PM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	Just gotta have a mention for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Yikes. That's have to get my vote as No. 1. np nothing
posted 05-11-2000 11:33 AM PT (US)

rabbitblues Oscar® Nominee	Ahhh. How about Basil Poledours' Cherry 2000, Nino Rota's stuff, Twin Peaks-Fire Walk With Me, Ed Wood by Howard Shore, That ClockWork Orange Soundtrack, and Carter Burwell's Raising Arizona
posted 05-25-2000 08:12 PM PT (US)

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