sairobee:

I’m a big fan of film scores, and every year or so I get a bee up my bonnet to share my favorite tracks from my collection. So! Here’s 2012’s list, conveniently categorized according to the mood you might want to evoke. Enjoy!

FUN/JOY

• WALL-E — Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
• Forbidden Friendship — John Powell (How to Train Your Dragon)
• Dead Already — Thomas Newman (American Beauty)
• Discombobulate — Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)
• Possibility — Thomas Newman (Pay it Forward)
• First Date — Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
• To the Stars — Randy Edelman (Dragonheart)

ROMANTIC

• Juliette is Happy — Niall Byrne (Cairo Time)
• Your Hands are Cold — Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Pride & Prejudice)
• Latika’s Theme — AR Rahman/Suzanne D’Mello (Slumdog Millionaire)
• The Sacrifice — Michael Nyman (The Piano)
• Define Dancing — Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
• Lovers - Flower Garden — Kathleen Battle/Shigeru Umebayashi (House of Flying Daggers)
• Married Life — Michael Giacchino (Up)
• Together We Will Live Forever — Clint Mansell (The Fountain)

HAUNTING

• Iguazu — Gustavo Santaolalla (Babel/Deadwood/24/The Insider/Friday Night Lights)
• Anne Dreams of Her Childhood — Trevor Morris (The Tudors)
• Justin Calls Iris — Jeff Beal (Carnivale)
• Ghosts — Thomas Newman (Road to Perdition)
• While Waiting — Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
• Song for Jesse — Nick Cave/Warren Ellis (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford)
• Pruit Igoe & Prophecies — The Philip Glass Ensemble (Watchmen)
• Revenge — James Horner (Legends of the Fall)

TRAGIC

• Life and Death — Michael Giacchino (Lost)
• Any Other Name — Thomas Newman (American Beauty)
• Tarr and Irina — Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• Ashokan Farewell — Jay Ungar/cover by Doc and The Lady (Ken Burns’ Civil War)
• His Name was Michael — Jeff Beal (Carnivale)
• More Prays — Trevor Morris (The Tudors)
• Valley of the Shadow — Thomas Newman (Little Women)
• Elysium — Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator)
• Brooks Was Here — Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption)
• Syriana — Alexandre Desplat (Syriana)

MELLOW

• George Smiley — Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)
• The Ludlows — James Horner (Legends of the Fall)
• Theme for the Diving Bell and the Butterfly — Paul Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)
• Melville’s Grand Armada — Brian Keane (Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World)
• The Grey Havens — Howard Shore (Return of the King)
• We Don’t Have to Think Like That Anymore — Cliff Martinez (Solaris)
• The Artifact & The Living — Michael Andrews (Donnie Darko/This American Life)
• Panoramic — Atticus Ross (The Book of Eli)
• Time — Hans Zimmer (Inception)

EXCITING

• Romani Holiday (Antonius Remix) — Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows)
• Chant — Hans Zimmer (Black Hawk Down)
• The Way of the Sword — Hans Zimmer (The Last Samurai)
• Agent of Chaos — Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight)
• Molossus — Hans Zimmer/James Newton Howard (Batman Begins)
• Mombasa — Hans Zimmer (Inception)
• WALL-E’s Pod Adventure — Thomas Newman (WALL-E)
• Those We Don’t Speak Of — James Newton Howard (The Village)
• Psychological Recovery … 6 Months [2] — Hans Zimmer (Sherlock Holmes)

EPIC

• The End of All Things — Howard Shore (The Return of the King)
• Roll Tide — Hans Zimmer (Crimson Tide)
• Isengard Unleashed — Howard Shore (The Two Towers)
• Kaneda’s Death, Pt. 2 — John Murphy (Sunshine/Kick Ass/The Walking Dead)
• Death is the Road to Awe — Clint Mansell (The Fountain)
• The Battle of Kerak — Harry Gregson-Williams (Kingdom of Heaven)
• Mind Heist — Zack Hemsey (Inception Trailer)
• Helm’s Deep — Howard Shore (The Two Towers)

… AND ROLL CREDITS

• So Was Red — Thomas Newman (Shawshank Redemption)
• That Next Place — Thomas Newman (Meet Joe Black)
• Under the Stars — Hans Zimmer (The Lion King)
• The Great Work Begins — Thomas Newman (Angels in America)
• Road to Perdition — Thomas Newman (Road to Perdition)
• The Battle is Not Over — Jeff Beal (Carnivale)
• Now We Are Free — Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator)
• The Return of the King — Howard Shore (The Return of the King)
• The Book of Kells — Bruno Coulais (Brendan and the Secret of Kells)