How To Train Your Dragon with The Best Movie Soundtracks

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What would a movie be without good music? Undoubtedly without music the film wont have as much impact as it does with music. Not only does music help to create the ambience of the film and its plot, it also helps to evoke the emotions of the characters. Music also helps the audience to relate or to feel certain situations in the movie, such as a sad song resonates in the viewers the sadness felt by the characters. A cheerful song brightens the mood of the movie, and in turn the audience feels likewise.
Now here's the tricky part - how to create music that can really connect the audience with the emotions the film is trying to evoke.
If you've watch "First Blood Part II", the scene where the rescue helicopter that was supposed to pick up Rambo and a Vietnam POW was deliberately called off at the last second, you would recall that the melancholic strains of "It's A Long Road" adds a feeling of hopelessness to the situation.
And in "Cannibal Holocaust", the movie could be more violent (which is what it's meant to be) if the music does not sound like something that's more apt to be played on Caribbean holiday cruises. But that's a personal opinion, we all have our tastes and likes.
With that in mind, I list out here movie soundtracks which I feel to be the best or among the best there are. And they don't come with expiration dates.

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How To Train Your Dragon

Composer John Powell earned his first ticket to the Oscars for this score, as well as a third BAFTA nomination. Whilst losing the Oscar and BAFTA Awards to The Social Network and The King's Speech respectively, the score won the International Film Music Critics Association 2011 Awards for Best Original Score for an Animated Feature and Film Score of the Year.
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How To Train Your Dragon Soundtrack 01 - This is Berk
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Conquest of Paradise

If you like Vangelis's classic "Chariots of Fire", you'll like this one better. The music just washes over you, giving you a sense of the voyage that Columbus was embarking upon. Vangelis succeeds in capturing the 15th-century mood, drawing out emotions from the listener, making the listener feel that they are part of the characters in the movie. This surely is one of the most memorable soundtracks of the 90's
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Vangelis - 1492 Conquest of Paradise
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Superman - The Movie

This is vintage John Williams. I am not a reviewer or a critic but I know good music when I hear one. Each time I hear Maureen Mcgovern's "Can You Read My Mind", it brings back the scene of Superman and Lois Lane on their first date among the clouds. And it's more than 20 years since I last saw the movie.
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Flashdance

The music made the film. Or is it the other way round? To be fair, they complement each other though the film relies heavily on the music that make it seem like a series of music videos. The soundtrack features compositions by Craig Krampf, Dennis Matkosky, Doug Cotler, Duane Hitchings, Giorgio Moroder, Irene Cara, Jerry Hey, Keith Forsey, Kim Carnes, Michael Boddicker, Michael Sembello, Phil Ramone, Richard Gilbert, Ronald Magness and Shandi Sinnamon.
The album won the 1983 Best Album Of Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or A Television Special award, and ultimately sold more than 20 million copies.
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Grease (1978)

The soundtrack is a mix of oldies and new originals for a movie about growing up when rock and roll was becoming mainstream. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John only sang seven of Grease's 24 songs with three of their songs - namely "We Go Together," "Summer Nights" and "You're the One That I Want" - were the film's biggest hits. Newton-John's fluid rendition of the ballad "Hopelessly Devoted to You" was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song but lost to Donna Summer's "Last Dance," from Thank God It's Friday. However, the Grease album remains one of the best-selling sound tracks of all time. The Bee Gees had a big hand in this album, writing the tittle track "Grease" which was sung by Frankie Valli. The remainder of the songs are sung by cast of Sha-Na-Na, Cindy Bullens, Frankie Avalon, Stockard Channing, Didi Conn, Dinah Manoff and Jamie Donnelly.
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The Godfather

This score by Nino Rota is definitely Italianesque. The charming use of folk instrumentation - mandolin, accordion, trumpet - effectively reveal the magic that was to be experienced in the movie. There are melodies that you'll be humming long after you watch the movie, especially The Godfather Love theme, which to me is both mournful and beautiful. I'm betting it will send shivers down your spine :). Sadly, its vocal version called "Speak Softly Love" sung by Andy Williams is not included in the original CD. It is included in Williams' 16 Biggest Hits album.
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Speak Softly, Love (Love Theme from The Godfather) - Andy Williams
The Godfather - Soundtrack
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?

How many times have movie soundtracks won Grammies for Album of the Year? Not often. Not more than three times so far. But "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" was so popular that it was widely acclaimed as not only one of the year's best albums but one of the finest sound tracks in years.
The soundtrack CD became a best seller, certified eight times platinum as of October 2007[3] with sales of 7,421,000 copies in the United States up to November 2008. ( more info)
Well-known artists like Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Alison Krauss, Dan Tyminski, and the Cox Family, along with some other performers are featured in the album, and as many styles - folk, spirituals, work songs, country, bluegrass - are represented.
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Dances With Wolves

John Barry won the 1991 Academy Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Grammy Award for "Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television" for this score. The music is so beautiful, certainly one of John Barry's bests. It works well in the film just as well as on its own. You can relax, listen to the score and feel yourself at home on the great plains with the characters and the history of native Americans.
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Dances with wolves - The John Dunbar Theme
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Garden State

Debutante director Zach Braff handpicked the songs for this soundtrack and earned Garden State an award for the compilation (Best Compilation Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media). The soundtrack features songs by Coldplay, The Shins, Zero 7, ColinHay, Cary Brothers, Remy Zero, Nick Drake, Thievery Corporation, Simon & Garfunkel, Iron & Wine, Frou Frou and Bonnie Somerville. It all makes for a good album even without the movie.
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Tron: Legacy

I like this one best of all. Not much I want to say about this score, except that Daft Punk's music is mind blowing. The French duo's score dives deep into the electronic realm but still maintaining some aspects of a symphonic orchestra. Quite reminiscent of Han Zimmer's scores.
I have never seen the movie but after listening to the soundtrack I'm convinced that the music works well with the film.
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