Just discovered the Octopath Traveler OST and it’s pretty damn good. Also the BloodBorne OST is amazing imo.
As far as movies I really enjoyed the Into the Spider-verse sound track simply because normally when they put actual songs into a movie they’re ones that have already been over played 6 months ago but I hadn’t heard them that much yet.
Also Brothers Bloom holds a special place for me. The music is so good and the use of character themes is on point
Gonna have to check out the Hyper Light Drifter ost. Really want to play it aswell. Love its art style. I really feel like good game soundtracks go under appreciated. I mean hell even the original Mario OST is amazing for what its worth. You can recognize some of the songs like 3 notes, not an easy feat
Metal Gear Sold 1
FF7 although half of it is a bit shit.
Assassins Creed 2 had some decent music by Jesper Kyd:
The female vocal at 01:05 used to give me thr shivvers whilst walking around Venice for this one:
This 1 in Revelations was sick too walking around Constantinople:
Those games make me want to go to Florence, Venice, Instanbul etc they are like walking around in a renaissance painting, the music worked so well. Shame the new games don’t have music constantly playing anymore
LOTR soundtrack,
Hannibal film,
Hannibal TV series (I listen to this one every day, so hauntingly beautiful, like the guy made music to fit every episode, and sometimes there was even more music than visuals)
Doctor Who, some of the themes are amazing
Children of men
that’s true of the old GTA games but for 5 they hired oh no (madlib’s brother), edgar froese (tangerine dream) and a load of other dudes to do some really good original tunes to be fair
rewatched rambo 2 the other day and was surprised at how good the OST is, although most of it is what you’d expect there’s a couple of 80’s synth gems in there, very samplable material imo:
turns out its the same guy who made the first alien OST (and of a bunch of classic 70’s/80’s movies), also a percy:
speaking of games, the soundtrack/sound design in alien isolation is also pretty good