Re: Awesome Soundtrack

So the Grammy Nominations came out yesterday, and while that may not necessarily be a huge deal to the movie industry, I wanted to take a look at best movie scores. As I suspected and predicted, the Tron Legacy soundtrack by Daft Punk recieved a nomination, and could very well win. I hope they do (and accept the award wearing their robot helmets).

Also, wanted to give a shout out to Clint Mansell, for his nomination for his work on Black Swan. That movie was phenomenol (I love Aronofsky). The soundtrack to that film was something else, and I was a little disappointed when it didn't garner any Oscar love. Mansell has a long list of movies on his resume and his worked with Aronofsky many times, including: Requiem for a Dream, Pi, The Fountain, and The Wrestler. Apparently they always work together... because that's all of Aronofsky's movies... Mansell has also done soundtracks for Moon, Definitely, Maybe, Smokin' Aces, and Sahara, amongst others. This is Mansell's second Grammy nomination, his first being for The Fountain.

Industry: Awesome Soundtrack

So, here is a musing I have been working on for some time. Has anyone else noticed the recent trend in a band, writing and creating entire soundtracks for movies? Now I will say that I cannot recall things like this happening some time ago, but I'm not old. I could use the input from some older people. However, I have noticed in the last several years this happening, and being both awesome and succesful.

Where the Wild Things Are--Arcade Fire and Karen O
Tron: Legacy--Daft Punk
The Social Network--Trent Reznor
Hanna--Chemical Brothers

"Wild Things" soundtrack was nominated for a Golden Globe
Tron was nominated for best soundtrack by the Central Ohio and Los Vegas Film Critics, but let's get serious, it was sweet (and had one of the cooler cameos I think I've ever seen...)
Reznor won the Oscar (I disagree with the choice myself, but still, it helps my theory here)
Hanna is still pretty new, but has already been nominated for a "World Soundtrack Award"

Another interesting thing to note is that some of the soundtracks are really great on their own, namely Arcade's work on Wild Things, and others, while balling with the movie, where "meh" independently. I left the theatre after Hanna super excited about the soundtrack, went home and got it, then decided I never needed to listen to it again (without the movie that is, which I bought).

So that's that for now. Throw some more out there if you know them, especially older older things, curious if this really is a new trend or if it's something that's happened before.