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There Will Be Blood, Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

"Oil Derrick Sequence"

Johnny Greenwood - Convergence

The entire film of Conan the Barbarian (1984). Point out *one* moment where the music isn't perfect for whichever scene.

Best use of the James Bond theme.

BARRY LYNDON gets a nod for its use of score throughout.

Speaking of Kubrick, everyone knows of the Dark Side Of Oz synchro but this is the best Pink Floyd/movie mash-up:

Not one, not two, but THREE songs in one of the best on-the-edge-of-your-seat scenes ever.

The Mombasa chase scene in INCEPTION

Grand Central Waltz sequence from Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991).  Fucking beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn9ifIhCIhg

SPOILER: This is new(ish). Take care not to click if you have yet to see The Last Crcus - 

Balada de la trompeta by RAPHAEL as used in Balada triste de trompeta [The Last Circus]

It is impossible to hear this song and not think of this movie.

Damn, so many amazing sequences in this thread.  I would have picked about half of them myself.  Here are a couple that have stayed with me over the years. 

L'Enfant of Vangelis, from The Year of Living Dangerously, the scene in which Jill learns there's going to be a coup in Jakarta. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsBOxDM_Vek

The incredible Phillip Glass score from Mishima, particularly in the Temple of the Golden Pavilion sequence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y10kHPS7mE

The exquisite music of Joe Hisaishi throughout Totoro in which he somehow captures the essence of nostalgia for childhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFW_cAR5HCk

The powerful final movement of the Inception score (don't click if you haven't seen the movie).  It leaves me completely speechless. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeN-jDGQlpQ

Jack Nietzsche's incredible theme from Starman (one of the only films Carpenter didn't score himself), from the final scene (spoiler if you haven't seen it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LNk6OgQ1rE&feature=related

I could go on forever.  There's also the use of Stand by Me in the movie of the same name, Singing in the Rain in Clockwork Orange, Ode to Joy in Immortal Beloved, the entire Blade Runner score, John Carpenter's Michael Myers waking up from being dead music, my other favorite scores from Betty Blue (Gabriel Yared) and Local Hero (Mark Knopfler) and on and on. 

"Do you like Huey Lewis and the News?"

I'm surprised this one hasn't been mentioned yet.  It's so iconic that parts of it have become internet meme fodder.

Also, for the same movie, In The Air Tonight/Sussudio.   Sadly, I don't think there will be a YouTube of that scene.

As good a place as any to jump back in...

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Originally Posted by Wayward_Woman 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tiKM4fxY1U

 

Mann up.  Particularly around minute 4:00, most def at 4:30. 

One of the first scenes I thought of.  The score here is so propulsive, but what's great is how it gets simpler and simpler as they get higher and higher up the mountain, until at the last you can barely hear the melody and it's just the rhythmic chord over and over again.  Then Chingachgook and Hawkeye arrive and it kicks back in, but it's equally triumphant and mournful, because even though Chingachgook kills Magua, Uncas and Alice are dead.  Just perfect scoring.

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Originally Posted by Judas Booth 

One more and I'll stop...for now.

 

'The Empire Strikes Back', the asteroid sequence.  For me, this is the finest hour of John Williams right here.  You've got the Imperial March, the action music, and Han's theme all in one perfectly edited action sequence. 

I've always argued the entire sequence from Luke saying good-bye to Han and Chewie to the end of the asteroid chase is probably one of the greatest sustained pieces of scoring Williams -- or anybody, for that matter -- has ever done.  And that stretch is also probably the absolute pinnacle of the entire saga as far as old school effects work goes.

Okay, enough about everybody else's, now to mine.

First, I can't find a video for it (because too many idiots on YouTube think they have a better song to lay over it), but I love how V for Vendetta smashes into "Street Fighting Man" as its credits roll.  That ragged guitar that kicks off the song has just the right anarchic spirit to it to act as a perfect punctuation on the film that preceeded it.  Which also includes one of the better uses of the 1812 Overture, now that I think about it.

Another one I can't find a clip for is the waltz between the Baron and Venus in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which starts at about 4:00 in the clip below).  It's so incredibly evocative of everything the character is about, to the point that it does in about four minutes what Gilliam couldn't quite do in two and a half hours:  be magic.

Can't find a clip for this one either, but "The Breaking of the Fellowship" in The Fellowship of the Ring pulls off the trick of being a satisfying ending yet also conveying the sense of an ongoing journey.

And finally, well, duh.

Near Dark

The Cramps "Fever"

Layer Cake

The Source (featuring Candi Staton) - "You Got The Love"

So hot.