Empire Readers’ Ten Best Soundtracks Of The Teens

Empire Readers’ Ten Best Soundtracks Of The Teens

Empire’s celebration of movie music kicked off a month ago with the ivory tinklers of the silent era. Since then, it’s taken in the heyday of MGM and RKO, the might of Elmner Bernstein, Ennio Morricone and John Barry, the highs of Johns, Williams and Carpenter, and fanfared its way to the modern symphonies of Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore and Clint Mansell. There’s been exclusive interviews, playlists, makings-of, and behind-the-scenes looks at some of the greatest movie scores ever committed to vinyl, CD or MP3. Heck, we’ve even learnt how to spell ‘Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious’ along the way. But all good parties must come to an end. Before we start fishing treble clefs from martini glasses and trying to coax Jaws’ scary two-note motif from the swimming pool, we asked Empire readers to take us out with a bang – and you did, and then some. Here are the ten soundtracks that have been wearing out your iPods since 2010.

Cloud Atlas
Composer: Tom Tykwer, Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek
A current J. J. Abrams favourite, Cloud Atlas's terrific score is another feather in co-director Tom Tykwer's cap. He and his old Run Lola Run / Perfume pals Klimek and Heil collaborated to unite the movie's wildly diverse settings with beautifully fragile motifs, composing more than two hours of original music, including the crucial Cloud Atlas Sextet, and bagging a Golden Globe nod for their troubles. The results are, as J.J. enthuses, "pretty cool".