10 Artists Who Made Entire Movie Soundtracks

10. There Will Be Blood - Jonny Greenwood

Most of Radiohead's back catalog isn't really for the faint of heart. It's no secret that Thom Yorke likes to play with the more heartbreaking emotions in his music, and Jonny Greenwood's guitar work has made everything feel even more unnerving half the time, as if you're about to snap under the pressure of processing any difficult emotions. Though something like Climbing Up the Walls off of OK Computer may have already felt unnerving, it did plant a seed for what Jonny would be doing down the road.

Around the time that the band was finishing up the process of making In Rainbows, Jonny flew solo to create the score to the movie There Will Be Blood, taking all of that unnerving energy with him. Compared to the music that you're used to hearing out of Radiohead, this score practically picks up where that left off, never feeling too distracting in the context of the film but also having a certain sullen quality to it that makes it feel that much more depressing every time you hear it.

As frightening as some of the scenes in There Will Be Blood may come across to the viewer, Jonny is practically telling the story on his own through his music, using string arrangements to give you a sense that not everything is what it seems when you're listening to it. This was just the launch pad for what Jonny would eventually do, scoring films like Phantom Thread in the next few years and incorporating those same arrangements into Radiohead projects like A Moon Shaped Pool and their rejected theme for James Bond's Spectre. The days of Kid A may have given us a look at some of those tense musical moments, but it's scores like these that show us what happens when that's brought to the grand stage.