Best Soundtrack Ever

[medicvet]

I grew up listening to some of the best: Heavy Metal, The Wall, Rocky Horor Picture Show, Chess (and for anyone who actually knows about that, kudus to you!). Also there were some with just simply awesome tunes like Streets of Fire, Purple Rain, Beverly Hills Cop, and yes, Ghostbusters...oh and almost fogot..Dirty Dancing!

Any others I am missing that you think belong in Best Soundrtrack?

Oh and I won't even go there with the greatest living musician today, John Williams...I mean, c'mon now..Jaws, ET, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jurrasic Park, ad infenitum.

oh my God and how could I have forgotten about what is arguably the best sountrack to a movie ever: FANTASIA.

[lycanox]

How about the soundtrack they play in the beginning of the rock.

[medicvet]

Oh Yeah, That's A Good One!

[Harry61]

Spinal tap even tho that was more 70's it was still around then. Urban Cowboy? Oh yeah you said rock

What about Lost Boys was that 80's?

Oh you might wanna go rent this movie funny

Dazed and confused


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAS3ne-fJqA&feature=related

[phedrereine]

I was just thinking about this and wondering if there was a thread about it! You are psychic, medicvet.

My favorites are:

Amelie
Blow
The Craft
Donnie Darko
Forrest Gump
Girl, Interrupted
Kill Bill, Vol. 1 & 2
A Knight's Tale
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Practical Magic
The Royal Tenenbaums
Twister (There are a few country tracks I don't like, but the rest is A-1... Van Halen's Humans Being and Respect the Wind are worth it alone)

Also, Queen of the Damned's score and soundtrack are good (but not the movie, mind!!!)

Donnie Darko and Girl, Interrupted both have the most chilling scores I have ever heard (with the exception of Suspiria), just as great as the actual soundtracks.

As long as we're talking about scores... The Secret Garden, Chocolat, Little Women and The Last of the Mohicans are all fantastic.

[medicvet]

Oh how could I have forgotten about the soundtrack to Forrest Gump, all four cd's of them..wish I had that collection.

And that selecion above is awesome..

My personal favorite for all soundtracks has got to be 'streets of fire'...so many freaking awesome songs and the movie that was essentially a video with the plot as background for the songs...here are two examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6mp8HyR2Ck&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWdqPXo2GjQ&feature=related

edit..just one more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqiv8G0c42g&feature=related

[medicvet]

oh man, forgot the soundtracks to footloose and the great kenny loggins song from caddyshack too...

[Mystery]

My fav's are
St. Elmo's Fire
(sorry I know) Twilight
Romeo and Juliet
Braveheart
Lord of the Rings
Natural Born Killers
Nightmare Before Christmas
Grease

[Blackbeard]

Dazed and Confused is one of those movies that would not have survived without the awesome soundtrack.

Many good ones have been quoted here (John Williams is a given). I also like the soundtrack of:

Braveheart
Usual Suspects
LA Confidential
Swingers

I don't know about everyone else, but if I love the soundtrack I almost always love the movie.

[RobertRogers]

ROCKY
message is too short to post, so, once again, ROCKY

[Fyhre]

The Breakfast Club and Ghostbusters.

[Tired Old Man]

Ok I know Mel Gibson has fallen out of favor in the last couple of years. But I have to go with Brave Heart.

[Cyranothe2nd]

Ditto on Forrest Gump. And who doesn't love "One Night in Bangkok"?? Murrey Head is SO the shit!!! XD

I am embarrassed to say that I really love Broadway musical soundtracks. My ultimate fav is Jesus Christ Superstar, but I also really love Evita (NOT w/ Antonio Bandaras and Madonna. No one can sing it like Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin. I melt every time I hear "High Flying, Adored").
I also really like Notre Dame de Paris, even though its kind of overwrought.

Oh...and what about Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog? That's a pretty awesome soundtrack!

[Mystery]

Spinal tap even tho that was more 70's it was still around then. Urban Cowboy? Oh yeah you said rock

What about Lost Boys was that 80's?

Oh you might wanna go rent this movie funny

Dazed and confused


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAS3ne-fJqA&feature=related

Yeah yeah, Dazed and Confused, how could I forget that one. :)

[Blackbeard]

Yeah yeah, Dazed and Confused, how could I forget that one. :)

"That's what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age."

Matthew Mcconaughey in a great role.

[mad]

Off the top of my head... The Wall, Heavy Metal, The Crow, Ghostbusters, Natural Born Killers, Swingers, Dancer in the Dark.

I remember listening to the soundtrack from the first 'Wayne's World' 1000 times. :schizo:

[Mezurashi]

To Live And Die In L.A. - somehow Wang Chung pulled out an incredibly atmospheric and subtle 'euro-pop' from the ether - side 1 is music with lyrics and the side 2 is all instrumental.

the works of Howard Shore - Canadian and some of the movies he's scored you might recognize - Dogma, the Lord Of The Rings ...

the music from Battlestar Galactica - Bear is so cool ...

Phantom Of The Paradise - Phoenix, Swan and Winslow, cool ...

Hedwig and the Angry Inch - who'd of thunk trans-sexual dilemma could rock so hard?

just some of the better soundtracks I haven't seen listed yet (of course I might have missed a double listing, oh well).

*Merano, Merano ...*

[medicvet]

Omigod I just freaking love Chess...I know there is a broadway version, but I had the London version, and I played those two records over and over and over again because the story and the music was just that awesome. All I knew about it was the one that made the top 40, "One Night In Bangcock", but when I discovered the rest of the music ...whoa.

Oh yah, and how could I have forgotten Dazed and Confused and Ghostbusters and Heavy Metal.

and then I discovered Mike Oldfield..thanks to the popularity of the movie The Excorcist Tubular Bells helped him make his name, but I like all his stuff..just like it took Chariots of Fire to give Vangelis exposure, but the ironic thing to me is that the theme to that is the only thing of theirs I actually don't care for.

[medicvet]

I don't this band even knows HOW to crank out a song if it ain't fucking good ass rock n' roll! And the lyrics to this kickass too! I still remember this movie because I got pissed off that a bunch of teenyboppers in the front were laughin at this shit, for realz.


The video game says "Play me"
Face it on a level but it takes you every time on a one on one
Feeling running down your spine
Nothing gonna save your one last dime cause it owns you
Through and through

The databank knows my number
Says I gotta pay cause I made the grade last year
Feel it when I turn the screw
Kicks you round the world, there ain't a thing that it can't do
Do to you

CHORUS:
Who made who, who made you?
Who made who, ain't nobody told you?
Who made who, who made you?
If you made them and they made you
Who picked up the bill, and who made who? (or who picked up the glue,...)(?)

Who made who, who turned the screw?

Satellites send me picture
Get it in the eye, take it to the world (take it to the wire)
Spinning like a dynamo
Feel it going round and round
Running out of chips, you got no line in an 8-bit town
So don't look down, no

CHORUS

Ain't nobody told you, who made who?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jvqPvDUEW8

[Boson]

My favorite soundtrack - American Graffiti

IMDB link to the songs: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069704/soundtrack

Youtube channel that has all of the songs in the movie (more than on the soundtrack): http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=AK47bandit&view=videos

[phedrereine]

I just discovered how good the Marie Antoinette soundtrack is. Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Strokes, The Cure, Bow Wow Wow, The Radio Dept.. I'm in heaven.

[usohypocrisy]

Eh, Star Wars was the best Soundtrack Ever, right along with the score soundtrack of The Karate Kid I & II...that japanese flute is incredible!

[Onyx]

I agree with many yall posted up but I gotta give itn up for rap music too. Gridlock'd Sundtrack was awesome...the movie with Jim Belushi and 2Pac(Pac's last movie before he died) and the Murder was the case Sundtrack was very god also.

[Nasik]

Yeah... I loved STAR WARS - always gives me the chills to hear the opening section.

of course, Jaws, a classic.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

The Exorcist

Lord of the Rings, excellent

And, last but certainly not least, who doesn't love Danny Elfman (Tim Burton's main music man) - and Nightmare before Christmas - I know all the songs off by heart - love it!

[Skygirl]

The Graduate
Forrest Gump
Easy Rider
Pulp Fiction
O Brother Where Art Thou
The Blues Brothers

[phedrereine]

And, last but certainly not least, who doesn't love Danny Elfman (Tim Burton's main music man) - and Nightmare before Christmas - I know all the songs off by heart - love it!

Danny Elfman is a genius. The first time I became aware of him was when Men in Black came out. That song at the beginning was just so good.

[iDmo]

I like the Evita (1996) soundtrack.
Thoe songs are beautiful, especially You Must Love Me.

[usohypocrisy]

if anyone gets the chance there are a couple of other soundtrack score's that are just awesome

Dances With Wolves
The Dark Knight
Batman Begins
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Tombstone
Wyatt Earp

Also the score from The Patriot (with Mel Gibson), is spectacular.

[medicvet]

I absolutely love the music to the move "Club Paradise" with Robin Williams and Jimmy Cliff, but cannot find the soundtrack to it anywheres. Since my birthday is coming up, if anyone can send me that and the london soundtrack to Chess I would be extroadinarily grateful. :D

(Streets of Fire and Forrest Gump and American Graffitti soundtracks would rock too) :D

[TNAfan121]

The Producers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0395251/soundtrack

And Star Wars

[medicvet]

I agree with many yall posted up but I gotta give itn up for rap music too. Gridlock'd Sundtrack was awesome...the movie with Jim Belushi and 2Pac(Pac's last movie before he died) and the Murder was the case Sundtrack was very god also.


I have never heard of this movie before, and now have GOT to get my hands on it!

[pico]

This might be a bit late, but don't forget "The Big Chill", as those are classics. Another good one is "The Last of the Mohicans" from the early 90's.

Also forgot to add "The Blues Brothers"

[medicvet]

All good soundtracks, and worthy of mention.

I was going to order the old English play version of Chess, but Hastings said it was out of stock, but since they did the broadway one (which I didn't like as well), and they are now coming out with another rendition of the British play, I will get that one when it comes out..it is so worth it!

EDIT: here are a few of the simply awesome songs from chess..



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm2H0p5F528

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZxkOvU6A0


and of course, One Night in Bangcock:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y-4I1JHJIE

[MaximumPain]

Heavy Metal

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

the Wall
and Conan the Barbarian!!

Here is a great track off of the sound track by Basil Poldurus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7Yhx0sd3o&feature=related

And another one I really like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMhRvEmG6s&feature=related

Edit - Added some cuts from my favorites

[MVP]

Soundtrack "FM"

[medicvet]

I remember growing up playing the soundtrack to Grease constantly. My daughter did the same...some things just go beyond generational, lol.

Matter of fact, first time she saw West Side Story was with me, and she got mad because I already knew how much of an unhappy ending it was. Still some excellent songs there though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BQMgCy-n6U

[phedrereine]

I forgot one... Now and Then. I can't tell you how many times I listened to that as a kid. And it's still totally fun and charming.

[JenaS62]

This might be a bit late, but don't forget "The Big Chill", as those are classics. Another good one is "The Last of the Mohicans" from the early 90's.

Also forgot to add "The Blues Brothers"


Agree with all of those plus want to add:

Platoon (aside from the 60's music - the haunting theme song)
Apocalypse Now
Departed
Armageddon
Good Fellas
Casino
Go Ask Alice