What is your favorite soundtrack album?

Actually More from Pink Floyd,but I consider it more of a Floyd album than a proper Sound track.Star Wars and Empire strikes back are pretty good.

 

The Great Muppet Caper

 

how the west was won-alfred newman

 

The Sound of Music

 

OK, I gotta break this into several discrete categories:

Fave film score composed for a non-musical movie:
Local Hero

Fave movie musical score (criteria: not just a great stage musical made into an OK film but the movie version itself has to include stellar orchestration, performances, etc., and all the major vocals have to be sung by the actors appearing onscreen, which eliminates a LOT of film musicals)
The Wizard of Oz
Funny Girl

Fave original film score for a non-musical in which a lot of the music figures in the plot and is actually played in the movie by an actor:
The Piano

Fave soundtrack made up of pre-existing songs:
The Royal Tenenbaums

 

For me it is the sound track fr "Sucker Punch"

 

other than the Beatles
Braveheart
The Family Man
and many others...

 

Today it's Doctor Zhivago - I picked up an MGM original LP for $2. It's in great shape and sounds wonderful. I never heard the full soundtrack before today.

 

My head says Cool Hand Luke - Lalo Schifrin but my heart says Calamity Jane - Doris Day and Howard Keel

 

For it's sheer off-the-wallness (passed the Speel Chock test):

Crumb.

 

This introduced me to Jane Siberry, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, T-Bone Burnett and Can. Love the album and the many albums it inspired me to listen to.

My all time favorite soundtrack though, is Dead Man Walking, an album I listen to regularly.

 

For me it doesn't get better than Tom Waits' rasp singing along with Crystal Gail's pure voice on some exceptional Tom Waits songs with grownup jazz backing
Just sublime.

 

Repo Man!

 

I just got this a few months ago...I likey

 

A Kind of Magic by Queen. Most of it was used in Highlander

 

A Hard Day's Night.

 

Favorite score: 'Dances With Wolves'
Favorite soundtrack: ' The Commitments'

 

The Squid and the Whale

 

Can - 'Soundtracks'
Johnny Greenwood - 'Norwegian Wood'
Mellin and Reverberi - 'Robinson Crusoe'

 

Another for Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange & Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, followed closely by most things Morricone!

 

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Carousel
How the West Was Won

 

Superman: the Movie
Star Wars
Empire Strikes Back
The Godfather Part 2
Taxi Driver
Car Wash
Saturday Night Fever
Shaft
Superfly
Trouble Man
Raiders of the lost Ark
Rocky

I would love to see the actual scores of the 1st three Rocky movies released. The album versions are nice but not the what's heard in the films.

 

I love the soundtracks of Tindersticks. Their sound and music is very filmatic. It's been like an ongoing side project to their studio albums since the start. The box set "Clair Denis Film Scores 1996-2009" (2011) is a nice compilation of their soundtracks up to the 2010s.

 

If you'll allow an album accompanying a tv-series (X-files)
Songs in the key of X has supersounding stuff....


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