Favorite Movie Soundtrack

In no particular order.

 

I love Eddie Vedder's music for Into the Wild. A brilliant soundtrack perfectly in keeping with the film.

My other favorite would be the soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Mostly Jon Brion score with a few other songs (ELO, Polyphonic Spree, some Bollywood) mixed in. I love listening to it.

 

A couple I've always liked:

 

John Williams' Star Wars scores, Jaws, and the Indiana Jones scores
Bernard Herrmann's Vertigo, Psycho, and Taxi Driver
Jimmy Cliff, et al.,'s The Harder They Come
Prince's Purple Rain
Don Ellis' The French Connection
John Barry's James Bond scores
Jean Constantin's The 400 Blows
Nino Rota and Carmine Coppola's Godfather scores
Jerry Goldsmith's Chinatown
The Bee Gees, et al.,'s Saturday Night Fever
John Carpenter's Halloween
Public Enemy, et al.,'s Do the Right Thing

Man, there's just too many to list!

 

Last Action Hero
Judgement Night
The Crow

 

I like scores:
Bladerunner
Sorcerer
Never on Sunday
Eraserhead
Under the Skin
Once Upon a Time in the West
Red Riding Hood (and pretty much anything by Brian Reitzell)
Zorba the Greek
Touch of Evil

 

Purple Rain
Saturday Night Fever
Slumdog Millionaire

 

The Color of Money curated by Robbie Robertson
Something Wild with contributions from diverse artists from UB40 to Steve Jones to Oingo Boingo

 

All-time favorite? I dunno. But this week it's "La La Land." Great music and a wonderful, glorious movie.

 

Although 'Purple Rain' and several Ennio Morricone Soundtracks(including the recent 'The Hateful Eight') are obvious selections. I would also submit soundtracks to these 3 movies.

 

Here's a few dedicated soundtrack albums, one single and one e.p. - the recordings were almost exclusively made for the films - that bring a smile at times.





I would have included the Claudio Gizzi soundtracks for the Morrissey films Blood for Dracula and Flesh for Frankenstein also had they'd been in my iTunes library.

 

Some favorites in no particular order.

Blade Runner
Stranger Things Vol. 1 and 2
Risky Business
Pulp Fiction
The Big Lebowski
Heavy Metal
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
High Fidelity
Pretty In Pink
The Big Chill
Purple Rain

 

almost famous.....fantastic sound track. Everyone is on that one.

 

Skipping musicals? Otherwise it would be West Side Story, South Pacific.

 

Repo Man!

 

A HARD DAYS NIGHT
HELP
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
YELLOW SUBMARINE
LET IT BE
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
AMERICAN GRAFFITTI
THE BIG CHILL
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
FORREST GUMP

 

Favourite Movie Soundtrack: 41 Original Hits from the Soundtrack of American Graffiti.

 

I love all of the Pray for Rain contributions to Alex Cox's films

 

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Man from UNCLE
Forrest Gump
Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?

 

The Leatherface soundtrack had a lot of great metal. Sacred Reich, Death Angel and this classic ode to Leatherface!

 

Anything by Randy Newman is excellent. I did a quick search of this thread and was astounded that he hasn't been mentioned once. But my favorite score has to be Rain by Neil Finn. I've never seen the movie, it looks to be too sad, but the music is not to be missed if you love Neil Finn.

 

Pretty much this.

 

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 soundtrack is more my speed: Oingo Boingo, The Cramps, Lords of the New Church, Concrete Blonde, etc.

Sacred Reich was a good live band, though. Saw them in Boston back in 1991 with Sepultura, Napalm Death, and Sick of it All.

 

Saw them open up for Pantera on the Vulgar Display of Power tour. It was a larger theatre and the Sacred Reich fans were spread out across the venue. Really wish I could have seen them in a tiny club.