Underrated Soundtracks, What's Your Pick

So, what would you consider to be an underrated soundtrack?

I would nominate Jackie Brown. Bill Withers, Johnny Cash, The Delfonics...c'mon, don't get much better.

 

Rushmore/

 

Eating Raoul

 

The Natural - Randy Newman

 

Death Wish II - Jimmy Page

 

The Chocolate War (1988). Never commercially released, but it’s a stunner. Kate Bush, Yaz/Yazoo, Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, and Windham Hill pianist Scott Cossu are all featured

 

Vanilla Sky

 

Kids
Bubble

 

1.) Pretty in Pink - “Pretty in Pink” (Psychedelic Furs); “Send in the Dancing Horses” (Echo & the Bunnymen); “If You Leave” (OMD); “Left of Center” (Suzzane Vega)

2.) That Thing You Do! - they may be fake 60s pop tunes, but they are great fake 60s pop tunes. I have several songs on my Spotify playlist - “That Thing You Do,” “Dance With Me Tonight;” “She Knows It; ”Hold My Hand, Hold My Heart.” I love the fake liner notes which provides additional details to the movie subplots (ex. Why Jimmy did record with Playtone Records again after he quit?”)

 

Is Local Hero underrated? That’s mine.

 

The Velvet Goldmine offers an underrated soundtrack for an overlooked film. There's a fun mix of classic 70s music (Eno, Roxy Music, T. Rex), covers (including Sonic Youth and Thom Yorke doing his best Bryan Ferry) and newer tracks done in the style of 70s glam.

 

One of my favorites, from a movie I've never seen......That Summer. Picked this up in the bargain bin in 1980 or so. Great soundtrack.



Ian Dury and The Blockheads - Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll 3:11
Mink DeVille - Spanish Stroll 3:38
Elvis Costello - (I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea 3:07
The Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern 2:58
Zones - New Life 2:26
The Only Ones - Another Girl, Anther Planet 3:00
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World 3:02
The Patti Smith Group - Because the Night 3:00
The Boomtown Rats - Kicks 4:03
The Ramones - Rockaway Beach 2:06
The Undertones - Teenage Kicks 2:25
Eddie & The Hot Rods - Do Anything You Wanna Do 4:03
Ian Dury and The Blockheads - What a Waste 3:28
Nick Lowe - I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass 3:09
Elvis Costello - Watching the Detectives 3:39
Richard Hell and The Voidoids - Blank Generation 2:41

 

Model Shop-Spirit

 

That Thing You Do!

Little Big League- Stanley Clarke, Jeff Beck, Booker T and the MGs

Tin Cup

 

Inside Llewyn Davis

 

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

 

The Savage Seven

 

Revolution

 

The soundtrack to the defunct television show, CROSSING JORDAN, has some cool cover treats from the big names in the adult alternative field: Richard Thompson, Sam Phillips, Lucinda Williams, etc.

 

I think this one is more obscure than underrated.

Soundtrack of Sweden: Heaven and Hell a sort of soft-core porn documentary featuring the original Mah Na Mah Na more widely, though incorrectly, known as a Muppet's tune.

 

The Hot Spot



I've never seen the film but love the soundtrack.

 

Yes!

 

one of my favorites

 

I bought the soundtrack and out of curiosity rented the film. That movie is shockingly good. My expectations were well exceeded. Claude Akins is cast against type and steals the show.

My understanding is that Larry McMurtry wrote the script (based on Mellencamp's notes) because Mellencamp had produced his son's record and got him on to a major label. Or maybe it was the other way around. Anyway, the sublimely clever conceit is that Mellencamp plays a successful music star who doesn't know to act normal around his old friends and family. So whether Mellencamp is actually acting well or not becomes immaterial, because the character's hopelessly conflicted. Now that's making lemonade out of a lemon.