What are your 4 favorite film soundtracks?

Raiders of the lost Ark
Close encounters in the Third Kind
The Empire strikes back

and...uhmmm.. Poltergeist or The Omen....

 

American Graffiti
The Last Waltz
The Big Chill
Fast Times At Ridgemont High

 

King Creole
Midnight Cowboy
Saturday Night Fever
Grease

 

Superfly
The Harder They Come
Saturday Night Fever
Purple Rain

These ones make the cut because they each have multiple great tracks.

For theme song alone:

Shaft
Across 110th Street.

 

Help
Hard Days Night
Let It Be
Yellow Submarine

That was easy

 

zabriskie point
easy rider
trainspotting
lost highway
velvet goldmine

 

Koyaanisqatsi
Clockwork Orange
2001
El Topo (the best)

 

Almost Famous
Pulp Fiction
Bugsy Malone
Natural Born Killers

 

Sound of Music
South Pacific
Oliver!
West Side Story

 

The man with the golden arm
Ascenseur pour l'echafaud
Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)
The Hot Spot

 

More (Pink Floyd)
The Crow
Natural Born Killers
Lost Highway

 

West Side Story "possibly the greatest soundtrack of all time, recorded with(arguably)some of the greatest studio musicians of all time"

The Lord of the Rings(all of them)
Basic Instinct
The Big Country

Honorable mention = Oklahoma, The Strange case of Benjamin Button

 

The vast majority of my L.P. and CD accumulation is film scoeres, so I can't begin to choose only four.

 

Pulp Fiction
Kill Bill Vol 1
A Bronx Tale
Goodfellas

 

Cabaret
The Jazz Singer (1980 Remake)
My Fair Lady
and yes... I love "Grease"

 

Wonderful soundtrack.

 

Help
She’s The One
Repo Man
Rock and Roll High School

 

The Blues Brothers
'Round Midnight - Herbie Hancock
Night on Earth - Tom Waits
If it counts, Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Thelonious Monk (have never seen the film, though).

 

Conan the Barbarian (Basil Poledouris, 1982)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Popol Vuh, 1975)
Rocco, e i suoi fratelli (Nino Rota, 1961)
The Music of Cosmos (Alan Hovhaness, et al., 1980)

 

Swingers
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Out of Africa
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

 

Grease is KILLER

 

High Fidelity
Fast Times At Ridgemont High
The Graduate
Rushmore

 

Scores
John Williams-The Empire Strikes Back
Basil Poledouris-Conan the Barbarian
Vangelis-Blade Runner
Tangerine Dream-Legend

Soundtracks
Natural Born Killers
The Lost Boys
The Crow
Lost Highway

 

Ones that carry unique tracks-
Joyride, 1997
The Beach, 2000
Salvation, 1988 (New Order related)
Married To The Mob, 1988 (New Order related)
Threesome, 1994 (New Order related)
The Crow, 1994 (For the re-do of Thrill Kill Kults Nervous Xians)

 

How about 2 lists and honorable mentions

Orchestral
Star Wars / Empire Strikes Back
Superman
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Kahn

HM: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Pink Panther

Pop
Backbeat
Reality Bites
So I Married An Ax Murderer
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

HM: Singles, Big Chill, American Graffitti