What is your favorite soundtrack album?

Rushmore
Royal Tennembaums
Grosse pointe blank
Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

There are at least 3 coming to mymind
Best EVER and FIRST

Easy Rider - the music fits perfectly within the movie AND the album sounds fantastic without the visual side
PURPLE RAIN Prince first shine and a new chapter in POP/Rock/Soul music

As a Reggae Head it's ROCKERS. Such a great independent movie with so many artists often playing their own characters. Some of the best moments in Reggae - Burning Spear freestyling on the beach without any music JAH NO DEAD, Graduation In Zion, Money Troubles fit so fine in that context.
Dope movie, great alum.

There are more but these 3 stand out so much above the rest.

 

A couple more worth mentioning:

Bridges of Madison County
Death Wish II

 

It's probably as much a factor of how much I enjoyed the movie, but the soundtrack to Drive is one of my favorites. It starts with 5 80's songs. Not ones you would probably expect and then continues with 14 instrumentals composed by Cliff Martinez. I have to turn my preamp down, so it's recorded very hot, but doesn't seem too compressed.

 

Hard to answer as I don't generally buy Soundtracks albums but I have bought a few of them because I like the music. A weird one I like a lot is the music Charles Bernstein composed for the first "Nightmare on Elm Street" movie.

 

Kundun - Just an amazing score by Glass.



And of course XANADU.

 

Several come to mind quickly.
A Clockwork Orange
Vanilla Sky
Up The Junction
The Strawberry Statement
Last House On The Left
Patty Hearst

 

Nino Rota's 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita; also on my short list (that hasn't been mentioned) are Birdman and Bullitt

 

Anything by Michael Nyman.

 

The Talented Mr. Ripley
Brokeback Mountain
Purple Rain
The Red Violin

 

Scores:

Wim Mertens-The Belly of an Architect
Elmer Bernstein-The Black Cauldron
Joe Hisaishi-Princess Mononoke and Kikujiro
John Williams and Stomu Yamashta-Images (Robert Altman, 1972)
Kenji Kawai-Ghost in the Shell
Ryuichi Sakamoto-Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence; Wuthering Heights; The Last Emperor (w/ David Byrne); Tony Takitani
Mark Knopfler-Local Hero
Tangerine Dream-Sorcerer; The Keep; Miracle Mile
Danny Elfman-Batman Returns
Michael Nyman-Prospero's Books
Mark Isham-The Moderns
Ennio Morricone-State of Grace; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Yoko Kanno-Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Geinoh Yamashirogumi-Akira
Philip Glass-Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
Cliff Martinez-Solaris
Vangelis-1492: Conquest of Paradise
Jerry Goldsmith-Freud

Soundtracks:
Pump Up the Volume/Empire Records
The Breakfast Club (soooo much more than "Don't You Forget About Me")
Kill Bill: Volume 1
Flirt (1995)

 

All of his Peter Greenaway collaborations are brilliant, particularly the sublime Prospero's Books

 

A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Braveheart
Buena Vista Social Club
Gladiator
Koyaaniqatsi
O Lucky Man!
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
plus a bunch of Ennio Morricone, Tangerine Dream and Vangelis soundtracks.

 

Valley Girl...bad movie...great soundtrack
9 1/2 Weeks....bad movie...great soundtrack
Casino Royale...ok movie...great soundtrack
Stardust (with David Essex)...good movie (haven't seen in a while, but liked when I was a teenager)...great soundtrack

 

West Side Story
Superfly
Blade Runner
Bullitt
Apollo 13
Alien
Koyaanisqatsi
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Hot Spot (John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis)

 

The Five Heartbeats
Rocky IV
Animal House

 

Bullitt
The Molly Maguires
Experiment in Terror
Absolute Beginners
Blue Collar

 

The Devil's Rejects
Forrest Gump
American Graffiti
Pulp Fiction
Stand By Me
Psych-Out
Spawn
The Lost Boys

The James Bond "Best Of" cd I have is an awesome compilation.

This one from Elvis is also a good comp from his movies:



Is he playing "Stairway To Heaven" or "The Song Remains The Same" in this photo? It looks like he may be playing an A minor - I'll go with "Stairway.."

 

Another good one from Elvis...

 

O Brother Where Art Thou?

 

Pret-A-Porter.

Great variety: Stones, U2, Janet Jackson, Cranberries, Salt-N-Pepa, Ini Kamoze

 

West Side Story
American Graffiti
The Natural
Clerks
Backbeat
The Odd Couple
American Beauty
Saturday Night Fever
2001: A Space Odyssey

 

Clockwork Orange
Blade Runner