What is your top 3 soundtrack albums?

Saturday Night Fever
Donnie Darko two-disc original soundtrack and score
Easy Rider

 

Only 3 is very tough but I would take both

Shaft, and
Superfly, as well as
The Harder they Come.

I also think Marvin Gaye's Trouble Man underrated. Oft just seen as filler between What's Going On and Let's Get It On, but it has a nice jazzy feel, especially good on the fairly new 40th anniversary CD release.

 

Hendrix,the Kinks,Thin Lizzy,Bob Marley and the title track by Bono and Gavin Friday is awesome.Sinead O'Connor's 'You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart' is one of my favorite songs by her.


The movie sucked but the soundtrack had p.j Harvey,Nick Cave,Flaming Lips,U2,Seal and Sunny Day Real Estate etc.

 

wow this thread got much more replies than i expected. Thank you guys.Now i will have to listen to every soundtrack you wrote.I already found a few that i like.
This forum seems really great.Members seem to have a good taste of music and knowledge. Keep spreading the good music guys because there is so much shi**y "art" out there.

 

Falcon and the Snowman - Mostly Metheny with a little Bowie
Performance - One of my favorites, Randy Newman, Merry Clayton, Ry Cooder, Jack Nitzsche, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Last Poets, Mick Jagger
I Am Sam - All Beatles covers by various artists, don't know if this actually was the OST for the film

 

The Boat That Rocked
Crossroads
Once Upon A Time In The West

Honourable Mention: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone.

 

I always loved Until the End of the World from that quirky early 90s Wim Wenders film. Kind of a cult classic by now. The soundtrack is compiled from many of his favorite contemporary artists who were asked to contribute a song. Some original, some reworked, some subsequently appearing on the artist's own records, but all pretty nice. Everything from Jane Siberry to Can, with Patti Smith and Neneh Cherry and a bunch more in-between.

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/until-the-end-of-the-world-soundtrack.141486/

The Paris, Texas soundtrack by Ry Cooder is a very nice one too. Another quirky but thoughtful Wim Wenders film. Very cool movie that I haven't had the pleasure of seeing for many, many years. I don't know if anyone is really making little cinematic treasures like this anymore that have such a lived in feel. Most productions nowadays are just so big and overblown and glitzy. Anyway, I have the soundtrack in the mid 80s big label vinyl version and it sounds great. That's the beauty of just about everything Cooder touches. Think there might've even been an audiophile version at one time later too. Some spoken word parts from the movie to tie it together and retain the dreamy quality of the movie.

And I've always been fond of the soundtrack from that Liv Tyler Stealing Beauty movie. Silly movie, but good soundtrack. I think it is, anyway...can't be certain if I like it just because it's such a nice collection of trip hop and funk and jazz and other cool stuff, or because when I play it I keep envisioning the scenes with Liv Tyler naked. Oh well, either way ...

1. 2 Wicky - Hoover
2. Glory Box - Portishead
3. If 6 Was 9 - Axiom Funk
4. Annie Mae - John Lee Hooker
5. Rocket Boy - Liz Phair
6. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
7. My Baby Just Cares For Me - Nina Simone
8. I'll Be Seeing You - Billie Holiday
9. Rhymes Of An Hour - Mazzy Star
10. Alice - Cocteau Twins
11. You Won't Fall - Lori Carson
12. I Need Love - Sam Phillips

 

Basic Instinct- Jerry Goldsmith
Crime in the Streets- Franz Waxman
West Side Story- Leonard Bernstein

Many others a close 100.

 

Besides the Pink Floyd related SDTKs:

Midnight Express - Giorgio Moroder
The Haunting of Julia - Colin Towns (I don't have the CD SDTK, just the VHS) OOP on CD and very expensive used!
Escape From New York - John Carpenter
Psycho II - Jerry Goldsmith

 

Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees among other artists), Blade Runner (Vangelis), Sorcerer (Tangerine Dream)

 

About a Boy
High Fidelity
The Darjeeling Limited

 

Last Action Hero
Pretty Woman
The Graduate

 

Enter the Dragon - Lalo Schifrin
Blood on Satans claw - Marc Wilkinson
Possession - Andrzej Korzynski

Would anyone agree that "soundtracks" which are made up of loads of previously released
songs are not exactly soundtrack music.....I do like that approach, but you know.....

 

Three of one kind:

Easy Ryder
American Grafitti
Mean Streets

Three of another kind:

Hendrix/Otis Redding - Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival
Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson
Prince - Purple Rain
+
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

 

Doris Day - Love Me or Leave Me
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour

(subject to change without notice )

 

Welcome to the forum!

 

Conan the Barbarian
The Crow
American Beauty
The Tudors (Showtime series)

 

Rumble Fish - Stewart Copeland
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman

 

Body Heat
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Once Upon a Time in America

Glad to see the love for Blade Runner, Chinatown and Paris, Texas - all brilliant soundtracks.

 

Just one for me: One From The Heart (Tom Waits /Crystal Gayle)

 

The Last Samurai
Memoirs Of A Geisha
The Hot Spot
* Bonus - Black Rain - The only disc I could find Gregg Allman's "I'll Be Holding On"

 

Once Upon A Time In The West
One From The Heart
whatever John Barry 007 is the last one I heard...

 

I'm not a fan of soundtracks made up of popular songs--I think it's a lazy way for a filmmaker to invoke moods. I much prefer original scores.

Elevator To the Gallows or whatever the French translation is
Aguirre Wrath Of God (also one of my favorite films)
Shadows (I've never seen a copy of the soundtrack, but it's great)