Pitchfork list : 50 Best Movie Sountracks

For those interested it seems that The Crow Soundtrack is getting it's first vinyl release on Record Store Day this year. I will queue up for that for sure.

 

Robert Pollard- Bubble (even though it's just an EP)
Paul Weller- Jawbone
Sex Pistols- The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle

 

This is going to take some time coming back to read. On the outset, it looks pretty informed and well-rounded, though.

 

I would swap AHDN and HELP! in their ranking.

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER is a major omission.

 

Especially since they identified the soundtrack to the Last Days of Disco, a movie I've seen on a number of occasions but recall the dialogue more than the soundtrack.

 

Interesting, but I didn't see any of the soundtracks made by Peter Gabriel ("Passion", "Birdy"), or Mogwai ("Zidane"), or Clint Mansell ("Requiem For S Dream", "The Fountain"), or Tangerine Dream ("Sorcerer"), or Nick Cave ("The Proposition"), for example.

I woulda also included the soundtracks for the "Lord Of The Rings" movies and some of Hans Zimmer's bombastic soundtracks ("Gladiator", "Crimson Tide", "The Thin Red Line", etc).

--Geoff

 

Planet of the Apes (1968)- jerry Goldsmith. Complex and thrilling
Walk on the Wild Side ( 1963)- elmer Bernstein. Sultry, playful...distilling the characters and setting.

 

About ten out of the fifty would have made my Top 20. The other forty would be nowhere to be found.

 

No Goblin

 

Great movie, better soundtrack.

 

Missing:-
Vanishing Point (1971)

 

Also missing:-
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

 

No Chinatown, no dice.

 

Roy Ayers: Coffy

 

Weird list... so many great soundtracks (IMO) are missing. To name a few:
- Pink Floyd - Obscured by Clouds, More
- Ry Cooder - Paris Texas
- Peter Gabriel - Passion
- Marc Knopfler - Local Hero
- Miles Davis - Ascenseur pour l’echafaud
- Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
- Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man
- Tom Waits - Night on Earth
- Stevie Wonder - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
- David Bowie - The Buddha of Suburbia*
- Eric Clapton - Rush
- Prince - Batman
- Giorgio Moroder - Midnight Express
- Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever
- Joe Jackson - Mike’s Murder

*OK, not a movie soundtrack.

 

A number of soundtracks posters are listing as omissions are included in the companion 50 Best Film Scores list, including a few of yours and the oft-cited Dead Man. Honestly, I'm not sure how they're delineating between OSTs and scores.

Here's the link.

 

Thanks for the link! I see Pitchfork defines scores as “original music composed for a film, with recurring motifs and almost always without vocals” Based on this definition, I find it puzzling that Superfly is considered a soundtrack, while Shaft is considered a score. Both albums contain original music composed for a film and a mix of instrumental and vocal tracks, but I’m probably nitpicking here...