Favorite Movie soundtrack

Some more great Morricone . This is a great old movie, isn't very well known and kind of hard to find a decent copy of though ... Also titled " The Big Gundown "

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Inglorious Basterds also has a nice soundtrack and actually borrows some music from the above movie

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garden state

 

Garden State
Road to Perdition

 

Night at the Roxbury

 

Blade Runner is excellent, so is Conan (original), but this soundtrack (OMG), and the film, itself, what a movie going experience. I still can't believe Last of the Mohicans didn't win a ton of Academy Awards. For those who never saw this film in a theater, I pity you.

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Urban Cowboy
Purple Rain

 

and
Dazed and Confused

 

Thank you to all who added garden State, and I also see some Morricone in this too. Major reps to this whole thread, you guys know your scores and good taste, congrats!!!

 

I'm surprised nobody voted for Cremaster II soundtrack yet!

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not many new movies with great sound tracks. Adventureland was the last for me. How can you go wrong with falco and the cure?

 

You guys haven't been doing this much have you? Go get netflix mail and start watching some good movies for a change. Of all my picks, I only saw Drive mentioned, and that was once. College and Electric Youth did a bang up job on that one.

Basically, your barometer for great soundtracks in a movie should be this: if you were to bring up the topic of the movie in a social setting, how likely would somebody else be to refer to the soundtrack itself rather than the content of the movie? "Like, remember that movie?" "Yeah. Talk about a killer soundtrack." In the most extreme cases (see my #1 and 2), it completely overshadows the movie. Nobody even cares about the movie anymore; they just know about it because of its soundtrack. Memorize this list and give some of these a shot:

Drive
Amelie
Highlander (Queen)
Hanna (Chemical Brothers)
Trainspotting
High Fidelity
Royal Tenenbaums
Le Samourai
Dumb & Dumber (I'm not even kidding)
Giu La Teste / Duck You Sucker (my personal nomination from the Morricone's)
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Do the Right Thing
Ghost Dog (RZA)
The Graduate (Simon & Garfunkel)
A Clockwork Orange

#2. Black Orpheus (Luis Bonfa and Antonio Carlos Jobim) - this movie basically served as bossa nova's calling card for the rest of the world. The soundtrack has far outlived the content of the movie, which is also not so bad itself. I love the line that Hermes gives to Orpheus in the end that basically goes, "We are poor people. Carnivale is all we have, just a few days a year to forget all of our pains." It won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Festival, but now all anyone knows of that festival is Truffaut's 400 Blows which took home the Special Mention award. Today there is no doubt that 400 Blows is superior, but Black Orpheus' soundtrack has acquitted itself admirably.

#1. Superfly. This movie was the best Blaxploitation movie, up until Django Unchained probably. But that's saying nothing, as every Blaxploitation movie has poor production and awful acting/scripting. They're all horrible movies, although taken together they comprise a critical genre of which to be cognizant. To make a long story short, no one has seen this movie, and really it's no good. But the soundtrack is transcendent. Curtis Mayfield himself is in the nightclub singing for a bit of it, and for the most part you don't even need for there to be a plot just to sit back and marvel at the songs he crafted for this movie. All anyone talks about when they mention Superfly these days is the soundtrack.

I'm ignoring all the movies that were made expressly as expositions of the band's music, since those can't even be considered legit movies (Purple Rain, Magical Mystery Tour, Interstella 5555 etc). But seriously, if you watch any of these, watch Superfly or Black Orpheus, not for the movies but for the soundtracks.

 

best Soundtrack would be Repo Man. Valley Girl would be second. This is Spinal Tap would be third or maybe first depending on the mood of the day.

 

Oh man good call, can't believe I forgot this

I feel movies like Hero and CTHD had some pretty good soundtracks too, if you're into that kind of music.

 

Swingers is my all time favorite soundtrack. Great film, great album!!

Sample play list:

http://www.allmusic.com/album/swingers-original-soundtrack-mw0000082492

 

Willie Nelson - The Red Headed Stranger

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Above The Rim, MLnace 2 Society, The Show, Lost Boys, The Wood, Big Trouble In LiL China, Life,

 

Minute after minute, hour after hour

 

Couldn't agree more. The Last of the Mohicans not only has a great soundtrack by Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (based on The Gael, by Dougie MacLean), but may also be Michael Mann's best film. Anyone who loves the history of the period and a great story, or simply enjoyed Cooper's novel, and who has not yet managed to see this film has done themselves a disservice. And yes, like any film, it's far better in a good theatre.

 

No love for The Fountain Soundtrack? SMH

Now that was simply hauntingly beautiful.

 

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