Greatest Movie Soundtrack Album/Song

[Walter Sobchak]

Star Wars

Requiem for a Dream

There Will Be Blood

[Cbull]

Best movie soundtrack is Queen of The Damned for me. Honorable mentions I guess would be Rocky and Dirty Dancing

Couldn't really pick out 1 particular best individual song as there's so many but I'll chuck a random one in here that is a fav.... Tonight Is What It Means to Be Young from Streets of Fire.

[mat205125]

Walter Sobchak said:

Star Wars

Requiem for a Dream

There Will Be Blood

The thumping and clanging heartbeat during the oil well drilling scene is one of the most tense and dramatic in any film.

[havoc]

Ignoring classic instrumental-led soundtracks a-la Leone's spaghetti westerns and the John Williams stuff, I'd have to say:-

Top Gun. Not universally good, but as above I played it a lot as a kid
The Crow. Nicely judged
Natural Born Killers. Hell of a mix there...from Lard to Leonard Cohen. And works beautifully in the film. Probably the best, for me.


Grosse Point Blank also a good call...forgot about that one.

[Cotty]

Im a big Hanz Zimmer fan, I went to the O2 to see the Blue Planet 2 on big screen with a live orchestra and have many of his sountracks.

Gladiator - the track The Battle is so powerful
Interstella - fantastic.
The Last of the Mohicans - Promentory (Main Theme)

[darreni]

i4got said:

Grosse Pointe Blank anyone?

Such a great film & soundtrack. I might have to watch again tomorrow night.

Agree with anything involving Lalo Schifrin. Plus a mention for Trainspotting & Spinal Tap.

Edited by darreni on Saturday 25th March 01:25

[Dragster]

First things that came to mind were Peter Gabriel's work on

Birdy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkvzV1FycLo

and

Passion - The last Temptation of Christ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1jlBLhaJj4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcDAzmIRNGM

Remarkable live performance / interpretation here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=130NKW4iZSk

[Skyedriver]

Written for the film

Shaft
Clockwork Orange

and Purple Rain

all three written for the film rather than existing songs used in a soundtrack

[Voldemort]

Awful film: great soundtrack

[SpydieNut]

A lot of excellent ones above - I also like The Mission. Beautiful, powerful music.

[Rampant Golf]

worsy said:

Is a great album

Brilliant album.

Add to this human traffic and natural born killers.

[DodgyGeezer]

my first thought was:

Maximum Overdrive


but then you've got:

School of Rock
Rock of Ages
Heavy Metal
Dazed and Confused

[Cotty]

Narcisus said:

Tron Legacy

Thats a great soundtrack by Daft Punk. I really like Adagio for TRON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8OELzmpgZo&li...

[bodhi]

Cotty said:

Narcisus said:

Tron Legacy

Thats a great soundtrack by Daft Punk. I really like Adagio for TRON.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8OELzmpgZo&li...

Agreed - also worth checking out Tron Legacy:Reconfigured, which was a follow up where lots of dance artists like Paul Oakenfold, Moby, M83 etc all remixed the original Daft Punk tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDhhD-0GvAg&li...

Brilliant for late night runs up the M40

[njw1]

Four pages and no one's mentioned Kevin and Perry go large!?

And yes I am being serious!

[Frimley111R]

It's hard to beat Grease because it's a musical. I think you need to separate those films from ones which are not.

[MonkeyBusiness]

Opening - Neutron Dance (Pointer Sisters) - Beverley Hills Cop.

The theme tune to 'The Great Escape' is also a cracker.

[Lost Soul]

TCEvo said:

Repo Man - cool film & great soundtrack of early/mid '80's (mostly) US punk & hardcore bands.

It's an epic film, along with that weird film with Mickey Rourke and Matt Dillon, Rumblefish was it?