What was in your opinion the best soundtrack ever?

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

What was in your opinion, the best soundtrack made (or compiled) for a motion picture ever?.

Multiple answers are valid

I think Top Gun gets the honors, but there's a lot of good music out there.

What do you think?

[BJ_M]

1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (best use of sound)

2. Dazed and Confused (best collection of 70's music in a film)

3. Saturday Night Fever (prob. most remembered music and hits)

4. The Godfather (awesome soundtrack)

5. Apocalypse Now (ditto)

6. Jurrasic Park (first use of DTS - blew everyone away)

7. most any film scored by Ennio Morricone (classics)

8. Tommy (awesome) , maybe tied with Fantasia

9. The Song Remains the Same (the Led Zeppelin movie)

10. Pink Floyd The Wall and Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (one of the best still stoned out of your gourd movies) .

11. The Last Waltz

Others:

Gimme Shelter
Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (some of the best concert footage and sound)
Woodstock (Director's cut)
Quardrophenia
Psycho
Oklahoma!
Superfly
The Sound of Music
A Hard Day's Night
American Graffiti

[SquirrelDip]

Gotta agree with well over half of your list there BJ_M. While not the same calibre as your list, I also like The Blues Brothers and The Commitments.

[rhegedus]

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

[Roz]

I,m with BJ_M on this one

Any film scored by Ennio Morricone (classics)

Pink Floyd ain't bad either!

[Shadow57]

Also on BJ's list.............

'The Sound of Music'

Just a great collection of songs that have lasted over the years.

Also enjoyable for all ages.

Other movies have excellent tracks also, like 'Standing in the Shadows of Motown' (but that's more of a documentary than a movie).

I wonder if 'Smokey and the Bandit' and 'Convoy' count??? :P :P

[yoda313]

Here we go:

1. Star Wars (all of them)

2. Jurassic Park

3. Top Gun

4. Saturday Night Fever.

5. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

6. Matrix 1 (I don't have it but love the beat)

7. Lord of the Rings (the whole trilogy)

[zzyzzx]

The sountrack to South Park and Team America: World Police. You can't beat the Uncle Fucka song on the South Park soundtrack.

[BJ_M]

thats true -- i should have included the trilogy LOTRs -- great soundtrack ..

[yoda313]

thats true -- i should have included the trilogy LOTRs -- great soundtrack ..

Yep howard shore did a great job on it. Especially in ROTK. The epic score for the last battles were sensational. Enya and the other singers were ok but nothing exceptional in my opinion.

[holdar]

Do films that were originally plays count? If so:

1. West Side Story, 1961 (Saul Chaplin, Leonard Bernstein)
2. Guys And Dolls, 1955 (Frank Loesser)
3. My Fair Lady, 1964 (Frederick Loewe)
4. Oklahoma, 1955 (Adolph Deustch, Richard Rogers)
5. Ice Station Zebra, 1968 (Michel Legrand)

I love Ennio Morricone but doesn’t he write “themes” not songs. Maybe musicals don’t count as “soundtracks”. I think they should.

[MackemX]

Lost Boys (Cry Little Sister is haunting!)
Grease (always a good one to singalong when out on the piss)
Rocky Horror Picture Show (not for me though!)

probably more but those sprung to mind as ones that haven't been mentioned already

[stiltman]

Rocky horror takes tops
The Wall takes close second
Escape from New York (Just the intro tune though)

[Shocker Milwaukee]

Singles
Friday
Forrest Gump
Easy Rider

[bazooka]

Happy Gilmore

[MOVIEGEEK]

Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Heavy Metal

[SquirrelDip]

I'll second the Heavy Metal...

[JohnnyCNote]

A tie between Apocalypse Now & The Good, the Bad and the Ugly...

[guns1inger]

In no particular order

Amadeus
Fight Club
Psycho
2001
Alien
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly / Once Upon A Time In The West
Apocalypse Now
Jurassic Park (The T-Rex roar alone is worth it)
Cape Fear (original, although the same soundtrack is used in the remake)
Midnight Run (actually, I'll take pretty much anything Danny Elfman has done)

[smearbrick1]

Pulp Fiction
Singles
American Pie
Forrest Gump

[BJ_M]

American Pie had a sound track ?

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Moulin Rouge had a great soundtrack too.

[curlyween]

From a purely orchestral point of view "The Rock" (Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage) soundtrack is brilliant.

[DeadLily]

Hands down, the "Angels Revenge" soundtrack (sadly, not available on CD or vinyl). The composer's use of repetition was aweinspiring.

[tanerb]

Last of the Mohicans

[burnman99]

Fantasia 2000 (Fantasia is a better movie, but 2k has Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue & Stravinsky's Firebird)

Heavy Metal

She's Having a Baby...(If only for 'This Women's Work' by Kate Bush)

Visionquest

The Big Chill

Empire Records

Almost Famous

Honorable Mention to Pulp Fiction & a Movie I've never even heard of called Cherish. It not only has I Melt With You by Modern English, but also
2 Climax Blues Band songs. Good Stuff!

Roger

[lordsmurf]

- Jurassic Park
- Aladdin
- Batman Returns

Those were good. I don't know about "best ever".

[yoda313]

Aladdin

Yes that was pretty good also. Peaboy bryson was on the track wasn't he??? (sorry about spelling.... )

[rallynavvie]

Nice, Ennio Morricone rules for a scorer and he's still doing it. I can't listen to Ecstasy of Gold without getting goosebumps, and The Trio over the final scene in GB&U is one of my favorite scored scenes of all time. I have almost every soundtrack from every movie he scored for Sergio. Does anyone know if anyone re-recorded the classics from the Dollar Trilogy recently because the originals are peaking everywhere and it would be awesome to really crank them without that.

And Pink Floyd even! I almost want the version of Comfortably Numb from The Wall with all those screams as Pink is clawing his way out of that shell/skin. And does putting Dark Side over Wizard of Oz count? Watching Munchkins dance to Money is priceless (no pun intended)

I've also recently become a huge fan of Tan Dun. I thought his stuff was good in Crouching Tiger but he got me with Hero. Using Perlman's fiddle expertise in something like that hooked this violinist

[Peter H]

My fav would have to be the soundtrack for The Crow.

i can listen to that over and over an not get tired.

i especially love the first song 'Burn' by The Cure. simply awesome song.

heaps of other greats on there as well.

Kill Bill would also be another fav well anything really from Quentin Tarantino.

Reserviour Dogs is a simply awesome soundtrack as would be Pulp Fiction.