What is the Greatest Soundtrack Ever?

[NorthCyd]

The Last of the Mohicans

I really love the music from this movie, but if we are including instrumental scores then I'm going to change my vote to everything John Williams has done.

 

[3TrueFans]

A score and a soundtrack are two very different things.

 

[Gunnerclone]

The Last of the Mohicans

By far imo.

 

[NorthCyd]

Just say a movie.

It's ZRFs mission in life to take the fun out of everything.

 

[carvers4math]

I really love the music from this movie, but if we are including instrumental scores then I'm going to change my vote to everything John Williams has done.

If we are talking scores, I would include Lord of the Rings in the conversation. Really sets moods and brings tension.

 

[Clonehomer]

Lost Highway
The Crow

 

[ZRF]

Just say a movie.

I said several. I don't think you can pick "just one".

If you made me pick? Pop music soundtrack that contained mostly original music (that came out and around the movie) would probably have to be Rocky IV. Favorite instrumental would probably be the Conan movies (love Poledouris' scores). Best compilation soundtrack is any Vietnam movie that contains the most of the Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of this Place", Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower", "Fortunate Son" and "Gimme Shelter". Since those songs are so synonymous with the Vietnam War and are in a **** ton of movies I'm to lazy to look up which one is the best.

Worst soundtrack is the Bodyguard. Simply ******* brutal.

 

[MushroomPinball]

If we're counting original scores, then Vangelis' Blade Runner is the best IMO.

 

[AvonLakeCyclone]

Animal House

The Lost Boys

Apocalypse Now

 

[Clonehomer]

I really love the music from this movie, but if we are including instrumental scores then I'm going to change my vote to everything John Williams has done.

Westworld has a really good soundtrack for instrumental. A lot of great rock songs rewritten for piano and strings. Heart Shaped Box is amazing.

 

[pourcyne]

For TV, it would be Battlestar Galactica.

 

[Drew0311]

Anything that involves Kenny Loggins

 

[HFCS]

Some of my favs:
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Django Unchained
Magnolia

There are like six Tarantino movies I could list but Django is my favorite. Jackie Brown is great, almost a Volume II for Pulp fiction.

Cheating:
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (just live Bowie)
Interstella 5555 (just a Daft Punk album but it’s awesome to play movie in background at a party)

 

[jcf817]

City of Angels has a few great songs, but as a whole doesn't quite measure up.

 

[2speedy1]

Off the top of my head these would have to be in the top, they are at least the ones that stick out to me the most and I think of when I think of great soundtracks.

Maximum Overdrive
Dazed and Confused
Young Guns 2
Top Gun

 

[cyfanatic]

Anything that involves Kenny Loggins

Wouldn't that be almost half the movies from the 80s? Joking...kind of!

 

[VeloClone]

Lots of choices here depending on how you want to define "greatest". Hell, pick a John Williams score.

But let's try:
> Purple Rain
> Daredevil (yes the Ben Affleck one, soundtrack >>> movie)

and of course, the winner:



edit: dammit NorthCyd beat me to it

 

[Sigmapolis]

Score (mostly instrumental music written for texture) or soundtrack (songs reappropriated from other sources, usually the pop music canon, and used in a film for dramatic effect)...?

 

[pourcyne]

For movies, somebody already snagged "O Brother", so I will go with "Holes" (which nobody has ever seen, even though it has Sigourney Weaver as a mean warden who makes incarcerated juveniles dig holes in the desert)...I'll never understand why it did not become a cult classic.

 

[coolerifyoudid]

Mine were already taken, but here are some I haven't seen listed:

Clueless
Singles
Shrek
Pump Up the Volume
Swingers
Greatest Showman