What is the Greatest Soundtrack Ever?

[RyCy04]

Not the best, but Stand By Me has a great one

I was just coming in here to mention this one. I grew up with my mom always listening to the oldies stations. So this soundtrack is nostalgia overload for me.

 

[mitten1975]

I was listening to Dire Straits "Making Movies" on vinyl last night and my mind went down a rabbit hole thinking about other albums "Queen of the Damned", "Breakfast Club", "The Crow", etc. and got me wondering: What is the greatest soundtrack album?

My favorite has been West Side Story, and Porgy and Bess, but I guess I am an old man.

 

[Stevetasker]

Singles & Forrest Gump

 

[MeanDean]

American Graffiti was mentioned, but should be mentioned again.

A Hard Days Night - All new (at the time Lennon McCartney compositions) of which only half were used in the actual movie.

That Thing You Do.

 

[Saul_T]

I love the Social Network soundtrack that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross did. South Park: Chef Aid is another one I'm going to consider a "soundtrack".

 

[HOTDON]

This ought to make it easy to guess when I graduated high school within a couple years, but I'll add Mallrats along with both Scream 2 & 3 and second Lost Highway.

Best by no standards by my own nostalgia. 80's and 90's were peak soundtrack. It's a totally lost art now. Obviously they still exist, but music videos with film footage spliced really bound the two together.

 

[st8cydr]

High Fidelity
Almost Famous
Blues Brothers
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Saturday Night Fever

 

[st8cydr]

Rocky Horror got me to thinking...and blurring the topic a little, but how about

The Wall
Tommy
Little Shop of Horrors

just off the top of my head

 

[Cyrealist]

Oh Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack won a lot of awards.

 

[LincolnSwinger]

A couple more worth mentioning - Get Shorty and The Departed

 

[Clonehomer]

Couple more that popped into my head
PCU
Wayne’s World - the cover of ballroom blitz was really good
Last Action Hero - mostly for the remaster (?) of Dream On. Liked it better than the original with ST’s voice getting some years on it.

 

[mkadl]

I dont know if anyone said it without reading it all. I remember when American Graffiti came out and everyone had the album. The first time "old" songs we reintroduced. Rock was still young in 1973. Still a favorite of mine.

 

[EricND]

Vision Quest

 

[CysRage]

Anything John Williams composed (Star Wars, Indiana Jones, ET, Home Alone, Harry Potter, Jaws)
Back to the Future trilogy
Rudy

 

[HFCS]

Vision Quest

Lunatic Fringe before every one of my wrestling matches on the walkman just like Louden Swain.

 

[yez]

Judgment Night
The Crow
Garden State
Singles

 

[clonedude]

Lot of great ones already... but I haven't seen one of my favorites mentioned yet....

 

[CloneFan65]

 

[CivEFootball]

Tron Legacy

 

[singsing]

I've always had a soft spot for the Wonder Boys soundtrack.

1. "Things Have Changed" - Bob Dylan (5:10)
2. "A Child's Claim to Fame" - Buffalo Springfield (2:12)
3. "No Regrets" - Tom Rush (3:52)
4. "Old Man" - Neil Young (3:23)
5. "Shooting Star" - Bob Dylan (3:09)
6. "Reason to Believe" – Tim Hardin (2:00)
7. "Need Your Love So Bad" - Little Willie John (2:17)
8. "Not Dark Yet" - Bob Dylan (6:30)
9. "Slip Away" - Clarence Carter (2:32)
10. "Waiting for the Miracle" - Leonard Cohen (7:43)
11. "Buckets of Rain" - Bob Dylan (3:23)
12. "Watching the Wheels" - John Lennon (3:32)
13. "Philosophers Stone" - Van Morrison (6:03)

Cohen was on another soundtrack with that song? It worked in "Natural Born Killers"