Best soundtrack ever?

A_Border_Bandit

Can be anything: movie, tv show or even a musical!

For me, I love the Grand Theft Auto Vice City soundtrack, really took me to the 80's when I played it and I've since aquired it on cd for the iPOD.

I also think that Reeling in the Years has a great selection of music on it, always seems appropriate to whatever images it's shown with.

sellerbarry

Cannot beat the Music of the Movie (The Business) with danny dyer etc. 80s music throughout. Brings back loads of memories for me.

• "Planet Earth"
  Performed by Duran Duran
• "All Night Long"
  Written by Rick James
  Performed by Mary Janes Girls
• "Wild Flower"
  Written by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy (as William Duffy)
  Performed by The Cult
• "Hangin' on a String"
  Performed by Loose Ends
• "Ghetto Life"
  Written by Rick James
  Performed by Rick James
• "Welcome to the Pleasuredome"
  Performed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
• "Heart of Glass"
  Composed by Deborah Harry and Chris Stein
  Performed by Blondie
• "Don't You (Forget About Me)"
  Performed by Simple Minds
• "Echo Beach"
  Performed by Martha and The Muffins
• "Let the Music Play"
  Composed by Chris Barbbosa and Ed Chisholm
  Performed by Shannon
• "Modern Love"
  Written by David Bowie
  Performed by David Bowie
• "It's My Life"
  Performed by Talk Talk
• "Avalon"
  Written by Bryan Ferry
  Performed by Roxy Music
• "Kings of the Wild Frontier"
  Performed by Adam Ant
• "Call Me"
  Composed by Deborah Harry and Giorgio Moroder
  Performed by Blondie
• "The Real Life"
  Performed by Corporation of One
• "Video Killed the Radio Star"
  by The Buggles

Classic Movie too;)

arsenallegend

(500) days of summer

One from the heart Tom waits

Rushmore

The royal Tenenbaums

Trainspotting

arsenallegend

Curtis mayfied-superfly

Rigsby

Ennio Morriconie's sound tracks to the spaghetti westerns, has to be up there with the best... e.g. "The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly".

JerryHandbag

The Beach soundtrack is pretty awesome IMO. Leftfield, New Order, Faithless, Moby etc etc

Cork

Pretty in Pink Soundtrack- Smiths, OMD, Inxs, Echo + the Bonnymen

rcaz

High Fidelity
Bodysong
There Will Be Blood
Christmas on Mars
Stop Making Sense
Toy Story
Fantasia

Dan Dare

The Harder They Come-Jimmy Cliff et al:)

A V A

band of brothers / the pacific / the last samurai - hans zimmer


500 days of summer - the smiths


the wedding singer - billy idol , flock of seagulls , new order , joy division


control - joy division :D

strobe

For me it's a toss up between Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting. Honourable mention goes to Kingpin, surprisingly good soundtrack.

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DazMarz

Score or soundtrack???? Big debate for me, as some films have incredible scores, using little existing music.

But for soundtracks, these films standout for me:

-Pulp Fiction
-Goodfellas
-School Of Rock
-American Psycho:o
-Reservoir Dogs
-Casino

As for an original score, I love the following:

-Pirates Of The Caribbean
-The Dark Knight
-Bad Boys
-Gladiator
-Jaws
-Star Wars Saga
-Jurassic Park
-The Rock

scruff monkey

The Thin Red Line has a lovely sound track to it,
and Natural Born Killers is one that still sounds good to listen to.

Dudess

Lots mentioned here I love. Also Blade Runner (Vangelis - just stunning) and Requiem For A Dream.

dunworth1

A V A wrote: »

band of brothers / the pacific / the last samurai - hans zimmer

control - joy division :D

+1 on the pacific

stovelid

Rumblefish.

bigwormbundoran

Spinal Tap

Casino

The Sopranos is quite epic too

Oh and Life on Mars is another gem

Dr Gradus

Gladiator
Amelie
The Pianist
Jurassic Park

Sinfonia

Wouldn't call it the best soundtrack ever, but Out of Sight has a fantastic soundtrack.
Really nice original music by David Holmes (dunno how to categorise it exactly, but sort of ambient jazzy stuff, but that's not really on the money) interspersed with The Isley Brothers, Dean Martin and others...
David Holmes was apparently only supposed to write music for a few scenes, but Soderbergh was so impressed he asked for more (Thank you Wikipedia), and then got Holmes to do the music for Ocean's 11 etc.

I really love the movie too, and Jennifer Lopez is actually quite good in it (I think it's from before she became an annoying singer)

Only downside to the soundtrack is the movie dialogue included in several tracks, but meh, not a huge deal.

Also, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Baz Lurhmann's Romeo & Juliet and some more that I can't think of at the moment...

EDIT: Forgot about games!
Final Fantasy
Grim Fandango

L'prof

JerryHandbag wrote: »

The Beach soundtrack is pretty awesome IMO. Leftfield, New Order, Faithless, Moby etc etc

Don't forget the surprise package of the album...All Saints!

Optimalprimerib

JerryHandbag wrote: »

The Beach soundtrack is pretty awesome IMO. Leftfield, New Order, Faithless, Moby etc etc

What about All Saints, you missed All Saints:eek:

Optimalprimerib

jasonorr wrote: »

Don't forget the surprise package of the album...All Saints!

Damn, beat me to it

Gillington

Not surprising given the content of the film but "The Boat That Rocked"'s soundtrack is quality

rcaz

Sinfonia wrote: »

Final Fantasy

Which one??

FFVII for me. Nobuo Uematsu is animal.

3DataModem

Ferris Beuller .... alas never released as an album.

5uspect

Braid.

Check out Downstream.

Sinfonia

El Pr0n wrote: »

Which one??

FFVII for me. Nobuo Uematsu is animal.

VII FTW indeed!

efb

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

1. #1 Crush - Garbage
2. Local God - Everclear
3. Angel - Friday, Gavin
4. Pretty Piece Of Flesh - One Inch Punch (2)
5. Kissing You - Des'ree
6. Whatever (I Had A Dream) - Butthole Surfers
7. Lovefool - Cardigans
8. Young Hearts Run Free - Mazelle, Kym
9. Everybody's Free (To Feel Good) - Tarver, Quindon
10. To You I Bestow - Mundy
11. Talk Show Host - Radiohead
12. Little Star - Nordenstam, Stina
13. You And Me Song - Wannadies

rednik

My favourites.
1 Heat
2 Midnight Express
3 Platoon
4 Kill Bill Vol 1
5 The Mission

MagicMarker

sxt

The "Silent hill 2 " game soundtrack is very good ,very dark and ambient.

ItsAWindUp

Trainspotting and Fight Club

Scubadevils

One that springs to mind for me is 'Midnight Cowboy' - which is also a firm favourite for me as a film... this track never fails to put shivers through me.

Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBemzu1Fchk

Spiritoftheseventies

Twin Peaks OST

grenache

For movie soundtracks, i think the Forrest Gump one is hard to beat. For movie scores, the tunes to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is absolutely stunning. The late Michael Kamen did a superb job on this, the film's intro theme has to be the best ever.

For tv series, the BBC's Ashes to Ashes is quality. All early 80s stuff like The Jam and Roxy Music. Different class.

tony1kenobi

The Lost Boys.

Balmed Out

about a boy

TheVoid

Transformers cause its the only i've heard xD
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Taz86

Velvet Goldmine had a pretty good soundtrack what with Roxy Music, T. Rex, Lou Reed and though no songs it had a Bowie vibe.

fergpie

the Underworld trilogy has three awsome sountracks.

Howard the Duck

Trainspotting and About a boy have been said already.

Platoon and Empire records are two i like.

Howard the Duck

Oh yeah and the Virgin Suicides thats a great soundtrack

Ardennes1944

any of the lord of rings or band of brothers

D'Agger

I've been listening to score soundtracks alot lately and Hanz Zimmer is simply fantastic - he consistently presents brilliant, uplifting music!

Best scores imo:

Transformers
The Dark Knight
The Pacific
Band of Brothers

fincollins

Soundtrack to Singles

Actually...into the wild aswell

Tabnabs

One soundtrack to rule them all...



And if you've never heard the Judgement Night soundtrack, do yourself a favour!

Pot Noodle =

Oceans 12

Lucifer-0

If you're into 80's music you can't beat the Donnie Darko soundtrack:

1. "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS – 3:04
2. "Head Over Heels" by Tears for Fears – 4:16
3. "Under the Milky Way" by The Church – 4:58
4. "Lucid Memory" by Sam Bauer and Gerard Bauer – 0:46
5. "Lucid Assembly" by Gerard Bauer and Mike Bauer – 0:52
6. "Ave Maria" by Vladimir Vavilov and Paul Pritchard – 2:57
7. "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Steve Baker and Carmen Daye – 3:12
8. "Show Me (Part 1)" by Quito Colayco and Tony Hertz – 2:05
9. "Notorious" by Duran Duran – 4:00
10. "Stay" by Oingo Boingo – 3:38
11. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division – 3:23
12. "The Killing Moon" by Echo & the Bunnymen – 5:55

And then there's the theme song as well which is amazing.

mikom

Dazed and confused.

The Song Remains The Same.

Kold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLkwfsFzrJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlTdzFSP-jc