What Is Your Favorite Soundtrack?

[JK]

Once again, not my favourite but the last one listened to all the way through. This time it's from a film I doubt I'll ever see, although you never know. Directed by Piero Schivazappa, Femina Ridens (1969) features an evocative score by Stelvio Cipriani: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcIFW-GOtRM&list=OLAK5uy_ms4A_i5JpcIeWXMm8BTC8cAqH0QpP7Obw&index=1

https://filmcentric.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/femina-ridens-the-laughing-woman-aka-the-frightened-woman-1969/

[The Foot Fetish Man]

My favorite soundtrack is the 1980 "Xanadu" soundtrack. The Oliva and ELO songs (plus the cut featuring The Tubes) actually makes for a solid album. Those are definitely the Olivia Newton John tracks that have held my interest the most over the years and the ELO tracks are just good, strong pop. I've always looked upon "All Over The World" by ELO as the intro theme song to the decade of the 1980s (the decade I came of age in). I was in 5th grade when this soundtrack album was on the charts and a girl in class used to bring it to school and we'd play it during breaks.

[onkster]

As far as Jon Brion OST's go, I'm still in love with "Eternal Sunshine"--that album really plays like an album, with only a couple minor exceptions (that strummy acoustic song in the middle I could do without--not a Jon tune, BTW). Most of the non-Jon stuff is great too--whether he picked those for inclusion, I don't know, but some of them sure feel like it...

[JK]

No idea whether this has been linked already, but after watching the 2013 film adaptation of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby on two successive nights it struck me what a great job Jay-Z made of the OST. This is "Bang Bang" by will.i.am ft. Shelby Spalione:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV78yzka_lo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_Bang_(will.i.am_song)

[JK]

Christopher Willis's score for The Death of Stalin is right on the nose, as they say. (Not Shostakovich's opera The Nose, although there's certainly a very strong Shosty component to it eminently befitting the post-Stalin mood of this extraordinary and often gut-bustingly funny film.)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n20finkKcuCnvHcN9HJahgNSxmvLv8Vrc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Stalin

[JK]

I think you'd need to see I dolci inganni (Sweet Deceptions, 1960) before the OST made any sense. I watched it a few days ago and was enchanted:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_ndU3453cedY17jgFbXcGz0kIyx75MfwW8

https://thecarbonfreeze.com/2021/02/27/i-dolci-inganni-1960-aka-sweet-deceptions-is-a-forgotten-masterpiece/

[JK]

I've never seen the 1995 film Dead Man Walking but I'm certainly familiar with the sound track. I first heard it at the house of a terminally ill friend. Chills then, chills now. The entire album is a stunner, not least tracks #3, "Woman on the Tier (I'll See You Through)” by Suzanne Vega…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4368XvtvIQ

…and #5, "The Face Of Love” by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with Eddie Vedder:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODxFCR3y7KQ
 
https://www.discogs.com/release/387483-Various-Dead-Man-Walking-Music-From-And-Inspired-By-The-Motion-Picture

[Julia]

Probably Vertigo, but lately I've become very enamored with the works of Stelvio Cipriani, Piero Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli and the lesser known (non Western) scores of Ennio Morricone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGQR3Chf9hE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmkIZA1WJIo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmAFHZtWvM
^Stelvio's best work in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj9fh-2ORDg
https://youtu.be/me8myGfvzsc?list=PLAukwQMAunfuxsHclQBnrqdE73BjffbmD
https://youtu.be/p7f_XISqXAg?list=PLAukwQMAunfuxsHclQBnrqdE73BjffbmD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXPh_jPp8zo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD8oKiU3Gb8
^Piccioni's best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f58rKmV2xjQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvB2gsNA6Dk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLqAercJqHQ
^Trovajoli's best

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjG__X3CbfQ
https://youtu.be/fBMeH_lHZvg?list=PLWv6NgYmPAioa4XJZ_NUy99qLyyyWnox5
^Morricone's best

[Ian]

The Harder they Come soundtrack from 1972-great reggae soundtrack. I also like the Clockwork Orange soundtrack from 1971. Also the Rushmore soundtrack.

[JK]

The Harder they Come soundtrack from 1972-great reggae soundtrack. I also like the Clockwork Orange soundtrack from 1971. Also the Rushmore soundtrack.

Agreed on the Kubrik film. Curiously, the chilling main theme from A Clockwork Orange is very difficult to find on YouTube, with various alternatives offered in its place:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd8-73EvIeg

[JK]

Probably Vertigo, but lately I've become very enamored with the works of Stelvio Cipriani, Piero Piccioni, Armando Trovajoli and the lesser known (non Western) scores of Ennio Morricone.

Surprisingly (or maybe not), I'm reasonably familiar with music by the Italian names you list, my absolute favourite being Piccioni's "Capriccio":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me8myGfvzsc

I recall Andee Silver, who sings Trovajoli's "L'amore dice ciao", began her career in the UK. I'm sure I heard "Too Young To Go Steady" (she was 13 at the time) in 1964 -- I heard everything in those days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSzq0WEh7e4