Great SOUNDTRACKS

[Maybelline]

Last time I started this, everyone had so much interesting stuff to say about favourite soundtracks. Been listening to The Graduate S/T today... really mellow. Also love Midnight Cowboy. And Saturday Night Fever. And Jackie Brown.

So, post away about soundtracks you love... including soundtracks that are better than the films they belong to!

[onkster]

"Eternal Sunshine" works really well as an album.  Even my small children dug it, day after day, driving home from school.

There aren't a whole lot of "song" tracks per se, but the instrumentals are among Jon Brion's loveliest offerings.

[Domo Arigato]

"Casino Royale"
"You Are What You Eat"
"A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum"
"Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid"
"The Sting"
"Mary Poppins"
"The Sound Of Music"
"My Fair Lady" is especially good on acid.

[Boxer Monkey]

I love anything by Jon Brion. "Punch-Drunk Love" is about the best, though.

Other faves:

The "Mondo Morricone" box: Lush, exotic, psyched-out stuff that you probably wouldn't associate with the guy mostly famous for his work on Sergio Leone Westerns. More like tranced-out Bacharach by way of Bernard Herrmann. Lots of circular, spiralling melodies.

And, speaking of Herrmann: "Vertigo," "The Day the Earth Stood Still."

John Barry: "OHMSS," "The Knack," "Deadfall."


(Seems like I post the same sh*t every time we do one of these soundtrack threads.)

[punkinhead]

huge soundtrack fan here, that's the first type of music i was introduced to:
Star wars (all, inparticular: Empire Strikes back & Revenge of the Sith)
What Women Want
Edward Scissorhands
the Patriot
Willy Wonka (old one)
Anchorman
Fellowship of the Ring
Back to the Future
OKLAHOMA!

[Chris D.]

Edward Scissorhands is good.  I have to add Pee-Wee's Big Adventure to that.

[Sheriff John Stone]

Pulp Fiction

[SurferGirl7]

Josie and The Pussycats
Almost Summer
Chicago
Moulin Rouge
The Garden State
West Side Story
Godspell
Walkin' The Line

[punkinhead]

i dont have pee wee's big adventure but would love to have it..
i also need to get danny elfman's music for a darkend theatre

[Chris D.]

i dont have pee wee's big adventure but would love to have it..
i also need to get danny elfman's music for a darkend theatre

Me too!  It's not available, though.  I have no idea why.  I like it more than his other stuff.

[I. Spaceman]

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Wild Bunch
Once Upon A Time In The West
Fire Walk With Me
Beyond The Valley of The Dolls
The Wizard Of Oz
Singin' In The Rain
42nd St.
Cabaret
Funny Girl
Midnight Cowboy
After The Fox
Jailhouse Rock
Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid
The Magnificent Seven
Sisters
Carrie
Dead Man
Trouble Man
The Wild Angels
2001: A Space Odyssey
Head
A Summer Place
Gone With The Wind
Splendor In The Grass
Friends
Harold And Maude
Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
Mary Poppins

[Chris D.]

Ian, what makes Fire Walk With Me work better than the other Lynch soundtracks for you?

[I. Spaceman]

Utter complicity with it's visuals. Pure emotion without irony. Most memorable melodies and themes.
I love the other Lynch scores as well, except Toto's work on Dune, of course.

[wind chime]

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence 1983 by Ryuichi Sakamoto

[MD]

Xanadu...

Crappy movie but great tunes from Olivia Newton John and ELO...

MD...

[I. Spaceman]

Great choice.

[sugarandspice]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,

Kundun

Almost Famous,

Donnie Darko

High Fidelity

Walk The Line

Interveiw with the Vampire

Pulp Fiction

The Doors

Helter Skelter (the original tv movie)

The Filth and the Fury (which is one of the best doumentaries I have ever seen.)

[sugarandspice]

 Hehehehehhehehe Bringing out the  dead has a great  soundtrack... the harder they come...and pyscho.....

and am I trippin or did someone mention Vertigo...  cause I always thought that soundtrack is way to  freaking drawn out like  all the  Godfathers....


Goodfellas has a good one too...

[I. Spaceman]

Goodfellas is my favorite "chosen music" score.
The juxtaposition of Jump Into The Fire by Nilsson, Monkey Man by the Stones, Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters, What Is Life by George Harrison and Magic Bus by The Who is crazy and magical.
Harder They Come is a fabulous choice, bravo.

[punkinhead]

HEAD!
yes, that's a great soundtrack

[sugarandspice]

Pych Out  great  great  soundtrack

[Mithras]

No real running order at all, but here we go:

Amadeus
Goodfellas
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Vanilla Sky
Jerry MacGuire
Almost Famous
Top Gun 
Grease
The Sound Of Music
Star Wars Episodes I-Vi
Once Upon A Time In The West
2001
Lawrence Of Arabia
Lost Highway
Days Of Thunder
Jarhead
Dead Man
Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
Saturday Night Fever
54
Diva
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
Kill Bill Vol.1 + 2
Breakfast Club
Easy Rider
Wonderwall
A Hard Day´s Night/Help!/Yellow Submarine
Head!
The Matrix
The Omen
The Exorcist
Quadrophenia

... and many more.....

[I. Spaceman]

Pych Out  great  great  soundtrack

Right on! Great film, great soundtrack. Seeds, Alarm Clock etc. You're a girl after my own heart for mentioning that one. Have you seen Riot On Sunset Strip?

[Maybelline]

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,

Kundun

Almost Famous,

Donnie Darko

High Fidelity

Walk The Line

Interveiw with the Vampire

Pulp Fiction

The Doors

Helter Skelter (the original tv movie)

The Filth and the Fury (which is one of the best doumentaries I have ever seen.)

Oooooohhhh yes, Almost Famous!

[mark goddard]

a few years back i started collecting Blaxploitation soundtracks.love that choppy, funky feel to the songs. Faves are :
Cotton comes to harlem - galt Macdermot ...he scored Hair ,anything he does is great and usually with bernard Purdie on drums.
Across 110th srtee - bobby womack
Cleopatra jones.....JJ johnson ( great jazz trombonist )
Italian job-Quincy jones
Foxy Brown and The Mack - willie hutch
Shaft, Superfly, shaft in africa arranged by the great Johnny Pate !!
also :
goldfinger, you only live twice, diamonds are forever, from russia with love,moonrake
Nino rota 81/2 .....