# Artists that supplied entire soundtracks for movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595 "2006-04-13T23:16:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/21 "2006-04-14T02:33:22Z")
**1984** by Eurythmics (altho the director tried to stop the use of any of this music, and later denounced their involvement, the music is terrific) **200 Motels** by Frank Zappa (who also concieved the film and wrote parts of it) **Hi, Opal!** ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/22 "2006-04-14T02:50:41Z")
_Dune_ doesn’t count because Brian Eno supplied one of the themes in addition to Toto’s work. Also, I’m not sure where Peter Gabriel’s soundtracks to _Birdy_, _The Last Temptation of Christ_, and _Rabbit-Proof Fence_ fit in, since they kind of bridge the gap between score and song-based soundtracks. ---
**Author:** ![JXJohns](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jxjohns/32/469_2.png) [@JXJohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JXJohns)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/23 "2006-04-14T02:55:09Z")
Curious George Movie - Jack Johnson ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/24 "2006-04-14T02:57:07Z")
_True Stories_ is all Talking Heads/David Byrne, even though most songs are performed by members of the cast. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/25 "2006-04-14T02:59:41Z")
**Magnolia** ’s a particularly good example since PT Anderson was listening to her while writing the screenplay and wrote specific scenes around specific songs, and then she wrote some original songs for the movie. Though **Garden State** ’s soundtrack is made up of different artists, it is worth noting that Braff wrote the screenplay around certain songs and attached a mix CD to the script when he was shopping it around ([cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_State_%28film%29#_note-music)). That’s how come there’s that remarkably silly line about The Shins in there. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/26 "2006-04-14T03:19:13Z")
Tom Waits and Crystal Gale collaborated on the entire soundtrack to _One From the Heart_. Belle and Sebastian did the soundtrack for _Storytelling_, and Air did _The Virgin Suicides_. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/27 "2006-04-14T03:23:29Z")
Dave Davies of the Kinks scored _Village of the Damned_, and wrote one song for the score of _In the Mouth of Madness_. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/28 "2006-04-14T03:26:12Z")
I was thinking that Enya performed all the music for the BBC’s television documentary The Celts, but [this](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0271900/) implies that she only supplied some of the music. (Yet she has an album titled “The Celts”) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![edwino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@edwino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwino)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/29 "2006-04-14T03:32:35Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Aimee Mann: “Magnolia” [/QUOTE] Yeah except for the two Supertramp songs, one by Jon Brion, and the one by Gabrielle. My contribution is the score to the movie _The Virgin Suicides_, which is by Air. This is confusing, though, because the soundtrack is one of those indie artist collections. So again this doesn’t really count. Bjork contributed the entire soundtrack to _Dancer in the Dark_ (she also starred) and another movie called _Drawing Restraint 9_, which, IIRC, was by her husband. The Tosca Tango Orchestra did the music from _Waking Life_ which is song-based, in an instrumental way. > [@mobo85](#): > > I have the single from that movie, Graped by the Grapist b/w When Come Back, Bring Pie. It hit #15 on the Billboard charts, but Grapist was later covered by Hamburglar and the '20s-Style Death Rays. I’ve always been partial to the cover of that movie’s maritime anthem _Tug A-Hoy!_ by Jack Dean Tyler and the 4 Skins. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/30 "2006-04-14T03:49:47Z")
Danny Elfman scores most of Tim Burton’s film, and a few others… ---
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/31 "2006-04-14T04:14:09Z")
…Dave Dobbyn did the soundrtrack for the movie [Footrot Flats: A Dog’s Tail](http://www.smokecds.com/cd/38632), which sadly, most of you would never have heard of before! There are some samples on the link, **Slice of Heaven** and **You 'oughta be in Love** are quite simply Kiwi Classics… ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/32 "2006-04-14T04:32:32Z")
It doesn’t quite match the OP, because the artist was dead at the time, but _The Sting_ uses Scott Joplin rags exclusively for its soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/33 "2006-04-14T04:57:12Z")
Badly Drawn Boy did all the songs for the movie About a Boy. ---
**Author:** ![Threadkiller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aca169/32.png) [@Threadkiller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Threadkiller)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/34 "2006-04-14T05:23:41Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Mark Knopfler did \*Princess Bride \*(good movie) and _Last Exit to Brooklyn_ (not so good movie) [/QUOTE] [nope](http://imdb.com/title/tt0093779/soundtrack). _Storybook Love_ was “Written and Performed by Willy de Ville”. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/35 "2006-04-14T05:58:29Z")
Kenny Loggins and Caddyshack! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/36 "2006-04-14T09:41:40Z")
Pink Floyd did the entire soundtrack for The Wall, I believe. Ok, kidding around. But they did do the soundtrack to “More”. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/37 "2006-04-14T09:46:01Z")
_Easy Rider_ was by Steppenwolf ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/38 "2006-04-14T11:18:29Z")
[QUOTE=TellMeI’mNotCrazy] Pink Floyd did the entire soundtrack for The Wall, I believe. Ok, kidding around. But they did do the soundtrack to “More”. [/QUOTE] Trivia: Pink Floyd were going to do the soundtrack to Jodorowski’s _Dune_ (as a double album!) before he was dropped from the project. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/39 "2006-04-14T12:02:02Z")
I’d like to point out that what you hear in the movie doesn’t always make it onto the soundtrack, and vice-versa. One example of this is the movie [Valley Girl](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086525/). **The Plimsouls** have about a half dozen songs in the movie, but only 3 show up on the soundtrack. Also, sometimes you’ll hear like 5 seconds of a particular song in a movie, but the whole song appears on the soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595/40 "2006-04-14T12:35:59Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Danny Elfman scores most of Tim Burton’s film, and a few others… [/QUOTE] Prince did all the songs in Batman. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/artists-that-supplied-entire-soundtracks-for-movies/352595.md?page=3)