Best Soundtrack CDs

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I’ve had the soundtrack for “With Honors” in my car for the last two weeks. It is so good!

  1. Thank You - Duran Duran
  2. I’ll Remember (Theme From ‘with Honors’)
  3. She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
  4. It’s Not Unusual - Belly
  5. Cover Me - Candlebox
  6. Your Ghost - Kristin Hersh/Michael Stipe
  7. Forever Young - The Pretenders
  8. Fuzzy - Grant Lee Buffalo
  9. Run Shithead Run - Mudhoney
  10. Tribe - Babble
  11. Blue Skies - Lyle Lovett
  12. On The Wrong Side - Lindsey Buckingham
    I have the soundtracks for plenty of other shows, including Moulin Rouge and Chicago, and love singing along with them, but this is probably my favorite.

So what are your favorites?

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Saturday Night Fever?

Nobody has ever attempted to challenge that one… nobody had the balls to. with honors or whatever, it’s an interesting question. Is there a soundtrack that can challenge Saturday Night Fever?

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The Blues Brothers can.

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In the immortal (to me) words of Fox Mulder, “Purple Rain: great album, deeply flawed movie.”

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Forrest Gump is a mixed bag as a movie, but has a great soundtrack of 1960s to 1980ish hits.

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As overwrought teenage angsty of a movie that it was, Pump up the Volume had a pretty bitchin’ soundtrack, with Concrete Blonde, The Pixies, Soundgarten, Cowboy Junkies, and Sonic Youth. Here’s the lineup.. It would have been absolutely amazing had they gotten the Beastie Boys and Ice-T on board, but still, it’s the best soundtrack I own.

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The soundtrack from Dazed and Confussed is great. Lots of great old rock songs in that one

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Without question, the *Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey* soundtrack. Not because it was a brilliant album (not in the Saturday Night Fever & Purple Rain sense), but because it is the most wonderful, horrible collection of late-80s hair bands one could hope to find on one shiny CD, including both Winger and Slaughter! As if that weren’t enough, it also featured songs from actual good bands, such as Faith No More, Megadeth, Primus and Kings X. Throughout the years and several CD collection purges, it has remained one of my most treasured items.

The movie, by the way, was pretty bad.

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Some other contenders:

The Big Chill - Great mix of 60’s hits
Eddie & The Cruisers - John Cafferty does Bruce Springsteen. I do not have the faintest idea what the movie was about, but the soundtrack was quite popular.

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The soundtrack from Tin Cup has been in my car for a couple of years. I never get tired of hearing it.

It’s got the Texas Tornados, Keb’ Mo, Bruce Hornsby, Chris Isaak, Shawn Colvin, George Jones, Patty Loveless – excellent stuff.

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Almost Famous is one that gets played around my parents’ house often; I like it a lot.

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My favourite soundtracks in no particular order are City of Angels, Forrest Gump, Mr & Mrs Smith, O Brother Where Art Thou, Shrek 2, Stubbs The Zombie, Cats, Spamalot and Once More With Feeling.

I often find the only way to get lots of songs I like on one cd is to get soundtracks.

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A few I have off the top of my head…

Dream with the Fishes:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000030KW/qid=1144552576/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-9138077-6211807?n=5174

Rushmore:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00000HZPY/qid=1144552634/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9138077-6211807?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

Wonderland:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000C9JE0/qid=1144552674/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9138077-6211807?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

Snatch:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000056JZJ/qid=1144552719/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/103-9138077-6211807?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

The Harder They Come:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000AKY4I/qid=1144552780/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/103-9138077-6211807?s=music&v=glance&n=5174

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American Grafitti – so good that it created the trend for using popular songs as the sound track. Everyone else is just copying.

But, of course, the best sound tracks are those for musicals:

Kiss Me Kate
Chicago
The Music Man
Damn Yankees
The Pajama Game
Oklahoma!
Annie Get Your Gun etc.

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Which reminds me, I’m also fond of The Big Lebowski soundtrack:

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The true challenger to SNF:

Grease - Olivia Newton-John conquers America

And then there are single artists soundtracks that are classics:

Help! - The Beatles
A Hard Day’s Night - The Beatles
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
The Graduate - Simon & Garfunkel
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle - The Sex Pistols
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Magnolia - Aimee Mann

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Repo Man, possibly one of Emilio Estavez’s best roles.

  1. Repo Man - Iggy Pop
  2. T. V. Party - Black Flag
  3. Institutionalized - Suicidal Tendencies
  4. Coup D’Etat - Circle Jerks
  5. El Clavo Y La Cruz - The Plugz
  6. Pablo Picasso - Burning Sensations
  7. Let’s Have A War - Fear
  8. When The Shit Hits The Fan - Circle Jerks Acoustic, not the version on Group Sex!
  9. Hombre Secreto (Secret Agent Man) - The Plugz
  10. Bad Man - Juicy Bananas
  11. Reel Ten - The Plugz
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Last of the Mohicans soundtrack – just some incredible, excellent music. Primarily an orchestral score, and the first 11 or so tracks are based around the primary theme, all by the same composer. This was one of the things that impressed me immediately when I first saw the movie – the musical score.

Kill Bill – some really good stuff in these soundtracks, and even better when seeing how the music is used to fit the scenes in the movie.

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I second Last of the Mohicans. Awesome soundtrack.

I’ll add the Singles soundtrack and The Crow soundtrack.

I have a soft spot for the Varsity Blues soundtrack simply because it introduced me to Caroline’s Spine.

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There are some great soundtracks listed here. Pump up the Volume is one of my favorites.

I miss my copy of An American Werewolf in Paris, too.