The soundtrack for Fandango is excellent. I always especially like the way the film closes with Can’t Find My Way Home, a truly fitting piece of music for the action on the screen.
Kudos to Whifton_Polekitty for mentioning Repo Man.
And if Stop Making Sense can be in this list, then by Og The Decline of Western Civilization & Urgh! A Music War should be here too.
I received the soundtrack to “Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back” at the newspaper and only got around to listening to it a few months ago.
It’s great stuff, a mix of rock, rap and hip-hop, and I would have gotten off on this stuff big-time back in my teens, especially Stroke 9’s “Kick Some Ass.”
This also has Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride, Run DMC’s Tougher Than Leather, Bon Jovi’s Bad Medicine and Marcy Playground’s The Devil’s Song.
In fact, it sounds like a mix tape a friend put together for you.
And even though I haven’t seen the movie, the snippets of dialog in between the tracks are hilarious, especially Jay’s rap that kicks off the CD.
The Devil’s Rejects is great compilation of Classic Rock hits. Oddly, no Rob Zombie on the track list.
As a bona fide Pixar junkie, I’ll nominate Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack for The Incredibles. Butt-kickin’ old-fashioned big brassy action-adventure music roxxors my soxxors. 
Another vote for O Bother, Where Art Thou? and The Big Lebowski.
A lame movie with a great soundtrack is Sleepless in Seattle.
I also like Lisa Gerrard’s work on the Gladiator soundtrack.
Mark Knopfler’s soundtrack for Local Hero is superb.
Wonderful movie, as well.
Just one more:
The Commitments - Good R&B by white Irish guys. This album was a staple in my car stereo for a while.
And another:
Garden State
Natural Born Killers and Down With Love - both very different, both very, well, I won’t say enjoyable because NBK is far from that, but very… well repeat listenable.
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My favorite is the soundtrack to “Finding Forrester”: Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Bill Frisell, Israel Kamakwiwo’ole.
NITPICKY TIME: Every theatre fanatic knows that only movies have soundtracks. Musicals have cast recordings.
I’ll vote for Swingers, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill 1 and 2, O Brother Where Art Thou?, and Garden State for my favorites. American Graffiti is the best collection of oldies, though. For movie musicals, I always come back to Chicago and the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode soundtrack, “Once More With Feeling.”
As for cast recordings, I rather like Wicked (even though I’ve never seen it).
The **Scrubs **soundtrack is pretty good. I’ve heard the theme song *I’m No Superman *too much, but there’s a lot of good stuff on there, notably Colin Hay’s Overkill, from a memorable first season episode.
Pulp Fiction has good music on it, but the sound clips from the movie detract from it a great deal for me. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the movie and the language didn’t bother me… in the theater. But I find it really bothersome to be listening to a CD and something comes on like Honeybun saying “I’m gonna kill every last mother fucking one of you.”
Whenever soundtrack threads come up, I am compelled to mention the soundtrack to Angus. I’m just struck by the gulf between how good I think the songs are – including one of Green Day’s best and a couple of real gems by the Irish band Ash – and the complete lack of impact at the box office that the film itself actually made. The film, which I haven’t seen, just sank like a stone.
I agree!
“Passion: Music From the Last Temptation of Christ” by Peter Gabriel.
Animal House
…period!
A good compilation: Lock Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels. Any soundtrack that includes dialog from the film Ocean Colour Scene AND E-Z Rollers can’t be bad in my book.
A unique, original, nostalgic (and as yet unmentioned) soundtrack: That Thing You Do. Featuring fictional early 1960s bands. There are so many hooks in the title track by the Wonders, it probably would’ve charted had it been released in the timeframe of the film.
Hamlet–the version released in 2000.
Donnie Darko, Master and Commander, Brokeback Mountain too.