I quite liked that film…
There’s plenty of crappy Spaghetti Westerns with brilliant scores, often by Ennio Morricone. The best example would be Death Rides A Horse - not the worst film I’ve ever seen, but a deeply average one, with possibly Morricone’s best score.
You’re off by a year…
Velvet Goldmine stank like a dead walrus. The soundtrack, however, in which a bunch of 90s British and American musos collaborated to cover both cover 70s glam orginals and offer their own takes on the genre, was a thing of wonder and beauty.
That’s what I get for trusting my brain.
Since someone upthread mentioned TV shows:
I was never a huge fan of Friends, but the soundtrack was great. Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie, Joni Mitchell, REM, Paul Westerberg, Lou Reed, Barenaked Ladies.
A perfect example of this phenomenon in TV would be The Heights, from back in 1992. The soundtrack was vastly superior to the show, and I think played longer. “How Do You Talk to an Angel?” was a little cliche, but it worked.
The *Toys *soundtrack was great. The movie, not so much.
What? Are you disrespectin’ my duplication investigation?
Joe Dirt had a pretty decent soundtrack for a dumb movie. Which I actually liked. But it was still pretty dumb. And kinda good.
The Party Animal
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. One of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, but the soundtrack was pretty sweet.
The Village by M. Night Shyamalan was fundamentally a pretty stupid movie, but it had a beautiful score by James Newton Howard.
Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry was just an OK movie, but the soundtrack was phenomenal.
I agree that the music usually rocks - I just wish he’d leave all the goddamned dialogue off the soundtrack.
Thanks to all - good suggestions to look into.
I am vaguely interested in finding the soundtrack to Killer Klowns From Outer Space (the title song by The Dickies is one of the greatest rock theme songs ever recorded for a movie) but I don’t think I want to pay $101.52for it.
Aw, that’s what I came in to say. (I actually liked the movie, but I was about 16 at the time.)
Dead Silence is a decidedly mediocre (at best) horror film, with an absolutely terrific soundtrack.
I’d say Under The Cherry Moon has it beat (as far as the horribleness of the film - whether the soundtrack is better than Purple Rain is debatable).
I always looked at that movie as nothing more than a commercial for the album. Movie sucked, made no sense, was somewhat torturous, the album was one of my favorite Prince works ever.