# Fictional Soundtracks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498 "2012-05-30T00:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/1 "2012-05-30T00:37:47Z")
I just listened to “Drokk: Music Inspired by Mega City One” a soundtrack to a non-existent Judge Dredd film. Really liked it, and was wondering if there were any other “fictional soundtracks”? ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/2 "2012-05-30T10:50:55Z")
**Bo Hansson** did _Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings_ back in the early 70s long before there were any films out. I bought my copy when it came out in the UK in 1972. [Opening track](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs0AmruS8Ro) And when I looked at his Wiki entry, I just discovered that he died two years ago. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/3 "2012-05-30T12:38:11Z")
“[Theme for an Imaginary Western](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMx6OvwboFo)” by Mountain ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/4 "2012-05-30T17:37:08Z")
Grace Slick released “Man Hole” in 1974 (yes, the pun is intentional) that featured a side-long track of orchestral instrumentation for a non-existent movie. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/5 "2012-05-30T20:29:56Z")
Kind of like a soundtrack: [**Rome**](http://www.amazon.com/Rome-Danger-Mouse/dp/B004E0Z4XK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338409554&sr=8-1) produced by Brian Burton aka Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi. Vocals on tracks are provided by Jack White of the White Stripes and Norah Jones. Decent cuts. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/6 "2012-05-30T21:20:22Z")
Maybe meeting the OP: Neil Young’s album _After the Gold Rush_ was (at least partially) written to be a soundtrack based on a real screenplay, but the screenplay never got made into a movie. So the movie is non-existent, but not exactly fictional, either. (And neither the songs nor packaging of the album refer to it being a soundtrack). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/7 "2012-05-30T21:33:47Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Maybe meeting the OP: > Neil Young’s album _After the Gold Rush_ was (at least partially) written to be a soundtrack based on a real screenplay, but the screenplay never got made into a movie. So the movie is non-existent, but not exactly fictional, either. (And neither the songs nor packaging of the album refer to it being a soundtrack). Along the same lines, the great \*\*\*Arthur \*\*\*album by the Kinks was the soundtrack to a BBC television movie that never actually got produced. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/8 "2012-05-30T23:54:49Z")
Frank Zappa’s **Uncle Meat** was “the soundtrack of a movie you’ll probably never see.” There eventually was a movie of that name, but that’s a documentary about the unfinished movie, released over 15 years after the album. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/9 "2012-05-31T00:55:55Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “[Theme for an Imaginary Western](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMx6OvwboFo)” by Mountain I was going to mention this because I just heard the song over the weekend for the first time in about 30 years. There are no coincidences. Ask the Mayans. Looking it up, I see that it was a Jack Bruce song from his solo album after Cream broke up, possibly about their demise. Felix Pappalardi, the singer and bassist for Mountain was the producer of Bruce’s album and always involved with Cream. Mountain was short-lived and underrated. I saw them in college and they put on a great show. Joe Jackson wrote some instrumentals for a movie called Mike’s Murder. It was released with somebody else’s soundtrack but he put the songs on one side of an album called Mike’s Murder, backed with some of his best rockers. Great album that nobody ever heard. There are no guitars credited on it (bass but no lead guitars), which makes it a rarity among rock albums. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/10 "2012-06-01T00:24:28Z")
Hmmm…what does Blue Oyster Cult’s [_Fire of Unknown Origin_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Unknown_Origin) count as? ---
**Author:** ![SunSandSuffering](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@SunSandSuffering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunSandSuffering)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/11 "2012-06-01T10:03:34Z")
Does the Ennio Morricone score for “The Thing” count? Most of the tracks never made it to the film and what did was heavily modified by John Carpenter. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/12 "2012-06-01T11:45:17Z")
> [@SunSandSuffering](#): > > Does the Ennio Morricone score for “The Thing” count? Most of the tracks never made it to the film and what did was heavily modified by John Carpenter. If that qualifies, then so does Alex North’s unused score for **2001: A Space Odyssey** > **[Alex North - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - The Original Score by Alex North -...](https://www.amazon.com/2001-SPACE-ODYSSEY-Original-Score/dp/B001UIAL82)** > > Alex North - 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - The Original Score by Alex North - Amazon.com Music > **[2001: A Space Odyssey (score)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(score))** > > The 2001: A Space Odyssey score is an unused film score composed by Alex North for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. > In the early stages of production, Kubrick had commissioned noted Hollywood composer Alex North, who had written the score for Spartacus and also worked on Dr. Strangelove, to write the score of his upcoming film 2001: A Space Odyssey. However, during post-production, Kubrick chose to abandon North's music in favor of classical music pieces he had earlier chosen ... ---
**Author:** ![mcgato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac8455/32.png) [@mcgato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mcgato)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/13 "2012-06-01T13:02:07Z")
Joe Jackson’s [Mike’s Murder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%27s_Murder) album was originally written as a soundtrack for the movie of the same name, though little of his music was actually used for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/14 "2012-06-01T22:08:01Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Hmmm…what does Blue Oyster Cult’s [_Fire of Unknown Origin_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_of_Unknown_Origin) count as? That can’t fit the OP. “Veteran of the Psychic Wars” was selected for the soundtrack to the movie [_Heavy Metal_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal_(film)), and the songs “Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver” and “Vengeance (The Pact)” were made specifically for the movie. “One of Taraak’s blood can do much…” ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/15 "2012-06-02T02:24:56Z")
The album Soundtracks by Passengers [half of U2 + Brian Eno[sup]\*[/sup]] is mostly fictional soundtracks, with brief and somewhat silly blurbs about the films. Except that there’s one real one in there. I think that there might have been another one or two projects that were planned but never made. \*They really should have called themselves Ueno. ---
**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2012, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/16 "2012-06-02T16:00:23Z")
Not quite what you had in mind, but the before releasing the soundtrack for [Hard Core Logo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116488/) they released a fictional tribute album. Getting really meta, one of the bands that did a tribute (The Headstones) was fronted in real life by the guy who played the protagonist in the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2012, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/17 "2012-06-04T19:55:31Z")
> [@Quercus](#): > > Maybe meeting the OP: > Neil Young’s album _After the Gold Rush_ was (at least partially) written to be a soundtrack based on a real screenplay, but the screenplay never got made into a movie. So the movie is non-existent, but not exactly fictional, either. (And neither the songs nor packaging of the album refer to it being a soundtrack). Matt Mays’ _When The Angels Make Contact_ may fit into this category. Although it does have [a trailer.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15F3ghGBg3k) (Youtube) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2012, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fictional-soundtracks/623498/18 "2012-06-05T02:24:20Z")
How about some Space Rock from Buck Rogers? [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxXIS2ot8w) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/y96jIzAXURw/hqdefault.jpg "Andromeda! Groovy electro rock from the 25th century") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y96jIzAXURw)