# Great soundtrack albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2009, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280 "2009-06-19T10:10:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Electric\_Warrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Electric\_Warrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electric_Warrior)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/41 "2009-06-20T18:43:57Z")
Soundtracks, not yet mentioned, that I’d listen to even if they weren’t soundtracks: **Cold Mountain** **Dan In Real Life** **Moulin Rouge** **Velvet Goldmine** which is incidentally also my favorite movie ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/42 "2009-06-20T19:08:13Z")
Interesting to see the soundtrack to _Heavy Metal_ listed by other people. I’d never seen the movie but found a soundtrack cassette awhile back, and was surprised by the amount of good stuff on it and how well it worked together There’s not a lot of actual heavy metal music on the album (unless you consider people like Donald Fagen, Devo and Stevie Nicks to be heavy metal) and some of the relative unknowns contribute pretty good songs. Other ones I like and can think of at the moment - _O Brother Where Art Thou_ and _Killer Klowns From Outer Space_ (OK, the only song I know from that one is the title track by The Dickies, but it’s a great song). ---
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/43 "2009-06-20T19:39:30Z")
**Hedwig And The Angry Inch** , great soundtrack, mediocre movie. **Give My Regards To Broadstreet** , ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/44 "2009-06-20T20:36:24Z")
The Crow Hackers ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/45 "2009-06-20T20:45:01Z")
**Sweet and Lowdown** , for some very nice old-school jazz guitar. ---
**Author:** ![JimmyFlair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@JimmyFlair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyFlair)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/46 "2009-06-20T20:45:46Z")
**Boogie Nights Donnie Darko Goodfellas** is pretty solid, too. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/47 "2009-06-20T21:17:01Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > **Sweet and Lowdown** , for some very nice old-school jazz guitar. 🆒 I like the soundtrack a lot more than the movie - I’d forgotten about this one. ---
**Author:** ![Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Carol\_the\_Impaler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_the_Impaler)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/48 "2009-06-21T00:35:34Z")
I love \*\*The Sponge Bob Square \*\*Pants soundtrack. It’s got Wilco! And The Shins! And Motorhead! I defy you to play that on a Seriously No Good Really Bad Day and not feel better. Yeah, I’ve been caught by my boss whilst singing along with “Under My Rock”. I don’t care! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/49 "2009-06-21T01:33:40Z")
**Footloose**. The movie was ok for a teen in the 80s. Still, the music was good. **Clueless**. Put on the soundtrack and you’re right back in the 1990s. Madonna’s **Evita**. I’ve listened to this cd over and over. I think it is far better than the original cast recording. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/50 "2009-06-21T01:52:50Z")
The film was completely forgettable, but the soundtrack to **Steal This Movie** is great. I like Sheryl Crow and Steve Earle version of _Time Has Come Today_, Bonnie Raitt’s cover of _It’s All over Now, Baby Blue_ and Joan Osbourne’s _My Back Pages_ as much as the originals. Well, almost. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/51 "2009-06-21T02:46:45Z")
_Pride & Prejudice_ (2005) - A beautiful, poetic neoclassical score with echoes of Bach, Handel, Purcell and Mahler. I’ve listened to it over and over again. _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_ and _Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan_ - Great big orchestral scores with some compelling, memorable melodies. _Country_ - A great Windham Hill score - open, simple acoustic music that will stick with you. _Xanadu_ - A guilty pleasure, with Olivia Newton John and the Electric Light Orchestra at their cheesy Eighties best. _The Lord of the Rings_ - Howard Shore at his most masterful. Passing through Moria, the crowning of the King, Enya’s “May It Be” and Annie Lennox’s “Into the West” are particular favorites of mine. _O Brother, Where Are Thou?_ - One great old gospel or R&B tune after another. _Ray_ - The movie was good; hearing all of these great old Ray Charles tracks collected in one place is even better. _Star Wars_ - Still John Williams’s best (although _Amistad_ is also very good). ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/52 "2009-06-21T02:55:19Z")
_Dirty Dancing_ Which probably shows my age–and probably identifies me as a former teenaged girl. I have to admit that I didn’t see the movie in the theater–I was just too young to suggest a movie with that suggestive a title to my parents (and we were never much of a movie-going family). But I sang “Now I’ve had the Time of my Life” with my choir in Junior High, and I didn’t know what the lyrics to verse two were that I was missing out on (for fear of over protective fathers). And I remember listening to the music of Dirty Dancing repeatedly on other people’s boom boxes (I never owned a copy of the tape myself)–I have a particularly vivid memory of listening to it during a lock-in at the YMCA with my church youth group. I did eventually see the movie. And it was ok. Well, better than ok, but that memory is more dilute in impact than the original yearning, and of course the music. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/53 "2009-06-21T07:04:04Z")
Ooh sound tracks Iron Eagle Flash Dance Streets of fire Flash Gordon Highlander Transformers the CGI movie The Breakfast Club Top Gun Probably more , but dont spring to mind at this time. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/54 "2009-06-22T14:32:40Z")
I remember the soundtrack of the 1982 Roy Scheider/Meryl Streep thriller _Still of the Night_ being very good, but haven’t been able to find it anywhere since (and [IMDb.com](http://IMDb.com) has no listing for it). _Cinema Paradiso_ has a winsome score that nicely follows the protagonist’s life from carefree youth to lovestruck teen to regretful middle age. The first _Pirates of the Caribbean_ soundtrack is great - it has a fun, sweeping, romantic power to it that fits the movie perfectly (esp. the track “He’s a Pirate”). _Last of the Mohicans_, similarly, has an epic power with an underlying pathos that’s just right for the film. _Saturday Night Fever_ and _Grease_, of course. Huge at the time, and still selling all these years later. ---
**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/55 "2009-06-22T15:46:04Z")
**White Nights** had a great soundtrack… ---
**Author:** ![Black\_Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@Black\_Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Black_Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/56 "2009-06-22T16:49:05Z")
**The Crow** , both the soundtrack and the score. That and **The Commitments**. I saw that movie for the first time last weekend, and it will be the next soundtrack I buy. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/57 "2009-06-22T16:57:53Z")
_Local Hero_ and _Wag The Dog_, but then I’m unabashedly a Mark Knopfler fan. Both movies were good, but not as good as the music. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/58 "2009-06-22T17:03:38Z")
All the Matrix and Blade soundtracks. Basically just a good mix of techno, industrial and electronica whatnot. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/59 "2009-06-22T17:21:45Z")
> [@Black\_Sunshine](#): > > **The Crow** , both the soundtrack and the score. > > That and **The Commitments**. I saw that movie for the first time last weekend, and it will be the next soundtrack I buy. These two definitly. I want to add Kate Bush’s **The Red Shoes** , the **Lost Boys** and the third Road Warrior movie, **Thunderdome** that featured Tina Turner acting and singing “We Don’t Need Another Hero”. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280/60 "2009-06-22T17:27:49Z")
_Grosse Point Blank_ – surprisingly peppy for a movie about an assassin. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-soundtrack-albums/500280.md?page=4)