Right now I’m really grooving on the Lost in Translation soundtrack.
Also, The Virgin Suicides, Pieces of April and Remains of the Day …
How about you?
“The Glenn Miller Story.” This album was always in my house as far back as I remember. It was one of my mother’s favorite movies. I’ve seen it a lot of times. The score was arranged by Henry Mancini when he was just a kid, and the playing is as perfect as one could hope for. I remember being disappointed when I heard the actual Glenn Miller Orchestra, that they didn’t sound as good as the orchestra playing them in the movie score.
Phenomenon. Not much of a movie, but a killer soundtrack – Clapton, Knopfler, Bryan Ferry, Aaron Neville…
Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
Xanadu
two come to mind:
the big chill
the blues brothers
Rocky Horror Picture Show
A Knight’s Tale
Dukes of Hazzard (Kikker Southern rock !)
Queen did the soundtrack for “Highlander”.
“Some Kind of Magic” is their album containing this!
The power of One.
One of the most moving works of music I’ve ever heard.
(except for track 5 which I loathe)
Judgement Night or The Crow. I’d have to vote the Crow if it was a movie I actually liked.
Keeping it strictly to non-musicals, my five favorites are:
Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
A Clockwork Orange
The Harder They Come
Birdy
I don’t know. I mean, there are soundtracks that are collections of previously released music. There are also sound tracks that are original songs. I think they kind of fall into different categories.
For soundtracks (and cast recordings) of musicals - too many to list.
But for soundtracks, and not scores, from straight movies - I just bought the “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” soundtrack. It’s great, if you remember 80s music with love.
Also, though the movie was loathsome, “Pretty Woman” had a lot of fun to listen to songs in it. (Could say the same about the Quentin Tarantino movies. I’ve never liked any of them, but he does pick good songs.)
And American Graffiti.
Probably the Lord of the Rings soundtracks.
The second would probably be Titanic (as much as I hate the movie).
Moulin Rouge
Phantom of the Paradise
Allegria
Chess
Yes!!
*Almost Famous * and *Sahara * both have great selections of '70s rock.
The Committments
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The soundtrack from The Wedding Singer was okay.
Somebody gave me the soundtrack to Dumb and Dumber, which was actually pretty good. It had a rendition of XTC’s *Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead * performed by Crash Test Dummies that’s a nice alternate to one of my favorite songs.
Lord of the Rings
Mr & Mrs Smith
O Brother Where Art Thou
Shrek 2
Troy
Angel: Live Fast, Never Die
Those ones are all on steady rotation.
I’m really liking the soundtrack to March of the Penguins. I sometimes get shivers listening to it, the music so much conjures the images of the desolate antarctic landscape.