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The Crow
Hackers
- The Graduate
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
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Bullitt
Patton
MASH
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Little Shop of Horrors
My Fair Lady
If the requested list could be longer, I’d throw in The Commitments, The Big Chill, The Blues Brothers, Superman: The Movie and several others without restraint
If they hadn’t substituted actual in-the-movie songs for ringers on the soundtrack, then Shag: The Movie might’ve topped my list.
And if it could be found, the 1983 British movie Party Party had a great soundtrack that I used to have on vinyl.
Gotta agree with Amadeus.
Gotta agree with Schindler’s List.
Also, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show.’
Soundtrack from ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ (exquisite!)
Soundtrack from ‘Chicago’ (2002 movie)
(I probably have more, I’ve loved movie soundtracks and Broadway musicals since I was 15… I bought the original cast recording of ‘Hair’ in 1958 and crossed a highway, at night, in winter, to buy ‘Tommy’ by the Who at the K-Mart. I knew nothing of either, but I knew I HAD to have them. Loved both.)
Dangit! I forgot another album I used to wear out: the Broadway production of Grease (not the movie soundtrack, so actually, this doesn’t count. Y’know, aside from being the 8th or 9th entry on a 3-entry list…)
Phantom of the Paradise
I assume actual musicals are out of bounds?
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Endless Summer
A Mighty Wind
Movie musicals are o.k.
In that case, Jesus Christ Superstar. I’m atheist but damn, it’s good music.
Churchill committed suicide three months before Bambi was released and was still employed at Disney at the time of his death. I wouldn’t say that he “never worked with Disney again”—that would be misleading, though accurate.
- Star Wars
- Harry Potter
- Lord of the Rings
A Clockwork Orange
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The Last Temptation of Christ
There are too many great movie soundtracks to limit to a top three. Three great movie soundtracks come to mind:
Amadeus
Pulp Fiction
Into the Wild
Barry Lyndon
Pather Pachali
Yojimbo
Lost In Translation
Der Himmel über Berlin
The Big Blue
Here are five that haven’t been mentioned:
The Wizard of Oz
West Side Story
True Grit (Hathaway, 1969)
The Shawshank Redemption
The Pianist (Polanski, 2002)
What are your top three favorites?
You talkin’ to me? Oh, Taxi Driver! (Just kidding.)
If you are talking to me, I can reduce my picks to three if you prefer (per OP), but I like them all about the same for different reasons.