Best Movie Soundtracks

"The Last Temptation of Christ" Peter Gabriel is awesome.

There's a lot of SHITTY movies listed in this thread...
But how can anyone leave out Velvet Goldmine Labyrinth or Run Lola Run???

Cruel Intentions!

so good.

Yes! This is in my top 3!! Amazing!

<3<3 cruel intentions is my favorite!!

Adventureland. They managed to find pretty much all 12 of the really good 80's songs for the soundtrack, plus some Velvet Underground for good measure.

I have a few personal favorites.

1.) O Brother Where Art Thou: I'm a casual fan of Blue Grass anyway...but I love Alison Krauss and the songs just perfectly fit the movie. It's hard to NOT smile when you're listening to that soundtrack.

2.) Bringing Out The Dead: Whether it's the Clash's "Janie Jones", Van Morrisson's "TB Sheets" or The Cellos' "Rang Tan Ding Dong".....the soundtrack really gives you the feeling of the manic energy of New York City.....and driving an ambulance. As someone who drives an ambulance for a living...I can't help but hear TB Sheets in my head sometimes when driving to or from the ER at 3am....wishing I had a cup of coffee.

3.) Not to go back to back Scorcese....but Goodfellas. IF the music wasn't already perfect for the scenes....there's this fucking scene right here:

4.) Into The Wild. Eddie Vedder nails it. So much so...that this is my designated roadtrip album. Hitting the open road for a solo adventure...leaving the world behind while listening to this:

Some Kind of Wonderful (the 1987 John Hughes movie). The thing I like most about it is that except for the Jesus & Mary Chain (and the Flesh for Lulu one hit wonder the movie spawned), everything else on it sank like a stone commercially and today you wouldn't come across the songs except for being in the movie.

The Devil's Rejects has a really good soundtrack. Really great 70s music. I love listening to it when i go on road trips.

Suspiria is fantastic. Goblin create such evil music, haha.

Pulp Fiction
Slc Punk
Transpotting
Jackie Brown
Clerks
Twin Peaks
A Bronx Tale
Bringing out the Dead
Seven
Dead Presidents
Bullitt
American Graffitti
Dazed & Confused
How High
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Fight Club
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
Kill Bill Vol. 1
Gross Pointe Blank
High Fidelity
S.F.W
Repo Man
Platoon
River's Edge
Pump up the Volume

I was thinking about this earlier today. Here's my favourites

American Graffitti
Christine
Scott Pilgrim vs the world
Whip It
Mallrats
Transformers the movie
South Park the movie

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Tron Legacy! one of my favourite soundtracks! Huge credit to Daft Punk for this masterpiece!

This first one may surprise a few people

I heard of the indie movie "Pi" and purchased the CD soundtrack.

I did not actually see the film until 6 years later.

a great soundtrack.

The Crow
Trainspotting
Reservoir Dogs
Breakfast Club
Crumb
Hardware
High Fidelity

Singles!

LOST HIGHWAY
assault on precinct 13

Streets of Fire is awesome! Also Visionquest. Pulp Fiction too.

harold and maude
royal tennenbaums
gummo
down by law

In my opinion one of the most under-rated soundtracks ever is Singles.

I'll go with Clint Mansell's and Mogwai's work together on the soundtrack to The Fountain, followed up by The Dark Knight because there were also two opposing composers for that film and when they put their work together it was great, and lastly I would have to say the soundtrack to Get Him To The Greek because even though most of the songs are campy in the vain of Spinal Tap, there is some real genius in the instrumentation that makes it stand out head and shoulders from the general rock'n'roll film's soundtrack. Not counting that of Rock'n'Roll High School.

Little Nicky
superfly
hanna
the crow

Lost in Translation
Suburbia
24 Hour Party People
Repo Man
Less Than Zero