Movie Soundtracks

What are your favourite Movie Soundtracks ?

a few of mine would be

The Lost Boys
Eddie and the Cruisers
Trick or Treat
Rockstar
Stand by Me
Top Gun
The Jazz Singer

I've got loads of movie soundtracks, and like them for different reasons, but here's a few of mine:

American Beauty (any soundtrack by Thomas Newman is class!)
Pretty In Pink
Twin Peaks (TV stuff)
The Breakfast Club
...Say Anything.
Betty Blue.
Cabaret.
Singing In The Rain
The Lost Boys
This Is England
Twin Town
Trainspotting
Desperately Seeking Susan
Anything by Ennio Morricone and John Barry is usually a good call as well.

I don't have that many soundtracks but definitely agree with Cari on Pretty In Pink and anything by Ennio Morricone.

And I have to add:

Some Kind Of Wonderful

ah Stand By Me is a great shout, Kenny!

I tend to like a lot of things like The Lord of the Rings soundtracks, just love to have them on in the background, find them really relaxing.

From a more recent film, I really liked the '500 days of Summer' one, although I usually prefer soundtracks that are just music, no words.

Some great ones mentioned so far (say anything (Gabriel is cool!), and Morricone (The Untouchables is brilliant).

Anyway Mine:

Moulin Rouge
True Romance
Dumb and Dumber
Beautiful Girls
Better Off Dead (I love Cusack Movies!)

Pirates of Caribbean
Lord of the Rings
Dark Knight
Kill Bill
Kick Ass
Toy Story films

There are probably loads of films where I like the odd song in them, but those are ones that come to mind straight away.

Anything Tarantino, in particular Kill Bill.

rugbydreamer wrote:ah Stand By Me is a great shout, Kenny!

I tend to like a lot of things like The Lord of the Rings soundtracks, just love to have them on in the background, find them really relaxing.

From a more recent film, I really liked the '500 days of Summer' one, although I usually prefer soundtracks that are just music, no words.

I went to friends funeral a few years back and the song as everyone entered the chapel was Pippins - Edge of Night from Return of the King , so eerie but a beautiful song .

I would agree with Swanny aswell Some kind of Wonderful is great soundtrack

littleswannygirl wrote:I don't have that many soundtracks but definitely agree with Cari on Pretty In Pink and anything by Ennio Morricone.

And I have to add:

Some Kind Of Wonderful

OMG! I've got that film on DVD, I thought no one else would've heard of it! all the '80s teen films had good soundtracks though - even if they were full of cheese. The music often helped the films do well.

I should've also added Grease and the original Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack - brilliant.

War of the Worlds

I have 2 and enjoy them both

Quadrophenia
About a Boy

Soundtrack from Reservoir Dogs is pretty good....Stuck In The Middle With You and Little Green Bag are both class

Got to agree with Lost Boys, classic. Also

The Blues Brothers,
American Pie 2

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - just incredible with the Ecstacy of Gold being the stand out.

American Pie soundtrack

Star Wars soundtracks - both the original trilogy and the new ones.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? gave Celtic-rooted, bluegrass folk music a long overdue shot in the arm.

Cari wrote:

littleswannygirl wrote:I don't have that many soundtracks but definitely agree with Cari on Pretty In Pink and anything by Ennio Morricone.

And I have to add:

Some Kind Of Wonderful

OMG! I've got that film on DVD, I thought no one else would've heard of it! all the '80s teen films had good soundtracks though - even if they were full of cheese. The music often helped the films do well.

I should've also added Grease and the original Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack - brilliant.

I have it on DVD too, it's one of my favourite films. I believe Kenny's also a fan Flesh for Lulu and The March Violets on a film soundtrack, didn't expect that!

Good calls on Grease and Rocky Horror, love both of them. Let's draw a veil over Grease 2 though eh?

littleswannygirl wrote:

Cari wrote:

littleswannygirl wrote:I don't have that many soundtracks but definitely agree with Cari on Pretty In Pink and anything by Ennio Morricone.

And I have to add:

Some Kind Of Wonderful

OMG! I've got that film on DVD, I thought no one else would've heard of it! all the '80s teen films had good soundtracks though - even if they were full of cheese. The music often helped the films do well.

I should've also added Grease and the original Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack - brilliant.

I have it on DVD too, it's one of my favourite films. I believe Kenny's also a fan Flesh for Lulu and The March Violets on a film soundtrack, didn't expect that!

Good calls on Grease and Rocky Horror, love both of them. Let's draw a veil over Grease 2 though eh?

Yes i love that film especially every bit with Mary Stuart Masterson in it

Rocky III
Ghostbusters
Wayne's World
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure / Bogus Journey
Young Guns I & II
Terminator II
Buddy's Song
Tenacious D - the Pick of Destiny
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Van Helsing

Young Guns II Blaze of Glory is a great call Jon Bon Jovi really wrote some good songs for it that embodied the film and characters

Cheers Kenny. I've always had a soft spot for "cowboy rock". Blaze of Glory, Wanted Dead or Alive and Dry County are some of my favourites.


Just remembered this too. If this doesn't make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, then frankly you have no soul.

The Battle of Britain March

Dyre - now this is a soundtrack...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQTH3a0mjR8

Whilst the music in films like Gladiator, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars etc is great during the films, I only listen to it at certain times.

Namely, during the films.

Classical music, whether written for a 19th Century ballet or a 21st Century Russell Crowe film, ultimately bores me after about five minutes.

What I do like however, and I appreciate not everyone does, is acoustic guitar-wielding singer songwriters such as Stephen Fretwell, Tom McRae, Liam Frost, Malcolm Middleton, Conor Oberst et al.

But not Jack Johnson. He's awful.

So when I saw the film Once last month, it had probably the perfect soundtrack for me. Glen Hansard's songs (one of which won an Oscar) weren't just good for a film.

They stand up by themselves and have led me to seeking out his other work - be it solo, with Once co-star Markéta Irglová as The Swell Season or with his band The Frames. Most of it is great.

If you haven't seen Once by the way, give it a watch. I'm here commending its soundtrack but as an added bonus, the film itself is pretty good too.

Have to say I can't take much more of the terrible Adele Skyfall song, damn awful, I reckon it gets a lot of airtime because, well, it's Adele.

I'm the same, it's flippin woeful.
Few Bond style strings and build up with her then warbling over the top, preferred the Jack White Aleysha Keys monstrosity over this (though its still better than the Madonna one).

Rocky
Amelie

The Big Chill

(ok , showing my age )

2 movies that I haven't seen mentioned yet and love the soundtracks are Remember the Titans and Forrest Gump.

2 movies that I haven't seen mentioned yet and love the soundtracks are Remember the Titans and Forrest Gump.

Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence
Bugsy Malone

Pulp Fiction
Drive
Requiem for a Dream
The Fountain

Profundo Rossi (Deep red) has a wonderful soundtrack by the group GOBLIN..

Flash Gordon....Has some good music on it..

The Flash Gordon soundtrack is fantastic. A brilliant album and severely underrated.

Woodstock
Monterey Pop
The Last Waltz
Jazz on a Summer's Day
The TAMI Show
Riding Giants
Any Beatles movie
Any Rolling Stones rock-doc
Any Broadway adaptation
Any Spaghetti Western soundtrack

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Paris, Texas
Into the Wild
Dazed and Confused
Jackie Brown
The Last Days of Disco
Saturday Night Fever
The Mission
Goodfellas
Mean Streets
Once Upon a Time in the West

A Clockwork Orange (especially the electronic rearrangements of the glorious 9th).

By default Amadeus & Immortal Beloved.

Badlands (Hans Zimmer nicked the True Romance theme from this film (originally composed by Orff)).

I don't have a particular favourite but I made a playlist for my car of the John Williams classics mixed in with some Elfman and Zimmerman.

No greater moment than the end of a working day, turning the ignition and Dual of the Fates starts blasting out