Best Soundtrack CD's

[markmarc]

A good soundtrack can add so much to the quality of a movie. Name your favorites:

Popular:
Almost Famous
The Big Chill
Michael
My Best Friend's Wedding
Jerry Maguire

Classical:
Dances With Wolves
Star Wars

Music turned into movies:
Quadrophenia
Tommy

[shack]

Everything else is just a pretender....

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1. FM / Steely Dan
2. Night Moves / Bob Seger
3. Fly Like an Eagle / Steve Miller Band
4. Cold as Ice / Foreigner
5. Breakdown / Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
6. Bad Man / Randy Meisner
7. Life in the Fast Lane / The Eagles
8. Do It Again / Steely Dan
9. Lido Shuffle / Boz Scaggs
10. More Than a Feeling / Boston
11. Tumbling Dice / Linda Ronstadt
12. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me / Linda Ronstadt
13. Livingston Saturday Night / Jimmy Buffett
14. There's a Place in the World for a Gambler / Dan Fogelberg
15. Just the Way You Are / Billy Joel
16. It Keeps You Runnin' / The Doobie Brothers
17. Your Smiling Face / James Taylor
18. Life's Been Good / Joe Walsh
19. We Will Rock You / Queen
20. FM (Reprise) / Steely Dan

[Dennis Gardner]

City of Angels - A real treat for your ears. Very diverse, nice symphony tracks (last 4 tracks) for those that don't love orchestra music.

1. If God Will Send His Angels - U2
2. Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
3. Red House - Jimi Hendrix
4. Feeling Love - Paula Cole
5. Mama, You Got a Daughter - John Lee Hooker
6. Angel - Sarah McLachlan
7. Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
8. I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
9. I Know - Jude
10. Further on up the Road - Eric Clapton
11. Angel Falls
12. Unfeeling Kiss
13. Spreading Wings
14. City of Angels

[gregure]

I think my current favorite Pop soundtrack is "Garden State." Not just for the songs, but for how well they fit into the flow and story of the film.
For orchestral:
Original Star Wars is the best.
For more recent orchestral: Gladiator.

[ND13]

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
"The Wall"

[woodyjacobs]

Originally posted by shack
Everything else is just a pretender....

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1. FM / Steely Dan
2. Night Moves / Bob Seger
3. Fly Like an Eagle / Steve Miller Band
4. Cold as Ice / Foreigner
5. Breakdown / Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
6. Bad Man / Randy Meisner
7. Life in the Fast Lane / The Eagles
8. Do It Again / Steely Dan
9. Lido Shuffle / Boz Scaggs
10. More Than a Feeling / Boston
11. Tumbling Dice / Linda Ronstadt
12. Poor, Poor Pitiful Me / Linda Ronstadt
13. Livingston Saturday Night / Jimmy Buffett
14. There's a Place in the World for a Gambler / Dan Fogelberg
15. Just the Way You Are / Billy Joel
16. It Keeps You Runnin' / The Doobie Brothers
17. Your Smiling Face / James Taylor
18. Life's Been Good / Joe Walsh
19. We Will Rock You / Queen
20. FM (Reprise) / Steely Dan



Shack buddy, that is awesome. First album I EVER bought, as a wee lad. Wore it out.

[woodyjacobs]

Okay so some of my favorites, besides "FM" which I had all but forgotten about:
Popular:
Pulp Fiction
Desperado
Until the End of The World
The Soul of a Man

Classical:
Batman
Star Wars

Jazz:
Bird
Let's Get Lost

[shack]

This one isn't too bad either.....

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1 Hound Dog / Elvis Presley
2 Rebel Rouser / Duane Eddy
3 (I Don't Know Why) But I Do / Clarence "Frogman" Henry
4 Walk Right In / Rooftop Singers
5 Land of 1000 Dances / Wilson Pickett
6 Blowin' in the Wind Joan Baez
7 Fortunate Son / Creedence Clearwater Revival
8 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Four Tops
9 Respect / Aretha Franklin
10 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 / Bob Dylan
11 Sloop John B / Beach Boys
12 California Dreamin' / Mamas & The Papas
13 For What It's Worth / Buffalo Springfield
14 What the World Needs Now Is Love / Jackie DeShannon
15 Break on Through (To the Other Side) / Doors
16 Mrs. Robinson / Simon & Garfunkel
17 Volunteers / Jefferson Airplane
18 Let's Get Together / Youngbloods
19 San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) / Scott McKenzie
20 Turn! Turn! Turn! / Byrds
21 Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In / Fifth Dimension
22 Everybody's Talkin' / Harry Nilsson
23 Joy to the World / Three Dog Night
24 Stoned Love / Supremes
25 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head / B.J. Thomas
26 Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) / Randy Newman
27 Sweet Home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd
28 Running on Empty / Jackson Browne
29 It Keeps You Runnin' / Doobie Brothers
30 I've Got to Use My Imagination / Gladys Knight & the Pips
31 Go Your Own Way / Fleetwood Mac
32 On the Road Again / Willie Nelson
33 Against the Wind / Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
34 Forrest Gump Suite / Alan Silvestri

[DesertPilot]

Here are a few I like...more like symphonic music than popular...get these on SACD!

A beautiful mind

Titanic





Marcus

[simm]

"Heavy Metal" soundtrack is one of my favorites and I'll second the "City of Angels" CD.

[Tide]

The Commitments

[Jstas]

Originally posted by shack
This one isn't too bad either.....

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002AQQ.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

1 Hound Dog / Elvis Presley
2 Rebel Rouser / Duane Eddy
3 (I Don't Know Why) But I Do / Clarence "Frogman" Henry
4 Walk Right In / Rooftop Singers
5 Land of 1000 Dances / Wilson Pickett
6 Blowin' in the Wind Joan Baez
7 Fortunate Son / Creedence Clearwater Revival
8 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Four Tops
9 Respect / Aretha Franklin
10 Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 / Bob Dylan
11 Sloop John B / Beach Boys
12 California Dreamin' / Mamas & The Papas
13 For What It's Worth / Buffalo Springfield
14 What the World Needs Now Is Love / Jackie DeShannon
15 Break on Through (To the Other Side) / Doors
16 Mrs. Robinson / Simon & Garfunkel
17 Volunteers / Jefferson Airplane
18 Let's Get Together / Youngbloods
19 San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) / Scott McKenzie
20 Turn! Turn! Turn! / Byrds
21 Medley: Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In / Fifth Dimension
22 Everybody's Talkin' / Harry Nilsson
23 Joy to the World / Three Dog Night
24 Stoned Love / Supremes
25 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head / B.J. Thomas
26 Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) / Randy Newman
27 Sweet Home Alabama / Lynyrd Skynyrd
28 Running on Empty / Jackson Browne
29 It Keeps You Runnin' / Doobie Brothers
30 I've Got to Use My Imagination / Gladys Knight & the Pips
31 Go Your Own Way / Fleetwood Mac
32 On the Road Again / Willie Nelson
33 Against the Wind / Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
34 Forrest Gump Suite / Alan Silvestri


DING DING DING!!!! Everyone else can sit down now.

[Danny Tse]

This is more of a soundtrack to my youth, "The Carl Stalling Project: Music From Warner Brothers Cartoons 1936-1958". These are the music that accompany all your favorite Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, etc. cartoons. Very amusing just listening without the visuals.....great fun!!

[aaharvel]

Superman (1978) John Williams

Dances With Wolves (1990) John Barry

Star Wars Trilogy (77,80,83) John Williams

American Beauty (Thomas Newman)

Meet Joe Black (Thomas Newman)

[AsSiMiLaTeD]

Let's see

For songs, or non-orchestral:

Mambo Kings
Forest Gump
Pulp Fiction
Mr Holland's Opus
Back to the Future - though this could be in the orchestral section below with the excellent Silvestri score - gets put here though because of "The Power of Love"

For orchestral:

Batman
Edward Scissorhands
Fantasia
Gladiator
Jurassic Park
Meet Joe Black
Sleepy Hollow
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Mummy
The Frighteners
Apollo 13
A Beautiful Mind
The Mask of Zoro
Titanic - the score, not the crappy Celine Dion song
The Sixth Sense
Star Wars
Catch Me if you can
E.T.
Band of Brothers
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
American Beauty
Remember the Titans
The Last of the Mohicans

geez...I could go on all day with scores that I like...

[Roy Munson]

How about...Woodstock. A ton of great music but poor sq.

Is this considered a soundtrack?

[mrmusicman]

Jackie Brown
Pulp Fiction

[aaharvel]

For years I always thought the best in the business were these guys:

John Williams (Star Wars, Superman)
James Horner (Titanic, Legends Of The Fall)
Jerry Goldsmith (The Edge) r.i.p.
John Barry (Dances With Wolves) r.i.p.
Hans Zimmer (Bram Stokers Dracula, Gladiator)
Alan Silvestri (Forrest Gump, B.T.T.Future)
Danny Elfman (Batman, Edward Scissorhands)

My new favorite classical cinema composer is THOMAS NEWMAN. If you like movie soundtracks, particularly classical and contemporary classical music then American Beauty and Meet Joe Black is required listening.

[Ron-P]

Edward Scissorhands
House of Flying Daggers
Legends of the Fall
Star Wars
Titanic
Peter Pan (2003)
Lord of the Rings
The Time Machine (2002)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sleepy Hollow
Star Trek: The Motion Picture

[bknauss]

Originally posted by gregure
I think my current favorite Pop soundtrack is "Garden State." Not just for the songs, but for how well they fit into the flow and story of the film.
For orchestral:
Original Star Wars is the best.
For more recent orchestral: Gladiator.

I also loved how well the sountrack worked with the film, but I bought the CD and was completely dissapointed. Other than the song that comes on right at the end of the film, I found it to be dull and repetitive. Amazing how a movie changes your feelings and opinions.

My vote is for the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack. The soundtrack is more or less the movie... and Philip Glass is the man!

[MacLeod]

ANYTHING with the name John Williams on it.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High!

[ND13]

Originally posted by MacLeod
ANYTHING with the name John Williams on it.

Fast Times at Ridgemont High!

Hey now, I already nominated Fast Times, damnit!!:D

[sda2mike]

Best Soundtrack???? How 'bout...Pink Floyd's.....Obscured By Clouds??? Yes it is a soundtrack! Of a quickly forgotten movie! ;)
Great CD though, on the SDA's!:cool:

[ND13]

Originally posted by sda2mike
Best Soundtrack???? How 'bout...Pink Floyd's.....Obscured By Clouds??? Yes it is a soundtrack! Of a quickly forgotten movie! ;)
Great CD though, on the SDA's!:cool:

Yeah, I've heard that ST, but am at a loss about which movie it's from.....hmmmmm................

[sda2mike]

Originally posted by ND13
Yeah, I've heard that ST, but am at a loss about which movie it's from.....hmmmmm................
It was a hippy movie from a french director...I think it was called La Vallee...Or, The Valley...Another ST with great Floyd music among others was Zabriskie Point...The movie is really bad though

[MacLeod]

Tangerine Dream did some awesome soundtracks in the 80's

Miracle Mile
Legend
The Keep