Best Soundtrack CD's

markmarc
markmarc Posts: 2,309
edited July 2005 in Music & Movies
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
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited June 2005
    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
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited June 2005
    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
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  • gregure
    gregure Posts: 871
    edited June 2005
    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.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited June 2005
    "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
    "The Wall"
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited June 2005
    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.
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited June 2005
    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
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited June 2005
    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
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  • DesertPilot
    DesertPilot Posts: 57
    edited June 2005
    Here are a few I like...more like symphonic music than popular...get these on SACD!

    A beautiful mind

    Titanic





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  • simm
    simm Posts: 602
    edited June 2005
    "Heavy Metal" soundtrack is one of my favorites and I'll second the "City of Angels" CD.
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  • Tide
    Tide Posts: 154
    edited June 2005
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  • Jstas
    Jstas Posts: 14,985
    edited June 2005
    Originally posted by 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


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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited June 2005
    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!!
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited June 2005
    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)


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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited June 2005
    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...
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  • Roy Munson
    Roy Munson Posts: 886
    edited June 2005
    How about...Woodstock. A ton of great music but poor sq.

    Is this considered a soundtrack?
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  • mrmusicman
    mrmusicman Posts: 303
    edited July 2005
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  • aaharvel
    aaharvel Posts: 4,489
    edited July 2005
    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.

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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited July 2005
    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
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  • bknauss
    bknauss Posts: 1,441
    edited July 2005
    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!
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited July 2005
    ANYTHING with the name John Williams on it.

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High!
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    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
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2005
    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:
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    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................
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  • sda2mike
    sda2mike Posts: 3,131
    edited July 2005
    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
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited July 2005
    Tangerine Dream did some awesome soundtracks in the 80's

    Miracle Mile
    Legend
    The Keep
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