is a bit chicken/egg as it was a soundtrack before it was a film - still cracking stuff. The Easy Rider soundtrack is absolutely ace though - and stands the test of time far better than the film itself.

Both 1 and 2. 3 palls a bit by comparison. Great cover versions.
Dead man Walking has some cracking original tunes. I am Sam has some superb Beatles covers, indeed nothing but. (Confess I have seen neither film, which may well be a good thing, as a film soundtrack should more complement the film than sell a shedload of unrelated music.... Having said that, the soundtrack to Forrest Gump is stonkingly good with the film, a bit depressing without.)
"Proper" soundtracks would be Betty Blue, the Piano, Play Misty for Me and, if only for the long 10 minute first track on the CD, another Nyman, the Cook, the thief etc etc.

On a mission from God.

Rollin', rollin', rollin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin',
ROLLIN', ROLLIN', ROLLIN', RAWHIDE!

Brilliant movie, brilliant performances, brilliant soundtrack.

Altogether now; "Everybody, needs somebody....

Paco De Lucia conjures up a sizzling soundtrack to an early 80s Steven Frears directed gangster film with John Hurt, Terence Stamp and Tim Roth.

No idea how good the movie is, I've only got the LP.

has a fabulous Ennio Morricone score. Elmer Bernstein's "The Magnificent Seven" theme is fabulous and stirs up all sorts of boyhood memories...

I enjoyed "North Country" with Dylan and Cat Power (never saw the film) and I always enjoy Quentin Tarantino soundtracks, but I still think you can't beat "One From The Heart".

2 of a kind may be Horse Whisperer, dreadful film and I can't recall any of the music actually in the film, but cracking CD, and Brokeback Mountain, same remark about the music. Preferred the Harry Enfield/Paul Whitehouse version of the film.

I seem to recall had a very good soundtrack.

I bought Ry Cooder soundtrack to the "Long Riders" at a French market and it's the best 50 cents I spent in a long time.

...well almost any. For old-time splendidness try JB's From Russia With Love followed by George Martin's Live and Let Die. Another Barry classic is The Lion in Winter particularly when played alongside the jazzed-up organ version of the main choral theme from the movie. Sticking with the obvious, Roy Budd's Get Carter score brilliantly balances violence and fromage.

Wim Wenders' frankly boring films always have good soundtracks

Paris Texas of course

Until The End Of The World has rare stuff from Costello, R.E.M., Nick Cave, Talking Heads and The '2

The End Of Violence has rare '2, Whiskeytown, Los Lobos, Eels and "You May Feel Me Crying", the last thing we'll ever hear from Roy Orbison.

I even like the soundtrack to "Million Dollar Hotel" (worst movie ever alert!) although I may be part of a very small group there.

Appalling film, excellent soundtrack from Paul Simon.

Juno - a lovely little film and an equally lovely soundtrack - who knew I'd like anything by Belle & Sebastian?
Magnolia - film is hard work but the Aimee Mann soundtrack is a work of genius.

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Don't forget Performance, either.
Sadly, an It's Trad Dad soundtrack doesn't seem to be around.

"The Harder They Come". My Favourite soundtrack of them all.

I love the soundtrack to It's All Gone Pete Tong, which is 2 CD's of really well selected, sunny, uplifting, chilled music and any record that includes The Penguin Café Orchestra's Music For A Found Harmonium is a winner in my opinion.
Although the first time I heard it was on the magical Aussie film "Malcolm".

I love Yann Tiersen's beautiful and warm soundtrack to "Amelie" which really captures the movie for me, and in a really French way.

The first soundtrack I ever bought was Burt Bacharach's Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. Its still up there. Class.

But if I could, you would be looking at the cover of 'Across 110th Street' right now. Excellent music from Bobby Womack and some lovely 70's Blaxploitation dialogue in there as well.

And might I add that whatever you think of Tarantino as a writer/director, you have to admit that he gives good soundtrack.

I love a bit of film with my music (and a helping of red wine with both), and as such I adore 'Dead Man's Shoes' with a couple of glassfuls. On first watching I was just blown away by the combination of gentle acoustica, rolling dales and bloody violence. Marvellous.

Spot on Springer with 'Amelie', and I'm also fond of 'O Brother Where Art Thou?' - the pickaxes at the beginning would terrify the punters when I put it on the stereo back in my Music Zone days.

I must also give a shout to two of my guilty pleasures - 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' and 'Once More With Feeling', aka the musical episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I bought both for my wife, but I will freely admit that I've given them just as much play time as she has.

Superfly by Curtis Mayfield.

Oh yes... on a roll now!

And Shaft by Isaac Hayes.

The Vangelis version, not the orchestral one. It may be with the release recently of multiple versions of BR, that there are more soundtracks. I do not know....

"Blue Collar" one of my faves, also "One from the Heart" - I have great affection for "The Border" too - "Across the borderline" etc. The Ry Cooder CD of movie work is generally excellent, not only the regularly celebrated "Paris Texas" but also the as good if not better "Southern Comfort". What about "Deliverence" - "Duelin' banjos"! Don't tell anyone, but I like "When Harry met Sally" - both soundtrack and movie... "Obscured by clouds"....

Feck me, Twangers, and I thought I was an early starter.
P.S. I bet you bought Relics in its original MFP labelling!

The Alison Krauss bits on "Oh Brother Where Art Thou' - that beautiful crystalline voice.

Yes, yes, YES! to the the Buffy musical episode - absolutely adore that. There are some beautiful songs and some very surprising performances.

The soundtrack to A Room With A View is a big favourite - I know it's mostly snippets and arias from opera, but it's still lovely, especially Kiri Te Kanawa singing 'Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta' which makes my spine tingle (at 1m 11s and 1m 50s).

There's also a great flamenco version of Carmen by Carlos Saura - not sure offhand but I think the music is by Paco De Lucia.

I'm sure there are some I've forgotten...

"Run Lola Run" is a favourite. Accompanies the film brilliantly but also works really well in its own right as an album of pounding techno.

And another yes to Buffy "Once More With Feeling", one of the cleverest bits of telly you'll ever see.

And when I was much younger, I had a much-loved Story and Songs from "The Jungle Book" which I think is still around somewhere...

To paraphrase Homer Simpson: it's a cliche because it's true. It works brilliantly by itself and, of course, with the film. Ditto Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid.

buy both

Never seen the film, which I'm told is very good, but I love the soundtrack.

Angelo Badalamenti

Half the decent stuff didn't make the soundtrack CD but from the opening bars of Tony Bennett singing Rags To Riches to the coda from Layla overlaying numerous dead bodies right up to a neurotic Henry Hill being followed around town by a helicopter to the strains of the Stones' Monkey Man, you'd be hard pushed to find a better example of popular music interpreting and interweaving into the visual aspect of the film. Fantastic!

I always thought the Scorcese soundtracks were excellent until he blew it big with the Gangs of New York.

The Peppers and Eggs Soundtrack to the Soprano's second series is similarly top stuff - The Campbell Brothers, Van the Man, plus again some stuff used in the series not on the CD (Floyd, Stones etc.)

oops - also Badly Drawn Boy's About a Boy soundtrack also worth a listen - good stuff

I love the soundtrack album to Spike Lee's 90s jazz/blues homage Mo' Better Blues and also the De Niro-helmed movie from the same decade A Bronx Tale.

I also love the Dancer In The Dark soundtrack, although I know that Björk is a bit much to take for some people!

Obvious, but a good one nonetheless.

Best marriage of music and film ever. I win.

Wonderful film, wonderful soundtrack

...'Once Upon A Time In The West' is my personal favourite soundtrack of them all. It blends so amazingly with the film that it's a shock to hear that apparently the soundtrack was written before the film! 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' isn't far behind either, another 24 carat classic. I liked the offbeat and downbeat 'A Fistful Of Dynamite' (very underrated film that genuinely gets better on repeated viewings) and the quirkiness of 'My Name Is Nobody' too, even if the film is a very mixed bag.

I always liked those funk-edged soundtracks of the 70s too. Lalo Schifrin's work on 'Dirty Harry' and 'Magnum Force' is great, as is the soundtrack to 'Enter The Dragon'. Agreed on Curtis Mayfield's 'Superfly' as well.

Roy Budd's 'Get Carter' is another classic- that icy feel complements the film perfectly. He also did a great job on the somewhat less seminal Charles Bronson/Michael Winner vehicle 'The Stone Killer'. On the subject of that particular actor/director team, I liked the soundtrack to 'Death Wish' by Herbie Hancock too.

My favourite Bond film had the best soundtrack of the Bond films too for my money, and that's 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service'. The theme tune is phenomenal, as is the beautiful Louis Armstrong showcase 'We Have All The Time In The World'. Another one by John Barry where he really ticked all the boxes was that Bruce Lee exploitation vehicle 'Game Of Death' which is, really, a pretty terrible film but the opening credit montage with the best bits of Bruce's earlier films combined with a great, dramatic opening theme is really fantastic.

Pink Floyd's 'Obscured By Clouds' is really underrated, I think. It's more full-bodied than 'More' (which nevertheless has its moments) and 'Zabriskie Point' (which is a fans' only experience, I feel) as it has actual songs with a very nice country-rock feel, like 'Wots Uh The Deal' and 'Burning Bridges'. That guitar solo showcase 'Mudmen' is fantastic too. I've never actually wanted to see any of those films though, after an awful experience trying to watch that terrible 'Rainbow Bridge' film which Hendrix contributed to.

50's heaven

1. Everyday - Buddy Holly
2. Let The Good Times Roll - Shirley/Lee
3. Come Go With Me - Del Vikings
4. Whispering Bells - Del Vikings
5. Get A Job - Silhouettes
6. Lollipop - Chordettes
7. Yakety Yak - COASTERS
8. Great Balls Of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
9. Mr. Lee - Bobbettes
10. Stand By Me - Ben E. King

Corking good film as well.

Crap Film ,Great Soundtrack
1 .Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll - IAN DURY & THE BLOCKHEADS
2. Spanish Stroll - MINK DeVILLE
3. (I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - ELVIS COSTELLO
4. She's So Modern - THE BOOMTOWN RATS
5. New Life - ZONES
6. Another Girl Another Planet - THE ONLY ONES
7. Whole Wide World - WRECKLESS ERIC
8. Because The Night - THE PATTI SMITH GROUP

Side Two
1. Kicks - THE BOOMTOWN RATS
2. Rockaway Beach - THE RAMONES
3. Teenage Kicks - THE UNDERTONES
4. Do Anything You Wanna Do - EDDIE & THE HOT RODS
5. What A Waste - IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS
6. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - NICK LOWE
7. Watching The Detectives - ELVIS COSTELLO
8. Blank Generation - RICHARD HELL AND THE VOIDOIDS

Also agree that THE LONG RIDERS,PARIS TEXAS are great but Check out ALAMO BAY too. QUADROPHENIA was the soundtrack to many a great party in the early 80's

Can't find any information on it anywhere.

Can't believe no one has mentioned "Buster" soundtrack by Phil Collins!
24 Hour Party People is a pretty good soundtrack, but it was bound to be, wasn't it?

Film was Ok in a trippy kind of way but the soundtrack was a good mix....a bit of Dylan, Cohen, and Dr Dre

Wendy Carlos's synthesizer re-imaginings are absolutely inspired. I can honestly say that no one has come close to compiling such a successful juxtaposition of jocund spring footing and throat tearing menace in a soundtrack. Bravo Kubrick!

I second this. I was just going to bed last night and turned on the TV and it was on. I had to watch the end. It's just a wonderful marriage of editing and music. Beware though: don't watch it if you haven't seen the film. It is the final reveal of everything that the whole film has kept cryptic up to this point.

I'd forgotten! How brilliant!
Pretty In Pink soundtrack anyone? You have to go a long way to find a Nik Kershaw cover because they couldn't get the original. None more eighties.

The soundtrack to Chocolat mirrors the movie wonderfully as does the recent Into The Wild - with Eddie Vedders wailing.

Film was a little dull and worthy but loved the Beatles covers soundtrack with Aimee Mann, Ben Folds, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright among others

I also liked Get Shorty, The Hot Spot, O Brother Where Art Thou and strangely the Notting Hill soundtrack.

The latter was being played in the hospital whilst my wife was in labour. A soundtrack to the start of my daughter's life.

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Easy Rider for me. I find it impossible to describe how important it was at that time to hear Roger McGuinn singing It's Alright Ma and Ballad of Easy Rider solo. Dunno whether the soundtrack changed my life but it was sure as hell damned fine and remains so.

was pretty eclectic and a "Britpop" badge of honour at the time but doesn't seem to have aged very well...still, anything that includes the Ig's Nightclubbing is fine by me!

It wouldn't be half as good without the wonderful Mark Knopfler soundtrack.

A great film and a fabulous soundtrack. Four aces, I think!

Last Tango by Gato Barbieri, Body Heat (John Barry again I think), Nosferatu by Popol Vuh and Thief by Tangerine Dream plus they are all great films.

Finally got round to seeing TWBB last night. Fantastic film made all the more gripping by an astonishing sound track. I'm not sure I'd buy it to listen to in he comfort of my own home but it enhanced the film no end.

I'm also a big fan of Nick Cave & Warren Ellis's soundtrack to The Proposition - another soundtrack that heightens the emotions as you're watching the film.

Oh, OK - and Grosse Pointe Blank. Handpicked, legend has it, by John Cusack hisself.

Among others, it features:
I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash
War Cry - Joe Strummer
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Fugue in A-Minor - Johannes Brahms
Armagideon Time - The Clash
Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
Live and Let Die - Guns N' Roses
Absolute Beginners - The Jam
Pressure Drop - The Specials
The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen
A Message to You Rudy - The Specials
Monkey Gone to Heaven - Pixies
Ace of Spades - Motörhead
In Between Days - The Cure
Your Lucky Day in Hell - Eels
Big Boss Man - Jimmy Reed
White Lines - Melle Mel
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Under Pressure - David Bowie/Queen
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat
99 Luftballons - Nena
Doors of Your Heart - The Beat
Lorca's Novena - The Pogues

Coppola usually does his music well even as far back as You're a Big Boy Now with the Lovin Spoonful.
Also I just remembered the Falcon and the Snowman by Pat Metheny and David Bowie

JJ - Once upon a Time in the West is superb...interestingly Morricone had already composed it before the film was shot so Leone was able to play it whilst the actors were on set...it is pretty well choreographed.

On the same subject, another of Morricone's is The Mission which is probably more famous than the film itself and is also somewhat responsible for Pan-Pipes Moods...

Okay, the films are lightweight and fun, but for soundtracks you can't beat the orignal Hairspray and Cry Baby films.

And on a very different track, just to show I'm not a totally frothy totty, Michael Nyman's soundtracks to Peter Greenaways's films - The Piano, The Draughtsman's Contract, a Zed and two noughts and Drowning by Numbers.

Well you´ve mentioned some outstanding OST´s . I´ve always liked the Woody Allen jazz collections, some good guitar stuff on Sweet and Lowdown. There´s some great Ukrainian Rock n Roll on the Everything is Illuminated soundtrack. Has anyone mentioned the Big Lebowski soundtrack yet ? The Gypsy Kings´Hotel California is a must.

The Wicker Man of course, for some truly sinister folk.

The Lake House - crap film, lovely sad soundtrack.

Ghost World is bluesy and unusual. Love that title track.

Sideways - light jazz with a Seventies edge. Great on the move.

Don't Look Now - Don't listen to it on your own.

Klute - great use of bouzouki - or is it balaika? Or even zither?

Ordinary People. You will cry at Pachelbel.

Any Mike Leigh film. Is the music - which is always identical - available anywhere?

Vincent Guaraldi's Charlie Brown music. Nostalgic.

The film had a mixed reception, but the soundtrack is a joy. It features a rare moment of greatness from Elvis Costello (*cough*overrated*cough*), God Give me Strength (with Burt Bacharach) and a number of beautifully written and performed pastiches of various 60s styles, among them a touching Joni Mitchell song, Man From Mars, sung by Kristen Vigard, possessor of one of the huskiest, sexiest voices I've ever heard.

Lost In Translation, Vanilla Sky, Natural Born Killers, Oceans Eleven (David Holmes), Kill Bill vol 1

Did Craig Armstrong do all of Romeo & Juliet or just parts of it ? I like the ones that are on his album "The Space Between Us".

...but I love this tune which I discovered in Peter Greenaway's Pillow Book.

Also partial to the use of Suo Gan throughout Empire of the Sun.

Er..the Wicker Man,One From The Heart,Paris Texas,O Brother,Heat,can i also second Cry Baby and Hairspray,fabulous stuff.most Ry Cooder,plus an excellent Fred Frith comp Eye To Ear with some of his obscure euro soundtracks..and if you like a bit of euro cheese the Vampyros Lesbos soundtrack is a hoot.

Sorry forgot the wonderful Suspiria soundtrack by the Goblins.

I haven't seen the film, but Jobim's soundtrack to 'Cronica da Casa Assassinada' (Chronicle Of The Murdered House) is haunting and beautiful. It's available on his album 'Jobim' (Verve 314 543 381-2)

Cool movie and although I'm not usually a fan of Italian Rock Singers Angela Baraldi singing Impressioni di Settembre
in the context of this film blew me away. And Paul(the grouch)Weller too apparently.

Just paid £32.50 for Scott Walker's soundtrack to Pola X on eBay. It's horrible. And it's beautiful. I love it so! Don't expect that I'll be listening to much else for a while. Could have done with a bit more meat-based percussion, though.

Meanwhile, the soundtrack to Vanishing Point is pretty hot stuff. Get the torrent here: - http://hardrock70s.blogspot.com/

Ooops. Copyright infringement alert...

I bought the soundtrack album as I loved the film. Played it thinking I'd have a lovely night in. Wrong, wrong wrong. Uneasy listening.

Is full of eerie 50's sci-fi music. I especially love it as background music when I'm playing Spider Solitaire.

While its not a great film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence has the best theme I've ever heard. Using synthisisers and traditional Japanese instruments it seems to sum up the themes of the movie and it's lovely to boot.

Plenty of good stuff on this thread but can I stick in a word for the soundtrack to Morvern Caller, Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Alan Warner's book? The film is about the adventures of a woman from a dismal Scottish coastal town who, after her aspiring writer boyfriend commits suicide, steals his book, gets a big cash advance for it and splurges the lot in Spain.

The music is a tape the boyfriend made for her and if his writing was as good as his taste in music then the big cash advance isn't as unbelievable as it sounds; Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada, Can, Ween feature but the highlight of the soundtrack (and indeed the film) is Some Velvet Morning by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra. The scene where Samantha Morton as Morvern walks through the supermarket she works in with that song playing on the soundtrack will resonate with anyone who has ever distracted themselves from a crap job by playing music in their head....

Clint wrote the soundtracks to Mystic River and Million Dollar baby,and both are sublime.Here's one he appeared in but didn't compose

Philip Glass's soundtrack to the movie Mishima is another favourite, and often turns up on adverts and movie trailers

Heat, Moulin Rouge and Elfman's Batman I have soft spots for but what do I know; Im Welsh for heaven's sake

Air's Virgin Suicides score is the only time I can remember wanting to see a film after hearing the music.

Can't You Hear Me Knocking (The Rolling Stones)
Rumble (Link Wray)
Glad And Sorry (Faces)
Strange Brew (Cream)
Black Betty (Ram Jam)
Blinded By The Light (Manfred Mann's Earth Band)
Let's Boogaloo (Willie Rosario)
Keep It Comin' Love (Kc And The Sunshine Band)
Yellow World (J Girls)
That Smell (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
All The Tired Horses (Bob Dylan)
Can't You See (Marshall Tucker Band)
Push & Pull (Nikka Costa)

Agree with previous posts regarding Goodfellas and 24 Hour Party People.
But can't believe nobody has yet mentioned Saturday Night Fever or The Graduate.

Pound for pound, the best EVER soundtrack in the truest sense of the word has to be "The Taking of Pelham 123" by David Shire. It's the grooviest, sassiest, dirtiest, funkiest big band sound in town. It's an awesome soundtrack to an awesome heist movie (the Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw original mind you). The true test of any good soundtrack I suppose is 'what would the film be like without it?' and it's safe to say that 'The Taking of Pelham 123' wouldn't be half as much fun without the parping brass which rolls along like the titular subway train. It's been sampled plenty of times, and both David Holmes and Klepto Tarantino have acknowledged it's aural power. It's well worth picking up.

The scariest soundtrack award would have to go to the soundtrack for Peter Medak's masterful chiller "The Changling" which starred good old George C Scott. Never in my life did a film scare me as much as that. At the ripe old age of 30 I had to sleep with all the lights on in the house after seeing it late one night. To this day it's the only film that actually made me jump off the couch in terror. So, I bought the soundtrack on eBay and guess what? It scares the shit out of me too. It's all ghostly tinkly piano and every now and then you can hear a water pipe knocking. Man, it's terrifying!

I'm quite partial to John Carpenter's horror soundtracks up until the mid 1980's too, but I couldn't eat a whole one.