Greatest Soundtracks Of All Time
 

http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/sto...035985,00.html

Tomorrow The Observer will reveal the top 50 film soundtracks of all time. What would be on your list?

The Observer's top 5 will be:

1. The Wizard of Oz
2. Psycho
3. Star Wars
4. Pather Panchali
5. A Clockwork Orange

Blade Runner too, but they 've forgotten Demonlover, Lost in Translation, Easy rider, Blues Brothers...

I like the John Williams Star Wars prognostication and it's one of the best ever. For film scores, Williams cannot be beaten. Jaws will definitely be up there as well.
Bernard Hermann's Psycho is indeed worthy of high placement too.
His work for Taxi Driver, not so much...haha. Although, the scene where Travis watches American Bandstand for nearly the entirety of Jackson Browne's "Late For The Sky" is cinematic genius. Scorsese uses music better than anyone, although Lynch is the best sound technician/engineer. And, of course, Angelo Badalamenti is no slouch.
However, Peter Gabriel's Passion: Music for the Last Temptation of Christ from another Scorsese movie is one you guys will forget because you don't know about it.
(No one was interested when I posted the alternate album some months back)
Then there's Scorsese's The Last Waltz which brings us to they oh so many concert movies with a soundtrack album: Woodstock, Monterrey Pop, Home of the Brave, Stop Making Sense, Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, The Concert for Bangladesh, The Secret Policeman's Ball, it goes on & on...and The Wall is not my favorite Pink Floyd by any means, but it's a notable soundtrack for sure. I'm not sure if Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Doors, The Beatles, or Pink Floyd) was released as a theatrical film or not or if Live at Pompeii - Pink Floyd has a corresponding soundtrack album or not.

I'm sure at least some of those will be in the final 50. Blade Runner at least, and I'm sure at least one or two more Bernard Herrmann scores.

most stuff by ennio morricone or john barry

Vangelis will get nods for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire.

One that deserves high praise is McCabe & Mrs. Miller directed by the late Robert Altman, and easily his best movie. In fact, it's the only movie he ever made I would even recommend.
Leonard Cohen songs play throughout the "revisionist Western."

What about Diana Ross covering Billie Holiday on Lady Sings the Blues? Her acting performance is out-of-this-world in the movie and the singing is a brave effort.

not indie enough for ya?

Clint Eastwood's Bird is a masterpiece on film and record.

Sid & Nancy is a good one, but as far as Alex Cox movies, Repo Man is one of the absolute best soundtracks. It should make top ten, but it won't.

The Pulp Fiction soundtrack is (still) popular.

Still stumped?

What, no more mentions for soundtracks which Sonic Youth has a song on?

Well, that's a pity.

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How 'bout The Harder They Come?

It's not a porno, by the way.

oh, did I scare you away?

I could go all day.

blade runner
war of the worlds (old) no wait, silly me, thats an audio book. ah well
the good the bad and the ugly
pulp fiction - dick dale!!!

You mean "Made in USA" ?
I never saw it, I just know there's Secret Girl in it.

some Coen Bros., particularly

The Ladykillers
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski

oh, I got one you'll actually like...
Howard Shore & Ornette Coleman's Naked Lunch. It's a good one.

No, i was referring to the film that basically started independent cinema by making it popular enough to be considered economically viable.

Harder They Come Soundtrack

& in that vein, I'll also make mention of David Lynch's Eraserhead.

Bring out your dead by Martin Scorsese

just for your comment that was deleted, pork-barrel-o-monkeys, I'll now reference a movie about the Jim Morrision guy you loathe.
It was Oliver Stone's juvenile little cash-in vanity project, yes, but it was also the very first exposure that most of you (I would estimate somewhere in the neighborhood of 78%) ever had to The Velvet Underground.