Best soundtrack that simply fits the movie.. (1 Viewer)

[Evilgrin 72]

I'm not talking about which soundtrack has the best songs on it, so a movie like "Dazed and Confused" or "Singles" wouldn't really be an answer for the purposes of this thread. This isn't asking which soundtrack album you'd most like to listen to in your car, it's what soundtrack do you believe most enhances the film. I know "Halloween", "Jaws", "Star Wars" are all iconic and phenomenal, but I think my #1 has to be "Flash Gordon." Queen so thoroughly CRUSHED that soundtrack, the movie is literally 3 times better than it has any right to be purely because of the music. Just one example :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt08j3mBW3Q

It's like the cheesy late 70s special effects don't even matter. I love their work on "Highlander" as well, but this soundtrack is just a GD masterpiece.

Discuss.

 

[kface]

Flash Gordon is a great example

I would add to the list

The Big Lebowski

28 Days Later

 

[El Floppo]

I'm not talking about which soundtrack has the best songs on it, so a movie like "Dazed and Confused" or "Singles" wouldn't really be an answer for the purposes of this thread. This isn't asking which soundtrack album you'd most like to listen to in your car, it's what soundtrack do you believe most enhances the film. I know "Halloween", "Jaws", "Star Wars" are all iconic and phenomenal, but I think my #1 has to be "Flash Gordon." Queen so thoroughly CRUSHED that soundtrack, the movie is literally 3 times better than it has any right to be purely because of the music. Just one example :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt08j3mBW3Q

It's like the cheesy late 70s special effects don't even matter. I love their work on "Highlander" as well, but this soundtrack is just a GD masterpiece.

Discuss.

still think D&C soundtrack made the movie better. Pulp Fiction too. RepoMan as well.

 

[VA703]

last action hero

 

[TenTimes]

fight club

"Where is my mind"

 

[VA703]

Pink Floyd The Wall

 

[B-Deep]

Guardians of the Galaxy!

 

[VA703]

Heavy Metal

 

[zamboni]

The Graduate and Harold and Maude come immediately to mind.

 

[Brony]

Boogie Nights

 

[johnnycakes]

The first one I thought of was Apocalypse Now. Also the original Rocky.

 

[Dan Lambskin]

Deep Throat

 

[T Bell]

I assume we're excluding musicals...

The Princess Bride

2001: A Space Odyssey (none of the music was original)

Dances with Wolves

Out of Africa

 

[Josie Maran]

Sorority Sluts #13 was pretty much perfect. Geoff Hebler's feverish jazz riffs juxtaposed against the adult contemporary overtones set the perfect aural scene for several oral scenes.

 

[T Bell]

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (appropriate that I'm saying this...)

 

[rockaction]

Magnolia with Aimee Mann and Jon O'Brion

O Brother, Where Art Thou

Requiem For a Dream and Clint Mansell and the Kronos Quartet

Rushmore and its great soundtrack (Creation's "Making Time" and The Who's "A Quick One..." kill during the montage scenes)

 

[JohnnyU]

O Brother Where Art Thou

 

[rockaction]

O Brother Where Art Thou

eta* That's a little odd. Same exact time, open-ended question. You owe me a Coke!

 

[gianmarco]

Geoff Hebler's feverish jazz riffs juxtaposed against the adult contemporary overtones set the perfect aural scene for several oral scenes.

This is sig worthy.

 

[Deranged Hermit]

I've always been partial to the Crow soundtrack but I agree with the Flash Gordon and Rocky examples as being the best.

 

[offdee]

- The Social Network

- Garden State

 

[skol asylum]

The Doors...music by...The Doors.

 

[skol asylum]

Into the Wild

 

[Don Quixote]

The Third Man - zither

High Noon

ETA: Though I should ask if distinguishing between scores and soundtracks, or no?

 

[gianmarco]

Braveheart

 

[T Bell]

Charlie Brown Christmas - funny response I realize, but pairing Vince Guaraldi with that movie was both unique and awesome.

 

[SacramentoBob]

Heavy Metal

Came here to post this.

 

[zamboni]

The first one I thought of was Apocalypse Now.

Definitely. Right out of the gate with "The End".

 

[badmojo1006]

Since the first episode was considered a TV Movie, I vote Twin Peaks

 

[zamboni]

Couple of horror films I'd add:

The Exorcist

The Shining

 

[SacramentoBob]

Lalo Schifrin - Dirty Harry

 

[SacramentoBob]

Couple of horror films I'd add:

The Exorcist

The Shining

Spy/Horror movies always end up with good soundtracks.

 

[snogger]

Breakfast Club and Valley Girl are two I think used music to "enhance" the movies.

 

[Todem]

Pink Floyd The Wall

The movie is the soundtrack.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Top Gun

 

[Todem]

Jaws

Halloween

Star Wars

Could you imagine those 3 movies without those soundtracks? Neither could I.

As far as soundtracks with bands, songwriters what not.

Saturday Night Fever

Grease

Singles

 

[Politician Spock]

I'm not talking about which soundtrack has the best songs on it, so a movie like "Dazed and Confused" or "Singles" wouldn't really be an answer for the purposes of this thread. This isn't asking which soundtrack album you'd most like to listen to in your car, it's what soundtrack do you believe most enhances the film. I know "Halloween", "Jaws", "Star Wars" are all iconic and phenomenal, but I think my #1 has to be "Flash Gordon." Queen so thoroughly CRUSHED that soundtrack, the movie is literally 3 times better than it has any right to be purely because of the music. Just one example :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lt08j3mBW3Q

It's like the cheesy late 70s special effects don't even matter. I love their work on "Highlander" as well, but this soundtrack is just a GD masterpiece.

Discuss.

I can't see how Sound of Music wouldn't dominate based on your criteria.

 

[Todem]

Boogie Nights

You got the touch!!!! You got the power....yeah!!!

Feel, feel, feel, feel ,feel, feel......feel my heat.

 

[El Floppo]

The Third Man - zither

High Noon

ETA: Though I should ask if distinguishing between scores and soundtracks, or no?

great posting.... the final scene and end credits are the best ever, IMO.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Deep Throat

That one was at the head of its class.

 

[El Floppo]

Deep Throat

That one was at the head of its class.

Tough to swallow, though.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Bladerunner with Vangelis's music mixed with some of the dialog was pretty good.

 

[T Bell]

The Third Man - zither

High Noon

ETA: Though I should ask if distinguishing between scores and soundtracks, or no?

great posting.... the final scene and end credits are the best ever, IMO.

A movie very much ahead of its time and one I'd not watched before about a year ago. Very cool.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

I would submit Judgment Night. Each song was a collaboration of a rock band and a rap group. Pretty stellar soundtrack. Partial to the Helmet & House of Pain song "Just Another Victim".

 

[SIDA!]

The soundtrack to Drive with Ryan Gosling is excellent.

 

[D-Day]

The Big Chill

 

[Don Quixote]

The Third Man - zither

High Noon

ETA: Though I should ask if distinguishing between scores and soundtracks, or no?

great posting.... the final scene and end credits are the best ever, IMO.

Yeah, the ending is pretty perfect. No dialogue necessary in that scene.

 

[T Bell]

If you're talking about soundtracks that are as much sound effects as listenable music, then I think both of these iconic scores belong in the mix:

Jaws

Psycho

 

[zoonation]

people are confusing score with soundtrack in here. not to be one of those guys though, so carry on.

 

[headcrack]

Repo Man