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I'm thinking Roy Budd's score for Get Carter as a great example,

― JB, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BACK IN THE MID 90'S THE "SINGLES" SOUNDTRACK WAS ALL THE RAGE IN THE US.

― Poops Mcgee, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone recommended Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt auf Deutch), not heard it myself though

― JB, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know if "classic" applies, but soundtracks that stand independent of the films: (mostly because no one has ever seen the some of these films)

Made in USA - Sonic Youth
Until the End of the World
Repo Man

I believe the soundtracks came before the film idea:
Purple Rain
Quadrophenia
Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders from Mars
Rust Never Sleeps
The Man Who Fell to Earth

― Dave225, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Monkees - Head Soundtrack

― wondering boy poet, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

has to be trainspotting, innit? and pulp fiction... everyone had that. romeo + juliet. all the shaft movies (shaft in africa is lauded especially). the bullitt soundtrack is good fun.

― minna, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

As far as scores, I'm thinking of stuff like Pee Wee's Big Adventure (I'm serious!), Psycho, Vertigo.

― dleone, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Pulp Fiction, Sat. Night Fever

― JM, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

royal tenebaums rushmore bottle rocket dean quixote

― wondering boy poet, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How about Hard Day's Night?!?!

― Yancey, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Midnight Cowboy.

― Mark, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Harder They Come

― Ben Williams, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Blade Runner heh heh

― Ben Williams, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh Brother Where Art Thou's soundtrack LP has way outlasted it's filmic inspiration. And it is great too, don't forget.

― harveyw, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

File these under "Should Be Classics" --

*'Sacco and Vanzetti' by Morricone. It has its moments. *'Alfie' by Sonny Rollins. Very cool.

― Tim DiGravina, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A resounding second to Pee Wee's Big Advendure.

― Curt, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jack Nitzsche's "Cruising" (Germs, John Hiatt, Willy DeVille) and "The Hot Spot" (Miles, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker) are classics at my house.

― dan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Speaking of Nitzsche: Performance is pretty wild

― Ben Williams, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Quincy Jones' "Italian Job" soundtrack is pretty classic.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

And let's not forget blaxploitation... Superfly
Shaft
The Payback
Sweet Sweetback's Badass Song
And many more

― Ben Williams, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

PARIS, TEXAS

Also, if we're counting musicals: West Side Story and Oklahoma!

― Jeff W, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Eraserhead, Saturday Night Live, Grease, Kids and Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls is pretty ace. So's Boogie Nights. Major dud-oh: Quentin Tarantino soundtracks. Urgh.

― nathalie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Peter Gabriel's Passion.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I second Jeff W's 'Paris, Texas' nomination. And I'll add 'Until the End of the World,' obviously, just in case nobody's mentioned it yet. Wim Wenders: great music... but increasingly shoddy filmmaking.

― T. DiGravina, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ben you misspelled "Badaaaaaaaass"

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Akira Soundtrack is pretty mental. There must be loads of others I can't remember right now.

― Johnathan, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My favourites are The Harder They Come, Shaft (both already mentioned), Parade (from Under The Cherry Moon) and Ghost Dog by the RZA. Actually, in that last case, what I really want is an album more closely representing the music RZA made for the movie, with far less added rapping and singing. There is also non-RZA music in the movie which isn't on the soundtrack. Anyway, it's still a terrific album.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'll 3rd The Harder They Come and add The Girl Who Shot Andy Warhol, Sid and Nancy, Easy Rider, and Clockwork Orange (I'm guessing on this one).

― nickn, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Big Chill vols. 1 and 2. I mean, who listens to "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and DOESN'T think of that movie?

― JM, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey Martin--it sounds like what you want is the Japanese import version of Ghost Dog, which is just the music actually used in the movie. It's really fantastic--Zen hip-hop. Pricey but well worth it.

― Ben Williams, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Over The Edge.

― fritz, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Big Chill vols. 1 and 2. I mean, who listens to "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and DOESN'T think of that movie?
*raises hand*

― nathalie, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How can any soundtrack that is really just a compilation be classic? I mean many of the soundtracks mentioned just contain songs that are better heard in their original context for the most part. I think a soundtrack could only be considered a classic if it is the acutal fim score or music specifically created for the film. Most scores aren't much on their own... I'll mention the Trouble in Mind OST by Mark Isham/Marianne Faithfull, it's not quite a classic, but I love it anyway, mostly due to an irrational love of the film (and several other Alan Rudolph films...)

― g, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Requiem For A Dream.

― Lee, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get Carter has a fantastic theme, but is otherwise kinda bleh. Suspiria and Profondo Rosso are both really good, also slightly uneven. Fantastic Planet is really good. David Shire's scores from the 70s (Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and The Conversation) are great. A lot of Serge Gainsbourg's soundtracks are fantastic and virtually every Ennio Morricione theme I've ever heard (until 1980 or so anyway and no, I haven't heard them all) are also really fab. Those Popol Vuh soundtracks for Herzog (Aguirre, Fitzcarraldo, etc) are really great. The list goes on and on. So many great soundtracks. Sigh.

― Alex in SF, Friday, 22 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd consider Duke Ellington's "Anatomy of a Murder" soundtrack as classic . . . on a more blatantly subjective level, Run Lola Run & Scarfies/Topless Women Talk About Their Lives have/had space in my private canon.

― Ess Kay, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

more wenders soundtracks: wings of desire, faraway, so close!

― geeta, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What about Pretty in Pink? It gave way to a whole world of "indie" music in American popular film...

― cybele, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betty Blue, Mojo, The way We Were, Koyanisquatsi, Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid,

― Queen G, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I cannot say enough good things about "Bedazzled" (Dudley Moore) and "Lady in Cement" Hugo Montenegro

― vantasma, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hommage a Noir. -jeff

― mxyzptlk, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

rosemary's baby. especially the bit in the lift

― owen hatherley, Saturday, 23 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Betty Blue.

― Chris Sallis, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Twin Peaks, Eraserhead, The Nightmare before Christmas, Halloween, Magical Mystery Tour, Once Upon a Time in America, Brazil, Watership Down, Twelve Monkeys and this is just turning into a list of my favourite films now, so I'll stop.

― Phil A, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Does anyone have the Moroder Midnight Express soundtrack? I don't have it but when I saw the film again a few weeks ago it really impressed me, sounded fucking super.

― Ronan, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I rushed out and got Midnight Express on vinyl when I saw the movie on its first run. It's too spotty and repetitive to be a satisfying play straight through, but the high points are stellar.

― Curt, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Black Orpheus -- the best ever

Taxi Driver -- just beautiful

Blowup -- Herbie Hancock & a cool Yardbird's "Stroll On"

Midnight Cowboy -- John Barry, Nillson, and Elephant's Memory!

Diamonds -- very funky Roy Budd

A Clockwork Orange -- the essential Moog soundtrack

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly -- or any Morricone for that matter

Passion, Last Temptation of Christ -- sampleworthy

Superfly -- even better than Shaft, The Mack, and Black Caesar

Singin' in the Rain, La Dolce Vita, The Pink Panther, music from "The Body", Performance, Harold and Maude, O'Lucky Man!, Z., Easy Rider, Dirty Harry, Jaws, Star Wars, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Reservoir Dogs, Buffalo '66.

― bryan, Sunday, 24 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Up The Junction...without a shadow of doubt!

― Jez, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Martin (Skidworthy): you should try getting a copy of the Japanese version of the Ghost Dog soundtrack, that has the original music from the movie. I really dislike the American / European standard release.

― Orange, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Urgh. Urgh. Urgh. Urgh.

― Colin Meeder, Monday, 25 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

one month passes...

"Local Hero" Mark Knopfler/Dead Man Walking Soundtrack/Hype Soundtrack

― kiwi, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

three months pass...

The Dead Man Walking score is even better than the soundtrack...

― LBR, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"the Akira Soundtrack is pretty mental"

YES! i totally grew up in awe of the s/t (and of that film in general). it's the heavy wheeze/chanting that amazes. so so underrated.

but then not as a soundtrack in it's own right... more inextricable with the film. perhaps thus more successful than more famous examples?

― Bob Zemko, Tuesday, 13 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

Lee, you mentioned Requiem for a Dream... Try Pi's soundtrack...

then, to not commit suicide, listen to the soundtrack from Harold and Maude - Cat Stevens provided the score.

― kelita, Sunday, 3 November 2002 21:33 (twenty-three years ago)

are you people telling me that Eraserhead has an actual musical soundtrack?

― ejad, Sunday, 3 November 2002 22:05 (twenty-three years ago)

The Big Chill vols. 1 and 2. I mean, who listens to "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and DOESN'T think of that movie?

Me too. Never seen it.

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 3 November 2002 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

{nick is amazed that he is the first to post this...}

Judgement Night soundtrack?

― nickalicious, Monday, 4 November 2002 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

classic gimmick.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 4 November 2002 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

'Scarface', for "Rush Rush" and the always-excellent EG Daily, who also has a great track on the 'Thief of Hearts' OST

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

three weeks pass...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - Burt
They Call Me Mr Tibbs - Quincy
Farenheit 451, They Came From Outer Space, Taxi Driver, Psycho - Hermann
The Mission - Morricone
Solyaris - Artemyev
Nayaquaatsi - Glass
Derrida - Sakamoto
Diva
Lawrence Of Arabia
2001, Barry Lyndon
The Wicker Man

― bahktin, Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:04 (twenty-three years ago)

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, and also JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS.

― alexfack (alexfack), Wednesday, 27 November 2002 23:32 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

I will not rest until the soundtrack to Clerks is held in the same regard as the soundtrack to Saturday Night Fever.
(*begins resting*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 13 May 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

are you people telling me that Eraserhead has an actual musical soundtrack?

released in 1982 on IRS. sticker on the front of the original issue reads: 'includes full size poster of THE BABY'

it's everything you want the soundtrack to be, it's all the building drone of the film compiled into 2 side-long pieces, with the fats waller pieces fading in and out. alan splet/david lynch, hard to imagine 60% of 80's industrial music without this record.

howard shore/ornette coleman's 'naked lunch', 'suspiria', 'solaris', 'stalker', 'psycho', 'umbrellas of cherbourg'.

― jleideck, Tuesday, 13 May 2003 20:19 (twenty-three years ago)

can you imagine if suspiria and solaris were scored by ornette coleman?

seconds for black orpheus, blade runner, fitzcarraldo and le planet sauvage.

also: colors and boyz'n'the hood.

― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

The Heavy Metal movie soundtrack.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Liquid Skys soundtrack, if it has "My Rhythem Box" on it.

― Brandon Welch (Brandon Welch), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 03:21 (twenty-three years ago)

not really a soundtrack, but a compilation of songs off them:
Can - Soundtracks

― willem (willem), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone say Selmasongs yet? I don't think I like any Bjork Product better than this, it's so darn whirly.

― alexfack (alexfack), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 09:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Very surprised no one has mentioned "The Bodyguard" and "Boomerang" soundtracks. They were among the best selling albums in the 90s. The music was shit though.

>The Liquid Skys soundtrack, if it has "My Rhythem Box" on it.

It does.

― fletrejet, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

There are none. Soundtracks are all garbage.

― blutroniq (blutroniq), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 13:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Magnolia" by Aimee Mann

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bullitt
La Citta Violenta
We Still Kill the Old Way
Klute
Across 110th Street
The Italian Job
Up the Down Staircase
Bedazzled
The Wrong Box
Trouble Man

― Troll Archer, Wednesday, 14 May 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

The soundtrack for "Austin Powers" (the first one) should have been considered a classic.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 14 May 2003 21:23 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

I'm surprised no one mentioned the Buena Vista Social Club soundtrack.

Even though I've never really listened to it myself.

And the whole movie was really just kind of an excuse for the soundtrack, wasn't it? Not that I'd know, I didn't see the movie either.

Never mind me.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 15 April 2004 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Trainspotting soundtrack owns. Unlike the Big Chill, many of the songs are better here than in their original contexts. And unlike Pulp Fiction, this works as a cohesive whole, it doesn't just sound like Tarantino showing off his eclectic taste.

― Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 15 April 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably not classics, but deserve to be:

Neil Young's score for 'Dead Man'
The Necks' score for 'The Boys'

Trainspotting soundtrack is indeed great. I got it even though I already have most of the tracks - it works well as an album.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 15 April 2004 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

"the Akira Soundtrack is pretty mental"

YES! i totally grew up in awe of the s/t (and of that film in general). it's the heavy wheeze/chanting that amazes. so so underrated.

i agree!

but then not as a soundtrack in it's own right... more inextricable with the film.

i disagree!

― Yawn (Wintermute), Thursday, 9 February 2006 12:51 (twenty years ago)

Dead Mans Shoes
Bladerunner
Beat Street
Midnight Express
Hair
Koyaanisqatsi
The Graduate...

all favourites of mine. the only true classic in all those is Koyaanisqatsi jaw dropping from start to finish. Inspiring.

― coffee_cake, Thursday, 9 February 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

Tough Guys (Isaac Hayes) is pretty cool. It's all instrumentals, if I remember right.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 9 February 2006 13:06 (twenty years ago)

The thing about 'Get Carter' is that, yes, the atmospheric jazz stuff is amazing, but the rest (about 50%) is made up of truly terrible 'pop' songs which sound as if they were written by some local government sub-committee.

Recent ones that have slipped under the radar: 'About a Boy', which is lovely, and probably Badly Drawn Boy's best work.

― bham, Thursday, 9 February 2006 13:56 (twenty years ago)

Rockers = The Harder They Come six years later

― novamax (novamax), Thursday, 9 February 2006 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Reach The Rock

― biz, Thursday, 9 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Cidade de Deus ("City of God")

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Thursday, 9 February 2006 17:05 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Get Carter has a fantastic theme, but is otherwise kinda bleh.

alex really?

hallucinations? getting nowhere in a hurry? looking for someone? how about you? all amazing

especially hallucinations, it has that...'on the beach, sunderland, suns come up now, 8am, everythings a haze, crack open another tin, tomorrow can wait' type ....monged out militancy

― -- (688), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

disassociation, inside a steel bubble, that kind of thing

― -- (688), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

even invincibility!

― -- (688), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

soundtracks by goblin and popol vuh come to mind -- and john carpenter's own score to 'escape from new york'...

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

"Dirty Dancing" has never been deleted from the shops, and is still a steady seller. Classic? Don't know, but it certainly has continued appealing way after the movie is more or less forgotten.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:33 (nineteen years ago)

Repo Man!

― chad (chad), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid, y'all!

About A Boy, too...

― hank (hank s), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Last Tango in Paris

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The Wicker Man
Zabriskie Point

Performance, Liquid Sky, Superfly, Sweet Sweetback, Midnight Cowboy, Last Tango in Paris seconded/thirded/fourthed

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also, The Holy Mountain's soundtrack may be the best ever, but I don't think it ever was officially released.

― opalescent arcs (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 09:21 (nineteen years ago)

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