I think BTTF has one of the greatest of all time.

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Forrest Gump
Braveheart

I'm not really a fan of Quentin Tarantino but he does choose some great music for his films. And Ry Cooder's ethereal slide playing all over Paris, Texas takes some beating.

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+1 on Paris Texas.

I also like Moby's version of "New Dawn Fades" in the "Heat" soundtrack.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9oC2BMMwYM

Goodonya ...Mark.

Hans Zimmers soundtrack for True Romance was awesome.

Glad no one has mentioned Titanic

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One of the best at great soundtracks in film is Martin Scorsese...he always seems to work in some really great songs by George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Cream, Animals, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Les Paul, Jeff Beck...The movies Casino, Good Fellas, The Blues, and George Harrisons, Living in the Material World...all finely done by Scorsese.

And of course how could you not throw up there Eddie and the Cruisers...not a bad song on that soundtrack!!!

And Buxom, nice that this thread didn't have a Ramones reference!

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"SHAFT" is in my opinion the best all original soundtrack of my lifetime. Totally fresh at the time and still holds up as a pretty cool original and cohesive work today.

In the compilation of previously recorded work combined with original material category, "ANIMAL HOUSE." (People forget that "Shama-Lama-Ding-Dong" is an original song written for "Animal House.")

In the 100% compilation of previously recorded work category, "AMERICAN GRAFFITI." Few people in this forum ever heard of "American Graffiti" I bet. It was huge box office in the early 1970's made by George Lucas so he could get some money up to for another little budding project of his called "Star Wars" which he was having trouble selling to studios. Harrison Ford was in both films. "American Graffiti" turned out to be one of the most profitable films ever made percentage-wise and when you consider that at the time movie tickets cost $2 it makes it even more impressive.

In the remake of previously recorded songs category not performed by the original artist, I am undecided between "THE COMMITMENTS" and "STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN." I think "TC" might edge out "SITSOM" though because nobody expected "The Commitments" to be worth a hoot. Not only was the film pretty good but the band was too. Eventually The Commitments became a real touring band with many of the original members from the film. Everyone expected "SITSOM" to kill right out of the box and mostly it did, but there's just enough musical silliness in "SITSOM" to make it a tie.

In the previously recorded songs played live by the original artist category, "WOODSTOCK."

I agree that if you came of age in the 60's/70's as I did, that the "FORREST GUMP" soundtrack might seemingly deserve an honorable mention but it took more of a shotgun approach with so many songs included that it is impossible not to find several that worked exceedingly well. I think that while "Forrest Gump" was a truly great film, the soundtrack was actually better integrated into the visual art in "DIRTY DANCING" and "THE BIG CHILL." "DD" and "TBC" with their smaller playlists upped the importance of the music as something besides nearly continuous background noise.

NOBODY has done the "find a previously recorded song and then construct a scene that works great for that song" thing better or more often than Quentin Tarantino. He is almost TOO good at it. The problem with Tarantino's compilation soundtracks is that when you play them back they are just a bunch of cool songs all jumbled together with no rhyme or reason or flow. Some of the songs are obscure, even to me and I thought I was pretty up on the music of the 50's, 60's and 70's. Gotta hand it to him though, he somehow makes it work on film even if it doesn't work on the soundtrack albums as a stand alone work. Martin Scorsese's compilation soundtracks flow better as soundtracks albums. So Mr. Scorsese makes a better mix-tape. That's what compilation soundtracks actually are. Mix-tapes.

I like American Graffiti. I've been meaning to watch it again. It's been years.

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Apocalypse Now.

It has the Doors and the Stones. It's basically my heaven.

Not to mention guns, and lot's of em'

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Remember that so-so movie Trick Or Treat? Great soundtrack by Fastway.

Goodfellas:

"Rags to Riches" - Tony Bennett
"Sincerely" - The Moonglows
"Speedoo" - The Cadillacs
"Stardust" - Billy Ward and His Dominoes
"Look in My Eyes" - The Chantels
"Life Is but a Dream" - The Harptones
"Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - The Shangri-Las
"Baby, I Love You" - Aretha Franklin
"Beyond the Sea" - Bobby Darin
"Sunshine of Your Love" - Cream
"Mannish Boy" - Muddy Waters
"Layla (Piano Exit)" - Derek and the Dominos

I so strongly recommend that if folks find themselves watching The Incredibles 1 they keep their ears open to the soundtrack. That's gotta be the best purpose-built film music score I've heard in many a long year. Totally brilliant, and some fab instrumental playing too.

Cheers - C

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(soundtrack by Queen and Michael Kamen)

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...and it was recorded the old-fashioned way, with an orchestra in the studio. If I didn't know better, I would have thought the music from that film came from an old James Bond flick or something similar.

An interesting soundtrack is also for the chick flick "Hope Floats" (directed by Forrest Whitaker of all people!). Two country-fied versions of Dylan's "To Make You Feel My Love", a bluesy Stone excursion, Whiskeytown, the Mavericks, as well as a couple of other interesting little gems. It's a nice little "mellow mood" making CD.

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