Great film soundtracks

[Uncle Leo]

Listened to Badly Drawn Boy's soundtrack to the film "About A Boy" over the weekend for the first times in ages. Really enjoyed it and it then got me thinking about other great soundtracks. Here are a few more for you to consider:

"O Brother Where Art Thou" - Various Artists
"Purple Rain" - Prince
"Pulp Fiction" - Various Artisits

Other nominations please....

 

[Mad Cyril]

Midnight Cowboy.
Dirty Harry.
Performance.
Easy rider
Risky business
Tron

 

[Jam_Man]

Into the Wild - Eddie Vedder

 

[londonblue]

The Lost Boys

 

[Benfleet A1]

Quadrophenia

 

[MK Shrimper]

The Cameron Crowe film Singles (grunge ahoy) and Reality Bites are good 'uns. Slumdog Millionaire is great, and I'm sure some other will come to mind.

 

[blues_r_best]

Drive

.........

 

[Swiss Tony]

The Great Escape
Dances with wolfs

 

[RHB]

Still Crazy
Zulu

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

The theme from Big Country; epic western BUT magnificent music score.

 

[Jedi Shrimper]

All Quentin Tarantino films have awesome soundtracks, but Jackie Brown is particularly awesome.

Empire Records
Lost In Translation

 

[Firestorm]

Flame (Slade)

 

[rigsby]

Train spotting
Forest gump

 

[South Bank Hank]

Top Gun

Obviously.

 

[MK Shrimper]

 

[maninasuitcase]

The Ipcress File - John Barry, and anything else by the late great composer for that matter.

Fist Full of Dollars - For a Few Dollars More - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Once Upon a Time in The West - all Ennio Morricone.

Get Carter - Roy Budd

Music for Films - Brian Eno

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

The Nyman soundtracks for Greenaway.
The Sergio Morricone soundtracks for Sergio Leonie
Henry Mancini. Max Richter. Vince Guaraldi. Lalo Schifrin.
DJ Shadow 'Dark Days'
Tarantino.
'Delicatessen'. 'Bugsy Malone' 'The Clangers' 'Ideal' 'Sirens'
Serge Gainsbourg 'Histoire de Melody Nelson'

 

[LCBB72]

The Alamo , John Waynes one ,The Magnificent Seven .:smile:

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

The Ipcress File - John Barry, and anything else by the late great composer for that matter.

Fist Full of Dollars - For a Few Dollars More - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Once Upon a Time in The West - all Ennio Morricone.

Get Carter - Roy Budd

Music for Films - Brian Eno

started mine then wandered off so some dupes. Hell yeah to Roy Budd and how come you are the first to mention John Barry - genius.

Tindersticks - not seen any of the films they have scored but all of the soundtracks are beautiful.

Dudley Moore 'Bedazzled' - the line 'you fill me with inertia' is exceptional!

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Midnight Cowboy.
Dirty Harry.
Performance.
Easy rider
Risky business
Tron

Midnight Cowboy is a must hear - most varied soundtrack ever.