Best Soundtrack Ever...

Temaz

The Dead Mans Shoes soundtrack like the movie, is very haunting.

Adyx

High Fidelity is one of my favourites. Lots of other ones already mentioned.

jill_valentine

If we are including games, I'd second Vice City and add Silent Hill 4. It's one of the weaker entries in the series game wise, but the actual soundtrack (and the use of sound in general) is amazing.

Film wise, I absolutely love Jon Brion's work for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

music producer

Just watched Sherlock Holmes new movie. Soundtrack was produced by Hans Zimmer. There were a couple good themes, and a memorable hook sprinkled throughout of a portamento down in low instruments/synthesizers. Generally beyond that the music was not memorable, in that it sounded like many other action films of that genre... but I was more captivated by it for some reason. I'll need to relisten to see why I was so drawn to listen to it.

Rothko

I'd say Trainspotting. Good Will Hunting and Lost In Translation have fantastic soundtracks too.

Doctor DooM

Lost Highway is one I love.

As for games, I'm a fan of the 8/16 bit era of sound tracks- it's amazing how much the composers got from so little.

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

From about 40 seconds in- this is amazing stuff from tech so rudimentary.

milehip1

like others already said ennio morricone work especially TGTBTU and the mission

Natural Born Killers and Trent Reznor's other sound tracks with Atticus Ross

District 13 and sequel have great tunes for the free-running scenes.

Interview with A vampire.

Halloween Jack

No mention of Purple Rain!

Shame on you all...............

music producer

I enjoyed the music from Inception ~

Sineead

500 days of summer sound track is my personal favourite

David086

Garden State had a fantastic soundtrack.

Tabnabs

Really surprised the Singles has only got one mention, BUT that no one has mentioned Judgement Night?!

"Just Another Victim" Helmet and House of Pain
"Fallin'" Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul
"Me, Myself, & My Microphone" Living Colour and Run DMC
"Judgment Night" Biohazard and Onyx
"Disorder" Slayer and Ice-T
"Another Body Murdered" Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.
"I Love You Mary Jane" Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill
"Freak Momma" Mudhoney and Sir Mix-A-Lot
"Missing Link" Dinosaur Jr. and Del tha Funkee Homosapien
"Come and Die" Therapy? and Fatal
"Real Thing" Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill

Coolest thing ever!

Also, Dead Man OST, an incredible production by Neil Young.

Honourable mention also goes to Platoon and Dead Man Walking OSTs

vider12

has to be Footloose:)

AwayWithFaries

So many good soundtracks out there.
Requiem for a Dream is amazing, really captures the tone of the film.

Inception, though already mentioned by loads of people, ranks as one of my favorites too.

Aglomerado

10 of my favourites - in no particular order:

Local Hero
The Big Chill
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day off
Magnolia
Braveheart
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Ravenous (Damon Albarn with Michael Nyman)
The Shawshank Redemption
A Clockwork Orange

kerash

off the top of my head, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Betty Blue and Anchorman

windingo

the soundtrack to 500 Days of Summer was alright..

Irish Aris

For original score I would go for the Fountain.

For songs, there is the amazing mini album that Perry Blake did for the French film "Presque Rien".

Collie D

Off the top of head so in no particular order and not exclusive.

Trainspotting
Pulp Fiction
Platoon
Forrest Gump
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Commitments
Star Wars...

hightide

Mosquito Coast, nice

Pudsy33

The Drive soundtrack is unreal

Jim_Kiy

The soundtrack of withnail & I is sublime..also the illusionist.
Soundtrack of Baraka with dead can dance is also great.

af_thefragile

For me nothing will beat this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1h-n84hvWA

Absolutely sublime!!!


Moon (soundtrack by Clint Mansell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23nTy0xVtY8

The Social Network (by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross) - might be a bias cuz I'm a big NIN fan but Trent never fails to deliver!!!

And I should mention, not a movie but for a game it has to be Machinarium:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jex5rtwx94k

pappyodaniel

A sample from Cold Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYZ8tCKErso

Royal Tenenbaums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl6FbeoXeHQ

This Is England
Ludovico Einaudi's score for the movie and '86' +'88' are perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEBf9mtyfHo

Custardpi

Many of the "Blaxploitation" films of the 60s & 70s had fantastic soundtracks which still sound funkalicious today. Here's a track from one of my favourites - Cleopatra Jones. Also check out the track "Hurts so Good", sung by Millie Jackson on the album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyOw06mqvW8

marienbad

1- Once Upon A Time In America-Morricone
2- Bladerunner -Vangelis
3- The Lover- Gabriel Yared
4- Sex And Lucia- Alberto Iglesias
5- Le Compte de Monte Cristo- Bruno Coulais

abouttobebanned

marienbad wrote: »

1- Once Upon A Time In America-Morricone
2- Bladerunner -Vangelis
3- The Lover- Gabriel Yared
4- Sex And Lucia- Alberto Iglesias
5- Le Compte de Monte Cristo- Bruno Coulais

Because your number one is the same as mine..I'm now going to check out 3, 4 and 5 which I've never heard of

marienbad

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Because your number one is the same as mine..I'm now going to check out 3, 4 and 5 which I've never heard of

Once Upon A time In America is just such a fantastic OST is'nt it , Still playing it after all these years, another great album is the great cellist Yo-Yo Ma playing all the great Morricone themes with the Maestro himself conducting.

Yared did The English Patient The City Of Angels and a rejected score for Troy which is outstanding and can only be found you know where as the studio enforced their copyright ownership on him when he released it and pulled it.

Iglesias is the favoured composer of director Julia Medem but has in recent times gone more mainstream - The Constant Gardiner- The Kite Runner and recently the outstanding Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Coulais is probably a bit old fashioned - you know - big lush orchestral themes for at times very slight films - but I like him , there is no accounting for taste is there. Did a brilliant score for the documentary Microcosm.

Can'tseeme

Really enjoying Alex Turner's Submarine soundtrack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwhm3HrGA68

Ormus

1. Pulp Fiction
2. Trainspotting
3. Magnolia
4. O Brother Where Art Thou