Two more I just thought of:

1. Napoleon Dynamite - For the simple fact that "Forever Young" by Alphaville is on it. Sparklemotion's version of "Time After Time" is great, too.
2. The Wedding Crashers - I remember thinking during the movie the music was cool. You don't find bands like Flaming Lips, Death Cab..., Guster, and Spoon on many soundtracks.

Snatch has a great one, I really like it. Gladiator also has a good one. Not in a rock sense, but in a practical sense, all these songs fit the movie and set the mood.

1. Dancer in the Dark, all done by Bjork
2. High Art, mostly done by Shudder to Think
3. Swingers
4. Reservoir Dogs/Pulp Fiction
5. Magnolia, Aimee Mann is great

HAHA YA KNO WA!? ROCKY HORROR IS AN ALWAYS WILL BE IN MY OPINION THE BEST MOVIE SOUNDTRACK! but everyones entitles to their opinion dont u think? oh well thankya for listenin
LETS DO THE TIME WARP AGEEEEN!!!
happy forumming

The double cd, UK release of "Donnie Darko". The US version omitted way too many tracks from the film. If you liked the instrumental score that played during the movie's theatre scene and over the end credits, it's on the UK set.

I liked the following:
Grease
North Country (good Dylan tracks)
Coal Miner's Daughter
(I can't wait for "The Man in Black)
Dirty Dancing

However, the best is "A Hard Day's Night". This movie matched the songs with the individual personalities of the Beatles with great effect!

The Saint
Crappy movie, great soundtrack
Trainspotting
Great movie, great sountrack
Gattaca
Amazing, haunting score
Lost in Translation
Perfect score for the movie
BladeRunner
Again, a great score by Vangelis, I think?
Somersault
A fantastic little Australian movie with an amazingly rich score by Decoder Ring, an Aussie band..

For those who are dazzled by Las Vegas, the composition by Mark Isham in The Cooler (2003) is probably the most mesmerizing music about the seemingly magical city and perfectly captures its glitz and romance image.

I also agree and admire with the selection of Vangelis (Evangelos O. Papathanassiou) music in Blade Runner (1982) and his use of percussion and chimes of which the delayed release of the soundtrack in itself was controversial.

I enjoyed The Big Lebowski soundtrack as well as the soundtrack from The Thin Red Line. Also two of my favorite movies

The Crow is a good soundtrack with some good exclusive songs from RATM and NIN. It's more a compilation-type than an atmospheric soundtrack, but it suits the movie well.
Another good one with more instrumental stuff, is A View To A Kill, from the last James Bond with Roger Moore.

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Originally posted by Elle:
I really like the Garden State soundtrack. It introduced me to some great artists!

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"Judgement Night," along with the "Blade" soundtracks weren't bad.

I think many people overlook "End of Days" as being a really good hard rock/heavy metal soundtrack. In stark contrast, "City of Angels" was also some very good easy listening/adult contemporary music. Anything overseen by Cameron Crowe ("Vanilla Sky," "Almost Famous," etc.) or Wes Anderson ("The Royal Tenenbaums," "The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou") is also worthwhile.

1. Hard Days Night – The Beatles
2. Thin Red Line – Hans Zimmer
3. Help! – The Beatles
4. Dead Man – Neil Young
5. Paris, Texas – Ry Cooder
6. Trainspotting – Various
7. Singles – Various
8. Wonderland – Michael Nyman
9. The Blues Brothers – Various
10. Masked and Anonymous – Various
11. Morvern Callar – Various
12. Run Lola Run – Various
13. Virgin Suicides – Air
14. Pulp Fiction – Various
15. Idiot Box – Various
16. I am Sam – Soundtrack
17. Purple Rain – Prince
18. Natural Born Killers – Various
19. Dead Man Walking – Various
20. Heavy - Various
21. Good Morning Vietnam – Various
22. Royal Tenenbaums – Various

I really enjoy the soundtrack for Legend of 1900 it is instrumental. Every time I listen to the CD I feel like I'm watching the film in my head. I had to order it from the US tho, it is not available in Australia.

Does anyone know if the soundtrack for The Pianist is any good? Love to know.

Em

My all time favourite soundtracks (no particular order)...


* Requiem for a Dream (Kronos Quartet)

* Habla con ella [Talk to Her] (Alberto Iglesias)

* Vertigo (Bernard Hermann)

* Pulp Fiction (various)

* Dancer in the Dark (Björk)

* The Virgin Suicides (Air)

* Donnie Darko (various)

* Kill Bill volume 1 (various)

* Office Space (various)

* The Fifth Element (various)

Though having already responded once, I couldn't help but realize that I left out a gem for a baby boomer like myself. The "Big Chill" had a fantastic soundtrack!!!

i reakon cheaper by the dozen, it introduced me to some really good artists like sum 41 & simple plan.

I also think the soundtrack from the spiderman movie was pretty good for the fact that there was some nickleback on there, the song was hero too.

I love the soundtrack for Juno. It perfectly matches the movie, and it includes Ellen Page and Michael Cera rendition of Anyone Else But You of The Moldy Peaches...awesome. The rest of the album is of course along the same vibe, a good album to sing along to in the car

The Juno soundtrack was pretty good. The Forrest Gump STRK is definitely one of the greatest ever. Also,
-Chocolat (Rachel Portman)
-Lars and the Real Girl (David Torn)
-Scrubs the TV Series (Various)
-Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres Colon the Soundtrack (Various)
-Finding Nemo (Thomas Newman)
-Donnie Darko (Various) --loved how the music incorporated normal scoring and the classic 80's songs

Goodbye Lenin (Yann Tiersen)
Lost in Translation (Various)
Amelie (Yann Tiersen)
Paris (Various)
Dead Man (Neil Young)
Garden State (Various)
Gegen die Wand (Various)
The Assassination of Jesse James (Nick Cave & Warren Ellis)
The Beach (Various)
The Fountain (Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet)
Requiem for a Dream (Clint Mansell & Kronos Quartet)
The Royal Tenenbaums (Various)