The Best Film Soundtrack Albums?

[Minstrel SE]

Hi

I can start by recommending the truly superb 2001 A Space Odyssey.
A must listen, superbly recorded and I don't think there is a better soundtrack out there.

2) The Bladerunner Soundtrack which is a really great listen.

3) The Grizzly Man Soundtrack by Richard Thompson

4) On a lesser scale the Casino soundtrack which puts together some good original artist stuff on a double cd

Have you any others to recommend I should listen to?

Cheers. See this is a great forum and some very good suggestions are coming in! A great list for us all to check out.

 

[chiba]

Inception, if you like "that sort of thing", which you probably do if you like the Bladerunner one.

 

[ErikL]

"Superfly" by Curtis Mayfield
"The Harder They Come" by Jimmy Cliff
"Purple Rain" by Prince

 

[halvis]

Zulu, Rocky and Bullit.

 

[mjw]

Scorcese's Goodfellas and Casino have wonderful backing music but not sure how they would stack up as soundtrack albums so I'm going with Bladerunner and Twin Peaks.

 

[mjw]

p.s. Malcolm X also up there.

 

[James Evans]

Rocky 4
Top Gun
Footloose

 

[ErikL]

Twin Peaks.

+++1

 

[guey]

A few obvious ones

Roy Budd - Get Carter
Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt
Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas

 

[ErikL]

Twin Peaks.

Two weeks ago, I visited "Twin Peaks:" Mt. Si (on the album cover), Twede's Cafe, "sheriff's" office, saw mill, big log (North Bend), Snoqualmie Falls, etc.

 

[irons1965]

'Kes'- John Cameron

plus, anything with Zbigniew Preisner (Kieslowski's films)

 

[jimi]

About A Boy-Badly Drawn Boy.

Shaft-Isaac Hayes (worth it for the title song alone).

 

[PaulMB]

"The Big Chill" and "Lawrence of Arabia" spring to mind. And "The Blues Brothers" and "Brief Encounter" (David Lean, like Lawrence).

 

[PaulMB]

"American Graffiti"?

 

[Lambros]

Pulp fiction
Jackie Brown
Garden State

 

[guey]

Blow Up.
Shame the film's a load of overrated tosh.

 

[guey]

Cliff Martinez's soundtrack to the remake of Solaris is rather lovely.

 

[Basil]

"The Big Chill" and "Lawrence of Arabia" spring to mind. And "The Blues Brothers" and "Brief Encounter" (David Lean, like Lawrence).

Hmmm not so much a film score, it's the Rachmaninov second piano concerto...

 

[ciderglider]

The bleeding chunks of Wagner used in Boorman's Excalibur are pretty effective.

 

[Martin D]

+1 for the solaris sound track