Purple Rain?
Nope, don't think so

Purple Fucking Rain???

BULLSHIT!


Quadrophenia!!!

I saw Prince as the lead in act for a Rolling Stones concert in Los Angeles.

"O Brother, Where Art Thou" should be at #1

When I was in High School, we would get stoned and listen to the "Phantasm" soundtrack.

It was creepy but cool in a "tubular bells" sort of way.

Goodfellas. Any movie that has "Real Compared To What" and "Memo from Turner" has got to be up there. Honorable mention: To Live and Die in L.A. Wang Chung were a buncha 'mos, but this soundtrack rocks.

The Last Waltz

I still get goosebumps when I hear The Weight.

My personal favorite is "The Song Remains the Same" Led Zep's soundtrack.

Poypul Rain wasnt bad but here are some better ones for sure

Saturday Night Fever
Grease
Pink Floyd's The Wall
Quadrophenia
Glitter
The Wedding Singer
Ray

I give prince his due....but the best? Thats arguable!

Prince is an incredible musician, and an excellent showman, but best soundtrack? Not even close.

I notice that Eaglez left "Tommy" off the list.

My List of the Top Five Things Magazines Do to that are Annoying, Shameless Ploys to Increase Circulation.


5) Overuse of exclamation points in the blurbs on the cover!

4) Self Assessment quizzes. "How you clean your bathroom reveals the man who is right for you!"

3) Have swimsuit issues even if the magazine is devoted to autos or something totally unrelated. Dentist Quarterly--the Swimsuit Issue!" "Check out those canines."

2) Make sure the word "Sex" appears somewhere on the cover. (Maybe twice) "Sexy New Needlepoint Designs!" in Family Circle.

and

1) Come up with subjective lists of the the best, the most or the worst of something and publicize them as if they had the authority to have the last word on the subject.


Cheers

Tommy

Mmmmmmmm...

Prince.

That boy like Luther Vandross....

Just FUCK wid a niggas senses....

Ummm-hmmmm

Sincerely,

Leadbelly

Tommy.

Rocky Horror Picture Show, Whatsamatter with you heathens, it's almost halloween!

Lone Star.

I know that Pulp Fiction is in the top ten. Both Kill Bills are always rockin' on my iPod, too. Quentin picks some great stuff for his flicks. Maynard Ferguson's Green Hornet theme gives me goosebumps.

Also like Napoleon Dynamite for some reason.

Amadeus

Woodstock
Last Waltz
Rainbow Bridge
The Kids Are Alright
Easy Rider
Rock 'n' Roll High School
2001:A Space Odyssey
Stop Making Sense
True Stories
From Dusk til Dawn
Pulp Fiction and, especially,
The Hot Spot(this one I cannot recommend highly enough. Miles Davis, John Lee Hooker and Taj Mahal playing together!?!? YeeHaa!).

Almost forgot

Belizaire The Cajun

yes, i must agree.

still love purple rain soundtrack.

vernon - amadeus - very good.

butch cassidy and the sundance kid.

paint your wagon.

seven brides for seven brothers.

and the list goes on...

McLintok!

paint your wagon

Spud is agree with Nanc AGAIN?!

Spud just watched that a coupla nights ago.

Who'da thunk that Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood could sing?

Classic bit o' film.

Speaking of Classics howsabout the number one most popular musical of all time?

"Sound of Music"?

C'mon, who doesn't know all the tunage from that one?

Also deserving of mention...

Vangelis fer Bladerunner.

Various Artists fer Reservoir Dogs (Hell, any QT flick)

Various Artists fer Apocalypse Now.

Ry Cooder fer Paris, Texas.

Phillip Glass fer Mishima and Koyaanisquatsi..

John Williams fer Jaws and Star Wars

Isaac Hayes fer Shaft

Ennio Morricone fer "Once upon a time in America" and of course "The Good the Bad and the Ugly"

Any 70's porno that featured Moog synthisizers.

Be Well.

Not that anybody asked but Spud's favorite Prince song is the following...

Oh yeah
In France a skinny man
Died of a big disease with a little name
By chance his girlfriend came across a needle
And soon she did the same
At home there are seventeen-year-old boys
And their idea of fun
Is being in a gang called The Disciples
High on crack, totin' a machine gun

Time, time

Hurricane Annie ripped the ceiling of a church
And killed everyone inside
U turn on the telly and every other story
Is tellin' U somebody died
Sister killed her baby cuz she could afford 2 feed it
And we're sending people 2 the moon
In September my cousin tried reefer 4 the very first time
Now he's doing horse, it's June

Times, times

Baby make a speech, Star Wars fly
Neighbors just shine it on
But if a night falls and a bomb falls
Will anybody see the dawn
Time, times

It's silly, no?
When a rocket blows
And everybody still wants 2 fly
Some say a man ain't happy, truly
Until a man truly dies
Oh why, oh why, Sign O the Times

Time, time

Sign O the Times mess with your mind
Hurry before it's 2 late
Let's fall in love, get married, have a baby
We'll call him Nate... if it's a boy

Spud,

What's up with yer Canuks?


They're looking rather shitty.



Are they going to kick-ass post All-Star game like they did last year?

What's up with yer Canuks?

No ups, all downs unfortunately.

They're looking rather shitty.

And that's putting it nicely.

Are they going to kick-ass post All-Star game like they did last year?

If they don't start improving pronto like Spud is gonna wander over to GM Place personally and kick their sorry asses up and down the Garage until they agree to quit playing like a Jerry Lewis telethon on ice.

They're playing like the Colorado Rookies did against the Beantown boys tonight.

** Spud is hang his head in abject shame **

This simply cannot continue!!

Yer Wings are looking alrighty, eh?

Be Well.

A Clockwork Orange.

As a huge fan of The Who, I want to clarify something.

A few people have listed Tommy. While I agree that it is, quite possibly, the greatest classic rock album in history, it isn't a movie soundtrack. (There is a sountrack of the film, but it is a very difficult album to find).

Unless you are talking about the verison of Tommy in which Jack Nicholson sings an abbreviated version of "Go to the Mirror", you aren't talking about a movie sountrack.

As for Quadrophenia, which I mentioned, there is a movie sountrack version which is, essentially, the album, but a few extra songs are added. (although, they did severly cut "Helpless Dancer, which pissed me off a bit), hence why Quadrophenia is a valid movie soundtrack.

okay so I guess its time for another music appreciation lesson from the drudge retort resident music EXPERT..

if you are going to rank soundtracks....this is not the way to do it......
it requires some classifications...
for instance....any movie with all of the songs in it such as purple rain and all of those are in a completely different category than others....

films such as amadeus are also different because the music is written by......well.......mozart....

and some of the others....such as 2001.....all music from other sources....the blue danube and some others by 20th century contemporary composers...and of course the most famous part is the opening to a richard straus tone poem....'thus spake zara thrusta".....( a REALLY lose translation)

so you would have to talk about music supervisors in those respects....

and of course the category I concentrate on is the musical imagery part, which to me is what the soundtrack is all about and cant be compared to your favorite film that uses a lot of pop tunes to tell the story or whatever.

but when it comes to the musical imagery part of it...no one does it better than john williams in ET when the little fellow takes off in the bike with elliot...

and what of the heroic themes of elmer bernstein and others.......hoosiers, rudy, patton,

and there are so many other examples and so many of them are done by composers that you have never heard of........john dabny is maybe the greatest film composer working........and of course there is always danny elfman (TOTALY FANTASTIC USE OF COLORS IN MUSIC)....and james horner....I mean come on ....the music as appollo 13 leaves the launch pad and almost any and all of the music to braveheart is some of the best film score EVER WRITTEN...

but again.....thats not what this article or many of you here are talking about....
so please use a different word than GREATEST.....

so if the title were FAVORITE SOUNDTRACK....thats one thing.......but GREATEST SOUNDTRACK......I dont think so.......

oops....forgot......

the man who is the best composer working today that you wouldnt know is probaly alan silvestri......

damn good shit........forrest gump, back to the future, the abyss is particularly good for music imagery..........

and let me ask you as I did my music appreciation students.

do you sit in the theatre for the end credits listening to the music or are you some of the ones making all the racket leaving while I am trying to still listen and read who did the arrangements and recording and editing.....

OK, BLT, we agree.

The greatest film soundtrack was.....










My Fair Lady.

West Side Story

well corky....again......I dont know about that....

all of rodgers and hammerstein is terriffic.....but again......music from a musical put on the screen cant be compared with some guy in a dark room with his monitor on and a film running with the hundreds of seconds running along the right side as he repeats it a couple of hundred times trying the get the music just right and also get it in EXACTLY the right time frame as he bangs out another tune on the piano hooked up to the computer......


one more interesting note......well it is to me anyway........

only film known that was extended to accomidate the composer instead of the other way around..

spielberg and williams in the film......et......

spielberg even said on the interview show on cable....that if he didnt make movies he wanted to be a muscian..

problem with film music is because of time constraints, the composer isnt able to finish enough ideas or themes.....and when williams went to spielberg telling him that he just couldnt finish it right in that amount of time...spielberg LENGTHED the movie..........
(all of this from interviews with john williams)


and now class.....you may go on a ten minute break........dont be late back to your seats...

CalifChris,

I was there too. He got booed off the stage.

The Wall

I am partial to the sound tract of Carnal Knowledge starring Ann Margaret.

I was at that party. It was the big old racetrack at Mosport. Seeing the B52s doing "You're in Your Own Private Idaho" at 10 in the morning was definitely surreal.

Oh come on.
Fantasia.
Or Bambi Meets Godzilla.

Easy Rider was pretty good, too.
But Fantasia was the first really great soundtrack.

I'd add Tron and Quicksilver, myself. I just wish I could find a coppy of the Wall Street Suite somewhere.

I changed my mind.

Any old Warner Bros. cartoon

I'd add Tron and Quicksilver, myself. I just wish I could find a coppy of the Wall Street Suite somewhere.

I was afraid of that, sorry for the double.

I was at that party. It was the big old racetrack at Mosport. Seeing the B52s doing "You're in Your Own Private Idaho" at 10 in the morning was definitely surreal.

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Yes, indeed. Mosport. And even more surreal with the help of certain contraband at that point in the day. The weather was perfect, although a little hot.

I still have a souvenir frisbee from that concert, with The Clash still listed as one of the performers. T-shirts, if I recall, were changed to eliminate their name. I took a bunch of photos and have the negs somewhere in storage.

Best part: Tickets were only $20 (U.S.) Even in those days, that was cheap.

Bunch of us knuckleheads from Kentucky loaded two cars and headed to Canada. Got to the border, and our slightly paranoid driver was asked what were we planning to do in Canada. And of course, he told the guards we were there to visit our aunt. All of us college boys. Our aunt. Two carloads. Yes, our aunt in Toronto. The rest of us were like, WHAT? Just tell him the truth, nitwit! Concerts are not illegal! So of course they searched us and our cars thoroughly, and we were told to stand over there, please! (And yet... they FOUND NOTHING. That alone should have been a movie!)

Pink Floyd The Wall

Clockwork Orange..."the ninth."

Hard Days Night
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine


While Hard Days Night is the best over all movie of the grouping above, the soundtrack for all of them are simply great.

I would also argue that John Williams score for Star Wars the first film (1977) was excellent. The use of the leit motif for the various characters adds so much to the movie. I remember reading that originally Lucas had to argue against electronic/techno kind of music in favor of a more classical composition. Thank God he won.

I also read that the soundtrack for Kubrick's 2001, incorporating works by Strauss and Ligeti was merely accidental. It was put in while the "real score" was being composed, but it seemed to work so much better and was left in.

Even if I put my own religious beliefs aside, I think Jesus Christ Superstar has a great soundtrack.

Cheers

Hard Days Night
Help
Magical Mystery Tour
Yellow Submarine


While Hard Days Night is the best over all movie of the grouping above, the soundtrack for all of them are simply great.

I would also argue that John Williams score for Star Wars the first film (1977) was excellent. The use of the leit motif for the various characters adds so much to the movie. I remember reading that originally Lucas had to argue against electronic/techno kind of music in favor of a more classical composition. Thank God he won.

I also read that the soundtrack for Kubrick's 2001, incorporating works by Strauss and Ligeti was merely accidental. It was put in while the "real score" was being composed, but it seemed to work so much better and was left in.

Even if I put my own religious beliefs aside, I think Jesus Christ Superstar has a great soundtrack.

Cheers

American Graffiti

When "Love Story", in the seventies it was a huge hit..By today standards it may be a bit corny to some...But from the opening scene ands credits thru the last scene of the movie....No music I believe fitted the movie better, to be in love and hear that sound track, still to this day is the best I have ever heard....

Blues Brothers

Even if I put my own religious beliefs aside, I think Jesus Christ Superstar has a great soundtrack.

Cheers


Posted by Grendel at 2007-10-25 01:34 PM | Reply

I really like the original version with Ian Gillan from Deep Purple as Jesus.

However, the guy who plays Judas in the soundtrack to the 70s movie is great, too.

Otherwise, I'm not an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan.

Glory

Glory

Bound for Glory


How about:

Sister Act
School of Rock

Anton, I agree with you about Ted Neeley in the film.




Say what you want about Disney animation, but they pretty much single handedly kept alive the musical in film during the 90s.

The live action musical film seems to be making a bit of a comeback in this decade. Interestingly, such a comeback could reflect the current tastes of a film audience living in our overly stressed political and economic climate. The musical in film's classic period was the late 20s and 30s when talkies came out. It's success, however, was probably not due to the novelty of sound as much as the needs of a nation suffering from the depression and its wish to escape a dismal reality.

I am not sure about you, but the last time I broke into song on the steps of my employment, no one else knew the words or the dance moves. (And the band supplying the music track didn't show up either!)

Cheers

What a bunch of LAME soundtracks..And the winner is ....the soundtrack to "Joe Dirt"...It ROCKS

Even if I put my own religious beliefs aside, I think Jesus Christ Superstar has a great soundtrack.

Cheers


Posted by Grendel


if I didn't put my religous beliefs aside, I would nominate the force in Star Trek movies & Star Wars & 2001 which could also be known as the BANI or sound current (or various forms of tinnitus to the orthodoxes:>) as the greatest soundtrack around for those stuck in a full moon serenading during harvest time:>)

I am not sure about you, but the last time I broke into song on the steps of my employment, no one else knew the words or the dance moves. (And the band supplying the music track didn't show up either!)

Cheers




Posted by Grendel

John Lennon showed up singing last month "Happy New Year ~ Peace is Here" in my last attempt...but then that dream with him a few days later at the Dakota appts where my brother lives was a little different:>)

Does "Dark Side of The Moon" played aginst a muted "Wizard of Oz" count?

If so, that my vote

Tommy and JC Superstar? Lame!

This is Spinal Tap.

Mean Streets.

Psycho.

The people voting are too young to remember

Quadrophenia - The Who.

Quadrophenia - The Who.

Bellllllboooooooy!!

Be Well.

Blade Runner soundtrack is damn good.

Imo, some others:

Flash Gordon (1980) - How could this lose to Purple Rain?! I mean no disrespect to his Purpleness.

Boogie Nights (1997) - both cd's are good, but incomplete to the film. Just like the special "box" DVD doesn't have any trailers.. Still ranks as one of my top ten film.

The Dark Crystal (1982) - Excellent use of woodwind, lots of beauty and mood. I fucking LOVE the Skekses battle music - pipe organ!

Star Trek II The Wrath Of Khan (1982) - for bawdy horns and full orchestra this is IT. Best battle music next to Jean Michel Jarre's 'Oxygene' in Gallipoli (1981).

Bitter Moon (1992) - paino evoking the turbulence and suffered devastation of love made barren.. and then cleaning your paralyzed lovers urine from the carpet. Vangelis, he's probably on a few lists here.

Deliverance (1972) - Just listen in awe. The foley work is quite beautifully melded into the musical moments.

Flash Gordon- Best soundtrack. Ever.

The greatest movie sountrack EVER was for
Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris.

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poledouris is really under rated.......and this is one of his best........I used it for one of my last marching contest shows and it worked pretty well.......its pretty interesting getting teenagers to march to 7/8 but it worked.........

GRENDEL......williams used the motives real nicely as you mentioned......he got a lot of his inspiration from holst and some from wagner so it figures, doesnt it?

I still believe his best is ET and you cant discount the score to .....oh shit......what is the name of the movie about the kid in the jappanease concentration camp?

BLT - I agree ET - but then again Williams has the soundtrack down to a fine art, he manages to describe the action so perfectly. I am also a huge fan of John Barry's "Dances with Wolves" again perfectly descriptive. Personally I would have to nominate The Exorcist if only because I adore Mike Oldfield. I keep trying to convince my husband (a high school band director like yourself) to put Milennium Bell on the field but he just rolls his eyes at me :) (I also want him to do Julie Giroux's "Walk with Wings" I think it would make a cracking show but that is another argument for another day :))

As far as "populist" soundtracks go I would say Saturday Night Fever.

Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Star Trek II
Clockwork Orange
Nightmare Before Christmas

"The greatest movie sountrack EVER was for
Conan the Barbarian by Basil Poledouris.
Posted by DARTHCHENEY at 2007-10-25 01:53 PM"

poledouris is really under rated.......and this is one of his best........I used it for one of my last marching contest shows and it worked pretty well.......its pretty interesting getting teenagers to march to 7/8 but it worked.........
GRENDEL......williams used the motives real nicely as you mentioned......he got a lot of his inspiration from holst and some from wagner so it figures, doesnt it?
Posted by bushlovertwo at 2007-10-26 08:52 AM

Watched Conan last night, the funeral music is extraordinary. I put this on my list, must have copy, paste, then cut? There are so many different types of wonderful soundtracks listed here.

Okay, the absolute best list should include Amadeus (1984) at least once. This is not just my bias as one of the best film ever, but F. Murray Abraham in the role of a couple lifetime. :]

If you add Amadeus, add Immortal Beloved.

The scene where Ludwig's swimming and looking at the stars while Ode To Joy is playing is really fine.

"The Great Train Robbery" (1903)

More fun OST's:

"Streets of Fire"-Ry Cooder and The Blasters

BushLoverTwo

Well, well. It looks like we have something in common. I'm in music. I have a long page at IMDB. I studied film composing under Earle Hagen, and worked a lot with the late Jerry Goldsmith. Now, mostly writing and producing songs for major label artists and movies with the occasional score.

The Producers is genius. What better way to show disdain for Hitler than mocking him is what Mel Brooks said about 'Springtime for Hitler'.

Peter Jackson's Meet The Feebles (1989)is the perverse muppet musical archetype. Spud, if you haven't seen it - please do ASAP. Not for kids

Agreed!

Muppets on Acid. Spud owns this one! A Singularity!

Alright, let's get esoteric fer a sec here...

Maurice Jarre- Lawrence of Arabia. Nuff sed.

Bob Crewe- Barbarella. Retro futurist lounge core!

James Brown- Black Caeser. Godfather of Soul gets busy

Trevor Jones- Angel Heart. Aptly understated and spooky

Paul Giovanni- The Wicker Man. '73 Not the POS remake.

Georges Delarue- Jules et Jim. A seemless fit.

Wot a nice trip down memory lane this has been.

Be Well.

"Coming Home" has a pretty damned good soundtrack, from the Stones to Tim Buckley

Ta fer Greasers Palace, Quatermass and Plan 10.

They's on the list now!!

"Zardoz" has been a spuddish staple since it first showed up on Spud's late night TV screen!!

How does anyone not like Sean Connery?

Spud's just gots to share sommat right this very instant wif yas.

Buddy o' Spud's is work in the business (and when Spud sez "the business" Spud means "the industry") and he called Spud just a coupla minutes ago. Apparently, they've just about finished the NY set fer "The Watchmen" which is being filmed here in Vancity. Spud is gonna go on a tour of the set next week. Spud's been waiting fer this flick fer so very long now that the possibility of it being real and not some kind of a dream thing seems very remote. Pehaps a tour of the set will bring that reality a bit closer to home fer Spud.

Yes, yes Spud is aware that AM didn't put his name on the project which bodes nothing but ill but an imperfect version of a great book is better than no version at all.

WOO HOO!

Movies are cool!

Be Well.

PS: Thanx fer the MMP linkage!

I was in a movie that was so bad it made it on Mystery Science Theater complete with all kinds of funny commentary from the front row boys and puppets on the show

Got to hang with Arthur Godfrey, Alan Hale, Peter Lawford and several others during filming though. That was fun.

One word....SHREK. Great soundtrack!!!

Speaking of dick and fart jokes, I almost forgot Team America "Fuck Yeah!"

REDLIGHT

It was an abvolutely HORRIBLE movie!! LOL

I never heard another thing about it after filming was done way back in the day until a friend of mine called and said he saw it on Mystery Science Theater. He kindly provided a VHS tapem but it was so bad I couldn't watch the whole thing. But, it's here for posterity's sake LOL

The original title while they were filming it was 'Seven from Heaven'.

Did drink a lot of beer with Alan Hale and Peter Lawford though. The other guys were really cool too. Our scene together took two whole days to film. The director was a real putz. He should have won whatever the opposite of an Academy Award is LOL