hey everyone, im new here. thought id start a thread, hope this hasnt been discussed before!
so, what is your favorite soundtrack to a movie?
the last soundtrack i picked up was for the documentery Murderball. its really a great mix of some hard rock bands, including ministry. i would recommend everyone to check it out! the movie was great too!
anyhow, suggest some excellent movie soundtracks to me!

At this moment I'd go with "About A Boy" from Badly Drawn Boy. Great from start to finish.

rushmore

are soundtracks and scores the same thing?

I really liked the music from Sideways.

Score: The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the King
Soundtrack: Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Garden State, Donnie Darko

soundtracks are songs from and or inspired by the movie and the score is basically that .

My faves:

Monster's Ball...beautiful music with some cool country stuff at the end
SOLARIS....ethereal and rich.

Most of John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith's scores are classic. Riz Ortolani as well.

Soundtracks: About a Boy, Rushmore, Pulp Fiction, Tin Cup
Score: The Empire Strikes Back, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring

Scores: Braveheart, the Crow, Star Wars: OT, Stargate, the Fifth Element
Sdtk: Almost Famous, Forrest Gump, Freaks & Geeks (tv)

Purple Rain and Saturday Night Fever.

My favorite scores are probably The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Edward Scissorhands.

As for soundtracks, in addition to those already mentioned, Natural Born Killers is amazing.

My favourite soundtrack is for The Crow. My favourite score is probably for Edward Scissorhands by Danny Elfman.

score: The Nightmare Before Christmas
soundtrack: Trainspotting

Score
- 1492
- Blade Runner
- Chariots of Fire (I have a Vangelis fixation)
- Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise
- My Life as A Dog
- Promised Land
- Chronos (Michael Sterns IMAX film)
- Braveheart
- Lord of the Rings (Ralph Bakshi animated film)
- Heaven & Earth (Kitaro score)
- Prospero's Books (Michael Nyman score)
- Near Dark (Tangerine Dream score)

Soundtracks
- Dead Man on Campus
- There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
- Shooting Fish

My favorite is A WALK TO REMEMBER from the movie with Mandy Moore. Now THATS a soundtrack. I guess the Meg Ryan starrer FRENCH KISS would be a close second.

Natural Born Killers and Menace II Society.

Score - A Beautiful Mind

Soundtrack - Garden State

Scores written for the film (afaik):
The Virgin Suicides (Air)
Requiem for a Dream (Clint Mansell & the Kronos Quartet)
Hero (Tan Dun)
Ghost Dog (RZA & various members of the Wu-Tang Clan) [size=1]*This is, regrettably, only available as a Japanese import. The "soundtrack" is awful.
Oldboy (Yeong-Wook Jo)
Mystic River (Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (Tan Dun & Yo-Yo Ma, CoCo Lee)

Scores containing a mix of an artist's previous work with new work:
Amelie (Yann Tiersen)

Scores with some mix of songs on the soundtrack (or viceversa):
Amores Perros (Control Machete, Celia Cruz, Café Tacuba, Banda Espuela de Oro, Nacha Pop, etc)
Bottle Rocket (Mark Mothersbaugh, The Proclaimers, Oliver Onions, Rene Touzet)
Magnolia (Aimee Mann, Supertramp, etc.)
Rushmore (Mark Mothersbaugh, The Kinks, John Lennon, Creation, etc.)
Lost in Translation (Kevin Shields, Jesus & Mary Chain, Phoenix, etc.)

Soundtracks (of existing songs):
Jackie Brown (Bobby Womack, etc.)
Pulp Fiction (Dusty Springield, Al Green, etc.)
Kill Bill V1/V2

Soundtracks (of all or mostly new songs):
Desperado (Latin Playboys, Dire Straits, Los Lobos, Carlos Santana, Tito & Tarantula, Link Wray, etc.)
Kids (Daniel Johnston, Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Lo-Down, Slint)

Singles

It might be a little dated, what with all the "grunge" - but it's got some great songs from some of the best '90s bands ever: Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins. Not to mention, Paul Westerburg for all the Replacements fans out there, and even a little Jimi Hendrix.

Score:

Amelie & Fight Club

Sndtrk:

Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Good Will Hunting, and a dirty/guilty pleasure in the Young Guns II soundtrack.

First thing I thought of when I read the subject line.. This would probably be on a list of "albums to take on a desert island"

SUPERMAN by John Williams
STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE by Jerry Goldsmith
THE NATURAL by Randy Newman

PULP FICTION (Various)
PURPLE RAIN by Prince

Favorite Score: Run Lola Run

Soundtrack - Until the End of the World
Score - Paris, Texas

Dirty Dancing
Pretty in Pink
Top Gun
La Bamba
Vision Quest
St. Elmos Fire
Tarzan
Flashdance

Titanic
Witness
Braveheart