Best Soundtrack Albums

[graz126]

reservior dogs
sliver
kevin and perry.

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

save the last dance
titanic

both quality

 

[Skaville]

Yellow Submarine is a classic

 

[Soul Finger]

Get Carter (original 60s)

Friday - Ice T etc.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Trainspotting I + II soundtracks.

 

[zefarelly]

most of these suggestions are nothing more than good compilation albums, and some of them are good, but

as far as real soundtracks go . . .

Soul Finger, spot on, John Barrys Get Carter soundtrack is excellent

and I can't believe no ones mentioned Sir Quincy Jones's Italian Job soundtrack . . . awesome music throughout

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

The Wedding Singer, if you like that sort of thing

 

[Northstander]

Blues Brothers

And still the one and only best ever....

Saturday Night Fever!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Trainspotting I + II soundtracks.

There's a Trainspotting II

 

[Gwylan]

Zefarelly's right: most of these are just complilation albums rather than genuine soundtracks (and no-one's mentioned The Harder they Come or Natural Born Killiers, two of my favourites in this category).

Best 'real' soundtrack album is Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. Pure class.

 

[Willow]

(and no-one's mentioned The Harder they Come or Natural Born Killiers, two of my favourites in this category).

I did! I BLOODY WELL DID! Sort it out, Gwylan.

 

[zefarelly]

Best 'real' soundtrack album is Curtis Mayfield's Superfly. Pure class.

bloody good call . . .a soundtrack thats a superb album . . .shame the films not as good !

 

[Thimble Keegan]

You are all wrong, the best is Boston Kickout. It includes tracks from The Stone Roses, Primal Scream, Oasis and many more. The film is good as well.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Worthing BHA

 

[The Large One]

Bloody hell - these are nearly all compilation albums, probably because they're cheaper to put together than paying a composer to write original music. (Oh, Gwylan's already alluded to this...)

Anyway, my ORIGINAL soundtracks are

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Ennio Morricone (superb trumpet solo for the three-way showdown at the end)
Once Upon a Time in America - Ennio Morricone (Said by many critics as THE soundtrack by which all others are judged)
Once Upon a Time in the West - Ennion Morricone (simply AMAZING main theme)
A Fistful of Dynamite - Ennio Morricone (simply AMAZING main theme)
Le Professionel - Ennio Morricone
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Shaft - Isaac Hayes

I am not particuarly a fan of Westerns, but when it comes to soundtracks composers, Ennio Morricone is quite the simply the greatest ever, beating some pretty stiff competition such as John Barry and Lalo Schifrin.

 

[Beach Hut]

Best and biggest selling:

Saturday Night Fever

 

[The Large One]

Best and biggest selling:

Saturday Night Fever

NOOOOOO!!!!

 

[Beach Hut]

It bloody well is, it was the biggest selling Album until Thriller

 

[The Large One]

It's not the quantity I am doubting, it's the quality. Or lack of.

Goofy bearded Mancs. Or should that be Manx?

 

[Beach Hut]

It's superb - you haven't lived

 

[ben andrews' girlfriend]

ooh the origional spiderman soundtrack isnt too bad either if you like that sort of thing