Favourite soundtracks to films and TV programs, best songs and scores.

I would like to mention the Scrubs Soundtrack
Especially Hold On Hope by Guided By Voices and Overkill by Colin Hay, great songs.

Malcolm in the middle OST
Excellent from start to finish (apart from Hanson and Rednex).

Essential Tracks:

They Might be Giants-Boss of Me
Citizen King-Bizarro
Barenaked Ladies-Falling for the first time
The Pushstars-Drunk is better than dead
Stroke 9-Washin and wonderin


Okay, the whole soundtrack rocks,

Team America: World Police OST
My fave songs are:
Freedom Isn't Free
Everyone Has AIDS
End Of An Act
and of course America Fuck Yeah.

Call me crazy, but I love the soundtrack to Conan the Barbarian.

It's an original score by Basil Poledouris, and I think it's great: bombastic, poignant and kick-ass.

By the way, I've edited the thread title so it's spelled properly!

Cheers, it's past my bedtime and I'm rubbish at typing.

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I also really like the soundtrack to The Wicker Man. I find it weirdly compelling and eerie, much like the film itself.

The Last Waltz.

fantastic film and great soundtrack album.

I like Air's sountrack to The Virgin Suicides for eerieness.

I’ve only ever brought one sound track album and it was The Royal Tenenbaums, it's superb.

Bladerunner

Lethal Weapon(s)

Terminator II

Da Matrix

and

Trading Places

Loads more but thats all I got for now

-m0r

The Hanged Man by Bullet
Trouble Man by Marvin Gaye
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off and Black Caesar by James Brown
Superfly and Short Eyes by Curtis Mayfield
Bullitt, Enter the Dragon and Dirty Harry by Lalo Schifrin
The Lost Man and Dollar$ by Quincy Jones
Death Wish and Blow Up by Herbie Hancock
Coffy by Roy Ayers
Across 110th Street by Bobby Womack
Rocky and An Unmarried Woman by Bill Conti
Cotton Comes to Harlem by Galt McDermot
Black Belt Jones by Dennis Coffey
Modesty Blaise by John Dankworth
3 Days of the Condor and Candy by Dave Grusin
Suspiria by Goblin
Willie Dynamite by J.J. Johnson
Youngblood by War
Lupin III by You and the Exlposion Band
Foxy Brown and The Mack by Willie Hutch

And the theme tune to The Girl From UNCLE is pretty dope as well.

Glory Daze
Suburbia
The Crow

I second Blade Runner. Man, that's a good sountrack, even with those obtrusive soundbites from the film spliced into the album.

My personal favourite, though, is John Williams's score to E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.

As for television, well, I don't really buy TV soundtracks, but I've always liked Sean Callery's work on 24. And Jan Hammer's Miami Vice soundtrack, of course.

Cape Fear - Hermann
North By Northwest - Hermann
24/7 - various
Wonderland - Nyman
Get Carter - Budd
Leon - Serra

And Taxi Driver.

Natural Born Killers - Trent Reznor

Escape From New York/Halloween/Assault On Precinct 13 - John Carpenter

Most Myazaki/Kitano soundtracks by Joe Hisaishi

Surprised no one has mentioned it yet but...

Shaun of the Dead

Great songs throughout from different genres and the original pieces of music are great too.

I also second the Scrubs and MITM soundtracks.

I second SOTD
Also love the Cradle Will RockOST some great peformances from Polly Harvey and Eddie Vedder on that, The High Fidelity OST is also superb and contains Jack Black covering Let's Get It On which is surprisingly good, and the other o
OST I love is Garden State which is lovely collection of beautiful music. And Coldplay.

Delusion - Barry Adamson

The Dust Brothers - 'Fight Club'
John Williams - 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'
Various - 'Kill Bill Vol.1'
Jerry Goldsmith - 'Medicine Man'

Oh, and Howard Shore's LOTR of course.

The Third Man
A Clockwork Orange
Cul-de-Sac
Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Pat Garret and Billy the Kid
Midnight Cowboy
The Mission
The Battle of Algiers
The Pitfall
In the Mood for Love
Happy Together
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Untouchables
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Bande a part
Mean Streets
Fargo
An Actor's Revenge
The Long Good Friday
Fistful of Dynamite
Walker
Dark Days
Rosemary's Baby
Dawn of the Dead

Any Bernard Hermann

Classic John Williams

Heat

Blade Runner

Most James Newton Howard

I quiet like the American Beauty score, in it's haunting xylophone-bongo-piano-y goodness, and that doesn't seem to have been mentioned above...

the soundtrack to Pi is really good, and miocene even did their own version of it!!

Clint Mansell, non?

Good call Blind. Quite unconventional for a Hollywood movie, but then, so is the film itself.

The Batman Begins soundtrack is an unusual collaboration between Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not aware of such a grouping happening before. Unfortunately, the Newton Howard bits are sublime and atmospheric, but the Zimmer-by-numbers action sequences don't quite fit. Anyone else think this?

The Life Aquatic - Seu Jorge's Portuguese Bowie covers
Boogie Nights

I'm surprised no one's mentioned Star Wars, always quality no matter the film.

Also any of the Nyman/Greenaway collaborations.

The Blues Brothers-Classic.

has pulp fiction not been mentioned yet?!

Um... Both Shreks
O' Brother Where Art Thou
Grosse Point Blank
Crossroads (the film not that crappy soap)
Spinal Tap
School of Rock
Hi Fidelity

Has Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrel's been mentioned yet?

All three LOTR with The Two Towers as my personal fav.

Also, American Beauty (Blind...I have the one with the song tracks, and not the atmospheric stuff, were there two or am I wrong?)

Plunket and Macleane
TwentyFourSeven
Teachers3
My Fair Lady
The Mission

and last but not least Lost in Translation

Cruel Intentions. Counting Crows, Placebo, The Verve, Blur, Skunk Anansie.

Quality.

Donnie Darko - the best of 80s alternative used perfectly in the movie. Love it!
I think Williams did a good job with the Harry Potter Soundtracks as well.
Bernstein - West Side Story.

I love the American Beauty score! I'm ashamed I forgot to mention it sooner.

Now that I think of it, Yann Tiersen's score for Amelie is very nice. I also enjoy listening to Maurice Jarre's score for Witness from time to time - 'Building The Barn' is all kinds of lovely.

If u like the 'amelie' soundtrack check out 'goobye lenin' it's also by Mr Tiersen

Moulin Rouge,
Go,
& Scream

There are two CDs, shiny. One is the Score, one is the Soundtrack.

I adore the following soundtracks and play them often:

Pulp Fiction
Garden State
Shine

Honourable mentions to:
Romeo and Juliet (2 disc edition)
Trainspotting
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Vanilla Sky
The Lost Boys

Soundtracks I used to love but have now gone off:
The Beach
Human Traffic
Moulin Rouge - but that version of Roxanne is still utterly fantastic.

word!

The soundtrack to Run Lola,\Run is pretty sweet, I haven't seen the film in a while but I loved the songs they used when I watched it for German GCSE.

Listened to He Got Game soundtrack by Public Enemy. Forgot how good it actually is. And then Judgement Night - some great collaborations in there.

I quite liked the soundtrack to the Soderbergh version of Solaris...

Big Lebowski has a great soundtrack.

Most Carter Burwell scores, especially 'Being John Malkovich'

LA Confidential has a classy soundtrack. Its a great Christmas record.

Anything by Danny Elfamn.

the mans a genious

i really liked the valley girl soundtrack it's just a really good compilation, plus i think the plimsouls are pretty damn cool. i also like the west side story soundtrack (though it's already been mentioned), and from tv, buffy's 'once more with feeling'. i love the song 'rest in peace' and most of the cast can actually sing in tune (unlike the laughable attempt on seventh heaven).

De La Soul and Teenage Fanclub. Bizarre and ace.