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(sorry if this has been done a million times before...)

anyway some of my picks would be:

Menace To Society (1993)
Low Down Dirty Shame - (1994)
Coffy (197?)

any other good ones, please list...

MANSON(1971) documentary...creepy music! Good,but creepy crawly.
PULP FICTION-DICK DALE!
SPIDER BABY-"the Strangest  Story  Ever Told" sung by...Lon Chaney Jr.!
ZOMBIE NIGHTMARE(1987)-stupid movie-great MOTORHEAD song! the Ace of Spades!!!
the SHINING-that ominous music at the begining,when you see the tiny car traveling down through the Rockies...you just KNOW something bad is gonna happen....

The soundtrack for The Crow (http://www.amazon.com/Crow-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B000002IWH/sr=8-1/qid=1158599863/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-4484556-2803201?ie=UTF8&s=music) is one of the best one's I've ever heard.

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I am very fond of the soundtracks to "The Bounty" (1984) and for Blade Runner.  I don't normally like Vangelis, but those are pretty neat.  
-Ed

Oh, oh, I diig the one for "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence" (1983) in fact its one of my favorite films of all time, irregarless of soundtrack.
-Ed

* American Graffiti
* Diner
* Mean Streets
* Goodfellas
* Shaft
* Superfly
* Reservoir Dogs

Return of the Living Dead-ITS PARTYTIME
SLC Punk
Ghostbusters

The Crow
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Lost Highway
Grease

What?No ROCK and ROLL HIGH SCHOOL?!
EASYRIDER
2000 MAINIACS( The souths gonna rise up again...YEEEEHA! )
TAXI DRIVER
and of course...the GOOD,the BAD,and the UGLY!(Ramones connection: I gotta live CD by the Ramones called LOCO LIVE,and the bands opening intro theme was,yup,WAH DAH WAH DAH DAAA...da da da...)
the EXORCIST
ACROSS 110th STREET (1972)-Bobby Womack! They used this as the end theme in JACKIE BROWN too.
HALLOWEEN! Even "Mr. Sandman" at the end sounds creepy!

RC:  Oh, yeah . . . ROCK & ROLL HIGH SCHOOL and EASY RIDER.  How could I forget those movies??????

And the grand daddy of them all:  WOODSTOCK: 3 DAYS OF PEACE AND MUSIC (extended director's cut, of course)

Here are some of my favorites...

Tranformers: The Movie (1986)- Great cheesy 80's feel all around
End of Days (1999)- New Guns N' Roses, sweet!
The Crow (1994)- Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Pantera, the list goes on and on...
Clerks (1994)-Just a good collection
Godzilla (1998)- A lot of crap, but the Green Day song and a few others are worth a listen

Damn, how could I forget Rock and Roll High School?  

hehehe.  Guns and Roses in The Dead Pool....

Natural Born Killers
Kill Bill 1& 2
Wild at Heart

(In rambling order.)

A Clockwork Orange turned me on to classical music, though Walter Carlos' synth score was pretty cool (especially back when I used to drink).

Interestingly, I wasn't really turned on to the movie The Good, The Bad & The Ugly until after I had heard a few of those stupid, cheesy muzak versions of the title song.

Dudes turned me on to all kinds of stuff, from thrash, to country, to swamp rock. I find it interesting that none of the stuff they used by The Tail Gators ended up on the official soundtrack, whereas The Little Kings only made one obscure album.

One that I wish were available, is Huntress: Spirit of the Night. Albeit, it's a cheesy skin flick that's more innuendo than story, but Fuzzbee Morse's music works for me.

Also, I like the soundtracks to Repo Man & Rumble Fish.
And if you've ever visited my MySpace profile, you'd know which song off the Bad Channels soundtrack I like.

And just for fun, I'd like to learn the lyrics to Deep Throat & Puberty Love.

Ooh! I almost forgot Girls, Guns & Hillbilly Music by R.S. Field from Webb Wilder, Private Eye in The Saucer's Reign.

Licerbus wrote:

"A Clockwork Orange turned me on to classical music, though Walter Carlos' synth score was pretty cool (especially back when I used to drink)."

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Drinking aside, are you referring to Wendy Carlos? No, I guess Walter was still her viable persona up until 1979, at least that's what wikipedia says. Wendy/Walter is my favorite synthetic composer. A Clockwork Orange's soundtrack is perfect.

I've seen one name thrown around here a lot though it's his movie I'm actually seeing: almost every single one of Quentin Tarantino's movie have made it onto this board's favorite soundtrack list. Kudos to him! His movies do seem to be able to use the music in a unique and fully assimilated way. Pulp Fiction is my favorite with Jackie Brown as my second.

I only buy the sound tracks I like so I own 2001: A Space Odyssey and Buena Vista Social Club. The latter is up for debate on whether or not it is a movie soundtrack or an independently released album that a movie was based upon but either way the music and the movie are wonderful. I've been looking for A Clockwork Orange's soundtrack at a good price for a while but it hasn't happened yet. I like that soundtrack a lot.

Conan the Barbarian
Godzilla (http://youtube.com/watch?v=5DGrLQigqEw&mode=related&search=) (Great clip)
The Mission
The Magnificient Seven
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Once Upon a Time in the West
Death Rides a Horse
Return of Ringo (http://youtube.com/watch?v=YzYAVOGhwNo) (Check out this trailer. Lots of fun and great Morricone theme music.)
Keoma
Companeros
West Side Story (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Dl_f9coIcZw)
James Bond
Rocky
Halloween
Star Wars
Grease

HELP! (No, I don't need help,I mean the soundtrack to the Beatles soundtrack,which I am lucky enuff to own. )
WILD ANGELS!(Watch the movie again...the music is GREAT!)
PSYCHO!
DEVIL'S REJECTS-I m' sick of Freebird,but in this context,its super cool. And Midnite Rider is always a good song.
LIVE and LET DIE
GIMME SHELTER-the Rolling stones at Altamont!!!!(I like the part in the movie when Jagger's on stage and one of the biker's glaring at Jagger like he wants to kill HIM.

One of my favorite biker films RCMerchant. Starring Peter Fonda and Nancy Sinatra. Film was shot at Indian Canyon and Tahquitz Canyon in the Palm Springs area on an Indian reservation at the edge of town. Went there in 2005. Nice waterfall in Tahquitz Canyon. LOST HORIZON was also shot there by Frank Capra.

Wild Angels Trailer (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6RSLfBFOQ-s)

It all depends on what type of film I guess.  I have so many soundtracks kicking around here, and quite alot of them are really really good, so it's hard to list a definite favourite, especially considering what type of mood you may be in at the time [I switch many times from different soundtracks of different sounds so it's hard to lock down favourites.]

But what I will do is put out a list of some good ones that don't stray far from the cd player.

Transformers the Movie soundtrack: 80s rock at it's finest.  One of my most favourite of favourite soundtracks!

The work of David Holmes, on soundtracks such as Ocean's 11 and Out of Sight [and to a lesser degree, Ocean's 12].  Great funk sounds.

Swordfish is another good one, mostly done by Paul Oakenfold.  Good for dancey-electro type music.

Requiem For A Dream is another good one.  I have the 'remixed' album where it's essentially electronic remixes of the themes from the original soundtrack.

I won't worry about stating the already used excellent suggestions such as Clockwork, Vangelis and Quentin Tarantino's excellent use of music in his film.

Oh wait, I did... well it's worth noting again.

Some other very worthy mentions are Fifth Element, Run Lola Run, Plunkett and Macleane [very good symphonic track mixed in with some nice beats] and Black Hawk Down.

Plus personal fav compilations such as Strange Days, The Jackal and Kevin Smith movie soundtracks.

Like I said, there's too many to list, but in terms of best, I guess it all depends.  There's classic composers such as Elmer Bernstien, Ennio Morricone and Bernard Hermann.  I've also been getting into Harry Gregson Williams, Howard Shore and Hans Zimmer.

I have wayyyyyyy too many soundtracks to pick a shortlist so I'll leave it there now, but there's plenty that haven't been mentioned, such as classic 50's soundtracks, musicals, famous theme songs and whatnot, but the above are some of the common fav's of mine personally.

Also if any of you are interested in movie soundtracks, there's a great mixed album by "UNKLE" which is called "Edit Music for a film" or something like that [I'm bad with titles]

But it's essentially a dj mix of some terrific movie soundtracks, such as Clockwork orange, but with some contemporary music as well all together.  Very well done and very much worth a listen to.  It's pretty much my favourite Dj mixed album ever, so I highly reccommend it!

Anyways enough rambling from me...

What-no "BEN""???? Just kidding!
The soundtrack by Prince for BATMAN really,REALLY sucks.Though I love the original Batman TV show song."BATMAN-DADADADAD-BATMAN-DADADADADA-"
the old SPIDERMAN cartoon! I heard a remake of it done by none other than the RAMONES!
GIGANTOR!GIGANTOR! GIGAAAAAANNNNTORRRR!!!
"King Kong! You know the name of KING KONG! You know the name of KING KONG! Ten times as big as a man!"
Believe it or Not-guilty pleasure time the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie-(I got kids...LOTS of 'em....)the Chili Peppers in the opening parachute scene,"Higher Ground".
   I'm showing my age with the  60's cartoon stuff,but sum things stick with you. I can't remeber last week,but I can remember things that happened 30 or so years ago....God.....I feel YOUNG!

What-no "BEN""???? Just kidding!
The soundtrack by Prince for BATMAN really,REALLY sucks.Though I love the original Batman TV show song."BATMAN-DADADADAD-BATMAN-DADADADADA-"
the old SPIDERMAN cartoon! I heard a remake of it done by none other than the RAMONES!
GIGANTOR!GIGANTOR! GIGAAAAAANNNNTORRRR!!!
"King Kong! You know the name of KING KONG! You know the name of KING KONG! Ten times as big as a man!"
Believe it or Not-guilty pleasure time the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie-(I got kids...LOTS of 'em....)the Chili Peppers in the opening parachute scene,"Higher Ground".
   I'm showing my age with the  60's cartoon stuff,but sum things stick with you. I can't remeber last week,but I can remember things that happened 30 or so years ago....God.....I feel YOUNG!

Not a whole lot on here prior to 1980, is there?
There was music before the '70's even -- before The Beatles even --
North by Northwest, Bernard Hermann
Psycho, also Bernard Hermann
The Third Man, can't remember, but it wasn't all zither music, you know --
King Kong (1933)
Dr. Zhivago -- lush, compelling, just what a soundtrack is supposed to accomplish.
Gone With The Wind (1939) -- without the music, just another costume melodrama --
peter the mad theremin player

I agree!The opening theme to DRACULA(1931) has haunted me for ever...
KING KONG
the bizzare spiratual moaning from WHITE ZOMBIE
the wedding march from BRIDE of FRANKENSTIEN
  I am a confirmed metalhead. I am 44 years old. I have seen Aerosmith,Sabbath,Suicidal Tendencies, White Zombie, Black Flag,Foghat, Joan Jett,the Ozark Mountain Daredevils,blah blahblah....
to limit yourself to ONE genre is a form of self-censorship.
There is so much interesting stuff out there...and a lot of crap.
"To eachhis own" ! EXCELISOR!" (Aint that whut they sed in the old Marvel comic ads?)

Harold and Maude
Pulp Fiction
Natural Born Killers
The Blues Brothers
Grease
Rock and Roll High School
Fantasia

I agree on "The Third Man", but listening to the music too often will drive you insane.

The Professionals
Sorceror- fantastic creepy Tangerine Dream soundtrack, before they went all new age-ish. I own the CD but learned to not listen to it while driving at night if there is even a HINT of fog, you will get paranoid and think you will crash.
The soundtracks to the first two Patlabor anime films.
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels awesome mix of tunes and dialogue bits. Plus that great guitar version of the "Zorba the Greek" theme.
Lots of Ennio Moricone but I'll just add "Once Upon a Time in the West"
Koyaaanisqatsi - music by Philip Glass
Passion - Music for the Last Temptation of Christ by Peter Gabriel. Not an exact soundtrack, but awesome music anyway.
The Big Lebowski
Akira - if only for the music to the opening cycle chase, perfect use of music for a film.

Did I miss mentions of "Forbidden Planet" and "The Exorcist"? Neither film would have lodged in the minds of viewers as strongly without their music, IMO.

, , , and I don't know who did this, but the music to Val Lewton's "Curse of The Cat People" was and is wholly evocative and menacing -- especially the scene where the "ghost-cat" mother entertains her "daughter"(?) in the snow --
brrr . . .
peter theremin

Does "Maximum Overdrive" count?

Some how I have never seen CAT PEOPLE (1942) or CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (1944). Both are suppose to be excellent films. They are now on my list.

DAM! I forgot! WHO MADE WHO!!! AC?DC!

of course maximum overdrive counts! Who Made Who is a classic, so are the other 2 instrumentals ACDC did for the film: Chase The Ace, and "D.T." (does anyone know what D.T stands for?...could it be "Demented Technology", considering the film plot...probably not).

And speaking of "Who . . " --
     Everyone here see "Quadrophenia"?  Oddly enough, not a lot of Who music in the film, but a very effective film ABOUT music and culture nonetheless -- Sting plays a hotel bellboy & hero to the Mods in the film.  There's a scene in a public bath where 2 hoodlums, one a Mod and one a Rocker, start singing at each other -- one singing Peter Townsend, the other Gene Vincent.  Not a soundtrack moment, really, but a good use of music in film nonetheless --
     And yes, both Cat People and Curse Of are very wonderful films -- Cat People was one of the first films to use the "displaced sound" effect that's so common today noone notices:  A girl starts to scream in one scene which very rapidly cuts to the next scene so that the scream becomes the sound of the squealing brakes of a bus.  You've seen in a thousand times, but it was innovative as all get-out when Cat did it -- Curse Of has it's own great "sound" moments as well, but is more of a nightmare than Cat People, and in many ways is an example of a sequel being better than its precursor.
peter theremin

I always liked the soundtrack to the TV series The Mokees.

And let's not forget the works of Henry Mancini.

I remember seeing a movie called FEAR NO EVIL, about a teen who is,in reality the Anti-Christ,which makes good use of the Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK". A kid has got the Ramones blasting out of his car stereo at one point,too. A good movie-at one point the devil kid zaps tits onto the school tough guy,plus a graveyard full of living dead! For an encore,he kills everyone while theyre putting on a performance of the Passion play! WILD!

In an earlier post, I mentioned wanting to learn the lyrics to Deep Throat. So, last night I found the soundtrack on amazon.

As I was going through the sample tracks, something occured to me; Does anybody else remember the days before midi-synths, when soundtracks required a little effort, even for z-grade movies with no budget?

The Big Labowski, oh I forgot about that one!  Great soundtrack and such a great movie.  It's one of my pics on myspace.  I love that line...."Hell, I can get you a toe by 3:00...with nail polish."

I remember a real dumb softcore porn movie called CHATTERBOX,where this chick's hoochie could talk(and sing).And the songs were written by...Neil Sedka!? It was a VERY BAD movie.When the name stars are Prof.Irwin Corey and that gay guy who tosses glittery confetti around,you know your in trouble.

Some not mentioned so far:

In the spirit of ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, "musical" type films you'd expect to have good soundtracks:
THE WALL
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
HEAVY METAL
KISS MEETS THE PHANTOM OF THE PARK (a friend of mine was in the audience at the concert filming)

also liked the music Fastway did for TRICK OR TREAT.

ones off the top of my head for which the music really fit the films, without being obtrusive:
HAMBURGER HILL (Philip Glass)
DAS BOOT (Klaus Doldinger)
THE THING (Ennio Morricone; he's been mentioned in general, but I wanted to plug this one specifically)

GOBLIN-Awesome ! I Especially like the opening for DEEP RED.
LOVEDOLLS SUPERSTARS! I have the soundtrack to this movie on tape,but have never seen the movie itself.It has BLACK FLAG,the DEAD KENNEDYS,REDD KROSS,and a whole lotta other good jams! Its a sequel to DESPARATE TEENAGE LOVEDOLLS>Has anyone here seen either of these movies?

lilcerberus, if you like the music from the Monkees TV show, have you seen their film "Head"? I have the soundtrack, it's a mixed bag of good and blah songs, dialogue bits, and old-style sound montages mixing songs and dialogue bits ("coordinated" by Jack Nicholson!) But the CD includes a few alternate versions of the songs, the live version of "Circle Sky" (always wanted to hear a punk version of that song) used in the film and Nesmith doing the vocals for "Daddy's Song" among others, and even a truly bizarre and off-putting radio ad for the film. I love the film but no wonder people stayed away in droves when it was released.

RCMerchant, the confetti tossing gay guy sounds like Rip Taylor. Hard to believe that guy made a whole career in show biz in movies, TV, and audience warmups for show tapings off of so little of an act.

Ah, "Head" -- Victor Mature as Big Victor, and Frank Zappa leading a live bull by the nose . . .
What other films have that, I ask you?
Jack Nicholson does a walkon as the film's director, in a scene where Micky Dolenz gets shot full of arrows --
Put me down as someone who loves this film -- with reservations:  I hate some of the musical production numbers, particularly the Davey Jones one where the visuals keep switching from black to white, etc. -- a very weak song --  But overall a very psychotic film with mostly good music.
peter zappa/nezsmith tork

peter johnson Wrote:
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>But overall a
> very psychotic film with mostly good music.


...psychadelic??...maybe its psychotic as well, Ive only seen a clip where one of them is playing football in a bunker, or something like that.

another soundtrack I like is Poetic Justice (1993). not a great film, but a great soundtrack. best cut - Naughty By Nature - "Poor Man's Poety"

Oh, most definitely I meant "psychotic", as in "detatched from reality" -- it's also a psychedelic film, but really Mentally Ill on so many levels ==
peter johnson/wakka jawaka

Theres a NEW movie coming out called AMERICAN HARDCORE,(I found it on its MYSPACE page) with bands and interviews of BLACK FLAG,the MISFITS, the BAD BRAINS,the CIRCLE JERKS,AGNOSTIC FRONT,DRI, TSOL,the GERMS,FEAR,MDC,DEAD KENNEDYS,and soooo many more! I believe it premires tonight in NYC,and it looks to be kick ass! Takes me back to my outta control punk years in the mid 80's...( I'm glad I was young enuff to live through it!)

"Daddy's Song" is the black and white fancy visual production number with Davy and Toni Basil dancing. I like the song since it's a Harry Nilsson tune and probably the cutest tune about a man abandoning his family I can think of. The alternate take on the soundtrack has Nesmith's vocals instead but processed to sound like they are from a vintage (1920s or 30s) recording. The tune works a little better that way. But I can see why it was a Jones song in the film, it fit with his Broadway Pop style and each one of the group wanted to showcase themselves in a part of the film as they skewered their image. So Davy in a dance number and that riff on the film "Golden Boy"  where he winds up fighting Sonny Liston.

I like the film's parts better than the whole, plus I love that a manufactured pop group would try to reinvent themselves by thumbing their noses at their core audience with a movie greenlighted to capitalize on their own loathed image, and produced by folks (Rafelson, Schneider, and Nicholson) who wanted to gleefully destroy the group so they could move on to bigger things. It's a mess but a likeable one. Music groups still make (often pretentious and overly) ambitious films but the pedigre, goals, and end product make this one stand out for me.

Tor Johnson is in it too, so thats a plus!