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For example: "The Blue Danube" from "2001: Space Odyssey."

I don't thin I have ever heard a better rendition of the music, and its use in the film is perfect, but as soon as the music is over, I can't stand to watch any more of the film, and I always change the channel.

The same can be said for "The William Tell Overture" from "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981.) A bad movie, but I don't hink I've ever heard a better rendition of the music.

Here are some more movies I watch, just for the music, but as soon as the music is over, I change the channel.

"March from the River Kwai" from "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
"Dueling Banjos" from "Deliverance"
"Theme from Flash Gordon" from "Flash Gordon"
"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
"Sounds of Silence" from "The Graduate"
"Hair" from "Hair"
"North to Alaska" from "North to Alaska"
"Rat Race. The choir version" from "Rat Race"

And one television show.

"Go! Speedracer! Go!" from "Speedracer"

What are yours?

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I'm always amused when the soundtrack does better than the movie.  Last Action Hero comes to mind for that category. 

Gotta disagree. The GOOD the BAD and the UGLY is A classic. The Music makes it even more so. Ditto with DELEVERIANCE> They ENHANCED already great films.

Good Lord, BoyScoutKevin!
"2001" and "Bridge on the River Kwai" are 2 of the best films ever made!!
RC has already taken you to task for "Good, Bad, etc." --
The theme in "Kwai" is called "Colonel Bogie's March" --
Also, the William Tell Overture is not played in/does not appear in "2001" -- You may be thinking of "Clockwork Orange", another fine Kubrick picture.
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I am reminded of the old joke about the guy who collects porn tapes -- Has hundreds and hundreds of them -- He never watches them, though -- He just likes bad jazz . . .
peter johnson/denny vaudeville

The theme song from The NeverEnding Story III (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/neverendingiii/) is something I tend to listen to, reveling in just how goofy it is.  Watching the movie is a bit much to ask of me, because I find the characters are people I hate (all of them, which is strange - I usually can find somebody interesting).

I quite like two of the songs from "Shock Treatment."  The film is plain awful otherwise.

Sleepstalker (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/sleepstalker/) has a memorable song at the end, which is easily the best part of the film for me. 

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys, stars Robert Mitchum, who does his usual good job, and seeing John Carradine as the conductor was fun but the movie itself is just pretty forgetable, however I really liked The Ballad of Marshall Flagg, performed by Glenn Yarbrough

I remember going to see the 1988 version of The Blob several times when it hit the dollar theater, just so I could listen to Alien's "Brave New Love" as the credits rolled. I so desperatly wanted a soundtrack to that film. I had to wait years before I could rip the DVD and create my own mp3.

Weird Science
When I heard "Eighties" by Killing Joke during one of the party scenes, I had to get a copy of the soundtrack. I also made a few good discoveries on it. Unfortunately, I got it on audio cassette, which I left sitting next to a pretty powerful magnet a few years later.

I sum this topic up with one word   ROCKSTAR  Killer Soundtrack!

The GREAT ROCK and ROLL SWINDLE had great music,but Malcolm McLaren ruined it with his constant blather.Plus,it was in incoherent mess of a movie! A good and merciless editor could have been used on this crappy film.If only Russ Meyer(the originallyplanned director)stuck with it(side note:He complained that the British punk chicks had small boobs!)

Well, the movie is more of a mild guilty pleasure since I like it, but can see where DePalma was "borrowing" from other movies and media way back in his career. Phantom of the Paradise has some pretty fun 70s pop music.

Mostly I like the song "The Hell of It" that plays during the closing credit montage. I'd buy the soundtrack just for that.

Poetic Justice (1993)

fantabulous soundtrack, dickheaded film.

I'm convinced that "Conan The Barbarian" was helped a lot by the wonderful score, written by Basil Poledouris, who also did the music for Robocop and Starship Troopers. 

Ditto Red Dawn, also scored by Poledouris.  And, hell, his OP for Robocop 3 may have been one of the few bright spots in the entire movie.

Basil Poledouris is one of our great modern film score composers.  He'd be much more well known now, if filmmakers were willing to give him some really high profile films.  But alas, they're still so enamoured of John Williams, who really hasn't done much of anything interesting over the past two decades.

Just for his body of work alone, Williams is far beyond reproach IMHO.  (Not that he doesn't "coast" from time to time.)

But hey.  Anvil of Crom.  If he's remembered for absolutely nothing else, the late Mr. Poledouris will be certainly remembered for that--certainly one of the most iconic themes of the 1980s and God only knows how many subsequent movie trailers...

"Judgement Night" had a groundbreaking soundtrack (and probably inspired Limp Bizkit, unfortunately) and sold loads, but the films sucked ass.

"Virgin Among The Living Dead" had a great soundtrack, but was a bizarre incomprehensible mess of a film.

I totally agree with JUDGEMENT NIGHT,FM.A GREAT soundtrack,a lousy film. Loved the Slayer/Ice T Jam.

I must second "Weird Science." 

And to reverse the thread for a moment, I enjoyed Ladyhawke, but the music screams "just borrowed my brother's crappy K-mart synthesizer and punched the 'demo' button on it to soundtrack this movie."

Even though I personally love it and consider it one of the best movies I've ever seen I know alot of people think Garden State was s**t but the soundtrack was great.

I didn't quite hate this one, but Bram Stoker's Dracula--a film which I definitely didn't "get," and probably still don't--had one of the best, or at least most memorable, modern orchestral OPs (composed by Wojciech Kilar) I'd ever heard on film up to that time...

Thank you for that correction, RC Merchant. While I enjoyed listening to "Colonel Bogie's March," I never cared much for the film. I agree a good film, maybe even a great one, but I never have associated greatness necessarily with enjoyability. And while hated is probably a hyperbolic stretch, all those films mentioned are films I never have and most likely will never enjoy, as many times as I have seen them. And that includes "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

And if you misread my previous post about the "William Tell Overture," then I apologize, that I was not clearer in my first post. I tried to associate that piece of classical music with "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" from 1981. While a bad movie in many ways, never before or since, have I heard a better rendition of Rossini's overture, then I heard in that film.

And did you know that there are actually words to "Colonel Bogie's March." When we lived in Rhode Island in the early '60's, we shopped at a furniture store in Fall River, Massachusetts. And the salesman we dealt with was a man named Dingleberry, who was in the armed forces in that part of Asia, where they were, and when they were, actually building the real bridge over the river Kwai, during WWII. And he apparently knew the actual words to the march. The only thing I can remember my father saying about them, as I never heard the actual words themselves, were that they were obscene, and this was from a man--my father--who was in the U.S. Navy at the time, and had heard  and seen just about everything.

Sorry, Peter. I meant Peter, not RC. I am glad that both you and RC some of the films I mentioned, but that does not change the fact, that I did not enjoy the movies, even though I quite liked the music from those same movies.

The soundtrack to Faust was simply awesome.  Lots of really excellent metal.  Brujeria, Sepultura, Fear Factory, etc...  I quite liked the soundtrack to Trespass when I was younger.  Someone mentioned Judgement Night and that soundtrack also came to mind.  Haven't listened to it in years.  Might have to go dig up the tape.  Yes, TAPE. 

I love nearly every movie to music combination by Stanley Kubrick. I especially love A Clockwork Orange because the music was revolutionary. It was 1971 and legendary electronic music pioneer Brian Eno had only begun his career while Wendy/Walter Carlos had already released Swtiched on Bach, The Well-Tempered Synthesizer and Sonic Seasonings, three electonic albums utilizing the Moog synthesizer. My goodness. And then she/he composes the album music for A Clockwork Orange! The music blows me away. The William Tell Overture, the renditions of Beethoven, oh wow. I'm famiiar with Kubrick selecting music that already exists to compliment his movie and so I think A Clockwork Orange is his first and only movie with an original score.

I also love 2001: A Space Odyssey for its music. The Shining, Doctor Strangelove, Paths of Glory, Barry Lyndon, Spartacus and Full Metal Jacket. I don't really like the music of Eyes Wide Shut, but then again there's not a lot I like about Eyes Wide Shut.

I also like the music of all the Fellini films I have seen. His composer, Nino Rota is incredible. Most of you may remember his music from The Godfather. It's great. Another great composer to watch out for is the guy who did the music for Sergio Leone's The Man With No Name trilogy, Ennio Morricone.

The Lord of The Rings music started to bug on me around the middle of The Return of The King. The same repeating lines... I don't know about it. Perhaps I shouldn't watch these movie trilogies in a row so often...

Loved most of the songs on the Mortal Kombat Annihilation but hated the movie.

Loved a lot of the songs in the Queen of the Damned  soundtrack (again, the movie sucked ass.)