NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you've hummed along, tapped your feet, or even danced in your seat while watching "Purple Rain," "Saturday Night Fever" or "Trainspotting," you're not alone.

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The soundtracks from those movies have been named among the 50 greatest by the editors of Vanity Fair magazine. The full list will be revealed next month in a one-time Conde Nast magazine, Movies Rock, for subscribers of its 14 titles.

"Purple Rain" topped the chart even though it was described as "perhaps the best badly acted film ever," editors at Vanity Fair said, while "Trainspotting" came in at No. 7 and "Saturday Night Fever" was eighth.

The Vanity Fair editors said the "Purple Rain" soundtrack was a flawless combination of "funk, R&B, pop, metal, and even psychedelia into a sound that defined the '80s."

"A Hard Day's Night" came in a No. 2, followed by "The Harder They Come," "Pulp Fiction," "The Graduate" and "Superfly." "American Graffiti" and "The Big Chill" rounded out the top 10.

"Saturday Night Fever's" soundtrack is "required listening for anyone looking to heat up the dance floor," the editors said. "The white suit? Not so much."

Movies Rock, which will feature stories and photos of the projects, stars, directors and musicians who created the selected movies, launches ahead of a two-hour CBS broadcast of the same title in December.

http://uk.reuters.com/art...2920071024

I've said it before and I'll say it again... now... WRONG - WEST SIDE STORY is the greatest soundtrack ever. No argument. Shut up, you're wrong - to paraphrase the late, great Bill Hicks.

shall I re-tell my West Life Story gag here?

BoySimon said:

PLEASE DO

...um... it's in the title really... the struggles of an Irish boyband... trying to make their way in life... beset by problems of prejudice and victimisation... then one of them realises he's actually called Maria, one gets shot and the other stabbed.

Oh I laughed.

BoySimon said:

sounds like a sad story....

yahoo story as well! http://news.yahoo.com/s/n...dtracks_dc
[Edited 10/24/07 5:26am]

BoySimon said:

U MUST BE GAY!

Shhh747 said:

Shhh747 where have you been doll!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/h...059634.stm BBC story too

its everywhere its everywhere !!

Purple Rain was a MONSTER album.

It completely redefined Prince and popular music.

It also made it cool among certain segments to pick up a gee-tar.

Looking at the *film* now, it's SUCH an 80's movie, but the soundtrack is forever...

cool

Congratulations, 2 "Purple Rain."

and a favorite of mine also

KidaDynamite said:

i've been hiding... just like Princey. back at ya

Already a featured thread over here http://prince.org/msg/7/249906