I'm not a big classical music fan, but I love soundtrack albums. Obviously, soundtracks to my fave films are accounted for in my collection...also a big fan of James Horner, Hans Zimmer and the late great John Barry. Particular faves are:-

Aliens

Halloween

Lord of the Rings: Complete Collection

Braveheart

Batman Begins / The Dark Knight

Anyone else well into the soundtrack thing (and not those b*llocks "song from and inspired by" rubbish ones!)??

Love Jones

Saturday Night Fever

Waiting to Exhale

Dirty Dancing

Blow

Grease

Urban Cowboy

i honestly dont know many but among the ones i do know, saturday night fever and purple rain

1. Boomerang

2. Mo' Money

3. Dead Presidents

4. Jason's Lyric

5. Waiting To Exhale.

DaveT said:

I'm not a big classical music fan, but I love soundtrack albums. Obviously, soundtracks to my fave films are accounted for in my collection...also a big fan of James Horner, Hans Zimmer and the late great John Barry. Particular faves are:-

Aliens

Halloween

Lord of the Rings: Complete Collection

Braveheart

Batman Begins / The Dark Knight

Anyone else well into the soundtrack thing (and not those b*llocks "song from and inspired by" rubbish ones!)??

Horner's work on The Land Before Time soundtrack was pretty amazing. I like Horner, John Williams, and John Barry. Also I am fan of Hans Zimmer and Bear McCreary.

My favorite soundtrack of all time:

The Empire Strikes Back by John Williams. I wore the hell out of my tape deck playing that thing.

Trouble Man

Superfly

Shaft

Above The Rim

Gang Related

Murder Was The Case

Parade

Purple Rain

Graffiti Bridge

Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants

Batman

Idlewild

The Omega Man

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DirtyChris said:

What are the two untitled ones above Stevie?

I think you left nothing for me to mention. I'd like to add these two though:

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Also...

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I'm aware this is the USA version, but it's the one I had 1st and heard the most, and I like the George Martin instrumentals. They're not on the British version.

Harlepolis said:

DirtyChris said:

What are the two untitled ones above Stevie?

the first one is the Pink Floyd album Obscured by Clouds

*aka* soundtrack to the Barbet Schroeder film La Vallée

the second one is another Pink Floyd album More

*aka* soundtrack to the seldom-seen French hippie movie of the same name

the album cover for Obscured by Clouds

is an out-of-focus film still of a man in a tree

I'm surprised no one has mentioned

Purple Rain

Saturday Night Fever

Grease

Car Wash

Footloose

JabarR74 said:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned

I did. I just did not post this picture. This is one hell of a sound track.

I won't repeat any, but...

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The Bad and the Beautiful

Forever Amber

The Graduate

Midnight Cowboy

Barefoot in the Park

Cinderella Liberty

Chariots of Fire

9 1/2 Weeks

Breakfast Club

Alfie

Flashdance

FAME

ROCKY

Love Jones

Hav' Plenty

Superman

Bless the Beast and The Children

A Star Is Born: Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand

Valley of The Dolls

Car Wash

Superfly

Shaft

Foxy Brown

On Green Dolphin Street

What Are You Doing The Rest of You Life

The Sterile Cukoo

The Happy Ending

Two For The Road

Claudine

Sparkle

A Piece Of the Action

Saturday Night Fever

The Odd Couple

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Purple Rain (obviously), Phantasm, Get Rich Or Die Tryin' is pretty good. I used to really like the 8 Mile soundtrack but I kind of grew out of it. Still like some songs though. I know I like more but I can't think of any.

Yeah I don't know if you're counting film scores or not, but if you are

I like the 1999 "Songtrack" version of Yellow Submarine better than the original. It's too bad the 2009 remasters weren't mixed this way. I think the sound quality is better here.

I believe the original poster didn't really want us to post pop music soundtracks.

A few that spring to mind (I've sold most of my OST CDs though):

Kundun

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Bladerunner

Hellraiser

Apocalypse Now

Beetlejuice

Ed Wood

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Planet Of The Apes (original)

Seven Years In Tibet

... oh yeah, and Karate Kid II. I had to get that as a bootleg as it was never released officially.

Most of what I've picked out there would seem to have quite a lot of electronic effects, synths and ethnic instruments being used together with an orchestra though. Just goes with my personal taste. There's tons of great stuff on indie films, but I'll leave those out.

Shoutouts: the original songs on Mo' Better Blues and Velvet Goldmine.

Several of mine are listed. A few I didnt see already posted here:

Natural Born Killers

Xanadu

Austin Powers (the first one)

Battlestar Galactica (all 4 seasons soundtracks are amazing)

Hook

Claudine

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My top soundtracks in no particular order...

novabrkr said:

I believe the original poster didn't really want us to post pop music soundtracks.

A few that spring to mind (I've sold most of my OST CDs though):

Kundun

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Bladerunner

Hellraiser

Apocalypse Now

Beetlejuice

Ed Wood

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Planet Of The Apes (original)

Seven Years In Tibet

... oh yeah, and Karate Kid II. I had to get that as a bootleg as it was never released officially.

Most of what I've picked out there would seem to have quite a lot of electronic effects, synths and ethnic instruments being used together with an orchestra though. Just goes with my personal taste. There's tons of great stuff on indie films, but I'll leave those out.

Shoutouts: the original songs on Mo' Better Blues and Velvet Goldmine.

Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of what I call "proper" soundtracks...obviously there are some great song soundtracks (Purple Rain, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Shaft are a few of my faves)...

...just love the orchestral stuff though...!!

noimageatall said:

My top soundtracks in no particular order...

DaveT said:

novabrkr said:

I believe the original poster didn't really want us to post pop music soundtracks.

A few that spring to mind (I've sold most of my OST CDs though):

Kundun

The Day The Earth Stood Still

Bladerunner

Hellraiser

Apocalypse Now

Beetlejuice

Ed Wood

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Planet Of The Apes (original)

Seven Years In Tibet

... oh yeah, and Karate Kid II. I had to get that as a bootleg as it was never released officially.

Most of what I've picked out there would seem to have quite a lot of electronic effects, synths and ethnic instruments being used together with an orchestra though. Just goes with my personal taste. There's tons of great stuff on indie films, but I'll leave those out.

Shoutouts: the original songs on Mo' Better Blues and Velvet Goldmine.

Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of what I call "proper" soundtracks...obviously there are some great song soundtracks (Purple Rain, Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Shaft are a few of my faves)...

...just love the orchestral stuff though...!!

I had two "proper" soundtracks on my list.

MJJstudent said:

That's not really a soundtrack, is it? That's the Michael Jackson storybook, right?