This topic is inspired by my curiosity to download the "Beverly Hills Cop" soundtracks. What are the considered greatest movie soundtracks in the history of music?

Are the BHC soundtracks worth copping? I've heard generally good thing about them, particularly the one for the first movie but I need some intimate personal opinions.

Purple Rain

Under the Cherry Moon

Graffiti Bridge

Saturday Night Fever

Boomerang

Above the Rim

Batman (Prince)

Saturday Night Fever

Super Fly

Shaft

Purple Rain

Grease

SoulAlive said:

Superfly.....good one.

SoulAlive said:

Saturday Night Fever

Super Fly

Shaft

Purple Rain

Grease

Hard to top these. I will leave Grease off the list. I just wasn't a fan.

I'll add Buck and The Preacher Man and Cooley High to the list.

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noimageatall said:

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Jagar said:

noimageatall said:

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Oh you like Loki? Me too...

Grrrr.... for some reason this didn't show up on my original post...so sick of this jacked up formatting.

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Thanks everybody.

Now how about the Beverly Hills Cops soundtracks? Is one better than the other? Are they both worth picking up on their own individual merits?

Love Jones, Waiting to Exhale. Skool Daze,Jasons Lyric

Purple Rain The Color PurpleSaturday Night FeverI know there are many more I like, just can't think of them at the moment.

What about the Beverly Hills Cop soundtracks?

MotownSubdivision said:

Both awesome!

Plus Aliens, Halloween, Drive, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Kill Bill Volume.1....

DaveT said:

MotownSubdivision said:

What about the Beverly Hills Cop soundtracks?

Both awesome!

There's also one for Cop III which has 3 songs produced by Jam & Lewis (Terence Trent D'Arby, Patti LaBelle, Chanté Moore). It has other songs by INXS, Eazy E, Tony! Toni! Toné!, The Supremes, etc.

MotownSubdivision said:

Thanks everybody. Now how about the Beverly Hills Cops soundtracks? Is one better than the other? Are they both worth picking up on their own individual merits?

BHC1 is alot more electro pop/rnb. Not any AOR/lite rock on there really.

BHC2 still has pop/rnb and follows a similar formula, but seems to sound even more commercial than no.1 and has more AOR on it. That soundtrack is remarkable if only for the fact nearly every song on it was released as a single....

I'm not terribly concerned with those considered the best, but these are some of my personal favourites...

Purple Rain

Parade

Cat People (1982)

Revenge of the Nerds

Coraline

Wicker Man (1972)

Saturday Night Fever

The Company of Wolves

School Daze

Mo Better Blues

Pulp Fiction

25th Hour

Donnie Darko

Baraka

Flashdance

American Grafitti

Dingo

Jagar said:

These actually look great. I've never been much of a porn fan, but I love "bow-chicka-bow-wow."

This reminds me of another favourite soundtrack: Sy Richardson's Cinderella (1977)...

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Lammastide said:

I'm not terribly concerned with those considered the best, but these are some of my personal favourites...

Purple Rain

Parade

Cat People (1982)

Revenge of the Nerds

Coraline

Wicker Man (1972)

Saturday Night Fever

The Company of Wolves

School Daze

Mo Better Blues

Pulp Fiction

25th Hour

Donnie Darko

Baraka

Flashdance

American Grafitti

Dingo

I conpletely forgot about Cat People...yes!! The music and David Bowie's voice still gives me chills.

Some of my favorites:

The Big Chill
Boomerang
Purple Rain
Parade
Pulp Fiction

The Bodyguard
Boomerang

noimageatall said:

Only Lovers Left Alive was one of the best soundtracks I heard this year along with Under The Skin and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Soundtrack as in songs, not score.

Fright Night

Ghostbusters

Soundtrack of scavenged songs or original songs or an original score?