Top 5 Soundtracks
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I know some people are obssesive about soundtracks. They love the scores, the composers, the exclusive tracks, but what if you were asked to name your top 5 soundtracks? What would you say? Would you go with a score? Would you cite the album that has a rare cut from one of your favorite bands? Would you look at the soundtrack as musically cohesive? Did it go along well with the movie itself? Lots of questions to ask.
I guess you have to consider all of the options.
Here's a list of my Top 5 soundtracks, some of which I've never seen the movie!
(from 5-1)
# 5 Backbeat Original Soundtrack - This is an underrated soundtrack featuring an All-Star Line up cover classic tunes - Dave Pirner (Soul Asylum), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Don Fleming (???), Mike Mills (R.E.M.), and Dave Grohl (duh).
#4 Trees Lounge - One of my favorite films. I actually like any film with Steve Buscemi but this one is one of the riskay ones. Buscemi put together the cuts on the soundtrack including the title track by Canada's own Hayden - great song!
#3 Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman can do no wrong...OK...little wrong and with this classic film, the score is how I like 'em - dark, but somehow warm and welcoming
#2 - First Love Last Rites - composed by Craig Werden formerly of Shudder to Think, this is a great compilation featuring guest vocals by the late Jeff Buckley on one track - really good retro sounding stuff. The Nina Pearson cut can be an excellent lullaby...
#1 - The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff put together an incredible collection of material by classic reggae artists along with his own brilliant compositions. It's raw, emotional, and melodic (just how I like it). I don't even like reggae - seriously, Bob Marley drives me nuts!
What's your Top 5?
Comments (18)
"The Harder They Come" stands in a class of its own - Perry Henzell wanted to showcase the music, to the extent that his star was a singer rather than actor, and the plot involved him spending much time in the brutal studio atmosphere of 1970s Kingston, where "producers" exercised a power unknown since the Medicis were overthrown in the late sixteenth century, due to an unusual vagary in Jamaican copyright law. Leslie Kong's unexpected death in 1971 at theage of 38 might have made the director's job in selecting tunes for the fillum a tad less tricky
Love me a good soundtrack.......here is my 5 -
1. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
2. Crooklyn Vol. 1 and 2
3. Angus
4. Mallrats
5. Snatch
I have yet to hear the Snatch or Lock, Stock sndtrck. I bought the Angus sndtrck years ago for that Green Day song. Same for Mallrats. I think I got it because Silverchair was on it. Still own them both to this day.
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Crow
Dracula (am I getting too dark?)
Kids (is that any better?)
Trainspotting (that doesn't really help)
Virgin Suicides (I'm depressed and bad at math at the same time!)
This list might be different tomorrow btw....
Man, Anna hit two there that should have been on my top 5. The trainspotting and kids soundtracks are awesome
See, lists change so easily!
BTW Kevin, during Lock, there's a song that keeps being played often, and it lasts a few seconds (we get the same small guitar part every time). Can you tell me which song that is? I don't have the o.s.t.
Great soundtracks - even Crow 2 (not as good as the original) sndtrck was nice. Trainspotting was a a close 6th or 7th for me. I guess I just heard Lust for Life way too much when the film was being promoted. What else was on Kids besides Folk Implosion?
I agree about Crow 2 100%! I think number 6 erm,7 for me would be Spawn's o.s.t., very interesting collaborations.
Sebadoh (oh how I wuve Mr. Barlow), Daniel Johnston, Slint and Lo-Down, but really it was Folk Implosion almost all the way.
Oh yeah - Spawn had a bunch of collaborations, right? All killer compositions. They should do some sort of remix tour with electronica and rock acts playing along side each other...
Yup, Filter - Crystal Method and more in that spirit.
That would be great! Speaking of electronica, Fight Club's o.s.t was a solid one, too. Have you heard that? The Dust Brothers more than delivered.
Yes, I know it's sort of an underground fav. I do remember the Pixies "Where Is My Mind" never made it (was that the song playing on the credits?) Is that your favorite Dust Brother's production? Mine's probably Beck "Odelay"
Yup, it was!
Same thing happened with Vast's Touched at The Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_%28film%29). It was used for some trailers and then it wasn't included at the soundtrack! It's a good song...
Tough choice between Odelay and Fight Club's o.s.t.....I think FC, just because of the personal connections I have with it :)
That would be tough, but knowing your music likes I am guessing you mean this one..........
Hm, not sure that's the one, although I might be wrong 'cause the sound quality isn't very good. You can hear it at the trailer here from 00:07 to 00:15 (and it's a bass after all, sorry, I remembered wrongly): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZh33gGK3Y8
This short sample was used on many scenes throughout the movie.
after a lot of looking around I think I have an answer, and that is I have no clue..........
Oh noz, I thought I was so close in finding what it is this time.
Thank you for trying though :)
I will look some more, but I think it is just an instrumental track by john murphy and david hughes. I believe it is called the game, but I can not find a sample of it anywhere. That is the only song listed in the credits I was not able to find anywhere on the net.
A-ha! Finally, some light gets shed into a 10 {!} year mystery...
Thanks so much for searching for it! :*