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Three Soundtracks You Should Probably Drop Everything For and Go Buy / Kelsi
Soundtracks are dangerous territory. You don’t usually see a lot of them in any music geek’s iTunes, but that’s usually because the music geek has identified the artist and gone out and bought the artist’s album, thereby not having to admit that they heard it in a movie first. Soundtracks in general have a sort of tawdry air about them — collections of music intended to support a completely different piece of art. But despite their second-fiddle origin stories, soundtracks can be great works in and of themselves — not just supporting the movie, but bringing their own flavor into the mix. These are three that you really shouldn’t have missed the first time around:
1) Basquiat
This is not one of my favorite movies. Lovely at moments, but overall kinda rough. And way too big for its britches. Other than David Bowie’s turn as Warhol, which is kind of mind-bogglingly awesome, it was, for me, a “do I have to?” kind of movie. But the music!
Maybe I’m just easy, but this soundtrack — including Grandmaster Flash, Tom Waits, David Bowie and The Pogues — is a completely arresting piece of work. While some soundtracks define a film’s mood, this is one for which the film defined the arc of the soundtrack. It completely embodies early-80s arthouse-cocaine chic (not to be confused with early-80s disco-cocaine chic or any other alternate form of cocaine chic.) Standouts include good ol’ Grandmaster Flash’s “White Lines” and Tom Waits’ “Tom Traubert’s Blues.”
Unfortunately, the disc released as the official soundtrack doesn’t include all of the songs used in the film, including The Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York.” This seems like a bizarre choice, given that the movie is itself a fairytale of sorts. (Biopics are never to be treated as anything other than fantasy. Take that as you will.) Despite these omissions, it remains an all-time favorite.
Grandmaster Flash - “White Lines”
2) Y Tu Mamá También
Oh my gosh, you guys, remember this movie? Two teenage boys bid their girlfriends bon voyage and then head off on their own sexually charged journey with an older woman. (It caused me more than a moment’s pause writing that phrase, realizing that I’m now older than that older woman. Dang.) Whether or not people found it hot, I don’t know anyone who saw it and wasn’t titillated or tantalized in some way by the raciness of the hormone-charged teens’ adventure. I remember reading more than one article drawing connections to Henry Miller’s work, which isn’t actually all that far fetched. Bold, brash, wild, sexy, in-your-face, a little out of control - in many ways, this movie’s lyricism demanded that a fantastic soundtrack be brought into play.
And it was.
One of my absolute favorite DJs, KCRW’s Liza Richardson, was recruited to select the music. Music is so often and so powerfully engaged with sexuality (well, duh) that it would have been easy to match the heated film with, you know, a bunch of darkly charged throbbing beats. But instead, it’s a flirtatiously sexy, bright, fun collection of music that captures the worldliness of the film without the danger. I just love Senor Coconut’s take on “Showroom Dummies” and Café Tacuba makes a great showing with “Insomnio.” La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapato’s “Nasty Sex” is a revelation of early-70s deliciousness. This is a rare gem of a soundtrack that absolutely hangs together even outside of the context of the movie.
La Revolucion de Emiliano Zapato - “Nasty Sex”
3) Six String Samurai
Imagine, if you will, that Russia launched nuclear (not nuc-u-lar — and don’t you dare pronounce it that way if you ever intend to hold an executive office) warheads at the good ol’ U.S. of A. back in 1957, obliterating our society as it was and reducing most of our country to arid desert. Government (as well as culture) decimated, we were left with… The King. The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll. (You know who I mean, friend.) The Kingdom of Elvis, in this version of history, extends from Lost Vegas (yes, Lost Vegas) to the California coast.
Then the King dies, and in a world of deserts, the Red army and rock ‘n’ roll, it’s time to crown a new King. A contest is announced, and the race to Lost Vegas is on.
Six String Samurai, released in 1998, is a seriously low-budget dystopian fantasy, a martial arts movie, a fairly high-level cultural critique and a vivid and haunting bit of self-aware silliness that gets you wondering if Slash could be the Grim Reaper in our universe as well as this alternate one.
The soundtrack to Six String Samurai, composed by Brian Tyler and heavily featuring the Red Elvises, is one of those that absolutely defines the film it tracks. Of course, any soundtrack worth its salt is a part of what defines a film- but SSS, for all its strengths, would be a completely different movie without the uber-genius Commie surf guitar licks of the Red Elvises. On their website, they cite musical influences which “include Elvis Presley and his wife Priscilla, Chuck Berry, Spice Girls and speeches by Comrade Fidel Castro.” Rawr.
Songs like “Boogie on the Beach” and “Jerry’s Got the Squeeze Box” are stand-alone awesome, and that Oleg Bernov? Is there anything dreamier than a Siberian ex-pat who can rock a bass balalaika?
Ahem. Yes. Well.
The Red Elvises - “Boogie on the Beach”
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God I love Six String Samurai. I need to start a blog called CrossthatlineandI'llcutyourlittleteddybearinhalf.com.
Posted by: MG at November 20, 2008 4:38 PM
Fairytale of New York was a featured Christmas song in the (also Rusty) household when I was a little kid. We listened to it multiple times every December until all of a sudden, we didn't.
Years later I rediscovered the song on my own, recognized it, and realized that maybe my parents weren't thrilled about having their six year old daughter singing "You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy faggot" no matter how festive it was. Still a beautiful song.
Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at November 20, 2008 4:42 PM
Favourite line in Six String Samurai...
"If you were me, you'd be good looking."
Ha!
Posted by: kalafraja at November 20, 2008 4:42 PM
God I love the Red Elvises. The liner notes for one of their albums (Better Than Sex, if I remember correctly) was a comic that was all, yay!Communism.
Posted by: Jeni at November 20, 2008 4:44 PM
Two Words. Repo Man.
Posted by: Withnail at November 20, 2008 4:46 PM
and since we can't embed youtube videos on the comments
Posted by: Withnail at November 20, 2008 4:47 PM
Soundtracks?! I love soundtracks! I'm kinda well known for my love of them. What can I say, they are often an instant mix tape, if you will. Two of my favorites off the top of my head:
The soundtrack for Passionfish. Zydeco heaven.
The soundtrack for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - lots of acoustic Bowie loosely translated into Portuguese.
I haven't listened to it in a few years, but I also loved the soundtrack for The Color Purple. Just a whole mix of stuff there including some blues and my favorite gospel song ever--and I am not a religious person.
Posted by: tamatha at November 20, 2008 4:55 PM
Also, I'm a huge fan of the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, but blue grass isn't for everyone.
Posted by: Genny (also Rusty) at November 20, 2008 5:11 PM
Yay! The Pogues!! Best band ever? Probably. Definitely.
Posted by: Annie_Reckson at November 20, 2008 5:11 PM
There are so many good ones, but here goes:
1. Dead Man Walking
2. Girl, Interrupted
3. Purple Rain
Posted by: samantha t at November 20, 2008 5:42 PM
I'm not an enormous fan of the soundtrack, but I think "Pulp Fiction" is among the more influential soundtracks out there.
Posted by: samantha t at November 20, 2008 5:48 PM
Here's my two cents:
1) I'm Not There
2) Trainspotting
3) The Royal Tannenbaums
Posted by: Agente Provocatrice at November 20, 2008 6:14 PM
I secretly love soundtracks (secretly because I have been mocked, hard, for that love). It's like a little mix tape. My first was "Cocktail"--strangely, a movie I wasn't allowed to see, but I was allowed to have the sountrack and listen to it all. the. time. I also really loved the Ghostbusters sountrack (perhaps you can see where the mocking comes in).
My favorite soundtrack of all time is the one for Wonder Boys. Love. It. I listed to it whenever I want to feel like a mildly depressed academic wearing a pink bathrobe with joints in the pocket. Which is kind of always.
Posted by: Cara at November 20, 2008 7:07 PM
My favorite soundtrack, which sadly, has never actually been released: Fandango
Posted by: elsie at November 20, 2008 7:13 PM
Do tv show soundtracks count? Because Buffy has 3 cds out. I own them all and have memorized all the lyrics. Seriously worth picking up!
...The only way I could get nerdier about the show is if I started collecting the comic books advertised on this site.
Posted by: popejenn at November 20, 2008 7:39 PM
the big lebowski soundtrack = big time makeout
Posted by: Lisa at November 20, 2008 7:43 PM
For me,it was the soundtrack for The Blues Brothers..it started a 25 year love affair with the blues that shows no sign of stopping. Combine that with Suitcase Full of Blues,and my teenage head was blown. It was musical pot...leading me to the harder stuff....Downchild,the three Kings,Muddy,etc
Posted by: bluesisblood at November 20, 2008 7:50 PM
If you dig the Six String Samurai soundtrack check out the tunes from Bubba Ho-Tep. I'm pretty sure both were done by the same dude (and I'm too lazy to take three seconds and look it up).
I have to second the Repo Man and Life Aquatic love, too.
Trainspotting's soundtrack kills, too.
Posted by: Mattfactor at November 20, 2008 8:01 PM
I think "Pulp Fiction" is among the more influential soundtracks out there.
*sigh*
Things got so weird. I bought the two pack with "Reservoir Dogs" and there was a little booklet where he talked about his loving of making mixes, which is basically what these two albums are, and it was like reading "High Fidelity" and shouting "Yes! Exactly!" I'll make a mix for anyone who asks, and even when they don't, and really sweat both the content and the technical aspects, and I love putting in little extra flourishes too. But after a certain period, sometime in 1995, it became almost embarrassing to be seen with Tarantino music, like you were going to be called on it. No one was going to, but it felt a little bit fake to only know this great music cause it was in the cool movie. He was such a fad and enjoying the music felt so ickily bandwagonny, the same with actually watching the two movies.
It took a few years for that to wear off. I think "Jackie Brown" helped. No one freaked out over it and everything calmed down.
Yay! The Pogues!! Best band ever? Probably. Definitely.
To tie two comments together, have you seen their Alex Cox movie, "Straight To Hell", where Elvis Costello plays their butler and they're a crime family dressed like a mariachi band in the Spanish desert? If you didn't just say "Duh!" to your screen or at least didn't give me "that look when I talk about Straight To Hell" I thank you.
No one likes that movie. That's why I wrote a term paper on it. And you can borrow it.
"Until The End of the World" is also great, as well as "Rushmore" (which also got a bit uncomfortably hip and "yeah, that's the only reason your band's playing a Creation song...but that's the only reason I know that song too...oh we're all indie fools", but it does have the one Cat Stevens song I can listen to and not cringe and hide in fear of a big smiling beard coming to get me. So that's a plus).
Posted by: Jay at November 20, 2008 8:05 PM
Correction: if Ms. Reckson did say "Duh!" I am pleased.
Posted by: Jay at November 20, 2008 8:08 PM
RED ELVISES!!!!!
...that is all. *slips back into lurkdom*
Posted by: gapingmaw at November 20, 2008 8:09 PM
Only soundtrack I ever bought was "Judgment Night." Only soundtrack I ever needed.
Posted by: bucdaddy at November 20, 2008 8:21 PM
I'm partial to Spanking the Monkey because it introduced me to Morphine - who did all the tracks.
Posted by: Cindy at November 20, 2008 8:26 PM
Damn, you're clever, woman! I forgot all about that!
Posted by: Jay at November 20, 2008 8:28 PM
There will be blood, Jonny Greenwood.
Posted by: catag at November 20, 2008 8:41 PM
Bucdaddy, you absolutely slay me.
I confess, I agree about Basquait. It seemed like it was trying to outsmart me. That said, the soundtrack is indeed magnificent.
Posted by: TK at November 20, 2008 8:42 PM
Bucdaddy, you absolutely slay me.
Just like Billy Idol's "Cyberpunk", man! Jump your music ahead of the curve and get NO RESPECT!
I don't remember the movie being terribly good. Probably more like good'n'terrible, but it's been years obviously.
Posted by: Jay at November 20, 2008 8:48 PM
Favorite song soundtracks:
1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? Ralph Stanley rules.
2. Pretty in Pink
3. Dazed and Confused
Favorite Score Only Soundtracks
1. Hillary and Jackie
2. Amelie It's mostly score.
3. Henry V
4. Last of the Mohicans
And sakes alive, Straight From Hellis a weird ass movie. Courtney Love running around shrieking and trying to act....
Posted by: Alabamapink at November 20, 2008 9:07 PM
TK, "Slay" in a good way, I hope.
Speaking of slay ... somebody once told me a legend that Ice-T had no interest in that project. "But T," he was told, "it's Slayer."
T said, "When you want me there?"
Posted by: bucdaddy at November 20, 2008 9:27 PM
I totally agree with the Basquiat music soundtrack, I listened to that obsessively when I was 20. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and The Commitments are both pretty good soundtracks too. Pulp Fiction is a classic one as well...but I take it we are all sick of the QT machine. Still, the man has great taste in music!
Posted by: ph at November 20, 2008 10:04 PM
I still roll out the Judgement Night soundtrack at casa de courtney 2. It's worth it for a lot of reasons, but especially for that Del the Funky Homosapian/Dinosaur Jr. mix.
I love the Jackie Brown soundtrack, and other high-ranking choices are Friday ("You ain't nothin' but a hoochie mama") and Ghost Dog but my favorite has to be the soundtrack to Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. It's really beautiful and haunting.
Posted by: courtney 2 at November 20, 2008 10:56 PM
The soundtrack to Woman on Top. Heck, I'll watch this movie for the music. I love me some bossa nova.
Posted by: Az at November 20, 2008 11:13 PM
I'm not ashamed that movies are a source of a great deal of my musical taste. I love the filmic associations. However, it's rare that I find a soundtrack - so often too much of a marketing gimmick and not a representation of the film itself - to be listenable as a whole. Here are some good ones - most obvious and already mentioned multiple times...
Trainspotting (greatest ever)
Boogie Nights
Pulp Fiction
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Dazed And Confused
Dead Man On Campus (never saw the presumably awful movie - won this CD - don't really care what it has to do with the movie - very listenable)
Ghostbusters
Grosse Point Blank
High Fidelity
A Life Less Ordinary (horrible movie - great soundtrack)
Lost Highway
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
The Muppet Movie
Swingers
And since I'm much more of a film score fan and someone else started the trend above, here are my top five in that category...
1) The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams
2) Lawrence Of Arabia - Maurice Jarre
3) Blade Runner - Vangelis
4) Star Trek 2: The Wrath Of Khan - James Horner
5) Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
Yeah, I'm a nerd.
Posted by: DarthCorleone at November 20, 2008 11:48 PM
I bought the Six String Samurai soundtrack in Russia for my brother. I don't think he ever bothered to listen to it. I also bought him another Red Elvises CD for him, which he also didn't listen to. Lesson learned: my brother doesn't like the Red Elvises. Dah.
Posted by: pongooey at November 21, 2008 12:15 AM
I bought the Six String Samurai soundtrack in Russia for my brother. I don't think he ever bothered to listen to it. I also bought another Red Elvises CD for him, which he also didn't listen to. Lesson learned: my brother doesn't like the Red Elvises. Dah.
Posted by: pongooey at November 21, 2008 12:16 AM
I have two soundtracks in regular iPod rotation: Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (the more complete British versions). Wright and Pegg have good taste in music. Along those lines, I've got a pet project that I've been working on for a while: the entire soundtrack to Spaced. UNBELIEVABLY daunting, but Edgar put together a music guide on spaced-out.org.uk that is a tremendous resource. It's been totally worth it so far; apparently I like mid-90s British electronica.
"It's not hip-hop it's electro...prick."
Posted by: Cody at November 21, 2008 12:43 AM
-to say tarantino, we must say jarmusch, w anderson,lynch
-best with essential commentary-natural born killers(downey jr.!), fear and loathing
-old school-pat garret and billy, clockwork orange, big chill, after midnight
-and for INTENSITY-spawn,matrix,queen o damned,Hideaway,crow,dusk til dawn, fight club, and Requiem from a dream
Posted by: furtherbeyond at November 21, 2008 12:51 AM
-to say tarantino, we must say jarmusch, w anderson,lynch
-best with essential commentary-natural born killers(downey jr.!), fear and loathing
-old school-pat garret and billy, clockwork orange, big chill, after midnight
-and for INTENSITY-spawn,matrix,queen o damned,Hideaway,crow,dusk til dawn, fight club, and Requiem from a dream
Posted by: furtherbeyond at November 21, 2008 12:52 AM
-oh and many good movies set in new orleans - the big easy, angel heart, etc
Posted by: furtherbeyond at November 21, 2008 12:55 AM
I was always partial to the soundtrack of the Piano. Michael Nyman has a way about him with classical and classical-esque music.
Posted by: megaera at November 21, 2008 4:01 AM
I love these soundtracks:
1.Stealing Beauty
2.Get Shorty
3.Ghost Dog.
Posted by: Ada Haze at November 21, 2008 5:12 AM
Brokeback Mountain soundtrack, hands down, if only for the beautiful and haunting melodies by Santaolalla and "I Don't Want to Say Good-bye" by Teddy Thompson. It still makes me cry.
For sheer fun, I like the Cruel Intentions, My Best Friend's Wedding, Urban Cowboy, and Grease soundtracks. Each are pure listening gold for their own individual reasons.
Posted by: The Pink Hulk at November 21, 2008 6:30 AM
Ennio Morricone's score for The Mission is still my all-time fave.
Posted by: causaubon at November 21, 2008 7:17 AM
Oh Jarmusch!
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai is a fantastic fucking soundtrack.
I heard Jarmusch give a talk about music and film. It was amazing. I wouldn't do it justice.
Posted by: boo at November 21, 2008 10:38 AM
I had a boyfriend once who declared soundtracks to be his favorite type of cds. Turned out he didn't have the attention span to listen to an entire CD by a single artist.
My top 4:
1. Oh Brother Where Art Thou? (Hate Ralph Stanley but love Allison Krauss and the banjo in general)
2. Grosse Point Blank (Every single track is different and interesting)
3. Soundtrack to Lagaan, an unbelievably terrific Bollywood film (sort of like The Mighty Ducks except in colonial India...and with cricket instead of hockey...and everybody sings.)
4. Any Tarantino soundtrack (I LOATHE Tarantino and most of his movies, but will admit the man has a distinct knack for mixing together music and cinema)
Embarrasing Nerd Bonus: The Newsies soundtrack (hey, I was an 11 year old girl when it came out, so there's nostalgia involved) and the Once More With Feeling Buffy soundtrack.
Posted by: Siege at November 21, 2008 10:56 AM
uncomfortably hip
Jay, that phrase makes me wanna punch you. In a good way. But really, Rushmore can be "uncomfortably hip" all it wants, it still rules.
And bucdaddy, you just stole my heart. Travelllliiiin' at the speeeeeed of love (ya played yourself)...
Posted by: jamiepants at November 21, 2008 10:58 AM
I think the soundtrack to Tank Girl holds up really well. The movie had its mix of bad-to-the-point-of-stupid, awesome, campy, and offensive, but the soundtrack is pure postapocalyptic fun. Ice-T is angry, Joan Jett sings Cole Porter with genuine girl-rocker oomph... it's a gem.
I agree with Causaubon about Morricone's score for The Mission, which is one of the best movie scores in his impressive ouvre.
And finally, two that will get me laughed at for sure: John Williams's score for Jurassic Park, which managed to portray both the danger and the grandeur of an encounter with dinosaurs (I may be biased, I admit, as I am a sucker for a realistic animatronic and/or cgi dino) and ... gulp! Randy Edelmen's music from the film Dragonheart, which has become the background to Academy Award best picture montage after Academy Award best picture montage, year after year after year.
Posted by: Jan at November 21, 2008 10:59 AM
Yeah, Cafe Tacvba! I'll be rocking out with them tomorrow in McAllen, Texas. I know that has nothing to do with this post, but I'm just excited to read about a cultural reference I actually know something about on here. Love the Red Elvises too. They were here watching San Antonio belly dance a week or two ago! I have to go now I have some closet disco dancing to get to.
Posted by: Michin at November 21, 2008 11:19 AM
Best Television Show Soundtrack(s): Cowboy Bebop and Weeds. Fucking awesome music.
Posted by: Audiosuede at November 21, 2008 11:26 AM
Jan, I stand by my love of the Tank Girl soundtrack. Completely idiotic movie, great soundtrack. Also, all the Crow soundtracks have yet to get old.
Posted by: mia at November 21, 2008 11:28 AM
I would say the soundtrack to "Zombie vs. Mardi Gras" is one of the better, and more challenging to score, movie tracks out there. Tracks by The Royal Pendletons and Coco Robecheaux, not to mention Soylient Brown and the Chump Change doing their big (and only!) hit 'Funky, Part II'.
Yes, I have a copy. Yes, I might be willing to share. Yes, it's better if you find your own...but good luck to ya.
Posted by: Green Lantern at November 21, 2008 11:45 AM
Yes to whoever noted the excellence of "Pretty in Pink." It's a good one. "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" is also pretty damned good.
As for scores, I loved "There Will Be Blood" and "Exotica."
Posted by: samantha t at November 21, 2008 12:45 PM
So great to see SSS get love on here. I actually found out about the movie from the soundtrack which was kicking around my college's radio station in the late 90s. My friend and I listened to it over and over again trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Once I saw the movie it was like chocolate and peanut butter were combined for the first time in my mouth. Long live SSS!
Posted by: Blackcapricorn at November 21, 2008 1:04 PM
Gustavo Santaolallo sp? did great work on Brokeback Mountain and The Motorcycle Diaries. You should also check out his side project The Bajofondo Tango Club for some hot, latin techno tunes. Weird and wonderful, for sure.
Posted by: raindog at November 21, 2008 1:43 PM
Song Soundtracks:
City of God
Triplets of Belleville
Dazed and Confused
The Harder They Come
American Graffiti
Score Soundtracks:
Lawrence of Arabia Jarre
Once Upon a Time in the West Morricone
Koyaanisqatsi Glass
The Magnificent Seven Glass
Taxi Driver Hermann
Blade Runner Vangelis
Days of Heaven Morricone
The Mission Morricone
A Tribute to Jack Johnson Miles Davis
Blue Velvet Badalamenti
Musicals:
Beauty and the Beast
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
The Music Man
Oklahoma
Special Mention (their own thing):
Stop Making Sense
This Is Spinal Tap
Posted by: Soylent Green is Sheeple at November 21, 2008 2:38 PM
I like a lot already mentioned, and here's two more I didn't see above
Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream, captures the film so well
King of Comedy Various, just a great listenable mix of songs
Posted by: Drake at November 21, 2008 2:53 PM
gah! Bernstein wrote the score for The Magnificent Seven, i swapped that in for The Thin Blue Line another great score by Glass.
Posted by: Soylent Green is Sheeple at November 21, 2008 3:03 PM
You have to give kudos to Wes Anderson, he brought back Cat Stevens and way underplayed Rolling Stones songs to films! I LOVES IT!
Posted by: ph at November 21, 2008 7:16 PM
Select tracks...
Batman & Robin(Pumpkins song used in first Watchman trailer, and the other version)
The Craft - mostly good cover songs
Kill Bill several tracks
Lost in Space - Apollo 440 tracks
This list could get huge so...no time now...
Entire Soundtracks...
Star Trek The Original Motion Picture(AWESOME SOUNDTRACK)
Jurassic Park
12 Monkeys - especially the theme
Lost Highway
The Fifth Element(AWESOME) - Eric Serra
MirrorMask especially end credit track by josefine cronholm
The Crow!
Resident Evil movie Main theme, couple other tracks
Cowboy Bebop TV series 4 disc set
Last Exile anime
Video Game soundtracks...
Squaresoft games, Wipeout games...
This could get really long...so I'll stop.
Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at November 21, 2008 10:18 PM
Some anime here, but my fav is Hellsing!. The surprising choice of dirty psyche rock, lots of guitar with a thick layer of distortion on everything. It's two discs, it's readily torrentable and it's psychelicious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TtYRBKi3DU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOD2DVq1r60&feature=related
Posted by: Sunsneezer at November 22, 2008 11:15 AM
I've always really liked the soundtrack for Wonder Boys.
Posted by: Jeni at November 22, 2008 9:34 PM
Honeymoon in Las Vegas had a really cool soundtrack consisting entirely of Elvis covers- but not one original Elvis track.
Too many good ones to list...
Since a few have already mentioned Jarmusch's gift for combining music and film, I gotta mention his take on the western, Dead Man, whose score is one long guitar solo by Neil Young.
Posted by: RobW at November 22, 2008 10:14 PM
I know this dates me, but my first soundtrack album was Curtis Mayfield's Superfly, and I am listening to "Fred is dead" right this minute. Coincidence? I think not!
Posted by: Joanna at November 22, 2008 10:54 PM
"Don't touch my guitar, man. Don't even touch my guitar."
Posted by: Elfrieda at November 23, 2008 7:03 AM
Ry Cooder's soundtrack for Walter Hill's Crossroads
Joe LeDuca's soundtrack for Brotherhood of the Wolf
Prince's soundtrack for Purple Rain
Posted by: Adam C at November 24, 2008 2:53 AM
