Best Movie Soundtrack

Excellent thread! Here are mine:
1. Ascent the Scaffold (Miles Davis)- not only is this a very sexy soundtrack, it is an undeservedly neglected Jazz masterpiece. The CD (Fontana) sound is just okay, however, soundtrack has been re-released on Vinyl (a must, esp. for Miles Davis/Jazz afficianados)
2.The Big Blue: skin-tinglingly good. I only wish they would bring out a 24/96, SACD or vinyl remaster
3.Diva: uses a few tracks from the opera La Wally, but the title music by Vladimir Kosma is quite beautiful (nice reverb effect). Other pieces on soundtrack can be skipped over
4. Lost Highway (esp.David Bowie tracks)
5. Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence (chinese compositions with David Bowie vocals)
6."White-Heat" by Jazz at the Movies Band: a collection of Film Noir soundtracks. An LP was recently released which is better than the CD. Again, mandatory for Jazz fans
7.Alfie
8.Eric Korngold and Rosza movie scores
Many more - these are a good start.
Thanks to all for sharing.

If your talkin' about a good compilation of enjoyable music, then I dig: "Repo Man", "Pump Up The Volume" and "Married To the Mob"

I finally located a copy of "Diva" and it is every bit as good as I remembered. Still searching for a copy of "Black Orpheus".

Hungryear, I forgot all about Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence. I have it, most excellant music, the movie is most depressing tho. Think I'll go dig it out and listen....

Not much on soundtracks. Hi Fidelity & Dazed and Confused ( as listed above ) are good simply for remembering that time / era in my life. I wouldn't really call them "soundtracks" as i would normally think of soundtracks though.

Since i do like Celtic music, i'll have to dig up Patriot Games and Waking Ned Devine. On that same track, i've listened to Braveheart more than a few times. Surprised that nobody else mentioned it. I loved the movie too.

Since both i and my girlfriend like Peter Gabriel, we'll probably pick up the "last temptation of Christ" also. Thanks for the tips folks.

While not really a "soundtrack", some of the same music that they use in their stageshow can be found on Blue Man Group's CD entitled "Audio". With a "big drum" that is measurably taller than ANY man, you can count on bottom end that can REALLY shake the house. Besides that, it's worth the purchase just to see some of the funky homebrew PVC based instruments that they've created. Mostly percussion based, specific cuts on the disc work well to test / show off specific traits of your system also. I would not recommend "cranking" this up the first time that you listen to it unless you have complete confidence in the reliability of your system. Better to give it a listen and THEN adjust the volume accordingly. Sean
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