Greatest film Soundtrack album?

[jimmy jazz]

Saturday Night Fever imo.

[Trollheart]

Honestly, you'd have to give Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 a listen. Don't care about the film but so much classic rock. Then there's Speed 2: terrible movie, great soundtrack album.

[Lexi Darling]

Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer and Thief soundtracks are stone cold classics.

As a synth nerd I'm also just a huge fan of electronic soundtracks from the 70s and 80s in general. I'll drop some more of my faves in a bit.

[jimmy jazz]

Honestly, you'd have to give Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 a listen. Don't care about the film but so much classic rock. Then there's Speed 2: terrible movie, great soundtrack album.

I was thinking more along the lines of soundtracks made for the film rather than a bunch of songs used in the film if this makes sense.
SNF was all songs made at that time and some for the film wasn't it?

GOTG2 is not the same imo. I'm sure there are plenty more great soundtracks where they used a bunch of classic songs.

Don't ban me though just my opinion 

[Lexi Darling]

@jimmy jazz I believe all the Bee Gees tracks were made specifically for the film. But at least some of the other tracks like Disco Inferno were older tracks that weren't directly related.

Edit: Oh, yeah I reread. Yeah all of the tracks were definitely contemporary disco tracks from 75-77 or so, so yeah, i  got you.

[Lisnaholic]

Tangerine Dream's Sorcerer and Thief soundtracks are stone cold classics.

^ I used to have that album, Lexi, and although I never saw the movie, the photo on the cover looked so intriguing:-



BTW, the greatest movie soundtrack is Paris, Texas : I thought everybody knew that .
It's an album of languid guitar instrumentals, with just one song with vocals: a masterpiece in OTT mournfulness, with lyrics that begin:
 "I am so far away from the floor that I was born on...
... I am so alone and so sad...
... I would like to cry,  I would like to die - de sentimiento!!"

( My choice comes labelled as "O.S.T.", so I hope it gets approved by the Jimmy Jazz Soundtrack Police. )

[Trollheart]

I was thinking more along the lines of soundtracks made for the film rather than a bunch of songs used in the film if this makes sense.
SNF was all songs made at that time and some for the film wasn't it?

GOTG2 is not the same imo. I'm sure there are plenty more great soundtracks where they used a bunch of classic songs.

Don't ban me though just my opinion 

So what you're asking for is best film scores, is it? The music, rather than, as you say, a bunch of songs? If that's correct, and you want the thread title changed to reflect that, just shout.

In terms of scores then, my go-to would be

[tristan_geoff]

Wicker Man OST goes hard except for that goddamn Maypole song shut the fuck uppppp "on that tree there was a limb and on that limb" omg stahpppp

[DJChameleon]

Drive soundtrack is pretty up there for me.

I also love The Scorpion King soundtrack and Queen of the Damned. They got so many spins from me when I first got them.

[innerspaceboy]

My vote is for Vangelis' score to Blade Runner.

Tragically it was many years before the original score was available as an official consumer release. All prior editions had contained the 1982 New American Orchestra – Blade Runner (Orchestral Adaptation Of Music Composed For The Motion Picture By Vangelis) recordings which did not appear in the film.

This was rectified on Record Store Day in 2013 with the Audio Fidelity press of the soundtrack. This limited edition red translucent wax numbered LP was the first-ever vinyl pressing of Vangelis' original Blade Runner score.

For those unable to secure the LP, the other noteworthy edition is an unofficial but high-quality bootleg box set titled, Vangelis & Various – Blade Runner - Esper 'Retirement' Edition (25th Anniversary Culmination) and spans 5 discs of CD and DVD material.

Here's my copy of the LP:









And here's the Retirement Edition:

[Trollheart]

Yes Vangelis does some great movie soundtracks, though I think my favourite of his is either the music from Carl Sagan's Cosmos - Heaven and Hell - or his soundtrack to the documentary Apocalypse des Animaux.

[Guybrush]

Here are some tracks from my favourites 🙂 not very original, so you probably know them well.

Any Other Name by Thomas Newman

The Asteroid Field by John Williams

Willow's Song by Paul Giovanni and played by Magnet

Ice Dance by Danny Elfman

[jimmy jazz]

John Williams music for ET was exceptional.

[Saulaac]

Who doesn't like a bit of Hans Zimmer's 'Cornfield Chase' during Interstellar. Or am I being too boring?

Howard Shore's "Lord Of The Rings" trilogy was also a powerful soundtrack. Oh my good Lord.

But my personal favourites off the beaten track are (yes we're heading into the realms of disco at times):

[innerspaceboy]

Clint Mansell is my favorite soundtrack composer. He's composed the scores for so many great films.

To name just a few, Black Swan, The Fountain, Ghost in the Shell (2017), Moon, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, San Junipero (Black Mirror), and many others.

The Pi soundtrack was critical to my musical development.