Greatest film Soundtrack album?

[tristan_geoff]

Taxi Driver OS FUckin T

is phenomenal and 75% of why I loved that film so much

feels like a fever dream

[DJChameleon]

I got into Clint Mansell because of Dead Reckoning used in Smoking Aces.

[Lexi Darling]

My first exposure to his music was his Requiem for a Dream score being used in an old YTMND page lol

[Saulaac]

I'm slipping a TV soundtrack into this movie thread. Yes you've guessed it, Starsky & Hutch! But very importantly, it's the score from the first season composed by Lalo Schifrin (in 1975?). Subsequent seasons were not as gritty imo, and became more silly and too much "circus clown juggling on a uni-cycle" type of sound.

3 favourites are Running, Silence, and Rooftop Chase. It's good to listen to them one after the other, as this is probably their sequence in the series (i.e. running away from something, then hiding, then being chased or something).
This is original top notch stake-out/ heist/ car chase funk...        

Running

Silence

Rooftop Chase

Some other good ones are in the Full Score

[Trollheart]

I watched an episode not long ago and was quite surprised by how comic and slapstick it was not. I remember as a kid watching it and enjoying it, but whether I happened to catch a darker episode or not, it wasn't fun at all, and people got literally killed. I remembered it being all fun and games, cops and robbers, and perfectly coiffed hairdos, but this was dark and downbeat. This in an era where the A-Team would slam into a mountain in a helicopter and emerge coughing and waving smoke away, and when McGuyver could create a batallion of tanks out of three paper clips and a rubber band!

[Buckeye Randy]

'Greatest Film Soundtrack Album'?  Do musicals count?  If so, the soundtrack to Mary Poppins wins in a landslide because I love every song.

I never owned soundtrack albums to 'Border Radio' and 'Empire Records' but I thought the music complemented the movies.

Sooo...my cousin had a soundtrack album back in the day from the TV series 'Dark Shadows'.  This was always the played during preteen seances or attempts at a haunted house in a basement.