GREAT idea. i funking live for this kinda shit. when i think of a positively stunning soundtrack that no one mentioned [and no, im not looking at you, New Jack City soundtrack] i will be sure to let you know.

You got the gears goin’ and I’m on a roll sucka. I also forgot to include Judgment Night, terrible movie-awesome soundtrack. I actually haven’t listened to in for quite a while so I’ll have to go back and see how it holds up.

I bought it at up at Face the Music at the U of O Campus (is it still there?) like a month before the movie came out and was blown away, couldn’t wait for the movie but was utterly disappointed.

It had some pretty cool pairings of Alt. Rock and Rap artists and was way ahead of it’s time for 1993 and this was also well before Kid Joke/Limp Bizquick/Linkin Dork were on the scene.

Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill, Helmet and House of Pain, Teenage Fanclub and De La Soul, Living Colour and Run DMC, Biohazard and Onyx, Slayer and Ice-T, Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill.

I liked every song on it except for (surprisingly) the Mudhoney and Sir Mix-A-Lot joint-”Freak Mama” (Which will probably be the only track I like now once I hear it again)

I’ll just Ramble On now . . .

What’s up when the soundtrack leaves out some of the coolest music from the movie? (Thank God for IMDB to help track ‘em down) I also really hate it when a trailer has some awesome tune but it never makes it in to the movie (False Advertising?)

OK, is Purple Rain a real bona fide soundtrack or just a Prince album that was released at the same time the movie was? I say an “Official” Purple Rain Soundtrack would have to have Morris Day and The Time and Apollonia 6 in addition to Prince AND THE Revolution!

In the “after the fact” category (similar to your take on The Wall) is Wave Twisters, by DJ Q-Bert, be sure to listen to the CD first and THEN the rent the Movie if you can find it.

When I think of music and movies, I gotta break it down into Soundtracks, Film scores, Concert Films, etc.

Sometimes the Soundtrack/Score really makes the Movie and the two become inseparable (Star Wars, Blade Runner, Heavy Metal)

There are some soundtracks I love but could care less if I ever saw the movie in the first place or ever again (Dead Presidents, Singles)

Some soundtracks get overplayed and lose some of their magic. (Pulp Fiction, Passion) I had listened to “Passion” by Peter Gabriel from the Movie: The Last Temptation Of Christ for many years before I ever saw the movie (Blame that on that Jesuit Education) and I still love it but you have to admit it gets way overplayed.

I’ve come across some random soundtracks that introduced me to a few good cuts or a new artist but it’s painful after digging a gem out of the garbage, especially when the Movie sucks too (Higher Learning)

Some Favs-Worth checking out
Malcolm X (minus the Aretha and Arrested Development Tracks)
Dead Presidents
Life Aquatic

Natural Born Killers (I use to make mix tapes like this: Totally random, different genres-all over the map, with weird samples in-between)
Passion (The Last Temptation Of Christ) did for World Music what Harder They Come did for porn eh, Reggae
Krush Groove
Party Monster
Crossing the Bridge (Documentary on the music scene in Istanbul, Turkey)
I’m glad someone mentioned Friday but don’t forget Old School Friday
Pi (as in 3.14~ from the same director of Requiem for a Dream)
Mama was a PIMP!

Scores
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Danny Elfman does once it again, but I liked his Oingo Boingo and solo days MUCH better)
The Piano
Fight Club (By the Dust Brothers)
Requiem for a Dream-Remixed
Pink Panther
2001

A few good tracks
Higher Learning
Cool World
Above the Rim

Favorite concert film-Most times I’d rather dig my eyes out than watch a concert video but I love this one!
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii (with Bootleg concert soundtrack)

Awesome, I Fuckin’ Shot That! by the Beasties wasn’t too bad but it works better just playing in the background for me.

Recommended by my good friend Vaughn:
Liquid sky
Synthetic Pleasures
Phantasm

Music Video Collections –Cheating but some nice pairing of images and music
The Tool videos from the Salival box
Beastie Boys-Criterion collection Video Anthology (but ya gotta get the Bootleg-License to Ill videos)
Run DMC –Greatest Hits
Director’s Series, all Volumes but esp. #3 – Michel Gondry

I too am a huge Morricone fan. The Mission is, I think, my #1 soundtrack. Shitty movie; great pan flute. No, I’m not kidding.

i’d have to say that alvin lee and ten years afters blistering i’m going home is really the highlight of that one, after hendrix of course….

do you consider red headed stranger a “soundtrack”…???