The Soundtracks Board

[Spyglass]

I was gonna wait until tomorrow to start another thread, but these forums are deader than Ash's girlfriend Linda. Speaking of awesome movies, I thought of this thread because I have three soundtracks in my top 100 albums: Blade Runner, Star Wars, and 1492. Two of those are by the incredible Vangelis, who has achieved perfection with both of these albums.
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[Patman360]

I'm a sucker for a good soundtrack and it naturally has a big impact on the media regardless, currently got one in my overall chart.

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Soundtrack From Twin Peaks by Angelo Badalamenti

Like a bunch of other people here, I was on the Twin Peaks train (was very much the show of choice around these parts for awhile, can't say if that's still the case), but it's left a big impact on me, had a tendency to send shivers down my spine from the moment I heard it.

I do have a (massively outdated admittedly) soundtrack chart from my younger days, but a number of albums on that chart have no doubt left a huge impact on me still to this day, be they original recordings or just compilations of tracks that acted as gateways into genres I would otherwise have passed over for the most part.

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Smashing... Live! by New Japan Philharmonic

I was about all things Nintendo when I was younger (still love their shit still anyway), but this got serious serious playtime before I ever came across any 'proper' albums (i.e. when I started spending all my savings on the likes of Nirvana, Oasis and Led Zeppelin CD's), still holds up great and I have the copy back home, no idea where I actually got this as a kid.

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And All The Pieces Matter - Five Years ...us Artists

Another popular show around these parts and one of the best ever of course, there's a serious mix of tunes in there across a whole series of genres, still listen to this every so often when cravings kick in.

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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Official ...us Artists

Spent a summer in the rural west of Ireland working on my undergrad thesis with essentially only this boxset on an old iPod, no phone reception, no internet, just me in mountains and bogs for hours each day with this as my only company. Good times.

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Music From And Inspired By Tony Hawk's ...us Artists

My kickstarter into punk, given the current coronavirus situation, this game has been dug out again and is getting serious playtime. Still got it.

Big fan of a few others, like the aforementioned Blade Runner, a bunch of various spaghetti westerns which I must add (grew up around horses and my dad has this crazy VCR collection of westerns) and a smattering of others.
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[albummaster]

Also a big fan of that Twin Peaks soundtrack Patman360 posted, plus most of Morricone's work (particularly the western soundtracks). I'll throw this one in as well as a personal fav:

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The Harder They Come by Various Artists

[saltfish]

Most things Popol Vuh did for Werner Herzog, particularly

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Coeur De Verre by Popol Vuh

Most things Ennio Morricone did for Leone, Corbucci, etc., especially

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C'Era Una Volta Il West [Once Upon A Ti... Morricone

And Boxhead Ensemble

[baystateoftheart]

The GOAT soundtrack:

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Superfly by Curtis Mayfield

Gabe had a really cool soundtrack chart before resetting his account. I wish I could have gone through it more. This one was #1 and is dope:

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Transmigration by Osamu Sato
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[Hayden]

[Luigii]

@Hayden

Haven't video game soundtracks been scary good for over 25 to 30 years at this point?

[LedZep]

Doom soundtrack is one of the best, so yeah, great game soundtracks have been around since the 90s at least.

Twin Peaks is the GOAT, but here's another iconic one:

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2001: A Space Odyssey by Various Artists


And of course, this one:

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Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud by Miles Davis


12 Monkeys score by Paul Buckmaster gets a bit overlooked, but it's one of my faves. Of course, Howard Shore's LOTR score is among the best ever, as well as Pirates of the Caribbean scores (by Klaus Badelt and Hans Zimmer).

As far as usage of music in movies (so the whole soundtrack) goes, some of my faves are Trainspotting, Drive, Vanilla Sky, Baby Driver, Apocalypse Now, Pulp Fiction, Space Jam and last year's Waves. Singles is also a great collection of grunge tracks. Some musicians like Nick Cave, Trent Reznor, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Johnny Greenwood have produced some incredible scores.
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Finally updated the overall chart

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[Romanelli]

Still my favorite soundtrack album...

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Pump Up The Volume by Various Artists
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