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Originally posted by tanglenet:
I don't buy too many either, but the few that I can remember:

Cool World

Great call, tangle! I forgot all about that soundtrack. It is excellent! After all, any soundtrack with The Cult has to be superb.

IMHO The best soundtrack album is SPAWN. Shame the movie sucked.

All the tracks are collaborations between radically different artists, such as Filter and The Crystal Method, Prodigy and Tom Morello, Orbital and Kirk Hammett, Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot. It really works; I'm surprised that it hasn't been tried again.

I also really liked Pi (Clint Mansell/various), Black Hawk Down (Hans Zimmer), Codename: Wildgeese (Eloy) and Josie and the Pus$ycats (Kay Hanley [of Letters To Cleo] with Matthew Sweet)

Best soundtrack ever was to a skiing movie called "License to Thrill." Awesome! Would love to find that on CD...had it on tape way back in the day! -mJ

Kubrick, mentioned for Clockwork Orange, put great soundtracks behind his movies.
That's phrased wrong, the music and ambient sound is integral to the structure of the movie. Can you imagine 2001 without Also Sprach Zarathustra? Either 2001 or Eyes Wide Shut without Ligeti?
The problem is that the music is selected and edited so tightly to the visuals that it does not make a great listening experience by itself.

For the science fiction and science fact buffs, how about Brian Eno's Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks?

Blade Runner - Vangelis
Thief - Tangerine Dream
O Brother Where art thou?
Cal - Mark Knopfler
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
Dazed & Confused Vol I & II

The 1st Blade Runner OST I believe was done by the London Symphony and was no where near as good as the Vangelis version, which is what is heard in the movie.

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Originally posted by Noto Bene:
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Chariots of Fire - Vangelis

Two of my all-time favorite movies; great music by Vangelis. I own both soundtracks.

Many fine choices listed already.

I would add Bird.

The Godfather Collection
Blow

Watching it right now:

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

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Originally posted by winetarelli:
Watching it right now:

South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut

Almost as good as: Team America: World Police