I am a soundtrack junkie. I love them and have a pretty good collection.

Some of my favorite soundtracks are:

Cruel Intentions

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (some really great unique sounding bands including a hauntingly gothic "Transylvanian Concubine" by Darling Violetta)

She's Having a Baby (good eighties alternative pop songs in there)

Platoon (good sixties "fight the man" songs)

Pretty in Pink (who doesn't like a little OMD??)

And the music in The Big Chill totally defined that movie. It set the mood, defined the era, and just set the overall tone for the movie.

Have you seen the special feature on the DVD? it really goes into that nad how they chose the songs. its amazing.

I have this weird "thing" for TV and movie soundtracks.

I have lots which I return to again and again (anything Y&R from the 80s) but i'll mention two for now.

1. is the soundtrack for Steven Soderberg's Traffic, starring Benecio del Toro and Michael Douglas. There is a scene where MD is flown in a helicopter over Mexico City and the music playing during that scene is particularly evocative.

2. is anything composed by John Barry for the James Bond movies. The opening credits were always an art in of themselves, but the music really took it to another level. Case in point: Moonraker. Not-great Bond film. Awesome song sung by Shirley Bassey.

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Another was We have all the time in the world, sung by Louis Armstrong for Her Majesty's Secret Service. Armstrong was dying at the time so that whole song is especially poignant.

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I love Shirley Bassey and the whole Bond thing too. I actually have Moonraker, Goldfinger and I who have nothing by Shirley Bassey on my ipod.

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Toups~

It's the track "The Dragon's Heartbeat" from Randy Edelman's soundtrack for the film, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story".

It gets used in a lot of trailers...particularly "Forrest Gump".

The Virgin Suicides, Across the Universe, Dazed and Confused, and Almost Famous are some of my favorite soundtracks.

As far as tv shows go, Gossip Girl has a really good music team.

Sophia Coppola hiring Air to do Virgin Suicides was an inspired choice. They said they listened to some 70s electornic scores--like Moroder's American Gigolo one--for inspiration. Great moody stuff that works as well on CD as it does for the movie.

The OC always had amazing CD's.

Toups~

It's the track "The Dragon's Heartbeat" from Randy Edelman's soundtrack for the film, "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story".

It gets used in a lot of trailers...particularly "Forrest Gump".

Thank you so much, LegalGirl!! Yeah, I noticed that it's used in a lot of trailers (and it's used a lot during the Olympics too) and I always wondered where the music was from.

It's so good.

The score from :45 to 1:05 - Is that from The Dark Knight?

What about from 1:09 to 2:02?

I just finished watching "No Reservations" and Philip Glass did the score. It reminded me of his "The Hours" score which I just totally loved. "The Hours" was the first movie I noticed Philip Glass. I simply love his piano pieces - it's so beautiful, haunting and sad. It's one of my favorite film scores.

Glass can be brilliant. But I think the criticisms about him repeatign himself have proven true. I did LOVE his short theme for the flop tv remake a few years back of Night Stalker.

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I'm going back a ways but I really like "Grease" and "The Jazz Singer" soundtracks--as a Neil Diamond fan I can admit he sucked as an actor but those were some great songs for the film. Saturday Night Fever is another good one, luv me those BeeGees. And, as a Star Trek fan, I think, between all the tv shows and the movies, they had some great music...not just the themes but the music that would play during scenes--the original series, especially, had some memorable music--fight scenes had a certain theme, the Vulcans had another kind of music, a dangerous space object had another theme...

May I recommend Eleni Karaindrou, who composes for Angelopoulos's films?

I don't even know any of his films! Just the name... Do you have examples of highlights movie/sound track wise?

I'm going back a ways but I really like "Grease" and "The Jazz Singer" soundtracks--as a Neil Diamond fan I can admit he sucked as an actor but those were some great songs for the film. Saturday Night Fever is another good one, luv me those BeeGees. And, as a Star Trek fan, I think, between all the tv shows and the movies, they had some great music...not just the themes but the music that would play during scenes--the original series, especially, had some memorable music--fight scenes had a certain theme, the Vulcans had another kind of music, a dangerous space object had another theme...

Thank God It's Friday had by FAR the better disco soundtrack--Casablanca and Motown hired their best to score it and it kinda flopped--even with Paul Jabara (in a bizarre straight acting role) and his great song for Donna Summer, Last Dance. Diana Ross has an AMAZING disco song on there--Lovin', Livin', Givin' and the full four record set is made of great eurodisco songs--the movie is kinda fun largely to see Jeff Goldblum act as king of disco--and Terri Nunn who DOnna Summer's producer liked so much he gave her Take My Breath Away 7 years later.