🎼 “HOLD ME CLOSERRRR TINY DANCEERR! COUNT THE HEADLIGHTS ON THE HEADWAAAY! LAY ME DOAWn in SHEETS OF LIIIIINEEN! YOU HAD A BUSY DAY TODAAAAY!” 🚍🎤
Holy shite. That’s my coming-of-age film, “Almost Famous” (when I was in the school magazine).
Also, the title (later in life). All my peers got to be actresses as their coming-of-age rite of passage thing (because that’s just what girls in my schools did) but I was always a late bloomer and now their all miserable and made that I’m still having fun at my age. Fuck them, tho.
Anything by: John Williams (Superman), John Barry (Somewhere in Time, Chaplin, Out of Africa), or Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso). Goodfellas, Valley Girl, Castaway, Legend of 1900, Harry Potter films, All That Jazz. Superman The Movie is my all time favorite.
(I get the Big Lebowski joke. The unofficial soundtrack is fantastic. The actual OST is a disgusting piece of garbage devoid of the actual music used in the film.
(Like the rest of the promotion for the film, the distributor maliciously fucked everything up.)
GOODFELLAS Casino A Bronx Tale Dead Presidents Boogie Nights So many more but some were said and can’t think of the others lol. Everyone has given really great answers. Love all those soundtracks.
Multiple excellent soundtracks from John Hughes, Cameron Crowe and Sofia Coppola films. And as much as he personally disgusts me, I like a few Tarantino ones too.
I'm thinking "Ready Player One" soundtrack will be really good, and potentially my new favorite soundtrack. (80s alternative and rock) So far artists/tracks mentioned are on track with the book's musical reference.
There are personal favorites, like The Graduate, Pretty in Pink, High Fidelity, Garden State, and then there are soundtracks that so thoughtfully captured the movies themselves that I can't hear certain songs without remembering the movies: The Big Chill, Stand by Me, 8 Mile, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
What everyone else said + Repo Man & Over the Edge, among others. I had a VHS copy of the former (the movie, I mean, although I had the cassette too - my recollection is the soundtrack wasn't released on CD till the 90s or something), taped from tv, complete with KTLA or some such station commercials, and funnily dubbed expletives. Anyone remember watching the former on Lifetime in the 80s after school? In a certain way, it was like the ultimate after school special.
Phantom of the Paradise Rocky Horror Picture Show The Matrix The Mission Tous les matins du monde Gladiator Interview With the Vampire Dazed and Confused Fast Times at Ridgemont High The Commitments
@Uhhhh, I don't think people appreciate how many great musicians paired together to make unique songs for the Spawn soundtrack. Most of the soundtracks listed above, except musicals, were a compilation of existing songs, more like a playlist.
It's "South Pacific" or "The Music Man" fighting it out for Win and Place, with "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music" fighting it out for the Show position. All these are well before my time. I'm not THAT old, I just know a lot of movies and scores. "O Brother Where Art Thou", from my era, came on strong but wasn't in the running.
Absolutely love this question and reading through the comments. Discovered some new music today and revisited some favorites...thanks everyone! Not an epic OMG all time favorite, but do love how the story and original songs on the soundtrack were entwined in the film Once.
Empire Records Shag: The Movie Animal House Grease 2 (I need a C-O-O-L...R-I-D-E-R!) The Crow That Thing You Do Dazed and Confused Invincible Queen of the Dammed (soundtrack was light years better than the movie) Hackers
Heathers for the win! That’s where I discovered Leonard Cohen, covered by Concrete Blonde. Pretty in Pink (John Hughes movies in general) the Big Chill The Mission (Last if the Mohicans, as well) Pulp Fiction
You can't beat Lost Highway for dark, beautiful and haunting music. It has Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein and 9" Nails. Also I love the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in America as much as the movie itself. Ennio Morricone at his very best.
The Lost Boys Less Than Zero The Breakfast Club. Reality Bites Valley Girl. Say Anything The Wall. The Doors Tommy-The Who. A Clockwork Orange Pretty In Pink
No, don’t stop make it “last one I promise”, Ginger Falls! I’m loving the music recommendations! I’m sure I’m not the only one who subscribed to the thread for that reason! 🍻
Spawn
ReplyDeleteZardoz
ReplyDeleteHoly shot I tell people all the time they need to see that movie. Just for the sight of Sean Connery wearing a red nappy and nothing else.
DeleteFriends, I am SOOO excited.
ReplyDeleteMy mechanic is giving away dead batteries. Free of charge!
Saturday Night Fever
ReplyDelete💃🏻 YOU SHOULD BE DAAAAANCIN’!!!! YEEEEEH🕺🏻
DeleteYes!!
DeletePurple Rain
ReplyDeleteCinema Paradiso
ReplyDeleteSorcerer 1977
ReplyDeleteGrease
ReplyDeletegladiator
ReplyDeleteSingles
ReplyDeleteYes!!@unknown. Singles💖
Delete+1
DeleteThe Saint
ReplyDeleteStealing Beauty
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely
DeleteHigh Fidelity
ReplyDelete@Liz Pop - great choice!
DeleteAbsolutely! Definitely one of them (Dylan.... The Beta Band)
Delete9.5 weeks was pretty awesome as well
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
ReplyDeleteSingles and grosse point blank
ReplyDeleteFantasia
ReplyDeleteThe Big Lebowski
ReplyDeleteAgree with Saturday nNight Fever
ReplyDeleteThe Big Chill
ReplyDeletePretty in Pink
ReplyDeleteand
Almost Famous
🎼 “HOLD ME CLOSERRRR TINY DANCEERR! COUNT THE HEADLIGHTS ON THE HEADWAAAY! LAY ME DOAWn in SHEETS OF LIIIIINEEN! YOU HAD A BUSY DAY TODAAAAY!” 🚍🎤
DeleteHoly shite. That’s my coming-of-age film, “Almost Famous” (when I was in the school magazine).
Also, the title (later in life). All my peers got to be actresses as their coming-of-age rite of passage thing (because that’s just what girls in my schools did) but I was always a late bloomer and now their all miserable and made that I’m still having fun at my age. Fuck them, tho.
Where’s the pointe shoes emoji, iOS 11?
Trainspotting
ReplyDeleteGrease
ReplyDeleteWhere art thou Brother
ReplyDeleteOh brother where art thou?
DeleteWho knows, or even cares. It's still on regular rotation in my car though.
Great choice
DeleteRushmore
ReplyDeleteThe Stuntman!! Great soundtrack, awful movie.
ReplyDeleteSuperfly and Waiting to Exhale.
ReplyDeleteVangelis Blade Runner
ReplyDeleteKrush Groove
ReplyDeleteThe Bodyguard
Purple Rain
I came back to add A Kind of Magic. It is the official soundtrack to the first Highlander film.
DeleteAdd Break in too. Loved Irish groove too! Into alternative now...
DeleteBreaking. About break dancing.
DeleteLegends of the Fall
ReplyDeletePurple Rain! Also Pretty in Pink & The Wall.
ReplyDeleteInto the Wild
ReplyDeleteYes!!!!!
DeleteAnything by: John Williams (Superman), John Barry (Somewhere in Time, Chaplin, Out of Africa), or Ennio Morricone (Cinema Paradiso). Goodfellas, Valley Girl, Castaway, Legend of 1900, Harry Potter films, All That Jazz. Superman The Movie is my all time favorite.
ReplyDeleteMaximum Overdrive
ReplyDeleteOh hey Motörhead, big fan lol 😜
DeleteCouldda said Eat The Rich but doubt you yankees would have seen it♠️
DeleteNone of these are even close to the correct answer which is:
ReplyDeleteAmerican Graffiti.
FTW. Hands down. No contest.
UHF.
ReplyDelete(I get the Big Lebowski joke. The unofficial soundtrack is fantastic. The actual OST is a disgusting piece of garbage devoid of the actual music used in the film.
(Like the rest of the promotion for the film, the distributor maliciously fucked everything up.)
The Last Waltz
ReplyDelete+1. Levon sang for more than 14 hours and never faltered.
DeleteWillie Deville StoryBook Story
ReplyDeleteTop Gun
Lost Boys
Garden State
ReplyDeleteGreat one@dustyfairy
DeleteAlso Grease. We may be showing our generation, those of us who chose it, but whatever.
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteBlade Runner by Vangelis, it's otherworldly.
ReplyDeleteGrease
ReplyDeleteGrease, though it's a musical, so don't know if you can count it
ReplyDeleteOtherwise, Top Gun, Footloose, She's Having a Baby...pretty much every teen movie from the 80s had a killer soundtrack.
Saturday Night Fever also gets my votes
Dazed and Confused
ReplyDeleteAgreed!
DeleteGot stoned at dazed and confused at the Ken cinema! Lol
DeleteThe Commitments
ReplyDeleteRisky Business
ReplyDeletePulp Fiction and Dazed & Confused
ReplyDeleteAgreed sandybrook, TW and Dena
ReplyDelete@Brayson that was my first thought too...
ReplyDeleteFootloose
ReplyDeleteGOODFELLAS
ReplyDeleteCasino
A Bronx Tale
Dead Presidents
Boogie Nights
So many more but some were said and can’t think of the others lol. Everyone has given really great answers. Love all those soundtracks.
Goodfellas soundtrack is great one!
DeleteGoodfella's blew me away..
ReplyDeleteThe Sting
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe no one said Reality Bites
ReplyDeleteEmpire Records
ReplyDeleteDefintely O Brother Where Art Thou.
ReplyDeleteAmadeus
ReplyDeleteThe original, Beauty and the Beast.
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights (1992) Ryuichi Sakamoto
ReplyDeleteMultiple excellent soundtracks from John Hughes, Cameron Crowe and Sofia Coppola films. And as much as he personally disgusts me, I like a few Tarantino ones too.
ReplyDeleteWithout a hint of irony: Batman Forever.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, it was amazing.
Eliot Goldenthal? I’m not looking it up that’s cheating
DeleteI'm thinking "Ready Player One" soundtrack will be really good, and potentially my new favorite soundtrack. (80s alternative and rock) So far artists/tracks mentioned are on track with the book's musical reference.
ReplyDeleteAs an Edinburgh native- Trainspotting, then followed by Amelie.
ReplyDeleteFunny Girl and Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet are two I listened to endlessly when I was young. Chicago is my all time favorite.
ReplyDeleteX files the first movie
ReplyDeleteNo contest...
ReplyDeleteThe Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies
Yes, that is the name. A soundtrack like no other.
The Craft
ReplyDeleteIn The Mood For Love
ReplyDeleteMany come close, but the only correct answer is Blues Brothers.
ReplyDeletePulp fiction or Oh brother where art thou... the second is the only one I’ve ever bought
ReplyDeleteFootloose
ReplyDeleteRocky Horror Picture Show
Top Gun
Sorry but you cannot even touch Saturday Night Fever
ReplyDeleteO'Brother, Where Art Thou?
ReplyDeleteThere are personal favorites, like The Graduate, Pretty in Pink, High Fidelity, Garden State, and then there are soundtracks that so thoughtfully captured the movies themselves that I can't hear certain songs without remembering the movies: The Big Chill, Stand by Me, 8 Mile, O Brother, Where Art Thou?
ReplyDeleteGoldfinger (don’t forget Shirley Bassey!) I love every track, esp “Alpine Drive”
ReplyDeleteSunshine
ReplyDeleteOne other that I really love and have on heavy rotation at home, is the soundtrack to "Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ".
ReplyDeleteThe Big Chill, 8 Mile, Waiting to Exhale, Baby Driver
ReplyDeleteWhat everyone else said + Repo Man & Over the Edge, among others. I had a VHS copy of the former (the movie, I mean, although I had the cassette too - my recollection is the soundtrack wasn't released on CD till the 90s or something), taped from tv, complete with KTLA or some such station commercials, and funnily dubbed expletives. Anyone remember watching the former on Lifetime in the 80s after school? In a certain way, it was like the ultimate after school special.
ReplyDeletePhantom of the Paradise
ReplyDeleteRocky Horror Picture Show
The Matrix
The Mission
Tous les matins du monde
Gladiator
Interview With the Vampire
Dazed and Confused
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
The Commitments
I like movie soundtracks.
The Sound of Music.
ReplyDeleteThe Decline of Western Civilization
ReplyDeleteFight Club
Blade Runner
Drive
Mulholland Drive
ReplyDeleteMy Fair Lady.
ReplyDeleteYes I'm old
Beetlejuice
ReplyDeleteLittle Shop of Horrors
Name
And most everything listed above
Rockstar
ReplyDeletethe crow
ReplyDeleteAlmost Famous/ Queen of the Damned
ReplyDeleteAnything by Phillip Glass. Wonderfully baroque. A true genius in our time.
ReplyDeleteDazed and confused or the crow
ReplyDelete@Uhhhh, I don't think people appreciate how many great musicians paired together to make unique songs for the Spawn soundtrack. Most of the soundtracks listed above, except musicals, were a compilation of existing songs, more like a playlist.
ReplyDeleteOmg noone wrote pink floyd the wall...also like saturday night fever Singles fast times at ridgemont high heavy metal
ReplyDeleteI also remember when tommy was all over the airwaves setting records
DeleteStreets of Fire, Visionquest
ReplyDeleteForgot about vision quest 🤘🏼
DeleteThe good the bad and the ugly
ReplyDeleteFlash Gordon - it's cheesetastic.
@Normal.Yes Indeed - agree. Koyaanisqatsi is awesome.
ReplyDeleteDesperdo has an amazing Mark Knopfler/Dire Straits "Six Blade Knife" that's pretty stellar.
True Stories - Talking Heads,
Something Wild
Rushmore
The Bodyguard and John Wick.
ReplyDeleteCasino, and Rushmore.
ReplyDelete2001 A Space Odyssey because it opened classical music to me.
ReplyDeleteIf you mean music specifically composed for movies, then Ennio Morricone and John Barry are modern masters.
goodfellas
ReplyDeletegone with the wind
lost in translation
meet me in st louis
grease 2
boiler room
covered my emotional favorites
Until the End of the World and Good Fellas.
ReplyDeleteBoogie Nights.
ReplyDeleteStreets of Fire
ReplyDeleteShocker
Pink Floyd The Wall
And in the musical category...
Evil Dead the Musical
Purple Rain
ReplyDeleteSt. Elmos Fire
ReplyDelete"The Flamingo Kid' great music, funny movie.
ReplyDeleteAnd beautiful Matt Dillion
DeleteGrown Ups
ReplyDeleteLove Actually (they played the theme during one of the montages at the Oscars this year, I teared up..) Purple Rain, and going waaay back... Camelot.
ReplyDeleteThe Committments 1991
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteIt's "South Pacific" or "The Music Man" fighting it out for Win and Place, with "My Fair Lady" and "The Sound of Music" fighting it out for the Show position. All these are well before my time. I'm not THAT old, I just know a lot of movies and scores. "O Brother Where Art Thou", from my era, came on strong but wasn't in the running.
ReplyDeleteHarold and Maude
ReplyDeleteThe wedding singer!
ReplyDeleteOut of Sight
ReplyDeleteFriday
Get Shorty
Pulp Fiction
Pretty in Pink
Breakfast Club
Purple Rain
Absolutely love this question and reading through the comments. Discovered some new music today and revisited some favorites...thanks everyone!
ReplyDeleteNot an epic OMG all time favorite, but do love how the story and original songs on the soundtrack were entwined in the film Once.
Holy shite, Enty. What an overwhelming question.
ReplyDeleteThis is all I have for now:
Best intro: Hawaii Five-0 (the original ‘60s version—not that there’s anything wrong with the remake, but me likey retro sounds). 🌋🌺👩🏻🥗🍂
Catchiest song in a trailer: “Time of the Season” (The Zombies) on “All The Money in the World” (because I like Romain Duris)
I liked “Rush” (all the Hans Zimmer who also did “Inception”, and some Bowie).
Also Yann Tiersen for “Goodbye, Lenin!” (although I think most people know him for “Amelie”).
Best theme for a film: “Pacific Rim” (Ramin Djawadi).
I’ll probably think of more later... Good Lord. What a loaded question. LOL.
DUMBASS. Enty asked “movie” and I included “television”. Oops, sowwyyyy.
DeleteThis comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteExactly! I see what you did there🙌🥂
ReplyDeleteFever
ReplyDeleteNot the best... but one of the greats: Less Than Zero
ReplyDeleteLL Cool J
Public Enemy
Poison
The Bangles.... SOOO GOOD.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
ReplyDeleteMy parents' generations: "South Pacific"
ReplyDeleteMy generation: "Superfly"
My kids generstion: "Rent"
Rocknrolla
ReplyDeleteGuardians of the Galaxy 1
Goodfellas
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the first CD I ever bought. Also, Can't Hardly Wait and The Wedding Singer have awesome soundtracks
ReplyDeleteMagnolia
ReplyDeleteGreat expectations - the paltrow one
Last of the Mohicans
ReplyDeleteSaturday Night Fever
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
ReplyDeleteGet Out
ReplyDeleteSound of Music
Empire Records
ReplyDeleteShag: The Movie
Animal House
Grease 2 (I need a C-O-O-L...R-I-D-E-R!)
The Crow
That Thing You Do
Dazed and Confused
Invincible
Queen of the Dammed (soundtrack was light years better than the movie)
Hackers
And while QT is a skeezy dude, he did have a knack for soundtracks.
ReplyDeleteHeathers for the win! That’s where I discovered Leonard Cohen, covered by Concrete Blonde.
ReplyDeletePretty in Pink (John Hughes movies in general)
the Big Chill
The Mission (Last if the Mohicans, as well)
Pulp Fiction
Easy Rider. The Big Chill. The Big Easy.
ReplyDeleteThe sound of music
ReplyDeleteYou can't beat Lost Highway for dark, beautiful and haunting music. It has Bowie, Marilyn Manson, Rammstein and 9" Nails.
ReplyDeleteAlso I love the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in America as much as the movie itself. Ennio Morricone at his very best.
A night at the Roxbury
ReplyDelete-Hello, Dolly
ReplyDelete-The Lion King
-A Star is Born
The Lost Boys
ReplyDeleteLess Than Zero
The Breakfast Club. Reality Bites
Valley Girl. Say Anything
The Wall. The Doors
Tommy-The Who. A Clockwork Orange
Pretty In Pink
Purple Rain. Eddie & The
DeleteReservoir Dogs Cruisers
Pulp Fiction. Rattle n Hum
Empire Records
Rattle n Hum
Oh how could I forget these 2: Almost Famous & SINGLES
DeleteThe Basketball Diaries
DeleteSt Elmo's Fire.
Clay Pigeons
All the Twilight movies
All the Rocky movies
Interview with a Vampire
DeleteBeing Cherry
Paper Dolls
Requiem of a dream
Last 1 I promise...The Thing Called Love & High Fidelity
DeleteDamn-Hard to Hold Rick Springfield.
DeleteNo, don’t stop make it “last one I promise”, Ginger Falls! I’m loving the music recommendations! I’m sure I’m not the only one who subscribed to the thread for that reason! 🍻
DeleteTop Gun!!!!
ReplyDelete(Dropping the mike right this second)
Meet me halfway everyone! Lolol
Okay... 🤣
DeleteLost Highway
ReplyDelete