Movies aren’t what they are without certain elements! One of those elements is the soundtrack! Now some of those soundtracks go on being albums people listen to for years! So today we talk about our top 10 soundtrack list! Sit back read on and remember some of the great sounds that came with along with some good movies!
Keith – Grease
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1978 film Grease originally released by RSO Records. The song “You’re the One That I Want” was a US and UK #1 for stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is the second best-selling album ever released and top-selling soundtrack in history with 44.7 million copies sold worldwide.
Besides performers John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, the album also featured songs by rock n roll revival group Sha Na Na as well as the hit song “Grease”, a tune written by Barry Gibb (of The Bee Gees) and sung by Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) that was an additional U.S. number one.
David – The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack Recording is a soundtrack album from the 1979 film, The Muppet Movie, featuring the songs and select score written by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher.
Originally released on LP by Atlantic Records, the album reached No. 32 on the Billboard 200, and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. The soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Children’s Album in 1980 and was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, the Golden Globe for Best Original Song, and two Academy Awards; Best Adaptation Score for the overall album and Best Original Song for “Rainbow Connection” which reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Keith – Saturday Night Fever
Few soundtracks have defined a genre; this one did, and more. Released in ’77, just as disco reached its populist brilliance/commercial bogus-ness tipping point, it matched proven club hits (the Trammps’ “Disco Inferno,” Kool and the Gang’s “Open Sesame”) with a clutch of Bee Gees songs intended for their own forthcoming album. From “Stayin’ Alive” and “More Than a Woman” to KC and the Sunshine Band’s “Boogie Shoes,” the peaks on this double album can still turn any wedding dancefloor into a seething caldron of joy and embarrassment. The double LP moved over 15 million copies, making it the best-selling soundtrack in history until The Bodyguard stole the title.
David – Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is the original soundtrack of the 1987 film Dirty Dancing. The album became a huge commercial success. It went on to sell 32 million copies worldwide and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.[2][3] In the United States the album spent 18 weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 album sales charts and went multi-platinum.[4] As of 2007, it is still re-entering the Irish charts on occasion, having spent more than 230 weeks in the top 30.
It spawned a follow-up album entitled More Dirty Dancing (1988).
Keith -Purple Rain
Purple Rain. Released: 1984. Featuring: Prince. Why it’s good: Platinum 13 times over and frequently cited as one of the best albums ever – let alone soundtrack album – Prince’s sixth album saw him progress from funk and R&B into pop (albeit twisted, spacey pop). ‘When Doves Cry’ is still one of his top three tracks.
David -Singles
This best-selling soundtrack is credited with introducing the Seattle music scene into pop culture and featured Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg, Mother Love Bone, and Smashing Pumpkins
Keith – The Bodyguard
This soundtrack was co-executive produced by Whitney Houston and Clive Davis. The album has gone 17x platinum and won Grammy Album of the Year in 1999. It has sold over 44 million copies worldwide and is the best-selling soundtrack album of all time.
David – Grease
Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture is the original motion picture soundtrack for the 1978 film Grease originally released by RSO Records. The song “You’re the One That I Want” was a US and UK #1 for stars John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. It is the second best-selling album ever released and top-selling soundtrack in history with 44.7 million copies sold worldwide.
Besides performers John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, the album also featured songs by rock n roll revival group Sha Na Na as well as the hit song “Grease”, a tune written by Barry Gibb (of The Bee Gees) and sung by Frankie Valli (of The Four Seasons) that was an additional U.S. number one.
Keith – Guardian’s Of The Galaxy.
Guardian’s Of The Galaxy. Released: 2014. Featuring:Bowie and The Runaways. Why It’s Good The film’s hero Star-Lord carries a Walkman with his Awesome Mix Vol.1 featuring classic rock. Director James Gunn told NME: “All the songs were written into the script and baked into the story – which is what makes it work so well.”
David – A Hard Days Night
Right from that thunderous opening chord, A Hard Day’s Night jumps into a typical day in the madcap life of the Beatles – getting chased down the street by screaming girls, strumming their guitars backstage, sharing the cocky grin of four Liverpool lads who realize how good they are and can’t wait to show the world. John Lennon and Paul McCartney hit new highs with tunes like “If I Fell” – the soundtrack was the first Beatles album on which they wrote all the songs themselves.
Keith – The Lost Boys
Thomas Newman wrote the original score as an eerie blend of orchestra and organ arrangements, while the music soundtrack contains a number of notable songs and several covers, including “Good Times”, a duet between INXS and former Cold Chisel lead singer Jimmy Barnes which reached No. 2 on the Australian charts in early 1987. This cover version of a 1960s Australian hit by the Easybeats was originally recorded to promote the Australian Made tour of Australia in early 1987, headlined by INXS and Barnes.
Tim Cappello’s cover of The Call’s “I Still Believe” was featured in the film as well as on the soundtrack. Cappello makes a small cameo appearance in the movie playing the song at the Santa Cruz boardwalk, with his saxophone and bodybuilder muscles on display.
The soundtrack also features a cover version of The Doors’ song “People are Strange” by Echo & the Bunnymen. The song as featured in the movie is an alternate, shortened version with a slightly different music arrangement.
David – The Harder They Come
The reggae equivalent to Saturday Night Fever defined the music globally at a time when, to audiences beyond the Caribbean and émigré towns, Bob Marley and the Wailers might as well have been an Italian doo-wop group. Jimmy Cliff was star of both film and LP, which included his newly-cut title track as well as earlier gems like “Many Rivers to Cross.” With the Maytals’ “Pressure Drop,” the Melodians’ “Rivers of Babylon” and Desmond Dekker’s “007 (Shanty Town),” it remains the single greatest reggae mixtape ever made.
Keith – Rocky IV
Rocky IV is the original motion picture soundtrack to the movie of the same name. It was originally released in 1985 on the Scotti Brothers label. In 2010 Intrada Records released the original score by Vince DiCola, which was not available before.
The soundtrack was hugely successful on the strength of two top-five singles, Survivor’s “Burning Heart” (which Sylvester Stallone personally commissioned for the movie and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100) and James Brown’s “Living in America”, as well as Robert Tepper’s lone top-40 hit, “No Easy Way Out”. It reached the top ten on the Billboard 200 album chart and was certified Platinum by the RIAA.[4]
It is the only score to a Rocky film not composed by Bill Conti, but does feature some music he composed for the first film.
The album is often played in gyms and used by people for motivation when working out due to its high intensity rhythm and synthesizers and heroic lyrics. In the film an extensive part of the soundtrack is part of the training, with one track simply named “Training Montage”.[5] A number of the tracks on the album, particularly “Eye of the Tiger”, “Burning Heart” and “Training Montage” have been cited amongst many people’s top 10 “work out tracks”.
David – Reservoir Dogs
Reservoir Dogs. Released: 1992. Featuring: Stealers Wheel Why it’s good: ‘Stuck In The Middle With You’ was as much a fixture of student dorms in the nineties as Che Guevara, but the likes of Sandy Rogers and some judicious snippets from the film itself really shaped this into a landmark soundtrack.
Keith – Top Gun
Top Gun is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released in 1986 by Columbia Records. In 1999, it was reissued in a Special Expanded Edition with additional songs. In 2006, it was reissued again in a Deluxe Edition with yet more songs. The album reached number one in the charts for five nonconsecutive weeks in the summer and autumn of 1986.
David -Purple Rain
Purple Rain. Released: 1984. Featuring: Prince. Why it’s good: Platinum 13 times over and frequently cited as one of the best albums ever – let alone soundtrack album – Prince’s sixth album saw him progress from funk and R&B into pop (albeit twisted, spacey pop). ‘When Doves Cry’ is still one of his top three tracks.
Keith – Batman Begins
Batman Begins: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to Christopher Nolan’s 2005 film Batman Begins. It was released on June 15, 2005. The soundtrack drew from the film score, composed by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, as well as contributions by Ramin Djawadi, Lorne Balfe and Mel Wesson.
David – Grosse Pointe Blank
The score for Grosse Pointe Blank was composed by Joe Strummer, formerly of The Clash, and includes two songs from The Clash, “Rudie Can’t Fail” (from the album London Calling) and their cover version of Willi Williams’ “Armagideon Time”.
In addition to The Clash, the tracks featured are a mix of popular 1980s punk rock, ska, and new wave from such bands as Violent Femmes, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Specials, The Jam, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and A-ha.
The soundtrack album reached #31 on the Billboard 200 chart, prompting the release of a second volume of songs from the film.
While most songs played throughout the film (especially at the reunion) had been recorded by the time of the students’ graduation (circa 1986), several songs are later:
Keith – Star Wars
The music of Star Wars was written by composer John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra for all six feature films, from 1977 to 2005. This encompasses both the original trilogy, the first three films, and the prequel trilogy, the last three films. As of July 2013, Lucasfilm President, Kathleen Kennedy, announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe that Williams would be returning once more to score Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Williams’ scores for the two existing trilogies count among the most widely known and popular contributions to modern film music. Additionally, music for Star Wars: The Clone Wars was written by Kevin Kiner, and further music has been composed for Star Wars video games and works in other media. The 2016 spinoff film Star Wars: Rogue One will be scored by Alexandre Desplat,[2] the first major Star Wars film not to use Williams.
The scores utilize an eclectic variety of musical styles, many culled from the Late Romantic idiom of Richard Strauss and his contemporaries that itself was incorporated into the Golden Age Hollywood scores of Erich Korngold and Max Steiner. While several obvious nods to Gustav Holst, William Walton and Igor Stravinsky exist in the score to Episode IV, Williams relied less and less on classical references in the latter five scores, incorporating more strains of modernist orchestral writing with each progressive score. The reasons for Williams’ tapping of a familiar Romantic idiom are known to involve Lucas’ desire to ground the otherwise strange and fantastic setting in well-known, audience-accessible music. Indeed, Lucas maintains that much of the trilogy’s success relies, not on advanced visual effects, but on the simple, direct emotional appeal of its plot, characters and, importantly, music.
David – The Blues Brothers
The Blues Brothers. Released: 1980. Featuring: The Blues Brothers. Why it’s good: While Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi honour hits from the likes of Steve Winwood and Elvis with panache, it’s the appearances from Aretha Franklin and James Brown that make this album. You don’t get that pedigree on Shrek.
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