So good you bought the soundtrack
 

Mephisto's post about the movie being so good you bought the DVD, doesn't really do much for me since going to the movies costs US$21 for me and the wife to attend. No popcorn or beverages.

So any movie that hits the US$19.99 mark, it's instantly something that makes sense to buy even if it's a crap movie because it's the same price without the annoying cellphone, crying child, and annoying tall person.

BUT, I can say there have been some times in my life where the soundtrack was just incredible. Sometimes where I left the theater, went straight to the record store and bought the CD.
(yes it kills me that the CD can cost the same as the DVD which I find inconceivable)e

Here's some of the soundtracks that I bought:

Little Mermaid (right after the movie)
Cocktail
Grosse Point Blank
Nightmare Before Christmas
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Beetlejuice! I decided I need the soundtrack during the opening credits.

The movies so good I bought the soundtracks:

snatch
the Italian Job
Oceans 11 (new)

I own those soundtracks, good soundtracks too. There are better movies, but you asked about soundtracks.

oooh.. I forgot ALL about Beetlejuice!!!!

Dazed and Confused
Forrest Gump
SuperFly
High Fidelity
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Rushmore
Royal Tenenbaums

Most of my CD's seem to be soundtracks:

Blade
Blade 2
Godzila
Reservoir Dogs
The Beach
8 Mile
Lock, Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Ali G In Da House
Above The Rim
Friday
Juice

Glory

Love Actually

Edward Scissorhands
Gladiator
and i want the LoTR soundtracks.

Blade and A Clockwork Orange and I have no freakin idea why.
Oh yeah The Crow. Love that soundtrack

Kill Bill and The Thomas Crowne Affair had an excellent soundtrack.

Some of the sountracks I needed:

Hackers
Romy and Michelle's Highschool Reunion
The Wedding Singer
Supercop

But if you meant original movie score, I have to go with:

Last of the Mohicans
Glory
Braveheart
American Beauty

Matrix and Matrix Reloaded
Gladiator
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Blade
Ocean's 11
Forrest Gump

I'm sure there are more, but that's all I can think of. I'm not gonna include the list of musicals and operas I own, thats a different kind of soudtrack and would take too long. :)

It seems I have only bought one soundtrack ever, for the movie "Shocker."

I do have the Dumb and Dumber soundtrack that was given to me by a friend.

Just 2.

Return of the Jedi
Singles

And I've never even seen Singles. It's just a great grunge-era soundtrack, with one of Pearl Jam's top three songs.

Now you've hit a chord with me... I seem to have started collecting soundtracks and scores. :)

Of recent soundtracks, Kill Bill is excellent. As for my favorite alltime soundtrack, it's definitely a tie between The Lost Boys and Highlander.

The Matrix
Pi
Ghost in the Shell
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Amelie
LOTR (all three)

A good soundtrack is good if it can stand up in its own right. If listening to it doesn't necessarily evoke the film.

When I saw Casino, I wanted that soundtrack very badly, but I could not find it ANYWHERE.

I like the soundtrack to the movie Kids. It probably wouldn't sound half as good if I didn't see the movie.

The Shawshank Redemption.

Pretty much anything of Thomas Newman, and a lot of his stuff turns up everywhere.

Blade Runner: Vangelis

BraveHeart

Donnie Darko

Singles

...There are so many good mvoies with ambient stuff in it though, for which, i doubt, a sound track has been released.

The Wedding Singer...and at the risk of everyone pointing and laughing, I went straight to the store from the theatre to buy the Josie & the Pussycats soundtrack. I love Kay Hanley's voice.

Oh--also went right from the theatre to the store for the Chicago soundtrack. I just recently caught Romy & Michele on TV, and decided I need that soundtrack, too. :)

Grosse Pointe Blank
American Pie
Orange County

The nightmare before Xmas
Willy Wonka
Lost Highway
Storytelling
The Matrix Reloaded
Blade 1 and 2
pi
CB4
Friday
New Jersey Drive (ok, so the movie wasnt good, but the sdtk was great)


Anime:
Every Miyazaki Movie (Nausica, Porco Rosso, Kiki's, Totoro, etc...)
Habanei Renmei
Last Exile
Gunslinger Girl
FLCL
Azumanga Daioh
Love Hina

Game:
Guilty Gear X, and X2
Killer instinct

Pulp Fiction
all of the LOTR movies

I ran out right after seeing both Grosse Point Blank and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrells to buy the soundtrack, but in both cases I had to wait till the next day. Needless to say, I was a little anxious for the release of both.

Pulp Fiction
Lost Boys
Singles
Sleepless in Seattle (great lineup of older songs, Jimmy Durante, Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong...)

Pulp Fiction is the only movie that inspired me to buy it's soundtrack.

Pirates of the Caribbean is great as long as you have some big speakers, the bass is lost on smaller speakers, but it is incredible.

The Spy Game soundtrack tops my list. The Sneakers soundtrack is really good, too.

Kill Bill
Unfaithful
Rules of Attraction
Trainspotting
Forrest Gump
Virgin Suicides


still to get...
American Pyscho
Fear and Loathing
Lost in Translation

the three soundtracks that i've bought...right after seeing the film....Trainspotting, Rushmore, and the Royal Tenenbaums

Queen of the Damned.
One of the damned best soundtracks you will ever buy.

Suburbia
Run Lola Run

Romeo and Juliet
The Lion King (i was young)

i have soundtracks from musicals but i doubt those count.

I am Sam.....

Vanilla Sky
Blade 2
Spawn

Those 2 have some songs with great bass!:D

I agree, I LOVE that soundtrack. I have almost all of the songs downloaded, and I want to buy it, but unfortunatley I can't find it anywhere unedited.:(

High Fidelity
The Matrix
Forrest Gump
The Lion King
All three LOTR soundtracks
Rent

why not???? it's still a soundtrack...unless you're referring to an actual broadway musical

Fight Club

LOTR rings trio
Star Wars (love john williams)
Vanilla Sky
Blade
Twister
Conan the Barbarian
Spawn
ect.

I have three:
Mortal Kombat
Caravans
Kundun

Amelie
Kill Bill
The Two Towers and Return of the King (oddly enough, I've never had an intrest in buying the FOTR soundtrack)
Harry Potter
Virgin Suicides

reservoir dogs. hands down...coolest soundtrack ever. and the only one i own.

i have...
fightclub (my favorate movie of all time)
queen of the damned

*edit* i need to get kill bill

im not big into sound tracks.

American Psycho (got the book too)
Kill Bill
Pulp Fiction

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Any other notable soundtracks, I can just steal from my sister.

forgot one... natural born killers... very cool soundtrack

The Gladiator, Love Actually, My best Friend's Wedding, and the Devils Own(a reverse on this one- liked the soundtrack so much I went out and rented the movie )

I have:

Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Jackie Brown
The Crow

Also the score to "Dead Man Walking"

I'm so glad someone mentioned this. Awesome soundtrack. I think I'd decided to go out and find it within about ten minutes of the movie starting. And what a movie.

I also own:

Reservoir Dogs, but I bought that long after I first saw the film.

Virgin Suicides, never seen the film, but I'm a big fan of Air. And it turned out that 'Playground Love' was a song I'd been looking for for months. I love it when a plan comes together.

Out of Sight, never seen this either, just picked it up cos I'd heard good things about David Holmes, and I also like the version of Watermelon Man on there.

I have the special edition scores of Star Wars and Return of the Jedi too, but they're no-brainers.

I have lots of soundtracks, but the only one I bought immediately after the film was the Empire Records soundtrack - and then I was disappointed because the songs I'd most liked weren't actually on the soundtrack except for one, which wasn't the version they actually used in the movie.

I love soundtracks. I can always listen to soundtracks and picture the scenes that the music's associated with.

Some of my faves:
Zero Effect
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Princess Bride
The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Lion King (obligatory Disney quartet)
Les Miserables
Kim Possible
Josie and the Pussycats
Lost Boys
...many more, too many to list.

I haven't heard the Spy Game soundtrack, but now that you mention it, I should totally pick it up.

The Matrix
The Edge
Star Wars

13 Going on 30
Remember the Titans (awesome soundtrack)
Sleepless in Seattle
Forest Gump

Oh I have Sleepless in Seatle too :) It's a really nice soundtrack, I listen to it often.

o brother where art thou?
this is the only soundtrack that i own

Movies...
Daredevil
Star Wars(All of them save for Episode II which I'll get soon)
Mortal Kombat but I THINK this was before the movie was out and the game was big

Anime
Cowboy Bebop(I've got like three of these and they are pretty damn good. Excellent if you like Jazz. I listen to them at least once every two weeks I like them that much.)

Somewhere in Time. Both the film and the music are beautiful.

angus - alt rock type music
beautiful girls - lovey dovey smooth talking music
i know what you did last summer - rocking music

i was also disappointed in this soundtrack. the movie is awesome, but the sdtk let me down. i assume you are referring to the "sugarhigh" song with gina singing the third verse. do a limewire search and you should be able to find it :thumbsup:

James Horner, Hans Zimmerman, John Williams, and Danny Elfman soundtrack movies.

Lost Boys
Pretty In Pink
Twin Peaks
Wild at heart

oh yeah - Honeymoon In Vegas

Inspired by this thread, I went to Fry's tonight and picked up the "Spy Game" soundtrack and the "Shrek" soundtrack.

<--- Consumer whore.

The Bourne Supremecy
The Last Samurai
The Rock
Gone In 60 Seconds
Shrek
Toy Story
Spiderman
X-Men
The Mask of Zorro

off the top of my head:

Ravenous (listening to it right now, damon albarn is genius :p)
Blade Runner
24 Hour Party People (cant go wrong with bits of ian curtis sprinkled throughout)
Lost in Translation, perfect example of the soundtrack reminding one vividly of a film

anime:

Cowboy Bebop, goes without saying probably the most inspired anime soundtrack compiled, and certainly stands up to other original film scores in its own right. yokko kano is incredible.

Ghost in the Shell, very interesting meld of contemporary influences and traditional japanese creations, very eery especially in the context of the film

thats all for now

[edit courtesy department of redundancy department]

I have the Cowboy BeBop OAV soundtracks, the GitS soundtrack, the Disney animated Tarzan soundtrack, and the My Fair Lady soundtrack.

i haven't purchased a cd in a long time, but i have recently downloaded the soundtrack for Garden State. spectacular music, completely captures the mood of the movie. a must-have if the movie did anything for you.

Last one was Garden State.

After seeing Blade (on HBO) i've wanted to get the soundtrack... thanks for the reminder!

Solid soundtracks:
Dream with the Fishes
Garden State
Donnie Darko
The Sopranos
GoodFellas
Son-in-law

The sound tracks I have are

All the LOTR soundtracks

THe Matrix
Resident Evil
End of days
Spawn
Star wars attack of the clones
FLCL

The LotR soundtracks I listen most out of all the soundtracks I own

Some of my favorites:

Pulp Fiction
Reservoir Dogs
Gladiator
Shawshank Redemption
Midnight Cowboy
The Big Chill
Ghost
Philadelphia
Full Metal Jacket
Goodfellas
LOTR
Casablanca (not really a soundtrack, but the theme of As Time Goes By running throughout the movie is a real standout)
Shaft

Im surprised no one has mentioned any of my three purchased soundtracks.
Requiem for a Dream
One Hour Photo
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

They are all great.

The film, the legend, the dude

The Big Lebowski

The only movies that hsvr inspired me to go out and get the soundtrack are Grosse Pointe Blank, The Wedding Singer, and Pulp fiction.

However, the best soundtracks I have are The Mission and Conan.

On my to get list:
All 3 LOTR
Gladiator
Beetlejuice
The score to MIB and Batman
Last of the Mohicans

i got
Office Space
and
Dracula 2000 (i downloaded it, its ok music nothing worth paying for though)
i would have bought dazed and confused but those cds cost over 2x the cost of the freakin movie and i have most of the songs on the real cds anyway

All 3 LOTR movies.
Gladiator
Most stuff from John Williams
Donnie Darko

I was a naive adolescent consumer when I saw Liar Liar in the theaters and thought that it would be a novel idea to buy anything involving said movie. Well, I shelled out 14 bucks for a CD of which I thought would be the soundtrack to the movie. Only after I opened it did I really find out it was just the score to the movie, something at the time i was NOT interested in. It is now in some closet somewhere still in mint condition. One of the many stupid, impulse purchases I made when I was younger.

On the other hand, I bought the Daredevil soundtrack, which I still listen to a good deal even now, so the 2 sort of equal out.

THAT'S ME!! :D

Anyways, I've bought:

-The Matrix Soundtrack (decent buy, really only like 3 or 4 songs though)
-Bad Company Soundtrack (really only like 3 songs, but one of them is SO FUCKING GOOD it justifies the whole album)

I've never really been big on soundtracks, but when they have good techno/classical mixes (the reason I bought both the ones I own), it just sucks me right in.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Not a big soundtrack person but there where too I just had to have where:

Almost Famous

Forest Gump

Cocktail
Mortal Kombat
American Pie 1 & 2
Swingers
What Women Want

Forest Gump
Moulin Rouge
Braveheart
City of Angels
Spiderman

That being said, I rarely buy soundtracks

Garden State
American Pie 2
Forrest Gump
Ocean's 11

Hackers
LOTR (all 3)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Passion
(I've more, but those are the ones that really got me.)

Garden State.

The soundtrack to "Garden State" captured the mood of the film very well. Excellent movie/Excellent soundtrack

I have never bought a movie soundtrack before, but if I were to buy one I would purchase the soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream. Just one song. But it's so damn addicting.

The Crow - Best Soundtrack ever
Pulp Fiction - Is just so cool.
Singles - Crappy movie.... awesome soundtrack

All the Tarantino soundtracks, of course.

The Hunt for Red October
Collateral
Twin Peaks (movie and television soundtracks)

And word, the Requiem for a Dream Sountrack is amazing.

Yes... forgot about those.

Great choices, I love singles though :)

Then again i'm a huge pearl jam fan

Isn't Postal Service on Garden State? I like the Postal Service

Me too... but you really thought the movie was good???

:thumbsup:

Yeah I liked it for some reason. I guess because it was cheesy good to me like Fast Times and Breakfast club.

Cameron Crowe really studies how people act during that time period and it really reflects in his work.

Hmm... maybe I need to watch again.

jurassic park
trainspotting both versions
romeo and juliet
lost highway
the crow (soundtrack and score)
the crow 2

Top Gun
Matrix
Dazed and Confused
Forrest Gump
Animaniacs (tv)
'O Brother Where Art Thou
Scrubs (tv)
There are lots of others, but that's all I can remember- being away from my cd's for over a year now :S

Pulp Fiction off course
and...................The adventures of Priscilla queen of the desert

I have very few soundtracks in my huge assortment of CDs, even though there are some great scores out there. But, I do listen to the soundtrack of the Last Temptation of Christ on a regular basis (but I'm a huge Peter Gabriel fan, anyway).