Prince - Batman

The sound track to dead presidents is quality. Sly and the family Stone, Isaac Hayes and those are only the ones I can remember

The Batman Forever soundtrack works pretty well as a compilation CD. There's some fantastic stuff on it from Flaming Lips, U2, PJ Harvey, Massive Attack, etc. but as a soundtrack I don't think it really fit the movie. It seemed to be more about having soundtrack CD that would sell tan having something that fit in with the movie. I always thought the slightly over the top orchestral score in the first two Tim Burton directed Batman films worked best, but then again I feel those movies were superior to Batman Forever (and the awful Batman and Robin). Tim Burtons Batman is wonderfully gothic, like the Dark Knight comics and the soundtrack fits the mood. Joel Schumachers Batman on the other hand is more like the camp Adam West series, which I'm not really a fan of, but if he was taking that route, he at least could have had slightly kitsch music to match. Pretty obvious choice, but I love the "Lost in Translation" soundtrack. The music seems to be driving the movie so that when you hear a piece of music from the soundtrack you automatically think of a scene, but also stands up as a great work in its own right. Blade Runner soundtrack is great in the context of the movie, not sure I'd want to sit down and listen to it on its own though.

I'd have a tie with 'Almost Famous' and 'Forest Gump'. Maybe Elton John's 'Tiny Dancer' just knicking it for 'Almost Famous' though.

Have to say I like the Kill Bill soundtracks and I think Oceans 11 is pretty damn funky - only problem is that there are too many snippets from the film on the CD.

The latest issue of Empire magazine have a top ten soundtrack poll. I was surprised to see 'Natural Born Killers' winning it. But 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Acoplyse Now' are up there which are really good (excuse bad spelling, i'm quite dosey this morning)

I rather like the soundtracks to 'Jerry Maguire' and 'Vanilla Sky' Interesting bit of muso trivia. Nancy Wilson, from 80's Power Ballad Band Heart, wrote music for 'Jerry Maguire' and is also the wife of Cameron Crowe, the film's director, who used to be a journalist for Rolling Stone and who depicted a somewhat fictionalised portrait of his early life in the film "Almost Famous". (Sound of propeller heads turning)

Yeah I knew that, Nancy Wilson doesn't get enough credit for organising such great soundtracks. I haven't got Jerry Maguire but have Vanilla Sky and Singles. She was good in Heart aswell, impressive band.

The Donnie Darko soundtrack is excellent. Unfortunately it's not currently available on CD, but hopefully that will be sorted out when the directors cut is released. The music fits perfectly with the scenes that are used in the film. By and large I'm not a fan of 80s music(a gross generalisation I know) but I still love the music in that film. On a side note, there's an interesting topic, the best tunes of the 80s. Dust off your cure heads and top up that bright red lip stick

El Duderion, there is an incidental score is available on CD (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/donniedarko) which is a bit weird because I think a lot of it wasn't actually used in the movie, and I assume you really want the 80s songs off the sound track anyway. In the meantime, if you liked the track used on the opening scene, "Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen, Its on the album "Ocean Rain". Absolutely sublime album, if you like that track, chances are you will like the whole album, its just been reissued too, and its was on sale pretty cheap in HMV last time I was in there.

the soundtracks to Wes Andersons are my favourite. "Bootle Rocket" has a couple of tracks by Arthur Lee and Love, the "Rushmore" and "royal tennenbaums" are class. Mark Mothersbaugh's scores make them really class

The soundtrack for 'The Rookie' is a banging slab of top notch, southern fried Americana with hot cuts from the likes of Guy Clark and John Hiatt.

ah but the donnie darko soundtrack in particular brings up a subtle distinction- are we talking best USE of a song in a movie? best song written/reworked for a movie? best soundtrack independent of the film? I'd have to cast a vote for Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" as the best song ever written for a film (obviously, The Graduate) as for soundtracks themselves, the soundtrack to "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" tops my list no question and use ofa song in a movie? I have to agree with EJ's "tiny dancer" being up there. Elliot Smiths "Needle in the Hay" in 'Royal Tenenbaums' is now too eerie for me to even watch, which is, i suppose, a testament to the artist, song, and movie all at once.

a life less ordinary, i think that track is one of their best, past that, easy rider is way up there in my book, and im gonna mention the judgement night soundtrack which sees pearl jam team up with cypress hill,cypress hill team up with sonic youth, theres teenage fanclub+de la soul, dinosour jr.+????forget his name, house of pain+helmet, mudhoney+sir mix alot, boo ya tribe+fatih no more(most terrifying song EVER) basically it was the first GOOD rap/rock record i'd heard, still isten to it, (skip onyx and biohazard,..uuuggh, why?) heavy bad stuff mixed with good acoustic stuff and a few grungy type tunes, and if anyone knows where it is on the net/in dublin for sale ono cd let me know please For the record the film is 5/10, denis leary is in it, thats a whole 1 of the 5 points, theres some shooting, thats another 1, the other 3 are for the soundtrack. of course then theres the porno soundtracks, but, oh no,sorry, this aint that kind of site.