The Romeo + Juliet soundtrack is kind of like a time capsule of 1990's Alternative Rock and Post-Grunge, featuring artists like Garbage, Everclear, Gavin Friday, and Radiohead. #7 - Romeo + Juliet Notable Song: "Young Hearts Run Free" by Kym Mazelle It topped the charts in United States, Japan, Sweden, Australia, Germany, Austria, Norway, and Switzerland. Two singles from the album hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Trivia Facts: The Flashdance soundtrack stayed on the Billboard 200 charts for 78 weeks. What a Feeling" song to make it fall in line with the female perspective of the film. Irene Cara actually re-recorded Joe Esposito's "Flashdance. It featured artists like Irene Cara, Donna Summer, and others that well in the 1980's. It received a Grammy nomination for Album of the Year and won the Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The genres fall largely into the Electro Pop and Synthpop genres. Like all others, not every song from the movie ended up on the soundtrack. Even in Japan it held the #1 spot for 10 weeks. It was so good it bumped Michael Jackson's Thriller from the #1 spot on the US Billboard 200, which had been there for 17 weeks. The Flashdance soundtrack came out on Maand quickly went 6x Platinum. #8 - Flashdance Notable Song: "Maniac" by Michael Sembello John Lennon's hit song Imagine was mentioned in the movie but was never actually played and was thus left off of the soundtrack. Trivia Facts: This movie soundtrack contains 34 songs, but there were an additional 16 songs used in the film that didn't make it onto the soundtrack, which already stretched across two CDs (or three LPs). It only was dislodged because The Lion King soundtrack came out. By the July 30th it hit #7, then the next week it hit #3, and finally hit #2 and stayed there for seven weeks. When the soundtrack album was released on June 28, 1994, it opened at #34 on the Billboard 200 charts. It spanned several genres like Pop, Rock, Country, and Soul. It also suffers from not having any exclusive songs. It operates on a higher plane than most others. That's why this soundtrack ranks among the best, but it's almost cheating to rank it too highly. #9 - Forrest Gump Notable Song: "Hound Dog" by Elvis PresleyĬhoosing a "notable song" from the Forrest Gump movie is absurd, since every one was a huge hit somewhere between 19. It was released on the Motown Records label. By 1998, which was 15 years after the initial release, The Big Chill soundtrack went 6x Platinum. Trivia Facts: After several versions came out, the album found itself achieving Platinum and Gold status from the RIAA in the USA. Ultimately a deluxe edition came out featuring 16 of the 18 songs used in the film plus three instrumentals. It managed to reach a peak rank 17 on the Billboard 200 upon release. This one stays within the R&B and Soul genres, featuring artists like The Temptations, Three Dog Night, Aretha Franklin, and many others. They couldn't include them all, but later they released a second soundtrack album that included others, and expanded the first one on CD with four additional tracks. The Big Chill soundtrack came out in September of 1983, and much like the Forrest Gump one above, it featured some of the top songs from the time period the film takes place in. #10 - The Big Chill Notable Song: "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye With that said, let's jump right into the list of the best movie soundtracks of all time. We also cover some runners up and honorable mentions below, so don't miss that. And finally, hearing the songs must now bring up strong memories of the films.īasically, their use must be so powerful that you can never hear these songs in the same way again without associating them with the movies, just like with the best movie scores of all time. Another was that they had to be worked into the movie in a meaningful way, not simply licensed to sell the soundtrack. One was that the songs themselves had to be great in their own rights. If you have to go searching for what to include, then that doesn't deserve a slot. First and foremost, they had to easily come to mind. Choosing the best movie soundtracks of all time was a hard task, so we developed a system to help us score them.
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