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Dec222020

DEFINITIVE Top Five All Time Movie Soundtracks

People of the Face: Here are the DEFINITIVE Top Five All Time Best Movie Soundtracks: COMPILATIONS Only*

1. Until the End of the World: REM, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, Elvis Costello, KD Lang, Neneh Cherry, Nick Cave's I'll Love You Till the End of the World is a top 10 great story song.

2. The Harder They Come - If you made a movie about a renegade reggae singer then this is the soundtrack you would have to have. Cheating a little because it's mostly Jimmy Cliff.

3. Trainspotting - Seamless integration of music and film from the opening Iggy Pop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCxgqHqakXc to Temptation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyJbUN9MU7Q to Mile End to Perfect Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6uBkJSbQO0&t=41s

4. Repo Man This movie and the Decline of Western Civilization Part I taught me everything I know about 80's L.A. Punk. Great movie, great songs

5. Royal Tenenbaums - The best of the twee Wes Anderson soundtracks: Kinks, Eliot Smith, Nico's These Days, John Lennon, Me and Julio, Clash, Lou again.

Honourable Mention: Jackie Brown, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, 24 Hour Party People, O Brother Where Art Thou, Inside Llewyn Davis, Pretty in Pink, Zero Effect, Natural Born Killers without the stupid movie dialog, Pump up the Volume

*Rules: 
1. No single artist movies: Leaves out all time greats - Superfly, Purple Rain, Hard Days Night, Shaft
2. No performance movies: No Stop Making Sense, The Last Waltz, Woodstock
3. No music docs: No DOA, Muscle Shoals, Buena Vista Social Club

Others:
Do The Right Thing - Out because it hinges too much on one great song
Baby Driver - not eligible because it feels like he picked the songs first then built great sequences around them to hold together a mediocre film
Guardians of the Galaxy- doesn't count because they just made a cheesy, catchy 80's mixtape
Big Chill - Boomer nostalgia mixtape

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