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The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time

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This is a list of the greatest soundtracks ever recorded, as ranked by the Ranker Community. Sometimes a great soundtrack can elevate a mediocre movie into something that makes it iconic. Top Gun, Footloose, Grease... these are all compilation albums that you listened to over and over, making the songs themselves so ingrained with the movie that they BECAME the movie in your head. PIck your faves, add what's missing and rank the best!

List Criteria: No scores, just soundtracks.

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    Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track

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    Pulp Fiction

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    Purple Rain

    The Revolution
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    Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

    Olivia Newton-John, John Travolta
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    The Wall

    Pink Floyd
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    The Blues Brothers

    The Blues Brothers
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    Dirty Dancing

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    A Hard Day’s Night

    George Martin, The Beatles
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    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Richard O'Brien
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    Forrest Gump: Original Motion Picture Score

    Alan Silvestri
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    O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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    Top Gun

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    The Sound of Music

    Richard Rodgers
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    The Wizard of Oz

    Harold Arlen
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    Footloose

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    West Side Story

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    The Graduate

    Simon and Garfunkel
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    Tommy

    The Who
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    Dazed and Confused

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    Moulin Rouge!

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    Trainspotting

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    Yellow Submarine Songtrack

    George Martin, The Beatles
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    The Lion King

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    Star Wars: A New Hope

    London Symphony Orchestra, John Williams
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    Mary Poppins

    Sherman Brothers
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    Rocky

    Bill Conti
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    Reservoir Dogs

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    The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album

    Whitney Houston
    added by: david2006
    “ Bodyguard is the second sale in all time and not in this list, joke ?

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    Heavy Metal

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    The Blues Brothers

    The Blues Brothers
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    Back to the Future

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    Armageddon

    Trevor Rabin
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    The Last Waltz

    The Band
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    The Big Chill

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    Easy Rider Soundtrack

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    Singles

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    Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

    Danny Elfman
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    Ghostbusters

    Ray Parker Jr.
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    Amadeus

    Gustav Lorentzen
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    The Breakfast Club

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    This Is Spinal Tap

    Spinal Tap
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    Flashdance

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    High Fidelity

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    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

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    The Crow

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    The Phantom of the Opera

    Andrew Lloyd Webber
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    Romeo & Juliet

    Nino Rota
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    Maurice Jarre
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    South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut

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    The Decline of Western Civilization, Part II: The Metal Years

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    1. Alvaro Carosella
      The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time at 8/07/2012 9:30 AM
      Choice Greatest Soundtracks, brother.
    2. KirkSaw
      The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time at 4/20/2012 2:06 PM
      I'd have included and highly ranked Highlander, Head, The Buddy Holly Story, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 24 Hour Party People, Valley Girl, Fast Times at Ridgmont High and Give My Regards to Broadstreet.
    3. DaveWhitaker
      The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time at 4/05/2012 7:09 AM
      This list is a little slim on soundtracks for classic musicals such as South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof, The King and I, Camelot, Kiss Me Kate, Jesus Christ Superstar, and Hair.

      As for more modern-day soundtracks, how about Titanic, The Commitments, or The Bodyguard?

      And no Elvis movie soundtracks?

      Check out this list of the top 50 soundtracks of all time: http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/11/top-50-soundtracks-of-all-time.html

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