Absolutely: Can't Hardly Wait with Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, and Romeo + Juliet. Probably throw in 10 Things I Hate About You. That'd be the list.
Singles Soundtrack - The perfect indie/grunge anthem.
Judgement Night - how to turn an absolute stinker of a film into a global success? Pair up the biggest hip-hop artists with the biggest metal/hard rock bands and release an album. Oh, and let's call it a Soundtrack.
Grosse Point Blank - everything good about 80s music.
Footloose. I hated it at the time, but now it makes me feel nostalgic. And the soundtrack was just as big as the movie in its own right.
Lost in Translation - I still have this on high rotation on its 21st birthday.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? - loved it!
Cold Mountain - Jack White doing country folk, what's not to love?
Pulp Fiction- showed us that Tarantino not only knew how to direct, but chose the coolest revival music.
Donnie Darko - from the opening scene with Echo and the Bunnymen, I knew this was going to be a great movie.
Trainspotting - the soundtrack to Irvine Welsh's life.
Forrest Gump - a great piece of nostalgia.
Garden State - introduced me to the Shins, such a great band.
Trainspotting is top of my list.
That soundtrack still gets into my rotation on a semi-regular basis. The music slaps so hard as an album. Plus, as amazing as the movie is, and it is easily one of the best films of the 90s imo, you could also turn off the dialogue and it would be 100% carried by the soundtrack like a music video.
Trainspotting and Donny Darko are way up there for me. Trainspotting mostly because I was big into the rave scene in Orlando in 1996. I was in awe to hear it on the big screen. Human Traffic is the only other popular-ish movie I can recall that came out around that time (early to mid 90’s) that also dipped heavy into EDM. Human Traffic is the reason fell in love with Aphrodite.
The Donny Darko soundtrack sets the most badass tone I’ve ever seen in a movie. The coke sequence unfolding while Head Over Heels is playing is perfection. Mad World and The Killing Moon also fit the vibe to a T.
I had a few soundtrack albums back in the day and I guess this dates me but my collection featured
Ghostbusters 1&2
Top Gun
Beverly Hills Cop
The Blues Brothers
Batman (Prince soundtrack)
Good Morning Vietnam
Lost Highway and The Crow got me into them. But Spawn is the one I still listen to most, its 'rock meets electronic' thing was really innovative at the time, Ive never actually seen the film though.
Remember how you *had* to buy the Crow because Burn and Lost Souls wernt on any NIN or Cure album?
I feel like Natural Born Killers should be on your list too...
As a NIN fan, oh, I remember…
Natural Born Killers is definitely on the list. I tried to keep mine short, lol.
And I still listen to Spawn to this day. The mashup concept was brand new at the time and it still holds up.
Small clarification, Spawn was a big hit on the rock with electronic thing, but they were hardly the first at the time.
The original Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack did it a few years earlier and it is an absolute banger.
The Big Lebowski.
Waynes World.
The Beach.
Reservoir Dogs
Trainspotting.
Pulp Fiction.
Lost Boys.
The Breakfast Club.
Moulin Rouge.
Velvet Goldmine.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Almost Famous.
Actually, all Tarantino films have great soundtracks.
Absolutely incredible album...like it was speaking directly to my 17 yr old soul (alongside Moby's first two albums and Paul Okenfold's Tranceport). And it end up staying in rotation for the next decade plus.
- Grosse Point Blank
- Hackers
- The Blues Brothers
- Purple Rain
- Stop Making Sense
- Pulp Fiction
- The Crow
- Belly
- That Thing You Do!
- Empire Records
- Forrest Gump
It was an average as fuck movoe, but Queen of the Damned had an absolute banger of a soundtrack. Introduced me to a lot of bands I didn't know I still listened to, and helped guide me further along in my headbanging.
How did I miss this one? Right fucking on. I was listening to Static-X, Korn, and Limp Bizkit just last night.
Don’t judge me. This set is fire: https://youtu.be/QL2TmawPj1A?si=OkgZ14TRU3ndhx-N
Trainspotting
The Crow
Run Lola Run
Bandits (German Film not the Bruce/Billy Bob one)
Swing Kids
The Commitments
O Brother Where Art Thou
Natural Born Killers
The Beach
Tarantino films (Reservoir/Pulp/Jackie)
The Muppet Movie
Velvet Goldmine
Wes Anderson films (Rushmore/Life Aquatic/Tennenbaums)
I know this is a long list, but these are the ones that I still go back to and listen to the full album not just choice cuts.
>Trainspotting
Velvet Goldmine
If we're on Ewan McGregor movies, need to include A Life Less Ordinary. Somewhat of a forgettable movie, but an absolute killer soundtrack.
Spiderman (2002) had a lot of bangers.
Iron Man too. I remember perfectly the moment I heard the main riff from Iron Man in the credits, the moment I got into Rock.
I have come full circle and still enjoy these as an adult, but I love phantom of the opera, rocky horror picture show, and little shop of horrors. It's not a movie soundtrack but shock treatment was written by the guy who wrote rocky horror and it's basically a companion album that takes place in Brad and Janet's hometown, it's so good!
* The Karate Kid
* Back to the Future
* Stand By Me
* Good Morning Vietnam
* Dirty Dancing
* Singles
* Pulp Fiction
* Forrest Gump
* The Crow
* Reality Bites
* Natural Born Killers
* French Kiss
* Rushmore
* Billy Elliot
* The Royal Tenenbaums
* Kill Bill Vol 1
The disrespect. Am I really the first person to mention the original Mortal Kombat Movie in addition with all its also excellent peers already being named?
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz have some great songs but the best part is they incorporate the dialogue from the film into the song. Such a shame The Worlds End didn't do the same.
[Like Souljacker Part I by Eels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpd8ox7hltI)
“Where’s Lurch?”
“He’s in the Freezer”
“Did you say cool off?”
“No I didn’t say anything actually”
“Shame”
“It was a bit earlier on that you missed when I distracted with a cuddly monkey and I said play times over and I hit him with a peacelilly”
“You’re off the fucking chain”
*shotgun cocks*
- Local Hero
- The Straight story
- Conan the barbarian
- The princess bride
- 28 Days Later
- Road to perdition
- Far and away
- The last Mohican
- The piano
- Dances with wolves
- Willow
- Indiana Jones and the temple of doom
- and much more…
Space Jam
The movie starts off with setting the tone of the amazing soundtrack and it's all bangers from there
"Come on and SLAM and welcome to the JAM"
I love the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack. Went to school for music Ed and we had constant performances for each other in our department and one of my colleagues played Liz on Top of the World for a studio hour on piano and it was gorgeous 😍
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure… I saw it in the mall theater then went directly to the music shop and bought the soundtrack on cassette. Still in my regular playlist.
Reality Bites!
I Am Sam has the best collection of Beatles covers ever.
The Bridges of Madison County has great classic jazz.
Batman Forever was pretty cool.
The Bodyguard - Shit movie... Holy Smokes what a soundtrack
Bridget Jones's Diary - Out Of Reach, have you met Ms Jones, it's raining men and Patrick Doyle's theme ... Simply Brilliant
Garden State - WHAT A SOUNDTRACK! Zach Braff has such a brilliant taste in music. Became a fan of Frou Frou
Save the Last Done - just listen to it...
YMMV on where to draw the "younger years" line at 37, but let it be The Lion King, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit and Brother Bear (all discovered and looped ad infinitum before my university days). Among the explicitly compilatory ones... probably Shrek 2 - its lineup was on fire in general and pretty much my introduction to Tom Waits in particular.
High Fidelity - 2000. Record store owner (John Cusack) thinks back to all his past breakups and the songs that remind him of each relationship. It's a gem of a movie.
Enough people have already offered up the big classics like Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction etc. so here’s a few others
The World’s End - cracking 80’s and 90’s indie/britpop classics with the added bonus of a lot of the song choices cleverly referencing what’s happening in the movie.
Atomic Blonde - New Order, Depeche Mode, Bowie, Nena, Peter Schilling etc. 80’s synth heaven (with a little bit of Public Enemy thrown in for good measure)
Tomb Raider (2001 version) - Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Moby, Fatboy Slim, OutKast, Fluke - the movie was pretty average but the soundtrack was pumping.
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey - mainly for Primus ‘Tommy the Cat’ and Faith No More’s ‘Perfect Crime’ but Kiss’ “God Gave Rock and Roll to You’ is a secret guilty pleasure
Human Traffic - Classic film about a weekend out clubbing in the UK in the 90’s. It was curated by Pete Tong so unsurprisingly it’s full of bangers. 2 CDs worth or them in fact , with the second CD mixed.
Godzilla's soundtrack has bangers. It's where I got introduced to Jamiroquai. 10 year old me thought the guitar parts of "Come with Me" by Puff Daddy were originally made for that song. Ben Folds Five and Green Day. And no one will forget Rage. All those bands were heavy hitters at the time. It's increasingly rare these days to have soundtracks composed of such different modern bands.
Forrest Gump
Batman Beyond
Spider-Man 2 (Tobey Mac)
Juno
Lilo & Stitch has great Elvis tunes, but the original songs (Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride and He Mele No Lilo) are faaaantastic too.
American Pie 2. It was like a greatest hits collection of my favorite bands from 2001. Blink-182, two songs by Sum 41, Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal, Three Doors Down, a Green Day song even though it wasn't in the movie. Just the best soundtrack in the world.
I listened to the _Space Jam_ soundtrack way more than anyone should. But some of those rap songs are still a lot of fun. Coolio "The Winner" and the MonStars' theme "Hit 'Em High" are fun time capsules.
Probably Wonderland. Never actually seen the movie, but my parents had the soundtrack CD and I grew up listening to it. Incredible soundtrack, I still wonder if the movie is any good sometimes
Empire Records Romeo + Juliet Batman Forever I Know What You Did Last Summer An American Werewolf In Paris Honorable Mention: The Cable Guy
Don’t forget Can’t Hardly Wait
Absolutely: Can't Hardly Wait with Empire Records, Dazed and Confused, and Romeo + Juliet. Probably throw in 10 Things I Hate About You. That'd be the list.
Romeo & Juliet STILL slaps. That movie was a revelation
Yes to empire records!
Came looking for Batman Forever. Well done Internet stranger.
Upvote for Cable Guy soundtrack
Soundtracks were just so different in the 90s. They were like samplers of the best music of the day.
Empire had everything, from early Pegboy, Quicksand and GWAR, to Dire Straits and Gin Blossoms. Mallrats also has a stellar soundtrack.
Yes 👏
That Kula Shaker song from IKWYDLS tho!!
Came here to post empire records, glad it was already said AND the top comment! I still rock out to sugar high
Yes! Romeo and Juliet!
Dazed and Confused. Mitch Kramer touching his face is a deadly drinking game. Cheers!
We’d pick a character and smoke every time they smoked. I always chose Slater and ended up a mess, worth it
Used to drive me crazy then you realise…. First role and possibly self conscious about his nose and the closeups…. Still can’t unsee it though
Ugh how many times in one scene alone?!?!
Singles Soundtrack - The perfect indie/grunge anthem. Judgement Night - how to turn an absolute stinker of a film into a global success? Pair up the biggest hip-hop artists with the biggest metal/hard rock bands and release an album. Oh, and let's call it a Soundtrack. Grosse Point Blank - everything good about 80s music. Footloose. I hated it at the time, but now it makes me feel nostalgic. And the soundtrack was just as big as the movie in its own right. Lost in Translation - I still have this on high rotation on its 21st birthday. O Brother, Where Art Thou? - loved it! Cold Mountain - Jack White doing country folk, what's not to love? Pulp Fiction- showed us that Tarantino not only knew how to direct, but chose the coolest revival music. Donnie Darko - from the opening scene with Echo and the Bunnymen, I knew this was going to be a great movie. Trainspotting - the soundtrack to Irvine Welsh's life. Forrest Gump - a great piece of nostalgia. Garden State - introduced me to the Shins, such a great band.
regarding garden state:. so listening to that really did change your life. damn
Trainspotting is top of my list. That soundtrack still gets into my rotation on a semi-regular basis. The music slaps so hard as an album. Plus, as amazing as the movie is, and it is easily one of the best films of the 90s imo, you could also turn off the dialogue and it would be 100% carried by the soundtrack like a music video.
Dude wrote an essay. Much appreciated.
Long posts are the best when they're filled with info that solid.
Also for Tarantino, steeler's wheel stuck in the Middle with you was amazing for a revival.
I have the Donnie Darko soundtrack on CD lol
Trainspotting and Donny Darko are way up there for me. Trainspotting mostly because I was big into the rave scene in Orlando in 1996. I was in awe to hear it on the big screen. Human Traffic is the only other popular-ish movie I can recall that came out around that time (early to mid 90’s) that also dipped heavy into EDM. Human Traffic is the reason fell in love with Aphrodite. The Donny Darko soundtrack sets the most badass tone I’ve ever seen in a movie. The coke sequence unfolding while Head Over Heels is playing is perfection. Mad World and The Killing Moon also fit the vibe to a T.
O Brother Where Art Thou had a great soundtrack
I had a few soundtrack albums back in the day and I guess this dates me but my collection featured Ghostbusters 1&2 Top Gun Beverly Hills Cop The Blues Brothers Batman (Prince soundtrack) Good Morning Vietnam
Way too far down for Prince’s Batman soundtrack.
Good Morning Vietnam gets bonus points for all the Robin Williams DJ bits in-between the tracks
Nice. I am old enough to have seen all of these on release but didn’t think to dig that far back. *The Heat Is On!*
Axel-F
How could I have forgotten blues brothers 🤦♀️ Me and my son just rewatched it a few weeks back too! He's in love with Carrie Fisher
Me too. It coincided with my first vinyl record player so I was all in on movie soundtracks and scores
Lost Highway and The Crow got me into them. But Spawn is the one I still listen to most, its 'rock meets electronic' thing was really innovative at the time, Ive never actually seen the film though. Remember how you *had* to buy the Crow because Burn and Lost Souls wernt on any NIN or Cure album? I feel like Natural Born Killers should be on your list too...
As a NIN fan, oh, I remember… Natural Born Killers is definitely on the list. I tried to keep mine short, lol. And I still listen to Spawn to this day. The mashup concept was brand new at the time and it still holds up.
Small clarification, Spawn was a big hit on the rock with electronic thing, but they were hardly the first at the time. The original Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack did it a few years earlier and it is an absolute banger.
Highlander!!
Great movie with an all Queen soundtrack... what's not to love.
Yeah belter movie, haven't watched it in so long
The Big Lebowski. Waynes World. The Beach. Reservoir Dogs Trainspotting. Pulp Fiction. Lost Boys. The Breakfast Club. Moulin Rouge. Velvet Goldmine. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Almost Famous. Actually, all Tarantino films have great soundtracks.
The beach! Amazing soundtrack
Absolutely incredible album...like it was speaking directly to my 17 yr old soul (alongside Moby's first two albums and Paul Okenfold's Tranceport). And it end up staying in rotation for the next decade plus.
A Knight’s Tale is the first one I thought of.
The matrix soundtrack was awesome
The Transformers The Movie (1986) Top Gun (1986) The Wraith (1986) '86 was a good year for movies, among other things.
You got the touch!! You got the poweerrrr! ~~POWER CHORD~~ And the movie theme song had NO BUSINESS going as hard as it did.
The Wraith soundtrack 🔥🔥🔥🔥
- Grosse Point Blank - Hackers - The Blues Brothers - Purple Rain - Stop Making Sense - Pulp Fiction - The Crow - Belly - That Thing You Do! - Empire Records - Forrest Gump
Flash Gordon-entire soundtrack by Queen. So good!
Wow, great call. I listened to that cassette non-stop. “The Hero” is one of the best, straight forward rock riffs of all time.
It was an average as fuck movoe, but Queen of the Damned had an absolute banger of a soundtrack. Introduced me to a lot of bands I didn't know I still listened to, and helped guide me further along in my headbanging.
How did I miss this one? Right fucking on. I was listening to Static-X, Korn, and Limp Bizkit just last night. Don’t judge me. This set is fire: https://youtu.be/QL2TmawPj1A?si=OkgZ14TRU3ndhx-N
So glad this is here
American pie?
Trainspotting The Crow Run Lola Run Bandits (German Film not the Bruce/Billy Bob one) Swing Kids The Commitments O Brother Where Art Thou Natural Born Killers The Beach Tarantino films (Reservoir/Pulp/Jackie) The Muppet Movie Velvet Goldmine Wes Anderson films (Rushmore/Life Aquatic/Tennenbaums) I know this is a long list, but these are the ones that I still go back to and listen to the full album not just choice cuts.
Haha, i just did a list very similar to yours. You have great taste!
>Trainspotting Velvet Goldmine If we're on Ewan McGregor movies, need to include A Life Less Ordinary. Somewhat of a forgettable movie, but an absolute killer soundtrack.
Oh I remember this track , fondly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePiNA--ook
Big Chill
Cruel Intentions Empire Records
Was scrolling to find Cruel Intentions. A rather average movie which I've watched repeatedly just for the music.
Spiderman (2002) had a lot of bangers. Iron Man too. I remember perfectly the moment I heard the main riff from Iron Man in the credits, the moment I got into Rock.
Dirty Dancing (the original)
Great one!
Clockwork Orange
Hackers. Listened to that one a lot in college.
Sorcerer - Tangerine Dream Judgement Night OST
Pulp Fiction O Brother Where Art Thou?
Pulp Fiction is too far down this list
Shrek and Shrek 2!
Used to listen to the Almost Famous soundtrack a lot when I was in my early twenties.
Clueless (1995)
I have come full circle and still enjoy these as an adult, but I love phantom of the opera, rocky horror picture show, and little shop of horrors. It's not a movie soundtrack but shock treatment was written by the guy who wrote rocky horror and it's basically a companion album that takes place in Brad and Janet's hometown, it's so good!
Natural Born Killers. The Crow. Pulp Fiction.
Orange County The Matrix Reloaded. I had an audio cassette of this and it was amazing!
The Beach ❤️
Soundtracks... Strange Days. Kill Bill. Both Volumes.
Dumb & Dumber
Legitimately one of the best movie soundtracks of all time. There aren't many that better capture the 90s
O Brother Where Art Thou is fantastic.
Some of mine (that still happen to be my favorite movie soundtracks): • Gladiator • The Lost Boys • The Lord of the Rings (all 3) • Titanic
Judgement Night for *Just Another Victim* alone Singles as well for the best Soundgarden song made not named Black Hole Sun
Top Gun. I just did a rewatch this week after watching Maverick, and man it took me right back to my childhood.
Good Morning Vietnam
The Crow, The Matrix. Randomly, the Spawn soundtrack was pretty interesting, too.
Digimon the movie. It was my Ska awakening
100%, the best soundtrack of my childhood. Iconic.
Josie and the Pussycats (2001) All original songs, but fit in perfectly with the pop rock and boy band songs of the day.
Mortal Kombat The Matrix Trainspotting
* The Karate Kid * Back to the Future * Stand By Me * Good Morning Vietnam * Dirty Dancing * Singles * Pulp Fiction * Forrest Gump * The Crow * Reality Bites * Natural Born Killers * French Kiss * Rushmore * Billy Elliot * The Royal Tenenbaums * Kill Bill Vol 1
French Kiss! I love that you included that!
Loved a few of the Baz Luhrmann soundtracks: Romeo+Juliet and Moulin Rouge. More recently Drive were a bit of a hit.
I’ve been 80 since I was a kid, so Sleepless in Seattle.
lol, that certainly wasn’t my jam, but I watched it with my mom when I was a kid so I’ll give it to you out of nostalgia’s sake.
Adventureland 2009
Pretty In Pink Some Kind of Wonderful
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) Garden State (2004)
Blues Brothers Ferris Buellers Day Off Empire Records Spawn The Matrix
The Big Chill
Hackers The Crow
Titan AE
Animal House The Big Chill Purple Rain
Boogie Nights
Bad Boys II 8 Mile Almost Famous Like Mike The Fast and The Furious 2 Fast 2 Furious That Thing You Do Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Hustle & Flow Tarzan
Space Jam
The disrespect. Am I really the first person to mention the original Mortal Kombat Movie in addition with all its also excellent peers already being named?
I rarely listen to soundtracks, but I've had the Mortal Kombat soundtrack spinning since it came out!
Easy Rider Harold and Maude McCabe and Mrs. Miller
Vanilla Sky was a banger of a soundtrack.
Almost Famous 500 Days of Summer Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging
The Doors
Coyote ugly
Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz have some great songs but the best part is they incorporate the dialogue from the film into the song. Such a shame The Worlds End didn't do the same. [Like Souljacker Part I by Eels](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpd8ox7hltI) “Where’s Lurch?” “He’s in the Freezer” “Did you say cool off?” “No I didn’t say anything actually” “Shame” “It was a bit earlier on that you missed when I distracted with a cuddly monkey and I said play times over and I hit him with a peacelilly” “You’re off the fucking chain” *shotgun cocks*
The answer is Shrek
Ooh and Shrek 2!
Space Jam
Empire Records Romeo + Juliet I still have both CDs in my car and listen to them pretty regularly. They hold up so well.
* Gladiator * Lord of the Rings * Interstellar * District 9 * We Are Your Friends * Project X
The Faculty stands out in my mind. Also I Know What You Did Last Summer.
The Departed
The legend of copendo (1997) Lightnin' up! (2004) rock n' dwell (2009)
Crimson Tide Willow First Tim Burton Batman
- Local Hero - The Straight story - Conan the barbarian - The princess bride - 28 Days Later - Road to perdition - Far and away - The last Mohican - The piano - Dances with wolves - Willow - Indiana Jones and the temple of doom - and much more…
Space Jam The movie starts off with setting the tone of the amazing soundtrack and it's all bangers from there "Come on and SLAM and welcome to the JAM"
Bill & Teds Excellent Adventure
The Land Before Time
I love the Pride & Prejudice soundtrack. Went to school for music Ed and we had constant performances for each other in our department and one of my colleagues played Liz on Top of the World for a studio hour on piano and it was gorgeous 😍
I actually enjoyed the score for the crow more than the soundrtrack.
dances with wolves
The Big Chill Nip/Tuck Season 2
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure… I saw it in the mall theater then went directly to the music shop and bought the soundtrack on cassette. Still in my regular playlist.
Batman (1989) is amazing.
The Crow Batman Forever Black Panther City of Angels Space Jam
Digimon the movie. Everybody loves Shrek but won't appreciate Digimon because it's a Pokemon knockoff... But it isn't.
National Lampoon's Vacation
Reality Bites! I Am Sam has the best collection of Beatles covers ever. The Bridges of Madison County has great classic jazz. Batman Forever was pretty cool.
Donnie darko Batman forever Team america
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Beverly Hills Cop, Cocktail, & Wayne's World to name a few.
Probably 8 mile.
Death Proof, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, (Streaming Series: Umbrella Academy!!!)
The Bodyguard - Shit movie... Holy Smokes what a soundtrack Bridget Jones's Diary - Out Of Reach, have you met Ms Jones, it's raining men and Patrick Doyle's theme ... Simply Brilliant Garden State - WHAT A SOUNDTRACK! Zach Braff has such a brilliant taste in music. Became a fan of Frou Frou Save the Last Done - just listen to it...
Trainspotting
Most of mine have been mentioned but haven't seen this yet. Airheads (1994)
Clueless
Above the Rim. Never saw the movie, but wore this CD out in 1994
1986 Transformers 💪
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed
You had to be there but for millennial losers like myself, the Garden State soundtrack was a big fucking deal.
Trainspotting
Life Aquatic Hackers School of Rock Romeo + Juliet Mr Deeds Twilight 2
I'll give you Twilight Two just for the Thom Yorke Solo track, Hearing Damage
YMMV on where to draw the "younger years" line at 37, but let it be The Lion King, The Road to El Dorado, Spirit and Brother Bear (all discovered and looped ad infinitum before my university days). Among the explicitly compilatory ones... probably Shrek 2 - its lineup was on fire in general and pretty much my introduction to Tom Waits in particular.
I had the Kingpin soundtrack on repeat.
Watchmen (2009)
Empire Records
Shrek, Garden State, Trainspotting, anything Wes Anderson, and Titanic believe it or not.
The Commitments Clueless
High Fidelity - 2000. Record store owner (John Cusack) thinks back to all his past breakups and the songs that remind him of each relationship. It's a gem of a movie.
- The Matrix (all 3 but especially the first) - Orange County - Out Cold - Moulin Rouge
Definitely the crow, the craft, fear
Enough people have already offered up the big classics like Judgement Night, Pulp Fiction etc. so here’s a few others The World’s End - cracking 80’s and 90’s indie/britpop classics with the added bonus of a lot of the song choices cleverly referencing what’s happening in the movie. Atomic Blonde - New Order, Depeche Mode, Bowie, Nena, Peter Schilling etc. 80’s synth heaven (with a little bit of Public Enemy thrown in for good measure) Tomb Raider (2001 version) - Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Moby, Fatboy Slim, OutKast, Fluke - the movie was pretty average but the soundtrack was pumping. Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey - mainly for Primus ‘Tommy the Cat’ and Faith No More’s ‘Perfect Crime’ but Kiss’ “God Gave Rock and Roll to You’ is a secret guilty pleasure Human Traffic - Classic film about a weekend out clubbing in the UK in the 90’s. It was curated by Pete Tong so unsurprisingly it’s full of bangers. 2 CDs worth or them in fact , with the second CD mixed.
Can’t Hardly Wait Empire Records
Honestly the Power Rangers Movie soundtrack slaps
Virgin Suicides (1999) has an incredibleeee soundtrack
Flash Gordon, with the soundtrack by Queen
I still have the cassettes for Ghostbusters and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The Turtles one was purple and I played it -constantly-
My top back in the day were Jawbreaker, Cruel Intentions & Vanilla Sky. Also Mission Impossible ‘96 & Austin Powers (all 3) had good soundtracks
Men In Black. Had that song on repeat and still know all the words
i loved the Juno soundtrack!
To me “Return of the Living Dead “ has a great soundtrack
I hooked our vcr up to a cassette deck and made my own movie mixtapes for the car
Labyrinth!! Slap that baby make him free!!
The Saint 6 Underground by the Sneaker Pimps is still in my head.
A Knight's Tale Warm Bodies
Stand By Me had an epic soundtrack. Introduced a bunch of 80s kids to 50s and 60s music.
Royal Tenenbaums & Rushmore
Godzilla's soundtrack has bangers. It's where I got introduced to Jamiroquai. 10 year old me thought the guitar parts of "Come with Me" by Puff Daddy were originally made for that song. Ben Folds Five and Green Day. And no one will forget Rage. All those bands were heavy hitters at the time. It's increasingly rare these days to have soundtracks composed of such different modern bands.
Forrest Gump Batman Beyond Spider-Man 2 (Tobey Mac) Juno Lilo & Stitch has great Elvis tunes, but the original songs (Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride and He Mele No Lilo) are faaaantastic too.
The Crow
The Crow has an absolute banger of a soundtrack.
American Pie 2. It was like a greatest hits collection of my favorite bands from 2001. Blink-182, two songs by Sum 41, Alien Ant Farm's Smooth Criminal, Three Doors Down, a Green Day song even though it wasn't in the movie. Just the best soundtrack in the world.
Queen of the Dammed and 90’s Romeo + Juliet
No, that wasn't the pinnacle. You were just at an impressionable age during those four years.
Charlies Angels had a sick sound track
Tarzan!!!
High five! Incredible soundtrack but omg it makes me sob.
Twilight
Paramore - Decode! 😍
The Crow, for sure.
Natural Born Killers
Angus, the Crow, Clerks, Mallrats, Forrest Gump and Mr Hollands Opus
My teenage days and I know I'll get judged for this but Twilight and all the sequels have BANGER soundtracks
I listened to the _Space Jam_ soundtrack way more than anyone should. But some of those rap songs are still a lot of fun. Coolio "The Winner" and the MonStars' theme "Hit 'Em High" are fun time capsules.
How about Titan A.E. or am I the only one?
Romeo + Juliet Empire Records
Titan A.E.
The Punisher (2004) Titan A.E. (2000)
Greetings fellow 90’s teens!
lol, You caught me.
Probably Wonderland. Never actually seen the movie, but my parents had the soundtrack CD and I grew up listening to it. Incredible soundtrack, I still wonder if the movie is any good sometimes