Comments on: Mojo's Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time.

Mojo's Top 100 Soundtracks of All Time.

btwillig — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:05:56 -0800

Mojo's top 100 soundtracks -- well thought out, with some rediscovered classics, and a few obscure gems. [via largeheartedboy]

By: me3dia

me3dia — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:19:40 -0800

Interesting that these were presented in roughly chronological order, instead of a ranking.

By: santiagogo

santiagogo — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 10:56:54 -0800

I wonder if "The Passion" fans, upon giving up their appeal for a Best Picture nomination, will move to getting their movie score on here.

By: shawnj

shawnj — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:02:19 -0800

No The Matrix or Judgement Night or Fear of a Black Hat? For shame.

By: ITheCosmos

ITheCosmos — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:02:50 -0800

Thanks... I always dig Mojo's lists, but the magazine costs so damn much over here.

By: Swampjazz!

Swampjazz! — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:04:52 -0800

cool. I was expecting this to be really inane, but they nailed it- herrmann, morricone, la planete sauvage... this is a fantastic resource, thank you.

By: clockworkjoe

clockworkjoe — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:07:52 -0800

They don't have Requiem for a Dream, so how accurate can that list be?

By: nylon

nylon — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:10:14 -0800

I know very well that all lists are flawed, and I'm such a sucker for even posting this, but really, where is Eraserhead? Too edgy for the Mojo crowd?

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:13:07 -0800

Suprising omissions: Logan's Run Clockwork Orange Liquid Sky Times Square (Where's the italics tag? It's missing today.)

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:14:28 -0800

It's a good list, except that I'm assuming there's a good reason that This Is Spinal Tap didn't qualify.

By: btwillig

btwillig — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:22:34 -0800

I'm was a little surprised The Royal Tenenbaums beat out Rushmore. Was glad to see Air make it with The Virgin Suicides, though.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:23:56 -0800

Why no Rocky Horror Picture Show?

By: rtimmel

rtimmel — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:41:46 -0800

Paah -- Also not included: Zabrinski Point Vanilla Sky Kill Bill (either volume) Repo Man The Beach Trainspotting or The End of the World. And I've always been partial to Something Wild.

By: Hillman Cobs

Hillman Cobs — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:44:39 -0800

What, no Beverly Hills Cop?

By: drpynchon

drpynchon — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:31:07 -0800

Pi? Velvet Goldmine?

By: Dantien

Dantien — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:42:15 -0800

No Passion:Soundtrack to the Last Temptaion of Christ? Man, nothing beats that on a nice evening with a lady. Otherwise, great list. Even found that Miles Davis album I never knew about.

By: lockle

lockle — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:45:24 -0800

I'll be a happy camper if someone makes a torrent archive of these and posts them somewhere... From what I can see, pretty much all of these would be impossible to find.

By: rfs

rfs — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:04:00 -0800

Also missing are Cool Hand Luke and Magnolia.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:05:48 -0800

No "The Harder They Come"? Worthless.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:14:39 -0800

Where the HELL is The Third Man?

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:17:56 -0800

eyeballkid, The Harder They Come is #56. Rocky Horror was originally a stage musical, which might DQ it from this list. Past that, it's arbitrary.

By: Quartermass

Quartermass — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:40:36 -0800

No Top Gun? Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar Metal under tension Beggin' you to touch and go Highway to the Danger Zone Right into the Danger Zone Headin' into twilight Spreadin' out her wings tonight She got you jumpin' off the deck And shovin' into overdrive Highway to the Danger Zone I'll take you Right into the Danger Zone You'll never say hello to you Until you get it on the red line overload You'll never know what you can do Until you get it up as high as you can go Out along the edges Always where I burn to be The further on the edge The hotter the intensity Highway to the Danger Zone ... and now it's in your head too! Gonna take you Right into the Danger Zone Highway to the Danger Zone

By: Darkman

Darkman — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:04:04 -0800

Would add: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Tan Dun) Escape From New York (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth) Hardware (Simon Boswell) Batman (Danny Elfman) Se7en (Howard Shore)

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:12:05 -0800

eyeballkid, The Harder They Come is #56. I... uh... I meant "Tuff Turf!" (or "oh! there's a whole other page!")

By: cholstro

cholstro — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:19:42 -0800

High Fidelity

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:23:55 -0800

What, no American Beauty? No The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly? No Gattaca? No Unbreakable? Actually, I don't see any of James Newton Howard's work on there, a major omission. No Tangerine Dream either, c'mon. No Beavis and Butt-Head Do America? (Erm. Okay, maybe not.)

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:26:15 -0800

Y'all are stretching now.

By: abiku

abiku — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:11:30 -0800

If the list covers releases recent enough to include 2001's The Royal Tenenbaums, I'm actually genuinely surprised that none of the The Lord of the Rings soundtracks made it onto the list. I think they're brilliant even as standalone pieces.

By: Razzle Bathbone

Razzle Bathbone — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:37:19 -0800

I have always been a fan of the soundtrack, though I prefer scores to the mix tape-type compilations. Mojo had a disc with one of their issues a couple of summer ago which was great. Opened my eyes up to a few that I had not heard before

By: blakeleyh

blakeleyh — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:20:40 -0800

Here are a few more great scores: The Conversation - David Shire Naked Lunch - Howard Shore The Moderns - Mark Isham Forbidden Planet - Louis & Bebe Barron The Day the Earth Stood Still - Bernard Herrman Dodes'kaden - Toru Takemitsu Il Casanova - Nino Rota All About My Mother - Alberto Iglesias In The Mood For Love - Michael Galasso

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 17:26:36 -0800

I'd like to see a list of the best soundtracks that weren't actually used for the movie, with Eurythmic's 1984 at the top. Some really good ones there tho, but the original Valley of the Dolls is better than the sequel (and Mylo's remix of it is out of this world)

By: evilcolonel

evilcolonel — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:27:19 -0800

While I'm all for free speech, I'd like to propose a moratorium on future posting of Kenny Loggins lyrics. Kill Bill had a great soundtrack... but I think it's a bit too derivative to qualify. The list also needs more Bacharach. (You can never have enough Bacharach.)

By: grumblebee

grumblebee — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:33:50 -0800

It's a somewhat nice resource, but it's odd that they call it the 100 greatest soundtracks of ALL TIME. Other than one or two scores, they've decided that film history began in the late 50s. It actually started nearly 50 years before that. Even in the silent period, composers wrote scores. Many have been recorded, and many are brilliant. And where are the scores from the sound period pre-50s? Great pre-50s scores chosen off the top of my head: 1925 "The Battleship Potemkin" - Dmitri Shostakovich 1931 "City Lights" - Charlie Chaplin 1933 "King Kong" - Max Steiner 1934 "The Gay Divorcee" - Cole Porter 1935 "Gone With the Wind" - Max Steiner 1940 "Theif of Bagdad" - Miklós Rózsa 1941 "Citizen Kane" - Bernard Herrmann 1944 "Double Indemnity" - Miklós Rózsa 1945 "Spellbound" - Miklós Rózsa 1945 "The Lost Weekend" - Miklós Rózsa