The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time
There’s been a lot of hype around the soundtracks for “Black Panther” and “A Star Is Born” . . . so Pitchfork put out an updated list of the 50 best soundtracks of all time.
They’re just straight-up soundtracks . . . mostly collections of songs by multiple artists. They’re doing a separate list for movie SCORES later on, and they didn’t include musicals like “A Star Is Born”, because it “felt like a different category.”
Here are the Top 20:
1. “Super Fly”, 1972
2. “Purple Rain”, 1984
3. “Trainspotting”, 1996
4. “The Harder They Come”, 1972
5. “2001: A Space Odyssey”, 1968
6. “Do the Right Thing”, 1989
7. “Lost in Translation”, 2003
8. “Rushmore”, 1998
9. “Help!”, 1965
10. “Pulp Fiction”, 1994
11. “Repo Man”, 1984
12. “Velvet Goldmine”, 1998
13. “Friday”, 1999
14. “Apocalypse Now”, 1979
15. “20th Century Women”, 2016
16. “Boogie Nights”, 1997
17. “The Sheltering Sky”, 1990
18. “Love Jones”, 1997
19. “This Is Spinal Tap”, 1984
20. “O Brother, Where Art Thou?”, 2000
For the record, the “Black Panther” soundtrack DID crack the Top 50 at #45.
(Hit up Pitchfork.com for the full list, which includes write-ups. Oh and “Pitchfork” is a little stuffy, so you won’t find the “Titanic” soundtrack, or the one from Leonardo DiCaprio’s “Romeo & Juliet” movie.
