We ranked the 40 best movie soundtracks of all time
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Home Video, Gramercy Pictures and Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. This post has been updated to account for the release of A Star Is Born.
Instead, what you’ll mostly find below are song-driven soundtracks that had significant cultural impact, in various ways: by becoming best sellers; by introducing songs to heavy radio rotation; by summarizing entire musical subgenres; or by helping to create singular cinematic moments. To cover as much ground as possible, I limited filmmakers known for their great soundtracks to one entry each.
36. Eden French filmmaker Mia Hansen-Løve based Eden on the experiences of her brother Sven , a moderately popular DJ whose career was overshadowed by his more successful EDM peers, including the guys in Daft Punk. The official soundtrack — which runs twice as long as the movie — is a fairly comprehensive survey of what Europeans kids were dancing to in the ’90s.
32. Rock ’n’ Roll High School Though this self-consciously goofy comedy is about teenagers who desperately want to meet the Ramones, the soundtrack’s actually a hodgepodge of late-’70s New Wave and art-rock, putting arguably the most important American punk band of all time in the context of performers like Nick Lowe, Brian Eno, Devo, and Todd Rundgren.
28. Singles Cameron Crowe started writing the movie that would become Singles not long after he moved to Seattle, where the former Rolling Stone reporter was immediately impressed with the then-underground music scene. By the time Crowe finished the film, his friends in bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Mudhoney were some of the biggest rock stars in the world.
24. Shutter Island Martin Scorsese may be the filmmaker from the ’70s “New Hollywood” heyday most closely identified with wedding dynamic images with gritty rock and soul.
20. The Graduate .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjmtmjzcr00a23h627m06rc9p@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } One of the movies that signaled a shift in Hollywood toward youth-oriented A-list productions, The Graduate used music that appealed both to kids and their parents, shifting easily between Dave Grusin’s traditional orchestral swing and the winsome folk-rock of Simon & Garfunkel.
16. The Bodyguard .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjmtmin0u008s3h62p2ege6x5@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } Make no mistake: The Bodyguard has the biggest-selling soundtrack of all time because of Whitney Houston’s peerless recording of Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” which spent 14 consecutive weeks as Billboard’s No. 1 song on the Hot 100 Singles chart.
12. Wild Style Before hip-hop acts started regularly getting MTV airplay and hitting the Top 10, a lot of middle Americans relied on soundtracks from rap cash-in movies like Beat Street and Krush Groove for an easy way into the genre. True connoisseurs tracked down the score for Wild Style, put together by Blondie guitarist Chris Stein and entrepreneurial MC “Fab Five Freddy” Brathwaite, with writer-director Charlie Ahearn.
8. Pretty in Pink .youtube[data-uri="www.vulture.com/_components/youtube/instances/cjmtmg35000683h625i9w9qzk@published"].border-top:before { content: 'Watch'; } In the ’80s, writer-director-producer John Hughes hit upon the perfect formula for teen-movie gold: Tell familiar stories about popularity and romance, set to music so hip that even high-school weirdos became fans.
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