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Best movie soundtrack? If your choice isn't here, reply in comment.
@dneary Blade Runner.
@dneary Dick (1999)
@jsit Never heard of it! What is it about, Nixon?
@dneary Yeah! Not a “great” movie but I’d recommend it. Soundtrack rips.
@dneary@mastodon.ie Funny that 75% of my shortlist didn't make the "top 50 soundtracks of the last 50 years", including some choices like Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Forrest Gump that could definitely have made my list.
@dneary Oh a tough one, I’d go with Lost Highway. Other favorites include Backbeat, Beautiful Girls and The Crow
Edit: And how could I forget High Fidelity as a former record shop owner.
@milesizdead There are others I could have included! Notably, Josie and the Pussycats, Dazed and Confused, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, High Fidelity... The list goes on.
@dneary It seems somehow that the good ones came out decades ago, where are all the good soundtracks from the 2000’s 
I mean there’s good music coming out all the time.
@milesizdead The best soundtracks pick the best songs of byegone eras. Society needs a few years to figure out what was *really* good music vs popular.
@dneary Yes, this applies for soundtracks with “classic” tracks, but there are good ones with current music as well, like Lost Highway, Crow etc when they came out. TV shows do this quite well these days, movies not so much.
@milesizdead @dneary I wonder if music streaming has anything to do with it?
Back then, it'd be common to see compilation albums of the licensed tracks in a film. Presumably that would have factored into the costs of licensing the music. Publishing a Spotify playlist probably doesn't give the same kind of return...
@dneary Star Wars ep IV
@dpatriarche I like John Williams, but I would put all the movies he scored roughly on par - context-approproate crescendo music.
@dneary Star Trek: The Motion Picture
@dneary The Last Time I Committed Sucide (1997), an amazing Blue Note collection.
@dneary Tank Girl
@dneary Apocalypse Now.
@dneary
Them's fight'n words.
@dexter You can do more than 4 options!?
@dneary Last Action Hero on M, W, F; Ghost Dog on Tu, Th; Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs on alternating weekends.
@johns Sounds like an interesting custody battle there!
@dneary Judgement Night, Dirty Dancing
I am compelled to vote for Empire Records because Poster Children.
@dneary Purple Rain
@dneary Can't vote, as Blade Runner, Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting aren't on the list! ;)
@JigsawPieces That's what replying is for!
Royal Tennenbaums
Okay, look, I'm gonna say it: Guardians of the Galaxy.
@mattdm The soundtrack to The Martian is also good.
@dneary Surprised to see most of these movies with amazing soundtracks not mentioned:
The Matrix
Tron: Legacy
Moulin Rouge!
Dirty Dancing
Scott Pilgrim
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Saturday Night Fever
The Bodyguard
A Star is Born
West Side Story
Singin' in the Rain
Les Misérables
Little Shop of Horrors
Chicago
various Disney (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Lion King, Mary Poppins, etc.)
various Wes Anderson (Rushmore, Isle of Dogs, The French Dispatch, The Darjeeling Limited,, etc.)
@garrett Kind of cheating with the musicals there... With the exception of Scott Pilgrim, I would put Grosse Point Blank, Dazed and Confused, High Fidelity, Empire Records, Atomic Blonde, or Pulp Fiction above any of those as good movies with great music. I was thinking of movies where the music is a character in the movie, if that makes sense.
@dneary Some of the movies I listed had music specifically made for the movie, like Daft Punk (with a camero) for Tron: Legacy, and Lady Gaga for A Star is Born.
These are literally musicians+actors as characters in movies making the soundtrack for the movie (that is: both as real-life musicians & their characters), which is more "music is a character in the movie" than anything else listed… especially since the soundtracks were created for these movies and also popular outside the movies too.
@garrett I wasn't saying that you were wrong. I loved A Star is Born! They are not on my shortlist, however.
@dneary It's all opinions, and all the movies everyone mentioned happen to be great. 
I just thought it was weird that those movies weren't mentioned yet, as they're all quite well known for their soundtracks.
@dneary The 2011 movie Hanna. Can't beat a soundtrack by The Chemical Brothers.