Oh yeah!
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 01:28 (one year ago) link
Isn’t that a reference to something in the movie? I haven’t seen it since it came out in the theater, but that song has something to do with the Crow. Besides just being on the soundtrack.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link
I'm with fgti in that Jane's song should land big but is just off a bit.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
Wow -- I just wrote about my favorite soundtracks today, most of which were released in the '90s. I'd say Until the End of the World kicked off the trend of "alternative" act + stars.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
Claire Danes Thai-prison drama Brokedown Palace.
not enough pretty young people having their lives ruined by drugs movies anymore
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:04 (one year ago) link
That's what Euphoria's for.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 03:12 (one year ago) link
Not really a soundtrack but also 90s as heck:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_in_the_Key_of_X:_Music_from_and_Inspired_by_the_X-Files
― dow, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:14 (one year ago) link
Well some of it was soundtrack:
Several of the songs on the album were used in episodes of the series. Soul Coughing's "Unmarked Helicopters" appeared in the fourth season episode "Max",[5] while Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand" was heard during the second season episode "Ascension",[6] and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "Frenzy" appeared in the second-season episode "Humbug".[7]
― dow, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:18 (one year ago) link
classic hidden track too
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:39 (one year ago) link
There’s filmmakers whose soundtracks of pre-existing songs are popular beyond the 90’s: Sofia Coppola, Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright…
Also pretty much everyone heard the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack…
There’s still has to be some recent hits that came from original soundtracks… like idk Sunflower by Post Malone which was massive. Blanking out right now but I’m sure there’s several more.
Most influential soundtracks nowadays seem to come from series though…
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:54 (one year ago) link
I was thinking recently how weird it seems (now) that huge-at-the-time bands like U2 and Smashing Pumpkins released new songs on, like, Batman soundtracks… which weresometimes singles, had videos, and everything.
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 04:58 (one year ago) link
Synergy!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 05:26 (one year ago) link
my favorite pumpkins and u2 tracks are from batman movie
I know, I know, but like, that's kind of fun to save a banger for whatever movie soundtrack right? also talk show host is my fav radiohead please forgive me
― Florin Cuchares, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 06:28 (one year ago) link
As great as the soundtrack to Until the End of the World is, it still isn't as good as the movie is and I will not hear otherwise
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 06:38 (one year ago) link
Bands/Artists usually were compensated handsomely for those big movie songs. IIRC, Metallica got a cool million for their Mission: Impossible II song in 2000, and Limp Bizkit got $500K for theirs.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 06:40 (one year ago) link
They also could function as bones thrown to fans during lengthy waits between albums. Stuff like No Doubt's "New" from Go, RATM's "No Shelter" from Godzilla, and Guns'n'Roses actually did it twice, covering "Sympathy For The Devil" for Interview With The Vampire and debuting the post-Slash lineup with "Oh My God" from End of Days.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 06:58 (one year ago) link
my favorite pumpkins and u2 tracks are from batman movieEven as a non–U2 fan, I was pretty taken with the Batman song (I didn’t need to buy the soundtrack, though! I could hear it every day on the radio that summer).
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 07:23 (one year ago) link
^^My first CD was a single of that track included with a special edition of the comic adaptation of Batman Forever.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 07:27 (one year ago) link
I do wonder if we couldn't spin a thread about why this isn't a thing anymore, or maybe it is?
the last two Guardians of the Galaxy trailers made do with dramatic half-time renditions of Spacehog and Rainbow songs but I gather retro hits are kind of important to the narrative with that franchise, can't come up with a modern corollary beyond the Bond films
― Florin Cuchares, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 09:06 (one year ago) link
Lol I was about to note that Pharrell’s “Happy” was from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack, only to be perplexed to realise it is 10 years old.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
physical music sales got murdered
― more crankable (sic), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 09:51 (one year ago) link
lol yeah exactly.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:41 (one year ago) link
when everybody in the world can add the 'exclusive new song' by popular group to their Spotify playlist, since it's the only thing they care about on the soundtrack, nobody will buy it.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
what were soundtracks you all bought for one or two songs?
pretty sure Wayne's World was one that my bro and I only got for Bohemian Rhapsody.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
which is dumb cos of course we could have just gotten a Night at the Opera but we didn't know much about Queen yet
XPs...and before that, illega/legal downloading made them obsolete. Soundtracks were perhaps the the biggest racket the music business had going in the CD era.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:48 (one year ago) link
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Albums/zgbs/digital-music-album
In the top 50 I see two movie soundtracks and at least 7 video game, broadway and tv series soundtracks.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
^^One of those is a Disney soundtrack (an exception to the rule), and the other is a non-Disney children's musical (Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile).
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
Broadway Cast recordings are a different beast. People buy these before going to see a musical on Broadway to get familiar with the material, or sometimes after as a souvenir. Liner notes often have pics from the show so theatre geeks like to own them
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
It's interesting how so many of these soundtracks caught A-list bands in the wake of a huge success, in front of a setback. U2 had done Achtung/ZooTv/Zooropa and then put out "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" which will always be my favourite U2 song and one of my favourite songs of the 90s; nothing on Pop would match it. Pumpkins had done Mellon Collie and then put out "The End..." (and also "Eye" from Lost Highway), both great songs, and... well, I ended up loving Adore, but it took me a while bc "Ava Adore" was a poor leadoff single. Same with NIN and "The Perfect Drug" which I loved loved loved and I honestly have listened to The Fragile only twice and both times I feel embarrassed
― Blessed Bloated Burdened (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
It is nuts to me that bands would get that kinda cash for compilation submissions but I guess it makes sense. I was so die-hard in my Tori fandom that I bought Higher Learning and Great Expectations OSTs and would've bought the Toys OST if it ever turned up
― Blessed Bloated Burdened (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
As far as actual song-soundtracks go, there have been a few legit hits lately: "Encanto," "A Star is Born." But soundtracks that are just collections of rando acts/songs ... hmmm ...
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
"The Perfect Drug" is another good example of a song I liked by a band I don't particularly care for.
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:34 (one year ago) link
Black Panther was a legit huge soundtrack album.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 16:36 (one year ago) link
I'm still not sure I've ever even seen Judgement Night but that soundtrack was formative
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
IMO money should have been taken away from Metallica for "I Disappear"
also jail time
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
xpost very creative concept too. wish more soundtracks did the whole genre pairing exercise.
― waiting for a czar to fall (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
i heard from other parents that Sing/Sing 2 were hot soundtracks and watched the movies, which actually would have been good except for the music choices. just basic unimaginative picks.
in Sing 2, Bono voicing an ex-rock star lion in seclusion whose big hit was I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For is just almost too surreal to be bad.
i was going to mention the City of Industry soundtrack, which is pretty solid albeit not alt-rock.
Massive Attack – ThreeLush – Last Night (Darkest Hour Mix)Tricky – OvercomeBomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust (UK Album Version)Death In Vegas – Rocco (Sing For A Drink Mix)Palm Skin Productions – Walking Through WaterLionrock – Call A CabButter 08 – Degobrah (Jupiter Mix)Photek – The Hidden Camera (Static Mix)Red – Mr. Jones
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:01 (one year ago) link
They're hot soundtracks for kids... my daughter would refuse to hear the original versions of the songs, she only wanted the Sing versions (I think she's over that now!)
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
The first Sing made my son really get into Elton John's original "I'm Still Standing".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:07 (one year ago) link
it all just gave me Shrek vibes for some reason, i don't blame the kids for being into all that tho
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
judgement night is peak “objectively average/bad movie + insanely great soundtrack” i would specifically spend time digging through the soundtrack section at the record store looking for movies i’d never heard of & checking the track listing because of this
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:18 (one year ago) link
like in high school i often tried to see the movies then buy the soundtrack but after seeing judgement night in a theater on a trip to usa i quickly realized the pitfalls of this as a blanket strategy
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
Wenders tried to work some of the Until the End of the World magic w/Faraway So Close
A1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Faraway, So Close! 4:00A2 U2 - Stay (Faraway, So Close!) 6:08A3 Lou Reed - Why Can't I Be Good 4:23A4 Herbert Grönemeyer - Chaos 4:53Α5 Simon Bonney - Travellin' On 3:50A6 U2 with Johnny Cash - The Wanderer 5:19Β1 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Cassiel's Song 3:39B2 Jane Siberry - Slow Tango 3:31Β3 The House of Love - Call Me 4:09Β4 Simon Bonney - All God's Children 4:44B5 Laurie Anderson - Tightrope 3:21B6 Laurie Anderson - Speak My Language 3:40
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:24 (one year ago) link
anyone mention the soundtrack for Go or Cruel Intentions?
https://www.discogs.com/master/74743-Various-Go-Music-From-The-Motion-Picture
https://www.discogs.com/master/174654-Various-Cruel-Intentions-Music-From-The-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:29 (one year ago) link
I've got nothing good to say about the Judgment Night soundtrack EXCEPT the Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul track is still one of the great rock/hip hop collaborations. Maybe the greatest. Still sounds fantastic today.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:30 (one year ago) link
Hackers another fine example of the genre... the soundtrack got a 2-CD deluxe edition soundtrack in 2020! Which added this classic idealization of what hacking is like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moca2B0O0RM
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:42 (one year ago) link
was just flipping through thread and yeah: Black Panther is exactly this right now.
― POLIZISTEN VERSINKEN IM SCHLAMM (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 February 2023 17:53 (one year ago) link
We used to play The Saint soundtrack in the CD store where I was working in '97---played it loud, but I was usually busy, so kind of background to that---still, seemed pretty good at the time:
American releas1. "The Saint Theme" Orbital 4:322. "6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)" Sneaker Pimps 3:533. "Oil 1" Moby 5:314. "Atom Bomb" Fluke 3:545. "Roses Fade (Mojo Mix)" Luscious Jackson 2:316. "Setting Sun (Instrumental)" The Chemical Brothers 7:007. "Pearl's Girl" Underworld 9:328. "Out of My Mind" Duran Duran 4:169. "Da Funk" Daft Punk 5:2810. "Dead Man Walking" David Bowie 6:5011. "Polaroid Millenium" Superior 3:2112. "A Dream Within a Dream" Dreadzone 6:0813. "In the Absence of Sun" Duncan Sheik 5:0414. "Before Today" Everything but the Girl 4:17European releaseNo. Title Artist Length10. "Little Wonder (Danny Saber Dance Mix)" David Bowie 5:30
― dow, Thursday, 16 February 2023 01:16 (one year ago) link
"6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)" Sneaker Pimps = most 1997 track ID conceivable
― unknown blues singer (morrisp), Thursday, 16 February 2023 01:20 (one year ago) link