My Top 20 Favorite Movie Soundtracks:

Sherlock Holmes (1 & 2)! My favourite thing to listen to when I’m working on a tight deadline. Makes me feel like I’m on a mission 🙂 Local Hero is another one, beautiful, dreamy sounds by Mark Knopfler (who also scored Princess Bride!) that I always listen to when I’m painting. My sis is tooootally into the Descendants and Broken Flowers

Love the list. I would add Rocky Horror (love hearing my five year old say Dammit Janet), Scott Pilgrim and Mad Men (both volumes).

Nice selection! You should do a list with your favorite songs from your favorite soundtracks on Grooveshark and share it with us (like you did with Joy in one of your podcasts).
The soundtrack of the film “I am Sam” is very good too.

Empire Records, Shawshank Redemption…both really good!

i had the reality bites soundtrack ON TAPE and it’s all i listened to in grade 10. i also love the waiting to exhale soundtrack – it’s like a time capsule of 90s r&b – whitney, tlc, toni braxton, mary j. blige – amazing.

Romeo and Juliet soundtrack is a given, I secretly love musicals (do they count?) like les miserables, oklahoma and west side story!

I like your list! I love the soundtracks to Eternal Sunshine (my favorite movie) and Garden State. I worked in a movie theater in high school (early 2000s), and we could bring our own CDs to play in the lobby as long as they were movie soundtracks. I spent a lot of time listening to the soundtracks to Clueless, Blast from the Past, Shrek, and Bring it On! There are several songs that will always remind me of those movies. Oh and then there was the summer we listened to nothing but the soundtrack to Disney’s Tarzan. Yikes!

Definitely loved the Once soundtrack, and I could listen to the music from Grease everyday!!

I LOVE this!!!! I want to live in a Wes Anderson movie just for the soundtrack alone!

The Last Days of Disco is by FAR my favorite movie soundtrack. I was listening to it while in labor with my 8 year old. The nurse said I was too young to be listening to it. I was 24 at the time.

Yessss….great choices! I was obsessed with the Dirty Dancing soundtrack as a kid and obsessed with Garden State as an adult. R&M HSR is such a fun one. I used to play the Go and Romeo + Juliet Soundtrack in my college days. Ah, memory lane!

Oh what a fun post! One soundtrack that I love is 13 Going on 30–so many amazing 80s hits! It instantly brightens my mood and makes me want to dance every time I put it on.

My favorite soundtracks include “Dead Presidents,” “Kill Bill, Vol. 1,” “Jackie Brown,” “The Last Days of Disco,” “Purple Rain,” “Monsoon Wedding,” “Marie Antoinette,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Pina” and “Elevator to the Gallows.”

I must give props to movie scores as well, “American Beauty,” “Virgin Suicides,” “Talented Mr. Ripley.”

growing up i was obsessed w “say anything,” “some kind of wonderful,” and the “pretty woman” soundtracks.

We own like half your collection of faves:) my fave soundtrack is so I married an axe murderer ! Fave song there she goes, followed by Woman!!

fantastic list! such a fun post! some readers mentioned vanilla sky and so i married an axe murderer…love those 🙂 two of my other faves are dan in real life and about a boy.

Great soundtracks, I’m not going to lie. BUT I am mostly just distracted by the fact you wrote your list in alphabetical order…

My all time favorite is “Saturday Night Fever.” Boy does that date me! Also love the track for
“Romancing the Stone.”

There are so many! Pride and Predjudice and Young Victoria for studying, New Moon (don’t judge), (500) Days of Summer, Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs (my parents had those on repeat throughout my childhood).

Under Your Spell, from Drive, has been playing on my computer ever since I saw it. It makes Ryan Gosling wearing jean on jean come to mind. Delicious.

Moulin Rouge is great! So is Amelie, love that movie…and Les Choristes is another french one with beautiful music.
The Hours, too. Philip Glass is brilliant.

Damn girl. You got all mine! PS. the Shins have a new album – it feels nostalgic (circa Garden State years).

Love your list, and love this concept for a post. In the few months since I started reading your awesome blog, I haven’t seen a post like this. Very cool!

My two favorites that popped right to mind were Repo Man and Sixteen Candles. Our wedding song right when we kissed was “If You Were Here” from Sixteen Candles by the Thompson Twins. Still gives me chills!

Giiiirrrrl, your choices are fantastic. You have so many of my favorites in there. I love Amelie, Tenenbaums, and Garden State, too! Another of my newer favorites is 500 Days of Summer. It’s a good one to listen to all the way through. Another recommendation is Everything is Illuminated.

oh and Once! best original soundtrack, and all of Swell Season’s stuff is amazing

We are soundtrack twins. Almost Famous, Juno, and all Wes Anderson.

sleepless in seattle.

I love the soundtrack to Once. Oh, yes, I cannot forget to mention Magnolia which I loved also. Great List!

We seem to have a very similar taste when it comes to soundtracks, I own more than half of your list 😉 If you are looking for some more great tunes to add to your collection, you should check out L.A. Confidental, Outsourced, Mulholland Drive or Paris, Texas.