12 Best Movie Soundtracks

Best soundtracks.  Wow, preferences in music are quite diverse, nonetheless, the BBC recently polled its listeners to find out what they felt were the greatest movie soundtracks.  The results for the top 12 were as follows:


1. Diamonds Are Forever
2. Lord of the Rings
3. The Assassination of Jesse James
4. Natural Born Killers
5. The Pianist
6. A Clockwork Orange
7. The Last of the Mohicans
8. Goldfinger
9. Transformers: The Movie
10. Shaft
11. Once Upon a Time in the West
12. Schindler's List

Agree? Disagree?  I disagree, yes some of the above films have great soundtracks but what about: Star Wars, Fight Club, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Apocalypse Now, Singin' In the Rain, Pulp Fiction, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Saving Private Ryan, The Godfather. And these are just off the top.

Like I said at the start, it's all preferential. One thing we can agree on is that a great soundtrack is essential to a great movie.  Sound is one-half the movie presentation, and vital to a film's structure.  A great movie with a so-so soundtrack is equivalent to being served a great meal  with bad service - it just can't make up for it. 

Best
Jim Lavorato