Remember we told you about Vanity Fair’s “Top 50 Soundtracks of All Time” which featured Prince’s “Purple Rain” at number 1, The Beatles’ “A Hard Days Night” at 2 and the reggae classic “The Harder They Come” at 3?
Well, Vanity Fair, in their “Movies Rock” issue (practically dedicated to our raison d’être) have finally put out their Top 50 list (but it’s not online).
The top 10 which we had already posted last month looked like this: In bold are some of our particular favorites and linked are any previous posts we’ve done about these soundtracks (generally with mp3 context). You could quibble about placement all day long, but hey, it’s just their opinion. There’s no major reason to get too upset (it’s a very decent list we think).
01. “Purple Rain”
02. “A Hard Day’s Night”
03. “The Harder They Come”
04. “Pulp Fiction”
05. “The Graduate”
06. “Superfly”
07. “Trainspotting“
08. “Saturday Night Fever”
09. “American Graffiti”
10. “The Big Chill”
The rest of the list continues like this.
11. “Rushmore“
12. “24 Hour Party People“
13. “The Blues Brothers”
14. “Easy Rider”
15. “National Lampoon’s Animal House”
16. “Midnight Cowboy“
17. “Boogie Nights”
18. “Dazed & Confused”
19. “Almost Famous”
20. “Goodfellas”
21. “Shaft”
22. “Moulin Rouge“
23. “Resevoir Dogs”
24. “Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels”
25. “The Committments”
26. “O Brother Where Art Thou?”
27. “Marie Antoinette”
28. “Crooklyn”
29. “Tommy”
30. “Help!”
31. “Performance“
32. “Pretty In Pink”
33. “8 Mile”
34. “Nashville”
35. “Repo Man”
36. “American Gigolo”
37. “Top Gun”
38. “Pat Garett & Billy The Kid“
39. “Friday”
40. “Rock N’ Roll Highschool”
41. “Once“
42. “Grease”
43. “Garden State”
44. “High Fidelity”
45. “This Is Spinal Tap”
46. “The Last King of Scotland”
47. “Singles“
48. “Hedwig And The Angry Inch”
49. “Broken Flowers“
50. “Viva Las Vegas”
We’ll admit we’re sort of surprised that the 40-genarians writing for VF didn’t pick anything by The Rutles (maybe cause there’s no specific soundtrack to “All You Need Is Cash“) and the “Dead Presidents” soundtrack, but hey, no one’s perfect. I’m sure others will complain about something that’s missing so feel free to sound-off in the comments section. Our biggest beef is probably the exclusion of Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” (though we understand most people all remember that for one song – Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power,” but man, what a song.
Download: Brian Eno – “Deep Blue Day” (Trainspotting soundtrack)
Download: Underworld – “Born Slippy” (Trainspotting soundtrack)
Download: Rick Springfield – “Jesse’s Girl” (Boogie Nights Soundtrack)
Download: The Chantels – “And Then He Kissed Me” (Goodfellas soundtrack)
Download: Smog – “Cold Blooded Old Times” (High Fidelity soundtrack)
Download: Steppenwolf – “The Pusher” (East Rider soundtrack)
Download: Bob Dylan – “Billy (Main Title Theme)“(Pat Garett & Billy The Kid soundtrack)