honestly, has any movie's soundtrack ranked up there with this one? I'm not even a baby of the 80's, but the music is just so perfect for the feel of the film I can't think of any better use of music in any movie
shareI'm not a big fan of the 80s but this soundtrack is awesome.
RIP Joe Strummer
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Unlike the Cindi Lauper stuff in "Romy and Michelle." Yes the music was the highpoint of that Movie
shareNot all the songs are from the 80s. GnR's version of Live and Let Die for instance was early 90s.
But yeah, I love this soundtrack. Makes me nostalgic.
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It did add some flavor to the film. "About A Boy" is another that comes to mind
shareGarden State is the only other one I can think of with a sountrack that's used just as well in a movie.
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I'm not a big fan of the 80s but this soundtrack is awesome.
This is definitely up there...Kingpin is another movie with a great soundtrack!
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shareFast Times at Ridgemont High. All those Electra/Asylum artists (Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit, Joe Walsh) and songs like "Raised on the Radio and "Waffle Stomp" really round out the soundtrack. Irving Azoff is a genius. But you're right, GPB has a stellar soundtrack (and on two CDs no less)!
shareYou're right, Amy Heckerling really had a feel for the music in Fast Times. Grosse Pointe used loads of excellent songs, but they seemed out of place.
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shareBoogie Nights, hands down!
shareForrest Gump. In Grosse Point Blank though, i thought the stand out tune was "Under Pressure", whilst he was holding the baby, that was really cool !
shareI looked "Under Pressure" up and have had it on some form of a music device since I first seen this movie. I love that song!!
shareGrosse Point Blank and Pulp Fiction are my 2 favorite soundtracks.
shareThe use of The Beat during the fight scene is fantastic, great music to accompany a sequence. Just about to watch GPB on BBC 1 so it's good timing
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Yeah, I love that scene. :)
And I do think the soundtrack in this movie is great, even though I don't like the songs that much, it really makes you feel their nostalgic feelings, and the contrast between their high school-times and the modern times, I guess. :D
It is a great soundtrack, apart from The Clash, Specials, The Beat etc. not many Anglophone movies would think to include something by Argentinean ska greats Fabulosos Cadillacs (they play Matador at the reunion just before the fight scene - this is off the classic album Vasos Vacios, try it especially if you speak Spanish but even if you don't). Other great soundtracks have been mentioned on this board such as American Graffiti and Pulp Fiction, but how about O Brother, Where Art Thou?
share" apart from The Clash, Specials, The Beat "
whaaat!?