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  1. 100 Greatest Movie Songs of All Time - Best Movie Soundtracks Find our playlist with these keywords: movie soundtracks, movie songs, best soundtracks of all ...

    • Jon Dolan
    • ‘Head’ (1968) The Monkees' psychedelic fantasy bombed at the box office, and nobody on earth has ever figured out the plot. Yet it remains a trippy cult classic, with cameos from Frank Zappa and co-writer Jack Nicholson.
    • ‘Rock and Roll High School’ (1979) This set from the Ramones' star turn strips the punk irony from a clutch of their best songs and reframes them as pure anthems of suburban-teen disaffection.
    • ‘Juice’ (1992) Juice starred Tupac Shakur and featured Samuel L. Jackson, and its soundtrack (produced by the Bomb Squad's Hank Shocklee) was loaded with real hip-hop at a time when movies of its kind were still going with safer R&B.
    • ‘Lost in Translation’ (2003) Director Sofia Coppola has a thing for the French – see Air's lovely soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides, as well as her post-punk Marie Antoinette.
    • The Bodyguard
    • Purple Rain
    • Forrest Gump
    • Dirty Dancing
    • Titanic
    • The Lion King
    • Footloose
    • Top Gun
    • O Brother, Where Art Thou?
    • Grease

    Certified units:18 million Elvis Presley originally wanted to record Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You,” but his people wanted half the publishing rights. Parton refused and later commentedthat “when Whitney [Houston’s version] came out, I made enough money to buy Graceland."

    Certified units: 13 million Prince wrote around 100 songs for the movie—and "Purple Rain" wasn’t even in that original group.

    Certified units: 12 million Like a box of chocolates, except songs, with everything from Jefferson Airplane to Lynyrd Skynyrd featured in Robert Zemeckis's Oscar-winning hit.

    Certified units: 11 million Maybe don’t rush to get the album if you love the film’s songs: According to executive producer Jimmy Ienner, “We needed different mixes for the film and record ... For example, the guitars were dropped way down for the film because guitars weren’t a dominant instrument back then; saxophones were. We took out most of the...

    Certified units: 11 million Céline Dion told Billboardthat when she was recording "My Heart Will Go On," her thoughts were: “Sing the song, then get the heck out of there."

    Certified units: 10 million "Nants ingonyama" apparently translates to “Here comes a lion.” And if you've seen this Disney classic—which is about to get a live-action remake—you certainly know what "Hakuna Matata" means.

    Certified units: 9 million When Ann Wilson of Heart was prepping to duet for the song “Almost Paradise” for Footloose, she broke her wrist. But she refused painkillers because they’d affect her singing voice.

    Certified units: 9 million The songs of Top Gun “still define the bombastic, melodramatic sound that dominated the pop charts of the [mid-80s],” according to AllMusic

    Certified units: 8 million According to Marcus Mumford of Mumford and Sons, they were introduced to bluegrass through the Coen brothers's O Brother, Where Art Thou, saying “That movie kind of heralded the advent of bluegrass in mainstream British culture."

    Certified units: 8 million According to Box Office Mojo, Grease is the second highest-grossing musical of all time, beaten only by 2017’s Beauty and the Beast.

  2. Soundtracks contain music featured in movies and television soundtracks. Usually, these include excerpts of the score and incidental music, plus songs featured in the films or programs. In the '90s, it became a common practice for labels to move beyond this strict definition and include songs "inspired by" the film/show.

  3. The 50 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time. From Black Panther to Clueless, Dazed and Confused to Purple Rain, the music that has defined modern filmmaking. By Pitchfork. February 19, 2019.

  4. 100 Best Movie Soundtracks. A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.

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