what are your favourite OST songs?

for me it's Weezer "suzanne" from the Mallrat's soundtrack - weak film, cool song!

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OST songs

by which you mean songs written specifically for a film? In which case I'd pick the brilliant The Wicker Man soundtrack

or if its existing songs used in a film? then I I love The Wanderers soundtrack

I really like Dreaming of Fiji by Philip Glass from The Truman Show soundtrack.

A song not written specially for a film, then it's seeing Robert De Niro walking to the sound of Jumpin' Jack Flash by the Stones. One of the best entrances ever.

"On every street in every city, there's a nobody who dreams of being a somebody..."

I also love the original Morriconi soundtracks to Once Upon a Time in America and The Untouchables and the Bernard Herrmann soundtracks to Vertigo and Taxi Driver

Easy!

Eye Of The Tiger - Survivor (Rocky III/IV)

Some ones I like, not distinguishing between songs written for films and ones used in them.... :

*Llorando (Crying)- Mulholland Drive
*Save Me, Aimee Mann (Magnolia)
*Burn, NIN (Natural Born Killers)
*Alone, Colin Newman (The Silence of the Lambs)
*Innocent When You Dream, Tom Waits (Smoke)
*In Dreams, Rou Orbison (Blue Velvet)
*TB Sheets, Van Morrison (used as a recurrent theme in the patchy Bringing Out the Dead)
*Mr Soul, Buffalo Springfield (Shampoo)
*The Killing Moon, Echo & the Bunnymen (Donnie Darko)
*Things Have Changed, Bob Dylan (Wonder Boys)
*Lust for Life, Iggy Pop (Trainspotting)
*any of the Bowie tracks used in 'Christiane F.'
*Nag Nag Nag, Cabaret Voltaire (Me Without You)
*Stigmata, Ministry (Hardware)
*Til the End of the World, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (Until the End of the World)
*The Stranger Song, Leonard Cohen (McCabe & Mrs Miller)
*Cat People (Putting Out the Fire), David Bowie-Giorgio Moroder
*Fight the Power, Public Enemy (Do the Right Thing)
*Just Like Honey, The Jesus & Mary Chain (Lost in Translation)
*Spring Rain, The Go-Betweens (Something Wild)
*The Old Main Drag, The Pogues (My Own Private Idaho)
*The Weight, The Band (Easy Rider)
*Memo from Turner, Mick Jagger (Performance/Goodfellas)
*Baba O'Riley, The Who (Summer of Sam)
*Come in No. 51..., Pink Floyd (Zabriskie Point)
*Where is My Mind?, Pixies (Fight Club)
*The Heart's Filthy Lesson, David Bowie/Closer, NIN&Coil (Se7en)
*These Days, Nico (The Royal Tennenbaums)
*Sweet Emotion, Aerosmith (Dazed & Confused)
*Tiny Dancer, Elton John (Almost Famous)
*Oh Sweet Nuthin', The Velvet Underground (High Fidelity)
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Love Song for a vampire, Annie Lennox (Dracula)
Book of Days, enya (far and away)
This is the end, The doors (apocalpse Now)
Iris, goo goo dolls (city of angels)
You've got a friend in me (toy Story)
Play Dead, Bjork (young americans?)
Gimme Shelter the 'stones...There's too many films to mention with this song!

That's it for now

All the music on "Jump Tomorrow" is great. Unfortunately, the OST is not available.

For a particualar use of an existing song in a film I always love that slow mo shot of DeNiro sitting at the bar planning to kill everyone in Goodfellas to the sound of Sunshine of Your Love. But there are a million great examples of this kind of stuff i guess. Stuck in the Middle anyone?

Got no idea what songs were written for the films or if they were just used by them so....

*Closer - NIN (Se7en)
*Burn - The Cure (The Crow)
*Snakedriver - Jesus & Marychain (The Crow)
*It Can't Rain all the Time - Jane Sidberry (The Crow)
*Lovesong for a Vampire - Annie Lennox (Dracula)
*The Ballad of El Goodo - Evan Dando (Empire Records)
*Man of the Hour - Pearl Jam (Big Fish)
*Jungle Boogie - Kool & The Gang (Pulp Fiction)
*Girl you'll be a woman soon - Urge Overkill (Pulp Fiction)
*Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith (Dazed & Confused)
*Come What May - Ewan Mcgregor, Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge)
*You've got to hide your love away - Eddie Vedder (I am Sam)
*Into the West - Annie Lennox (LOTR: Return of the King)
*Stuck in the Middle - Stealer's Wheel (Reservoir Dogs)
*Little Green Bag - ? sorry can't remember who did it! (Reservoir Dogs)

Thats it for now.....

There's a song that I find quite chirpy and amusing. 'Just a gigolo' I don't know who sings it - It's really sweet to see De Niro singing along to it in Mad Dog and Glory. He's such a wimp in that but it's a really sweet film. Even though you do get the cynical impression that thurman will do a runner with Caruso!

Mirror in the Bathroom by The Beat played over the wicked locker room scrap in Grosse Point Blank

I'm listening to the Garden State soundtrack at the moment, so I'd have to say:


Blue Eyes by the Cary Brothers

I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You by Colin Hays

Let Go by Frou Frou

Such Great Heights by The Postal Service (I prefer this version even though it's not on the CD)

house of flying daggers music was great

I love 'From Rusholme with love' by Mint royale. It was used in Vanilla sky as well as the channel 4 advert for it. Also, it was used in Alias!