Best Soundtrack ever...

[Wizardman]

A guilty pleasure is the soundtrack from Electric Dreams, besides the fabulous Together in Electric Dreams by Phil Oakey there are great tracks from Culture Club and Jeff Lynne.


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I have that song playing in my head right now.....great song!

 

[Wizardman]

Still with The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack besides being a brilliant vehicle for The Bee Gees, you had the beautiful Yvonne Elliman song If I Can't Have You, The Trammps Disco Inferno, A Fifth Of Beethoven by Walter Murphy, KC and the Sunshine Band with Boogie Shoes and The Tavares also covering the Bee Gees More Than A Woman. I also still enjoy the now retro 70 s feeling of David Shire's Manhattan Skyline.
True though, the Bee Gees scored six big hits off the album alone.

Mate, you've sold your argument to me.....I now have "Saturday Night Fever" back in front. That so-called "B" side to that album loses little to the "A" side. The Tavares song is very f**king good and so smooth to listen to. A fifth of Beethoven is brilliant and "If I can't have you" is so good as well. You win!

Last night, I ordered the 40th anniversary 2cd set of "Saturday Night Fever".

 

[Wizardman]

And Open Sesame by Kool & the Gang.

Rating of the Bee Gees tracks -

6) More Than a Woman
5) Jive Talkin
4) How Deep Is Your Love
3) Night Fever
2) Stayin Alive
1) You Should Be Dancing

All six are marvellous in many and varied ways but You Should Be Dancing is the transcendent dancefloor killer. I reckon Children of the World is their best album. Yvonne Elliman had her first big UK hit with a version of Love Me.

Couple of loosely-related nuggets -

The synth soundscape Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang plays as background music in Rocky.

Fatback Band are my favourite 70s Funk artists. Their 1976 album was called Night Fever. An infectious groove like "The Joint" would have been sensational in SNF.

Those six songs are ridiculous aren't they? 6 absolute bangers on one album. It would be like choosing your own children. My top 6 are

1. Stayin Alive: I think the iconic Tony Manero opening credits scene and Bee Gees old building clip played their parts in my decision.
2. Night Fever
3. More than a Woman
4. Jive Talkin
5. How Deep is you Love
6. You Should be Dancing: I may have put this last, but it is still a banger. I agree with you that this song is the most iconic of the film....just prefer the other songs.

 

[horrie hastings]

Mate, you've sold your argument to me.....I now have "Saturday Night Fever" back in front. That so-called "B" side to that album loses little to the "A" side. The Tavares song is very f**king good and so smooth to listen to. A fifth of Beethoven is brilliant and "If I can't have you" is so good as well. You win!

Last night, I ordered the 40th anniversary 2cd set of "Saturday Night Fever".

It is such an iconic album, even if you took out the Bee Gees songs it would still be a very solid soundtrack but the Bee Gees contribution lift this one into the stratosphere.

 

[horrie hastings]

And Open Sesame by Kool & the Gang.

Rating of the Bee Gees tracks -

6) More Than a Woman
5) Jive Talkin
4) How Deep Is Your Love
3) Night Fever
2) Stayin Alive
1) You Should Be Dancing

All six are marvellous in many and varied ways but You Should Be Dancing is the transcendent dancefloor killer. I reckon Children of the World is their best album. Yvonne Elliman had her first big UK hit with a version of Love Me.

Couple of loosely-related nuggets -

The synth soundscape Summer Madness by Kool & the Gang plays as background music in Rocky.

Fatback Band are my favourite 70s Funk artists. Their 1976 album was called Night Fever. An infectious groove like "The Joint" would have been sensational in SNF.

Its funny you mention You Should Be Dancing as a transcendent dance floor killer, back in my party days i remember being in the RHI and this tracked played and i was transfixed by the lights hitting the ceiling bouncing off the mirror balls, it was magical and i still remember it so clearly.

I do agree with Wizardman though about the opening credits of the movie with Staying Alive with Tony Romro, it sets the scene for the movie.

Staying Alive still gets a lot of air play on the radio here and Jive Talking gets a bit also.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

Its funny you mention You Should Be Dancing as a transcendent dance floor killer, back in my party days i remember being in the RHI and this tracked played and i was transfixed by the lights hitting the ceiling bouncing off the mirror balls, it was magical and i still remember it so clearly.

I do agree with Wizardman though about the opening credits of the movie with Staying Alive with Tony Romro, it sets the scene for the movie.

Staying Alive still gets a lot of air play on the radio here and Jive Talking gets a bit also.

My affection for You Should Be Dancing predates SNF. The single was a top ten hit in our long hot summer of 76. Received lots of airplay on BBC radio and an interpretation by the resident dance troupe on Top of the Pops.

Jive Talkin from the year before was the only other Bee Gees record I had heard. No knowledge of their earlier work as balladeers. In my mind, they were in the same category as KC and the Sunshine Band. The songs they later wrote specifically for the film sealed the deal.

 

[Captain Apollo]

One of my all time favourites is James Horner's score for Star Trek II - The Wrath of Khan -



This was one of Horner's first movie scores before he became a big time movie score composer.

Two favourite tracks. First is Battle in the Mutara Nebula -


Second is Genesis Countdown which in the movie occurs right after the first one -


Those two tracks add real gravitas to a really good sci-fi movie, which was made on a very low budget after the commercial flop of Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

Even after more than 43 years since it was released, I still to this day play those two track regularly.

 

[Det.Wojciehowicz]

Have to give a shout out to Cheech and Chongs Up In Smoke.

 

[Evil_Mush]

I played the hell out of the Spawn soundtrack for a long time, after seeing the film trailer on TV as a 15ish year old and getting sucked in by the WOOOGHEEGHEEWOOOGEEEGOOWOOGAA intro (don't know how to type it hah!) that kicks off the album in Filter & The Crystal Method's "Can't You Trip Like I Do" as Spawn descends with his red cape flapping everywhere

I wasn't really into electronica stuff at the time, but all the rock/metal band with doofdoof EDM DJ collaborations really grabbed me for whatever reason. Probably teenage angst hah!

Pity the movie sucked absolute monkeyballz. That's one film that I'd be totally OK with a remake without the terrible 90s CGI!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

The much lambasted Metropolis (1984) soundtrack is a guilty pleasure.,