The Greatest Soundtracks of All Time

I've been playing around a lot with the Chart function on RYM and thought I'd see what soundtracks/film scores ranked highest. I've listed the Top 10 below, but you can click here to see the rest.

1. Ennio Morricone - Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo/The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966)

The Ecstasy of Gold

2. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972)

Freddie's Dead 

3. Ennio Morricone - C'era Una Volta Il West/Once Upon A Time in the West (1968)

Harmonica 

4. Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)

Christmas Time is Here (Vocal) 

5. Prince - Purple Rain (1984)

I Would Die 4 U 

6. Various Artists - The Harder They Come (1972)

7. Various Artists - Amadeus (1984)

8. Ennio Morricone - C'era Una Volta in America (1984)

9. Ennio Morricone - Giu la Testa/A Fistful of Dynamite (1972)

10. Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger (1995)

11. Angelo Badalamenti - Soundtrack from 'Twin Peaks' (1990)

12. Yann Tiersen - Amelie (2001)

13. Various Artists - A Clockwork Orange (1972)

14. Danny Elfman - Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

15. John Williams - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

16. Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo (1958)

17. Clint Mansell - The Fountain (2006)

18. Maurice Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

19. The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop (1998)

20. John Williams - Star Wars (1977)

Top Albums of 2010 Thus Far!

Rate Your Music (Open to view list!)

Joanna Newsom currently sits in pole position and I must confess I've not got round to hearing it yet! It's a pretty damn good start to the year if you ask me and The Tallest Man On Earth has entered at number 6 and I've just got the album and can't wait to hear it! His last effort was one of my favourite albums of recent times, so this one has a lot to live up to! But take a look at the list yourself and check out some of the stuff you've not heard!

I'm going to Egypt tomorrow morning for a week, so I'll make this my last post until my return!

1968...A Spotify Playlist

Following the 1970 playlist I posted a couple of weeks back, I decided to compile one for 1968, one of my favourite years in music. I compiled it with the help of Rate Your Music, a site that I came across only recently and is basically an IMDB for music. You can select a year or decade and look at the top rated albums. It's so much more rewarding than the usual magazine/blog lists you read, as it actually involves the general public. It's by no means perfect, but the lists for each particular year are excellent and I've found some great new music using them. I know everybody doesn't have Spotify, but it's the only software that allows the creation of lists like this and it's easy enough to get an invite for if you look around. Or pay for it, as it's well worth the money! For those of you that do, stick the playlist on shuffle, sit back and enjoy! Or, just take a look at the list!

                                 Open 1968 Playlist in Spotify

Rate Your Music - 1968 Chart