Top Twenty-Five Film Scores and Movie Soundtracks

The original ambient music, the original mix-tape – the place where, once divorced from the images to which they were first assembled, leave a residual dreamlike collage of wonder and strangeness. Here are our top 25 favorite soundtracks and film scores:

Tekkon Kinkreet OST by Plaid

1. The Mission – Ennio Morricone
2. Tekkon Kinkreet – Plaid
3. Blade Runner – Vangelis
4. There Will Be Blood – Johnny Greenwood
5. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover – Michael Nyman
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey – Gyorgy Ligeti, Various
7. Demonlover – Various Artists
8. Dead Man – Neil Young
9. The Sheltering Sky – Ryuchi Sakamoto
10. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – Angelo Badalamenti
11. Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love – Mychael Danna
12. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? – Various Artists
13. Vertigo – Bernard Herrmann
14. Cabaret – John Kander and Fred Ebb
15. Hedwig and the Angry Inch: Original Cast Recording – John Cameron Mitchell
16. Baraka – Michael Stearns
17. Repo Man – Various
18. American Beauty – Thomas Newman
19. Killing Zoe – Tomandandy
20. Buena Vista Social Club – Ry Cooder and the Buena Vista Social Club
21. Koyaanisqatsi – Phillip Glass
22. Crumb – David Boeddinghaus
23. Avalon – Randy Newman
24. The Good Thief – Elliot Goldenthal
25. Altered States – John Corigliano

What is your favorite OST and why?