Soundtrack

Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian animated film from executive producer Leonard Mogel, who was also the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine. With Ivan Reitman producing and Gerald Potterton directing, the work flow was expedited by having several animation houses working simultaneously on different segments. The film is an anthology of various science fiction and fantasy stories adapted from Heavy Metal magazine and original stories in the same spirit. Like the magazine, the film has an unusual...

O Brother, Where Art Thou? is the soundtrack of music from the 2000 American comedy film O Brother, Where Art Thou?, written, directed and produced by the Coen Brothers and starring George Clooney. Set in Mississippi during the Great Depression, three friends escape from a prison chain gang and search for fortune and love. The film is an adventure tale, loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, which Joel and Ethan Coen confessed to never having read. With the film set in the 1930s Southern United...

The soundtrack to the film The Harder They Come was released in 1972. It was compiled by reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, who starred in the film and performed some of the songs. The album peaked on Billboard's North America Pop Albums chart at #140. The soundtrack album played a major part in popularizing reggae in the United States, and the title song was a popular single. In 2004, "The Harder They Come" was ranked #341 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The song has been covered...

41 Original Hits From The Soundtrack Of American Graffiti is the official soundtrack album of the film American Graffiti. Though the movie American Graffiti is well known for launching the careers of director George Lucas and actors Ron Howard, Richard Dreyfuss, Suzanne Somers and Harrison Ford, the movie stands out for its ability to accurately reflect the music of the period in which it is set. Included in the film, but not on the soundtrack, are "Gee" by The Crows, "Louie, Louie" by Flash...

Obscured by Clouds is a rock album by Pink Floyd based on their soundtrack for the French film La Vallée, by Barbet Schroeder. The LP was released in the UK on June 3, 1972 on Harvest/EMI and then in the U.S. on June 15, 1972 on Harvest/Capitol. The album reached #6 on the UK album charts and #46 on the U.S. album charts (where it was certified Gold by the RIAA in March, 1994). In 1986, the album was released on CD. A digitally remastered CD was released in March 1996 in the UK and August 1996...

The soundtrack to the movie The Crow was released in 1994. Its biggest hit song was "Big Empty" by the Stone Temple Pilots, which was also on their album Purple. This album featured many covers including Nine Inch Nails who covered Joy Division's "Dead Souls," Pantera who covered Poison Idea's "The Badge," and Rollins Band who covered Suicide's "Ghost Rider," which is about a Marvel Comics character. Rage Against the Machine re-recorded their 1991 b-side Darkness of Greed and simply re-named it...

UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff (1989), sometimes referred to simply as UHF, is the soundtrack to the comedy cult film UHF, by "Weird Al" Yankovic. The album featured many music cuts from the movie as well as some of the commercials ("Spatula City") and other parody bits ("Gandhi II"). The album also featured new original material such as "The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota", which brought the running order up to album length.

Zabriskie Point is a soundtrack album to the Michelangelo Antonioni film of the same name. It was originally released in January 1970 and is composed of songs from various artists. A 1997 re-release includes four bonus tracks each from Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd that were used in the film, but not the original soundtrack. Jim Morrison of the Doors wrote the track "L'America" for the film, but was rejected by Antonioni (L'America was later released on The Doors album L.A. Woman). Pink Floyd's...

McLeod's Daughters - Songs From The Series Volume 2 is the second album of songs from the soundtrack of Australian television drama McLeod's Daughters released on April 25, 2004 and made the top 40 of the Australian album charts as at May 3, 2004. The songs are written by Posie Graeme-Evans and Chris Harriott and performed by Rebecca Lavelle. Graeme-Evans also writes many of the songs for Hi-5. On the website for the show, Posie Graeme-Evans tells of the songwriting process for the soundtracks....

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is the soundtrack album for the film of the same name. It was released on November 9, 2004.

School of Rock is the original soundtrack album of the film of the same title starring Jack Black whose character, Dewey Finn, is an old Rock N Roll guitarist, and so he decides to form a Rock Band with some kids from a prep school where he is meant to be teaching. It was released on September 30, 2003. The film's director Richard Linklater scouted the country for talented 13-year-old musicians to play the rock-and-roll music that features on the soundtrack and in the film. The soundtrack was...

Singles is the original soundtrack album to the film Singles, primarily focused on the ascendant grunge music scene of the early 1990s. It also features contributions from Paul Westerberg (his first solo material after the breakup of The Replacements), Chicago's The Smashing Pumpkins, and past Seattle rockers Jimi Hendrix and the Lovemongers (Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart). It was released on June 30, 1992. The soundtrack is considered to have helped open the door to the explosive popularity...

Who Made Who is a hard rock album by Australia band AC/DC, released in 1986 as the soundtrack to the Stephen King movie Maximum Overdrive. King would allude to the album's title song in the 1990 revised and expanded edition of his novel The Stand, where a survivor of the novel's flu pandemic changes the lyrics to "Who Made Flu." Three tracks on the album "Who Made Who" and the instrumentals "D.T." and "Chase the Ace" were newly written and recorded by AC/DC. The rest were taken from the band's...

The soundtrack to the 1980 movie Xanadu featured songs on side one of the album written by John Farrar and performed by Olivia Newton-John, and songs on side two performed by the Electric Light Orchestra and composed by lead singer Jeff Lynne. The album was very successful commercially, reaching Multi-Platinum. Olivia Newton-John Electric Light Orchestra Newton-John side ELO Side "Magic" became Newton-John's biggest Adult Contemporary hit to date. It also became Newton-John's biggest pop...