It’s a soundtrack that functions as legend-building at its most audacious. It’s just that the cultural trappings of the record, like everything with Eminem, are so souped-up on testosterone, so acidic and sometimes just plain gross, that it no longer gets to be simply a piece of music. It’s got a Freeway verse on “8 Miles and Runnin’” where the Philly MC is at his barrelling peak (Hov manages to stretch his legs out for a bit on the track too).“Wanksta” may have looked like a mixtape-cut from 50 Cent’s “How to Rob” days, but it still holds up. It’s a lot like most Eminem albums, but with more features. The 8 Mile soundtrack is a good soundtrack. There’s a lot of baggage around this, so I’m going to try to tread lightly. Now that that’s covered, here are the 50 best soundtracks from the past 50 years. A tough beat for John Williams, to be sure. Second, in the spirit of Saturday Night Fever, only pure soundtracks were permitted-no scores. Our humblest apologies to The Graduate and The Wizard of Oz.
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Before that film examines the man who forever changed the way music and film interact with his work on Saturday Night Fever, The Ringer will spend the day celebrating the world of movie soundtracks that he so heavily influenced.īefore we get to the list of the best movie soundtracks-and argue the qualities of Pulp Fiction over, say, The Muppet Movie-there are a couple of things to point out: Saturday Night, on the legendary producer Robert Stigwood. Still, it's hard not to think that a new kind of secret agent should at least have something more than mood music for his soundtrack, especially if he isn't going to wind up with his own theme.On Thursday, Ringer Films will debut the latest installment of its HBO Music Box series, Mr. Yes, it's another soundtrack specifically directed at its target audience, and while it can't be faulted for that, it's hard not to wish that there were less of the dunderheaded Hatebreed and Rammstein (who have never sounded stupider than they do on "Feurer Frei," with its chorus of "BANG BANG!"), especially because there are good moments: Drowning Pool's "Bodies" sounds better than ever in its Vrenna XXX Mix, Gavin Rossdale's first solo track, "Adrenaline," is Bush with a hip makeover, and Queens of the Stone Age show why they're considered the great hard rock of the time by delivering melodic - that's right, melodic - counterpoints to the verse and chorus of their contribution, "Millionaire." The hip-hop is more or less a wash, and while there isn't anything particularly noteworthy anywhere here, it does sustain its mood throughout, which is all that it really needs to do. Where James Bond had John Barry, XXX has a bunch of alt-metal meatheads and hardcore hip-hop hombres, providing a soundtrack for the extreme sports that are XXX's background. He apparently doesn't really care about music, if the soundtrack to XXX - better known as Vin Diesel is triple X! - is to be trusted. He doesn't cotton to conventions - he creates his own rules. He throws out the martinis, but keeps the promiscuity.