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... if a movie fell in the woods with nobody around, would it still have a soundtrack?

Blessing of Akatosh upon thee my sexy followers. I have always tried my hardest to give a fair [albiet cynical] point of view when reviewing any movies or games, however what I never seem to do is talk about a movie's soundtrack, which is arguably as important to setting a tone as all the visual cues.

That was my attempt at trying to justify not doing another proper review when in actual fact it's because I finally got round to buying Fight Night Champion and have spent all my free time playing that. On the other hand this will be much more fun than listening to me rant on about story structure. Enjoy:

Obi-Wan's Top Five Movie Sountracks

1. Reservoir Dogs - This is still in my opinion Tarantino's best movie, played in some part by the soundtrack (like most of his movies). Although this film is perhaps best known for Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle with you', I'm embedding my favorite song by the George Baker Selection.

 

2. Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels - The Lock Stock director Guy Richie (like tarantino) is also known for handpicking the OST to his films, and although his films are very similar in many ways 'Lock Stock' just tips the scale for me. Of the massively eclectic mix of songs used in this movie I gone with the movie's opening track by Ocean Colour Scene, a band local to me.


3. Watchmen - The watchmen soundtrack brings together some of the best songs from the early 70's in an attempt to recreate the tense mood surrounding the United States during the Cold War. Although 'The Sound of Silence' by Simon and Garfunkel is my favorite track on the OST, I thought I'd instead drop a bit of the legendary Hendrix with his rendition of Bob Dylan's 'All Along the Watchtower'.


 4. Scott Pilgrim vs the World - Now anybody who has seen this movie will know how important the soundtrack was in setting the story, what I didn't know until researching this movie was that many of my favorite songs were written by Beck who I'm not really a big fan of. While I'm deciding whether or not I like the OST anymore you can listen to the official track 'We are Sex Bob-omb'.


5. American Pie - I'm not going to go as far as to pick an individual movie out of the three I actually recognise as American Pie movies given that they all use the same 'college-esk pop rock' music. The songs themselves aren't that good individually but they do remind me of a more innocent time in my youth, anyway here's 'Want You Bad' by The Offspring.




...I did have a load more so stay tuned for another five. 




24 comments:

  1. Agree 100% - especially the first three!!

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  2. I agree on all of these... except Scott Pilgrim. I was disappointed in that one myself.

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  3. Reservoir dogs and Mister pilgrim are one of the best OST in the market and im with you im not a beck fan either but scott pilgrim is a hell of a soundtrack

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  4. Watchmen is so fuckin amazing!

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  5. these are great nice find

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  6. Reservoir Dogs!!! YES! I will watch this again tonight thanks to you!

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  7. great soundtrack collection and all are regulars in my playlist as well

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  8. love your blog :) keep it up

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  9. Called my cat obi'wan, i thought u should know.

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  10. Great choices, Reservoir Dogs and Watchmen are two of very few films in which I've actually found the soundtrack to really add something other than a mood to the film...

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  11. Agreed! Nice blog, I try to write in depth, but hard-hitting really is great, just the info that's valuable :)

    Following!

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  12. Thanks, now I've got offspring stuck in my head for the next few years! Haha

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  13. Great songs used right in soundtracks! All along the watch tower is one of my favs :D

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  14. I agree with all of these. Amazing list!

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  15. interesting question, indeed

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  16. Not my kind of music, but awesome anyways! :D

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  17. totally awesome post. really enjoyed these tunes

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  18. What about "The Crow?" ...or "Footloose"...

    I'm serious about "The Crow."

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  19. I love the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack

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  20. Of course it would still have a soundtrack bro!

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  21. Nice post. I agree with most of it! Follow

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  22. I loved Scott Pilgrim, had some pretty rad music!

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