At times it sounds more like a full orchestra is playing, which is more fitting for such a grandiose movie. But Vangelis’ synthesizers create an eerie atmosphere, and “100 Metres” is chilling to listen to when watching Harold Abrahams suffer defeat in the race.
LIST OF SONGS FROM FLASHDANCE SOUNDTRACK MOVIE
The Vangelis theme song has been overplayed to the point of parody, and the choice of a new-age musician to write songs for a movie about 1924 Olympians seems odd. Each song on the soundtrack fits with a pivotal moment in the movie - from Antonio Salieri’s description of “Serenade for Winds” to the deathbed scene where Mozart directs the transcription of “Confutatis.” A powerful soundtrack. The music from the biopic about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart fits the film perfectly. And how do you choose the best from the best? It’s probably why there were multiple versions of this soundtrack. This is cheating - Taking the best music from the greatest composer of all time and sticking it on a CD doesn’t seem fair. It, like most John Hughes soundtracks, dominates the movie. Sexy and sophisticated, the album features Bryan Ferry, Everything But the Girl, and Love & Rockets, but it’s Kate Bush’s haunting vocals on the piano ballad “This Woman’s Work,” which plays during the climax of the movie, that make the soundtrack memorable. One of four John Hughes soundtracks on this list, She’s Having a Baby was one of the director’s later movies, but he still had a knack for finding the right songs to fit the mood of the movie. It is, of course, my opinion, and no, Dirty Dancing is not one of them. Here are 10 of the best soundtracks of the 80s, based not on success but on the sheer volume of talent that appears on them. It was followed by such movies as Footloose, Dirty Dancing and Top Gun - all movies in which marketers plugged the album as much as the movie - and much of the movies’ successes came at least partly from the soundtracks. The success of the movie was solely based on the success of the album - a first for a film.
But you can go back even further to Simon & Garfunkel’s soundtrack to the 1968 film The Graduate as the first hit-making soundtrack.įlashdance, though, was one of the best soundtracks of the 80s and ushered in a new phase of soundtracks. It spawned six singles, four of which hit No. Some say 1978’s Saturday Night Fever, the biggest-selling soundtrack of all time was the first. But you’ll have to go back a little further to find the first true soundtrack that defined a movie. The 80s saw a boom in soundtrack sales, which started with Flashdance.
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