Can you name the the 100 best movie soundtracks according to Entertainment Weekly? by JHEL

#	Film	Artist/Year
1		The Beatles (1964)
2		Rodgers and Hammerstein (1965)
3		Bee Gees/Various (1977)
4		L. Bernstein/S. Sondheim (1961)
5		Harold Arlen/Cast (1939)
6		Curtis Mayfield (1972)
7		Simon & Garfunkel (1967)
8		Nino Rota (1972)
9		Prince (1984)
10		Various (1968)
11		Rodgers and Hammerstein(1955)
12		Various (1973)
13		Bernard Herrmann (1960)
14		Frank Churchill/Larry Morey(1937)
15		Various( 1973)
16		Bernard Herrman (1958)
17		Various (1996)
18		Various (1964)
19		Max Steiner (1939)
20		R. and R. Sherman (1964)
21		Ennio Morricone (1969)
22		Bob Dylan (1973)
23		L. Harline and N. Washington (1940)
24		John Barry (1964)
25		A. Freed and N.H. Brown (1952)
26		John Williams (1977)
27		Various (1978)
28		Various (1994)
29		Maurice Jarre (1965)
30		Richard O'Brien (1975)
31		Various (1969)
32		Miklos Rozsa (1959)
33		The Beatles (1965)
34		Franz Waxman (1935)

#	Film	Artist/Year
35		Jack Nitzsche (1970)
36		A. Schwartz and H. Deitz (1953)
37		Jerry Goldsmith (1974)
38		J. Kander and F. Ebb (1972)
39		Max Steiner (1933)
40		Isaac Hayes(1971)
41		Maurice Jarre (1962)
42		Rodgers and Hammerstein(1956)
43		Menry Mancini (1964)
44		Duke Ellington (1959)
45		The Beatles (1970)
46		Various (1940)
47		Elmer Bernstein (1960)
48		H. Martin and R. Blaine (1944)
49		E. W. Korngold (1938)
50		Lionel Bart (1968)
51		Marvin Hamlisch (1973)
52		W. Scharf and J. Styne (1968)
53		John Williams (1975)
54		Various (1970)
55		Meredith Wilson (1962)
56		Various (2000)
57		Mozart/Various (1984)
58		Rodgers and Hammerstein (1956)
59		Various (1984)
60		Elmer Bernstein (1955)
61		Ennio Morricone (1986)
62		Various (1986)
63		Bernard Herrmann (1976)
64		The Band (1978)
65		Leiber and Stoller/Elvis Presley (1957)
66		Various (1992)
67		George Gershwin (1979)
68		T. Parker and M. Shaiman (1999)

#	Film	Artist/Year
69		Aimee Mann (1999)
70		Alex North (1960)
71		Various (1990)
72		Randy Newman (1981)
73		P. Townshend/Various (1975)
74		Mark Isham (1988)
75		Various (1984)
76		Walter Carlos (1971)
77		Mychael Danna (1997)
78		John Barry (1985)
79		Talking Heads (1984)
80		H. Ashman and A. Menken (1991)
81		Mark Knopfler (1983)
82		B. Marsalis/Public Enemy (1989)
83		Tan Dun (2000)
84		Various (1998)
85		Ryuichi Sakamoto (1984)
86		Spın̈al Tap (1984)
87		Ry Cooder (1980)
88		Babyface/Whitney Houston (1995)
89		Various (1997)
90		Elmer Bernstein (1962)
91		John Cameron Mitchell (2001)
92		Michael Nyman (1993)
93		Air (2000)
94		Jerry Goldsmith (1968)
95		D. Elfman and E. Smith (1997)
96		Various (1994)
97		Various (1975)
98		Danny Elfman (1988)
99		Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle (1982)
100		Angelo Badalamenti (1986)

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The 100 Greatest Movie Soundtracks Quiz

by JHEL

Created Nov 21, 2009 in Movies
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	JayHankEdLyon:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 19:50 GMT		1 point
	This quiz is a lot tougher than I thought it would be. I considered adding the director of each movie, but it would make the scrolling even worse and the whole thing would be horrible to look at (if only they allowed wider bars.) Anyway, if you want a more manageable variation of this quiz, check out http://www.sporcle.com/games/JayHankEdLyon/soundtrack (by me) or http://www.sporcle.com/games/ChrisP/moviesoundtracksbysongsandartists (not by me).

	scottgingold:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 02:00 GMT		1 point
	A fun game, but here's a few nitpicks: Various should be taken out and be replaced by at least one of the performers. The answer to #39 is spelled wrong. The year of #71 is 1991.

	JayHankEdLyon:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 02:21 GMT		1 point
	Fixed the latter two: this took quite a while to make, but eventually I'll probably find time to get an artist for each one. The problem is that I haven't seen a lot of these movies and I don't know which songs are featured prominently or not, and moreover it's a matter of how the album is listed. Still, I agree that it makes it a bit hard, it's just that it's going to take a while and frankly I've got better things to do, with finals around the corner and all.

	CharlieBrown:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 05:37 GMT		1 point
	The year next to Air is wrong. It says 200.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 21:59 GMT		1 point
	Maybe you could use a different color to denote the ones that are animated. Maybe even a different one to denote live action musicals. That would help narrow it down without making the grid any bigger. Another option would be to just list the top 50 since the source has them in order.

	Krys2485:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 00:59 GMT		2 points
	Where's the bodyguard soundtrack?

	statephone:	Dec 24th, 2009 at 06:33 GMT		4 points
	EW has their heads in their azzes. What a weird list. I love The Beatles, but thats not the best soundtrack of all time. Just a few omissions, including by their way of thinking: Close Encounters, Dances with Wolves, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Excalibur, Blade Runner, Chariots of Fire, Monterey Pop, Ben Hur, King of Kings, The Shining, Immortal Beloved, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Superman, Scarface, Rocky...and any list that has Superfly up at #6 and Star Wars way down at #26 and Lawrence of Arabia way down at #41 is just bogus. Its good that they included concert films, but it seems like they were just trying to thumb their noses at the AFI lists.

	statephone:	Dec 24th, 2009 at 06:40 GMT		1 point
	still stewing. Think of the music of some of the movies i mentioned. Now, anyone want to hum a few bars of the music from Anatomy of a Murder? Didnt think so. Its a good movie, but c'mon. How about The Sweet Hereafter? Good Will Hunting? gimme a break.

	Fojin:	Feb 22nd, 2011 at 13:54 GMT		1 point
	I stopped when I noticed that this list doesn't include The Last of the Mohicans. Not to mention the Dollars Trilogy or Conan the Barbarian. Wow. That doesn't take anything away from the quiz, but I just can't play it if some of the greatest soundtracks of all time aren't even top 100 material for that highly questionable source.

	imclala:	Apr 20th, 2011 at 16:51 GMT		-3 points
	Really tough. I noticed that you misspelled Meredith Willson. Great, challenging quiz.

	imclala:	Apr 21st, 2011 at 20:20 GMT		-1 points
	Why the hell was I voted down? It's true, Meredith Willson has two Ls, not one.

	rsplenda477:	Apr 3rd, 2013 at 16:54 GMT		1 point
	Jerry Goldsmith is, once again, severely underrepresented.