Soundtracks News
Graduate soundtrack still on top
Jan 12, 2006, 11:57 GMT
Simon and Garfunkel´s notorious score for hit 60s film The Graduate is still considered the best soundtrack in film history, a new poll has revealed.
Giant magazine´s study, 50 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time, found the duo´s soundtrack for Mike Nichols´ 1967 classic was by far and away the favourite film album.
Featuring such acclaimed hits as Mrs Robinson and The Sound Of Silence, The Graduate´s soundtrack weighed in above Albert Magnoli´s 1984 film Purple Rain, starring former pop star Prince.
The soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino´s cult classic Pulp Fiction, featuring Al Green´s Lets Stay Together, Dusty Springfield´s Son Of A Preacher Man, and Neil Diamond´s Girl, You´ll Be A Woman Soon, came in third.
Seventies reggae movie The Harder They Come was voted as having the fourth best soundtrack, 1998 film Rushmore came in fifth and Beatles classic Help! was named sixth.
Danny Boyle´s fast-paced Brit flick Trainspotting scooped the seventh place, Lost In Translation was eighth and Robin Gibbs´ Saturday Night Fever score came in ninth.
And Bernard Hermann, arguably the greatest ever film score composer, took tenth place for his efforts with the soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock´s classic 1959 thriller North By Northwest.
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