Soundtracks

Welcome to this week's playlist, this time based on film soundtracks. As part of our Sync Week, we've dug deep into the annals and put together some of our favourite screen scores. Listen to songs from Grease, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Trainspotting...

Jim Ottewill
  • By Jim Ottewill
  • 11 Sep 2015
  • min read
Welcome to this week's playlist, this time based on our favourite film scores and soundtracks.

As part of our Sync Week here on M online, we asked our colleagues for their favourite songs or scores from films.

Below is the list of tracks we've chosen and the films they're from. You can also check out some of our Sync Week content including interviews with the BPI's Chris Tams on the recent LA Sync Mission, Bucks Music Group songwriters Lank & Tank and Game Music Connect co-founders John Broomhall and James Hannigan.

Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous)
Henry Mancini - Moon River (Breakfast at Tiffany’s)
The Commitments – Mustang Sally (The Commitments)
Ludovico Einaudi - Una Mattina (The Untouchables)
Frozen – Let It Go (Frozen)
Michael Nyman - Big my secret (The Piano)
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Isaac Hayes - Shaft (Shaft)
Samuel E Wright - Under the sea (Little Mermaid)
Arthur Bentley + Anita Benson - You’re the one that I want (Grease)
Nico - These Days (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Matt Monro - On Days like These (The Italian Job)
The Pretenders - Don’t Get me Wrong (Romi and Michelle’s High School Reunion)
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you (Reservoir Dogs)
Iggy Pop - Lust for life (Trainspotting)
Urge Overkill - Girl, you’ll be a woman soon (Pulp Fiction)
Kenny Loggins - Danger zone (Top Gun)
Rolling Stones - Paint It Black (Full Metal  Jacket)
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (Rocky 4)
Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence (The Graduate)
Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now (Shaun of the Dead)
Pixies - Where is My Mind (Fight Club)
Sonic Youth - Superstar (Juno)
Alan Silvestri - I’m Forrest… Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump)
Faith Hill - There you’ll be (Pearl Harbor)
Wings - Let Em’ In (Wild)
April May - Chick Habit (Death Proof)
Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free (Romeo and Juliet)
Jon Hopkins - Monsters theme (Monsters)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Trainspotting)
Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)

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