Great movie soundtracks with awesome indie/alt music
 

i was just browsing my collection of albums and thought about all the great soundtracks there are, fillled with great indie/alt bands.... ie
the virgin suicides
the royal tennambaums
high fidelity
igby goes down
trainspotting

what are some of your faves?

Lost in Translation has really good music in it. and there was this show on comedy central a long time ago... it was like a prank show from england, it always had really good tunes on it

The Comedy Central sketches were from Trigger Happy TV. A great show, and the soundtrack was made available for a while, all of it chosen by the guy who did all the sketches.

garden state has an awesoem sound track, just bought it and i've been listening to it non stop.

I deffinitely agree with The Royal Tenenbaums, Garden State. Those kick!

Requiem For A Dream doesn't have Indie Music, but it is the most beautiful music ever written for a soundtrack. Get it.

Any Wes Anderson film has amazing music. (The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore)

I think ANY Wes Anderson film would qualify for a good soundtrack... ah, yes... the person above agreed. And yes, Zach Braff always seems to select good songs.
But, if you delve into some truly Indie films, you will find some truly Indie music.
I just saw the Aussie film, "Look Both Ways", and it had some INCREDIBLE music...

garden state was indeed the ****

I liked the soundtrack of 2007's "Once".It actually won the oscar for best song with "Falling Slowly", but I prefer "When your mind's made up".
All songs are by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Quentin Tarantino films tend to have a great mix of music, some mainstream, famous stuff, some lesser-known stuff.

I agree with Garden State and the Wes Anderson ones. I have to say, surprisingly, the OC soundtrack (tv) has some great music on it. Belle and Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Sufjan, etc. Pretty surprising. And Juno, I would add.

Any movie that looks like it was remotely influenced by the Wes Anderson sort of quirky comedy will probably have Indy and older music from the 60s-70s in it. Sometimes an obscure track from a really popular artist.

I'm not sure what genre it is... but I love the music on
JUNO
It's so fun and happy!

Repo Man.

Couldn't agree more.
Except, I think Once was my favorite from it.
Definitely deserved more than the minute it got during the credits of the movie.

I can't believe nobody said-Snatch

here's another vote for lost in translation and wes anderson films. i found nick and norah's infinite playlist to actually have some pretty good stuff.

The Squid and The Whale, The Tracey Fragments, and Shortbus all have great music.

I watched The Worlds Greatest Dad the other day... Great Movie, found 2 sounds on it that were indie they wheren't on the offical soundtrack the official soundtrack was Bruce Hornsby....

But I found two great Indie tracks when watching it I had to look up... I been enjoying both tracks but the Deadly Syndrome has become one of favs.


The Deadly Syndrome - I Hope I Become a Ghost


Dont be afraid your already dead -Akron Family

Oh my.
Entirely forgot until now about Away We Go.
Alexi Murdoch<3

28 Days Later has probably the best soundtrack of all time.

An example:

American Beauty is very good, it includes Eels, Elliott Smith, The Who, Gomez etc. And Also Garden State as mentioned previously. Umm, Cruel Intentions soundtrack is very good too! Particularly a tune on there by Kristen Barry called Ordinary Life - check it out, and you have the likes of Bare Jr, Placebo, Skunk Anansie, Fatboy Slim.

Good shout on the OC too! AMAZING soundtrack, i sat through the list and downloaded everything that appealed to me and got into some pretty good bands through it, wikipedia has a list of all the songs included on it but it wont let me put the link here since i have less than 15 posts.

...twilight, new moon. thom york, bon iver, grizzly bear, st. vincent, others.

i really love the soundtrack of the movie a lot like love..
the song brighter than sunshine is very beautiful..=)

oh dear,
This is England had a fantastic soundtrack, when I heard warhead by U.K Subs I pretty much melted

oh dear indeed. what a wonderful lineup of musicians

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Neverending Story

Garden State has got a really great soundtrack. The Shins <3

The soundtrack to the movie Kids had some good artists on it, even if it was only like 4 or 5 individual artists. Slint, Sebadoh, Folk Implosion, Lo-Down, Daniel Johnson. There were a few other artists who didn't appear on the soundtrack, but were featured in the movie like The Beastie Boys, Jeru the Damaja, A Tribe Called Quest, Artifacts, and even John Coltrane.

as far as bangin soundtracks go...
 

Harold and Maude
its almost compleatly Cat Stevens but its amazing

Garden State CLEARLY!!!
i fell in love with Garden State when it came out. such an amazing movie and the soundtrack was the perfect amount of new and old

(500) Days Of Summer
i dont know anyone elses take on the sountrack but i LOVE IT!

Whip IT
sound track is pritty decent. id mos def check it out

Martian Child
soundtrack is pretty awesome. again something to think about

Catch and Release
yeah wicked lame chick flick.... got it!!! but kevin smith is in it so stfu.

also while im on this note check out a few songs
#1 Two Headed Boy - Neutral Milk Hotel
#2 I know- Save Ferris
#3 Your Winter- Sister Hazel
#4 Little Secrets- Passion Pit
#5 Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap

THE LION KING- Elton John
Gladiator- Hans Zimmer - Now We Are Free

Control
The Virgin Suicides

Jennifer's Body.

Garden State's soundtrack

Singles.

Dodgy film, but the soundtrack contains some great (and sometimes unreleased) stuff from a lot of Seattle / grunge bands - Pearl Jam, Screaming Trees, Smashing Pumpkins, Mudhoney, Soundgarden, and even Jimi Hendrix. Outstanding stuff.

Pearl Jam and Soundgarden do a few cameos in the film too, if not others I've forgotten.

there's something about mary

Truly believing The Replacements are the greatest band ever, I just cringed the first time I heard Paul Westerberg sing "Dyslexic Heart" from this one.