Desert Island CD Blogathon: 12 tracks from soundtracks

(Everyone seems to be participating in Castor's blogathon, so thought I'd join the party. I've been a bit lazy with the captions, so bear with me. 1-6 are instrumental. Songs 7-12 have lyrics. Hope you find some music you like. I'd love to hear from you, feel free to comment)



1.) The Staight Story - Angelo Badalamenti - Country Theme
(Simple and beautiful. Badalamenti is one of my fave soundtrack composers, his work with Lynch is exquisite)

2. ) Box of moonlight – opening credits instrumental
(I could listen to this melody all day)


3.) K-PAX soundtrack - Grand Central
(Beautiful soundscape about the mystery of space, so well-crafted)


4.) Edward Scissorhands - Danny Elfman - Ice Dance
(Danny Elfman was never better in my opinion)


5.) White Masai - end credits
(An underrated soundtrack. If you haven't seen the film, I suggest scrolling away from the video and just listening to the score)


6.) Crocodile Dundee - end credits
(You’ve gotta love that soundtrack)

7.) Lost Highway - David Bowie – I'm Deranged
(Another Lynch film. One of my favourite opening credits sequences, together with this amazing electro 90s song. Works so well with the story)


8.) Tower of song - Leonard Cohen & U2
(Debated whether to go with Everybody knows from Exotica, or Waiting for the Miracle from Natural born killers, in the end, I want to listen to this song today. )

9.) I'll Try Anything Once - The Strokes
(Loving the new soundtrack to Somewhere, I like Sofia Coppola's taste in music. The Lost in translation soundtrack is also great)

10.) Big Time - Peter Gabriel
(Kind of has that 80s vibe I love in Talking heads' This Must Be the Place from "Wall street"(1987). Inside job"(2010)is also about banking, so perhaps I'm on to something?)

11.) Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon - Urge Overkill
(Love the way he sings "girl". I can’t leave out Tarantino, his soundtrack choices defined a generation. I think Pulp Fiction is Quentin's best music compilation)

12.) High Fidelity - Bob Dylan - Most of the time
(I wish Dylan would make more songs like Most of the time. From Vanilla Sky I considered, 4th Time Around, after all, you know what they say, Cameron Crowe is a genius at putting a soundtrack together)

I'd love to hear from you, feel free to comment below

You might also be interested in my post: I liked the soundtrack better than the movie!