As any serious music fan knows, it’s the songs that make good films great. With the Oscar’s just past – TIME runs down the best movie sound tracks ever.

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MOVIE MUSIC THAT MATTERED

  • Singin’ in the Rain, 1952
  • West Side Story, 1961
  • A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
  • Mary Poppins, 1964
  • The Sound of Music, 1965
  • The Graduate, 1967
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
  • Easy Rider, 1969
  • Superfly, 1972
  • American Graffiti, 1973
  • The Harder They Come, 1973
  • Saturday Night Fever, 1977
  • Grease, 1978
  • The Big Chill, 1983
  • Flashdance, 1983
  • Sixteen Candles, 1984
  • Purple Rain, 1984
  • This Is Spinal Tap, 1984
  • Dirty Dancing, 1987
  • Singles, 1992
  • Pulp Fiction, 1994
  • Trainspotting, 1996
  • Rushmore, 1998
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?, 2000
  • Garden State, 2004


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