A couple of odd ones I like:
STRAIGHT TO HELL: amazing soundtrack (The Pogues, Joe Strummer, Pray for Rain), interesting cast (The Pogues, Joe Strummer, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Courtney Love), incredibly bad unwatchable movie from Alex (REPO MAN) Cox. Great album though, sort of an Irish punk-rock spaghetti western soundtrack. One of the tracks even provided the inspiration for the Garth Ennis character "The Saint of Killers" in PREACHER.
PERFORMANCE: one of the best eclectic scores - Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Merry Clayton, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Mick Jagger, seminal rap group (in the 1960s!) The Last Poets; arranged and produced by Jack Nitzsche, subject of one of fpw's great throw-away punchlines in a Repairman Jack book. Some genuinely creepy music in here - a great soundtrack for reading.
MANHUNTER: great tracks by Shriekback and others. You have to own a copy of Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, why not make it this album?
THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE soundtrack by David Shire. Great heist movie and soundtrack. Good music to listen to while reading a caper novel.
THE OMEGA MAN - Thank God they finally released this. Fantastic brassy score by Ron Grainer, who also composed the Dr. Who theme and the music to THE PRISONER. I listen to this more than I should.
NED KELLY - If there is a guilty pleasure soundtrack, this is it. Everyone who reviewed the film (the Mick Jagger version, not the current one) seems to hate the score. The movie itself wasn't so hot, but for reasons that remain obscure even to me, I love it. Vocals by Waylon Jennings, Mick Jagger, and Kris Kristofferson. Lyrics by the late Shel Silverstein, known now primarily for his poetry collections but also the author of Johnny Cash's classic "A Boy Named Sue" and most of the early work of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, such as "On the Cover of the Rolling Stone" and "Freaking at the Freaker's Ball." Strange pseudo-Australian country/folk with depressing, brooding lyrics.
"Flow with the Go."
- Rickson Gracie