40. The Wedding Singer
39. Romeo + Juliet
38. Reality Bites
37. Quadrophenia
36. Friday
35. Pump Up the Volume
34. Nashville
33. Slumdog Millionaire
32. American Graffiti
31. Shaft
30. Almost Famous
29. The Wackness
28. Reservoir Dogs
27. High Fidelity
26. Once
25. Footloose
24. Mystery Train
23. Blues Brothers
22. Pretty in Pink
21. 8 Mile
20. Dirty Dancing
19. The Harder They Come
18. Grosse Point Blank
17. The Big Chill
16. Natural Born Killers
15. Easy Rider
14. Rushmore
13. Coal Miner's Daughter
12. Dazed and Confused
11. This Is Spinal Tap
10. Singles
9. Trainspotting
8. Garden State
7. Superfly
6. A Hard Day's Night
5. The Graduate
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3. Purple Rain
2. Saturday Night Fever
1. Pulp Fiction
That's kind of a weird mix of original material and just recycled hits. While some of the recycled collections, like Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, manage to put things in a different context and create something new and unique, most are just cynical attempts to cash in.
This list really seems to be missing out on old-fashioned movie soundtracks like "Lawrence of Arabia". "the Wizard of Oz", "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" or Miles Davis' work for "Elevator to the Scaffold". How about a "A Clockwork Orange"? There have been so many great ones over the years.
