Don’t you ever get involved in the music you are listening to? Don’t you sometimes just lie down, close your eyes and let the music take over you? You forget about what’s going on in your mind or in your life and just let yourself drift temporarily. It happens to me a lot. I am sure many of you would agree with me. I was having a similar conversation with a friend of mine. But the thing is it’s hard to explain it to the others. I guess everyone experiences music in his or her own way which need not be similar to mine.
Coming to the title of this post, if the script forms the backbone of a movie I think the OSTs (Original Sound Tracks) form the soul of the movie. Now that A.R.Rahman got the Academy Awards Nominations for the best OSTs and the best songs, I gave quite a thought to it. Then I realized one of the reasons I like the movies (which are like my favorite ones) is because they all have great music. I am going to list some of the movies below on the same basis. I’m sure you must have seen most of them, but even if you haven’t you can at least listen to their soundtracks if you are a music buff.
The Good..The Bad..The Ugly
The Godfather (All Three)
Rocky(All Six)
Scarface
Top Gun
Pulp Fiction
Titanic
Desparado
Matrix (All three)
Bourne Series
Bond Series
Lord of the Rings (All three… in fact in my top 3)
Pirates of Carrebean (All three)
Once upon a time in Mexico
Sweeney Todd
Requiem for a Dream
The Departed
Across the Universe
Mamma Mia!
SlumDog Millionaire
Into the Wild
As you can see the movies are in random order. I just wrote a few names which struck me at the time of writing this post. I know I’ve missed dozens. The whole point is that most of the times it’s the music of the movie which stays with me for a long time. So just wanted to acknowledge the importance of music in movies.
P.S : I know some people will definitely want to kick my ass for not mentioning any of the Bollywood ones. Well I like A.R.Rahman and Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy. They have been giving good tracks consistently for a decade or so. And I guess our bollywood movies are already all about music and songs, so no need to make a list in particular 
