A great movie needs a great soundtrack.

Sure, there are exceptions, but for decades, the music that goes along with a film has often

had a life of its own.

Whether it's a collection of songs that already existed or a new concoction made just for

the moment.

Soundtracks have become huge commercial hits, they've won awards, they've been mocked

and re-released, we decided to debate what is the greatest movie soundtrack of all

time.

I'm Stephen Thompson.

And I'm Linda Holmes, and today we're offering our picks for the best ever movie soundtrack

on pop culture happy hour from NPR.

Joining us from his home studio is Glenn Weldon of NPR's Culture Desk, Kaiglan.

Hey, Linda.

And also here is our pal Aisha Harris.

Hey Aisha.

Hey, Linda.

Hey.

I wanted to start by saying in some ways, this is a ridiculous thing to do right now because

it's not a good start.

There are a lot of ways to approach the idea of the best soundtrack.

We wanted to narrow the field a little bit, so we made a couple of rules.

Primarily we're not including movie soundtracks that are essentially simple translations of

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