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Maximum Overdrive: The 1980’s had a thing for mindless, over-the-top and overly violent horror films (perhaps a trend was started there) and the Stephen King film Maximum Overdrive is no exception. I know films about machines becoming self-aware and thus going on a murderous rampage are not regarded as masterworks of American cinema. However, with an entire soundtrack consisting of classic AC/DC songs, and the fact that King intended it to be more tongue and cheek in the first place, makes the lacking and contradictory plot forgivable. Besides, watching Emilio Estevez blowing things up while such songs as "Hells Bells", "You Shook Me All Night Long" and, of course, "Who Made Who" are playing in the background is just priceless.
Mallrats: This is a soundtrack that is just like its film counterpart- it's rude, crude, and incredibly 90’s. The soundtrack reflects the rebellious nature of not only the characters in Kevin Smith’s View Askewniverse, but also among the 90’s Alternative rock, Grunge, Punk, and Ska genres as well. Bands like The Wax, The Goops, Squirtgun, Bush, Silverchair, Weezer and Sublime lend some solid tracks to this cult classic movie.
Interstella 5555: Some of you who are familiar with Daft Punk’s Discovery album might be wondering why it is included in this list. You may not know that this very stellar Electronic House style record is actually the soundtrack for the Leiji Matsumoto (of Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 fame) directed anime musical, Interstella 5555. Each scene in the movie is actually a realization of a selected track from the Discovery album itself. In fact, the first four parts of the film, “One More Time”, “Aerodynamic”, “Digital Love”, and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” were shown on various TV channels as music videos in 2001 before the film’s release in 2003. The scenes for “Superheroes”, “Veridis Quo” and “Face To Face” are down-right awesome. The scene’s for “Something About Us”, and “Voyager” are among the most beautiful in any animated feature, in my opinion.