[Joeyflops]

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Check out the soundtrack to the Hot Spot. John Lee Hooker, Miles Davis and Taj Mahal playing together. The movie is OK but the soundtrack is exceptional. That is if you like the above musicians. Good driving music.

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Excellent choice. The Hot Spot soundtrack rides the line between soundtrack and score, yet stands on its own apart from the film. Soundtracks like this are more interesting in this thread to me than soundtracks which are merely collections of pop and rock songs (for which I would put Natural Born Killers at the top, and who doesn't love Top Gun).

Another excellent soundtrack along these lines is Tune in Tomorrow by Wynton Marsalis.