Anything by Lalo Schifren...
Check out the "Dirty Harry" Soundtrack
Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, and Last Poets among others "
Performance" soundtrack
"Fight Club" - my college roommate and best buddy from The Dust Brothers
"clockwork orange" mindblowingly ahead of its time
"Zabriskie Point" - original Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia on the same soundtrack? This is one way to define amazing.
These are really what I would call "Soundtracks" in the sense of containing ORIGINAL music that is created to help tell the story. Nowadays, "soundtracks" seem to just be collections of ok tunes that record labels want to retread and package in collections. Oftentimes, the music on these so called soundtracks is nothing more than a slew of tunes that ran through at the end credits in order to make it on the album.