What are some good soundtracks from the 80s?

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I like Fame, Footloose, Breakfast Club and Say Anything to name a few.

"Pretty In Pink", "Purple Rain", "Footloose", "The Lost Boys", "Fast Times at Ridgemont High", and "Valley Girl".

Footloose
Dirty Dancing
About Last night 8)

Footloose,Breakfast Club,Pretty In Pink,Say Anything,The Lost Boys,Valley Girl,Dirty Dancing,Flashdance,Top Gun,Some Kind Of Wondeful,St.Elmo's Fire,and some others I'm sure I am forgetting.  :)

There are several that I like, including Valley Girl, Breakfast Club, Top Gun, Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Pretty In Pink, and Cocktail, but I would have to say my favorite is Footloose.  From beginning to end, pretty solid.

1. Footloose - Kenny Loggins
2. Let's Hear It For the Boy - Denise Williams
3. Almost Paradise (Love Theme) - Ann Wilson/Mike Reno
4. Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler
5. Dancing In The Sheets - Shalamar
6. I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man) - Kenny Loggins
7. Somebody's Eyes - Karla Bonoff
8. Girl Gets Around, The - Sammy Hagar
9. Never - Moving Pictures

Salvation (New Order, Cabaret Voltaire), Modern Girls, The Last American Virgin, Dogs in Space, Goonies, Something Wild, Streets of Fire, and, of course, any John Hughes movie.

**special mention**

Times Square (1980), a movie about teenage runaways, featured Tim Curry.  This is a double album of Punk and New Wave music, the roots of what made '80s music great, including: The Ramones, Gary Numan, XTC, Joe Jackson, The Cure, Lou Reed, Talking Heads, Pretenders, Patti Smith, and others.  It also features a couple of numbers by "The Sleaze Sisters," the *punk* band formed by the two runaway girls. 8)

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Heavy Metal (the animated movie)

River's Edge

"Valley Girl" has to be the best soundtrack of the 80's. So much good music. "The Plimsoles" A million miles away my favorite.

the heavy metal soundtrack thats already been mentioned. although it's more of a late 70s feel to it.

the akira soundtrack, akira's an anime movie and the soundtrack was awesome, although it really transcends the 80s, another topic altogether.

I would like to concur that Breakfast Club and Valley Girl were great soundtracks. Any movie John Huges did in the 80s deserves a mention. Also, I would like to add Rumble Fish.
It's a great listen. A  song by the lead singer of Wall of Voodoo's, Stan Ridgway and the rest are instrumentals peformed by noneother than Stewart Copeland of The Police.

I like the Beverly Hills Cop and Back to the Future soundtracks.

The only movie soundtrack album I have is the one for "Heavy Metal".   8)

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A '90s movie based on '80s music, "The Wedding Singer" soundtracks vol.1 and 2 are good.  The movie was toootally lame, though!