When it comes to movie and TV soundtracks, The Beatles have done their fair share with A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, and Yellow Submarine all being cranked out in a four-year span.
So, it's no wonder that three of them are included in Rolling Stone's list of the "101 Greatest Soundtracks of All Time."
Prince tops the list with Purple Rain, but The Beatles are second and fourth with Help! and A Hard Day's Night respectively. Magical Mystery Tour lands at 20, while Yellow Submarine stayed below the surface, not making the list.
The Top 10 is as follows:
- Purple Rain - Prince
- Help! - The Beatles
- The Harder They Come
- A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
- Saturday Night Fever
- Superfly
- Pulp Fiction
- The Graduate
- American Graffiti
- Wild Style
As for rock-leaning soundtracks, the list includes:
- Pretty in Pink (14)
- This Is Spinal Tap (17)
- Easy Rider (18)
- Almost Famous (25)
- Rock 'n' Roll High School (26)
- Singles (30)
- Dazed and Confused (43)
- High Fidelity (54)
- Vision Quest (69)
- Quadrophenia - The Who (75)
- Reality Bites (80)
- Top Gun (82)
- Times Square (83)
- Zabriskie Point (87)
- I'm Not There (100)
Rounding out the list at 101 is The Bodyguard.