Prince's 'Purple Rain' has been voted the greatest movie soundtrack of all time in a survey of Vanity Fair readers. One would assume the movie itself wouldn't top many 'best of' polls, but those surveyed reckoned its soundtrack was landmark in its merging of "funk, R&B, pop, metal, and even psychedelia, into a sound that defined the 80s".
Prince beat the soundtrack to Beatles film 'A Hard Day's Night', which came second, while the reggae soundtrack to the 1972 film 'The Harder They Come' and the collection of music that featured in 'Pulp Fiction' came third and fourth respectively. The legendary 'Trainspotting' soundtrack came seventh, while the Bee Gee's famous 'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack came eighth.