Here’s my personal all-time ultimate movie soundtrack, which runs the gamut from funk to bluegrass, by way of heavy rock and serene folk. With a few notable exceptions, almost every song on the list comes from a film I absolutely love – fellow critics be damned!

1. Duelling Banjos (“Deliverence”)
2. The Soggy Bottom Boys – I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (“O Brother, Where Art Thou”)
3. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (“Trainspotting”)
4. Tomoyasu Hotei – Battle Without Honor Or Humanity (“Kill Bill, Vol. 1”)
5. Jamiroquai – Canned Heat (“Napoleon Dynamite”)
6. Geto Boys – Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta (“Office Space”)
7. Little Richard – Long Tall Sally (“Predator”)
8. Kenny Rogers – Just Dropped In (“The Big Lebowski”)
9. Guns N’ Roses – You Could Be Mine (“Terminator 2”)
10. Harry Belafonte – Banana Boat (Day-O) (“Beetlejuice”)
11. Seal – Kiss From A Rose (“Batman Forever”)
12. Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin (“Midnight Cowboy”)
13. Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson (“The Graduate”)
14. Survivor – Eye Of The Tiger (“Rocky III”)
15. Public Enemy – Fight The Power (“Do the Right Thing”)
16. Isaac Hayes – Theme From Shaft (“Shaft”)
17. Huey Lewis & The News – Hip To Be Square (“American Psycho”)
18. Echo And The Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (“Donnie Darko”)
19. Pixies – Where Is My Mind? (“Fight Club”)
20. The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup (“There’s Something about Mary”)
21. The Rolling Stones – Paint It Black (“Full Metal Jacket”)
22. Aimee Mann – Wise Up (“Magnolia”)

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Has watching a video ever caused you to shake your head and exclaim “Clearly they have too much free time!”, though you are secretly jealous of the sheer awesomeness involved in creating such a spectacle?

Well, prepare to have whatever video you currently hold as “most incredible ever” banished to a distant memory by this one. Using multiple running copies of a modified Super Mario World, someone has set up an almost perfect rendition of the classic song by Queen, using rapid-fire sound effects from the game.

Coming across like the tripped-out, psychadelic offspring of Aphex Twin and Minus The Bear, Three Trapped Tigers are a UK trio who produce dreamlike, ambient delights which veer from chaotic to uplifting to soothing, and occasionally all three at the same time.

Three Trapped Tigers on MySpace.

Pomplamoose, the duo comprised of multi-instrumentalist Jack Conte and his girlfriend Nataly Dawn, formed in 2008 and have played only a single live show to date.

Nonetheless, with their steady stream of stop-motion animated videos on Youtube, the band showcase their affectionate, indie-folk take on classics from such luminaries as Edith Piaf, Simon & Garfunkel, and Nat King Cole.

Official Youtube channel

Jack Conte’s website

Case in point, the frankly incredible Music-Map, a website which will take a band or musical artist and return a cloud of associated and similar acts. From there, you can either start over with a new band, or click on one of the orbiting options in order to follow the links between, say, Bob Marley and Mindless Self Indulgence.

Created as part of the Gnod artificial intelligence project by Marek Gibney, the system has already been adapted to map films, books and even people.

http://www.music-map.com/