Prince's Purple Rain is the best movie soundtrack ever according to readers of Vanity Fair.

Perennial poll-toppers the Fab Four are pipped into second place where their A Hard Day's Night resides.

The top ten voted from a list of 50 supplied to readers, in full is:

1. Purple Rain
2. A Hard Day's Night
3. The Harder They Come
4. Pulp Fiction
5. The Graduate
6. Superfly
7. Trainspotting
8. Saturday Night Fever
9. American Graffiti
10. The Big Chill

Surely there must be some mistake I hear you cry! They didn't pick fucking "Stone Henge," and I'd put Spinal Tap in my top ten.

But it's not a bad mix if you ask me.

Some excellent originals up against those compilation efforts of which American Graffiti and The Big Chill was an early and successful example. I have a couple of spin-offs from Motown, 'Good Feeling Music of The Big Chill Generation' they are called and they'd got to pretty high volume numbers by the time I, not having a clue they were even film related, got my hands on their selections of '60s classics.  

Personally, I prefer Help! as an album and A Hard Day's Night as a film and while The Graduate has some fine songs I skipped the instrumentals.

Perhaps because of the quite frankly awful movie that accompanies Help! the album is underrated by Beatles' gurus but chuck away rocker 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie' aside it's got some of the Fabs' best work.

It's The Beatles starting to spread their musical wings and the sonic experimentation which made the holy trio of Rubber Soul, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starts here. British serious rock mag Mojo magazine once ran a major feature on 1965 as the 'Year Zero' of rock. The taste of using a term from the Cambodian genocide aside, it was hard to argue with their thesis and "Ticket To Ride" with its clanging heavy textures, which John Lennon was later to claim was the first heavy metal record, was writ large within.