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4 records

O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack

Various artists

2000

T Bone Burnett recorded most of it before the film was shot, so the Coens built scenes around the music. It sold eight million.

★ 5.7

1973

Jimmy Cliff starred in the film as well as singing on it, and for years this was the only reggae record most Americans owned.

★ 6.0

Various artists

1977

The Bee Gees wrote most of it in about two weeks in a French château, without having read the script or seen a frame.

★ 6.8

1972

Mayfield watched the film and wrote songs attacking the drug dealing it made look glamorous, then sang them in a falsetto over congas.

★ 7.4