Twilight (2008-present)

With a captive audience willing to pay whatever-the-fuck gimme-gimme for a piece of the teen vampire films, obviously the Twilight soundtracks mean a lot. Each of the three soundracks has helped break bands like Bon Iver, Muse, Iron & Wine and Florence + The Machine to teens and creepy older chicks who wouldn't know about them otherwise.

Pulp Fiction (1994)

This album is what "cool" sounded like for the latter part of the '90s.

The Crow (1994)

After grunge, the harder stuff like Nine Inch Nails and Rage Against The Machine came into vogue. This was one of the best collections of that, along with the Natural Born Killers disc the same year.

Purple Rain (1984)

A lot people actually forget this was a soundtrack to a movie, which is either a testament to the genius of Prince, or a sad deduction about the quality of the accompanying film. As far as what it did to the generation it was foisted on, we're sure it helped plenty of people conceive the babies.

The Big Chill (1983)

There is some Boomer overlap with Gump, but the big standout here is the Procol Harum cut.

Repo Man (1984)

Punk goes live with the Circle Jerks, Black Flag, and Fear. No telling how many kids used this as their Punk Rock Rosetta Stone.

Menace II Society (1993)

UGK and Too $hort were the best things about this one. Let's get serious!

The Graduate (1968)

What's funny, is that looking back on the '60s, most people forget that not everyone was growing their hair long and joining communes. Some kids were having sex with older chicks and having identity crises. Lucky bastards.

Above The Rim (1994)

It has Warren G's "Regulate" on it. Sit down.

Trainspotting (1996)

This disc made being a junkie at least sound cool, even if it was deadly business. It was also one of the first exposures of modern rave and Brit-pop sounds to a greater audience.

Pretty In Pink (1986)

This one had everything: New Order, The Smith, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Psychedelic Furs...too bad "Try a Little Tenderness" didn't make it on the original disc.

Saturday Night Fever (1977)

Say what you will about disco, but the only thing that could knock this one out of the best-selling album of all-time spot was Thriller. That means a lot of people owned or own this one but are not owning up to it.