with recent films it's harder to call. obvi those madonna songs are better known than those movies, but it's less of a slam-dunk than the truly forgotten 'unchained'.
― so brycey (history mayne), Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Who's That Girl?
― corey, Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
This Used To My Playground
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
I'll Remember
Beautiful Stranger
Simultaneously a great compilation and a fucking awful film festival.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
there is no question that the song 'We're in the Money' is about 1000x as famous as the film, and thus is perfectly valid. However, if you want to go for "songs that are still famous even though nobody remembers the film", that is a different matter.
But "eclipsed" in the thread title refers only to the latter reading, no? "As famous as" means the song has not eclipsed the film. Also, why the scare quotes around "film school"?
No, 'eclipsed' means 'is a massive degree more famous than', which is what I was saying is the case for 'We're in the Money'. And I'm not really sure what I was meaning with the scare quotes - I think I was intending to include film courses in general rather than just getting a straight degree in filmmaking or something.
Also, I'm pretty sure I'm one of the few people who have seen Percy. Though I might be thinking of another penis-based comedy.
― emil.y, Sunday, 17 July 2011 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
Title song from Absolute Beginners
― scraping wheatus off the wheel (NickB), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Kinks, "God's Children," "The Way Love Used To Be," "Willesden Green," all from the soundtrack to Percy. Has anyone even seen that film?
No. On the other hand, I don't consider anything made by The Kinks after 1969-70 to be particularly relevant or interesting or representative at all....
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
those songs are "more famous" than the film only insofar as nobody's seen the film.
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 17 July 2011 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
"Independent Woman" from Charlie's Angels. You hear the line "Charlie how your angels get down like that" and you're like, "What does that mean?"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 18 July 2011 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe Love Story / Theme from Love Story? I mean IDK if the song is actually more famous than the movie, I just had this weird alarm clock that played it when I was a kid so I knew it without knowing what the hell it was from.
― didn't even have to use my akai (Hurting 2), Monday, 18 July 2011 00:25 (twelve years ago) link
On the other hand, I don't consider anything made by The Kinks after 1969-70 to be particularly relevant or interesting or representative at all....
They were no doubt aggrieved that the Percy sessions spilled over into January, 1971.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 18 July 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
"View to a Kill"
― Nate Carson, Monday, 18 July 2011 01:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fepqainiFww/TFihv1frH9I/AAAAAAAAbiY/uWQwGd0i9zg/s320/Summer,+Donna+-+Last+Dance.jpg
― kornrulez6969, Monday, 18 July 2011 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Disagree about Fight the Power. Do the Right Thing is still a great film. Shared honours.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 18 July 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GouLP2GE1M8
― it's a meme i made and i like (Steve Shasta), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Breakdown" by Bob Seger. The man's only No. 1 song.
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:07 (twelve years ago) link
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band's "On the Dark Side"
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Call Me" by Blondie
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
"Let It Be" by the Beatles http://bigfootdiscussions.invisionzone.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/icon_snicker.gif
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
(Beverly Hills Cop IIEddie & The CruisersAmerican GigoloLet It Be)
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
The Robin Hood theme only counts if speeding it up 4x and adding a hamster falls within the purview of this thread's qualifications (though I guess it would).
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 July 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
"Going Back To Cali" from Less Than Zero
I was going to mention this same movie, but for the Bangles' version of "Hazy Shade of Winter"!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
Works in both cases.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 July 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Watership Down is still well known, but the fame of "Bright Eyes" eclipses it.
― little mushroom person (abanana), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
Are You That Somebody (Nutty Professor)Try Again (Romeo Must Die)Soul To Squeeze (Coneheads)Gangsta's Paradise (Dangerous Minds)Stay (Reality Bites)Because I Got High (Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back)Regulate (About The Rim)Ghetto Superstar (Bullworth)Iris (City Of Angels)Steal My Sunshine (Go)New (Go)Deep Cover (Deep Cover)
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
I mean Dr Doolittle
and Above The Rim, not About The Rim
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
Dr Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'― Siegbran, Sunday, July 17, 2011 9:34 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
This is questionable.. I hear a lot more people talk about Friday than this song.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:04 (twelve years ago) link
iris & deep cover are good ones
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/honeysuckle_rose.jpg
Featured a little ditty called "On the Road Again".
― (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
Not much of a fan of the "Lola Vs. Powerman" album either. They made a mistake by applying a new "harder" and more "rock" oriented sound. Should have stayed with their brilliant 1966-68 style.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
"Independent Woman" from Charlie's Angels. You hear the line "Charlie how your angels get down like that" and you're like, "What does that mean?"― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:07 PM
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:07 PM
Not to mention the opening: "Lucy Liu, with my girl Drew, Cameron D. and Destiny... Charlie's Angels 'cmon."
― Breezy Summer Jam (MintIce), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Don't know how famous it is on ILX, but Johnny Mandel's "Emily" from The Americanization of Emily gets played at every jazz guitar gig ever.
― All Hopped Up and Ready To POLL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 02:46 (twelve years ago) link
Candy Dulfer and David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here"
― (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:15 (twelve years ago) link
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me from "She's All That".
Though whenever I hear the line "Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance" I keep envisioning Usher dancing with that silly grin on his face.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
"She's All That" is a timeless classic for some of us
― Number None, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not really sure all of these songs are FROM the films they're attached to, so much as slapped on (esp in the last 30 years).
I like that John Ford nixed having the song "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" heard in the film, cuz well, it would have ruined it.
― joyless shithead (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
yes
― jack-off all trade, masturbate nuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
My fave example of a wisely discarded theme song is Billy Eckstine's "Vertigo" which you can hear here.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, like the Sixpence song appeared on one of their albums a full year before it was in "She's All That." That's a far cry from "originally."
― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Phil Collins, Against All Odds.
― Manitobiloba (Kim), Thursday, 9 March 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
the most duh answer is somehow not on here, which is Houston's version of I Will Always Love You. i have never seen The Bodyguard, nor do i understand what it's supposed to be about, nor do i think i'll ever care.
― austinb, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:20 (seven years ago) link
A whole lot of Pink Floyd songs...
― dlp9001, Thursday, 9 March 2017 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Bobby Brown's "On Our Own"
Dusty Springfield "The Look Of Love"(originally written for the Casino Royale spoof)― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet
(originally written for the Casino Royale spoof)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet
― Einstein, Kazanga, Sitar (abanana), Friday, 10 March 2017 06:52 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, "The look of love"..
Also, "Happy"from DesMe2, yep that's a big film but "Happy" got way bigger.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 March 2017 07:58 (seven years ago) link
"I Want Your Sex" was apparently the 3rd hit from the Beverly Hills Cop II soundtrack, before being the first single from Faith. I would say it has eclipsed that movie and those first two hits ("Cross My Broken Heart" by The Jets and "Shakedown" by Bob Seger).
― LeRooLeRoo, Friday, 10 March 2017 12:52 (seven years ago) link
Can't believe no one has said 'Fame' yet. It's right in the title!
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 March 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
Too many of these have fuckall to do with the movie itself. They're just kinda thrown on to the soundtrack to sell more records. Was "Cross My Broken Heart" even in the film Beverly Hills Cop II?
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link