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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
"Breakdown" by Bob Seger. The man's only No. 1 song.
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band's "On the Dark Side"
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
"Call Me" by Blondie
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:11 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
(Beverly Hills Cop IIEddie & The CruisersAmerican GigoloLet It Be)
― (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 18 July 2011 21:13 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Works in both cases.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 July 2011 21:22 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean Dr Doolittle
and Above The Rim, not About The Rim
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:03 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
iris & deep cover are good ones
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:08 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
They were no doubt aggrieved that the Percy sessions spilled over into January, 1971.
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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
Candy Dulfer and David A. Stewart - "Lily Was Here"
― (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 03:15 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
"She's All That" is a timeless classic for some of us
― Number None, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 14:56 (thirteen 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 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― jack-off all trade, masturbate nuns (sic), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 15:17 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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
"The Shadow of Your Smile" from The Sandpiper seems like one of these, although some people still enjoy The Sandpiper
― Josefa, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
"To Sir With Love"
― henry s, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:48 (seven years ago) link
"Don't Let Go (Love)" - En Vogue. Recorded for the Set It Off soundtrack.
― chap, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:51 (seven years ago) link
"i have never seen The Bodyguard, nor do i understand what it's supposed to be about"
I believe it's about a Bodyguard.
― chap, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:52 (seven years ago) link
Well, it's about a Body. And a Guard. Two very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, learning from each other in the process.
― henry s, Friday, 10 March 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
That's What Friends Are For (from Night Shift)The Girl Can't Help ItAcross 110th Street
― Stupor Fly, Friday, 10 March 2017 17:50 (seven years ago) link
'Turtle Power' by Partners in Kryme
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 March 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
Got a perfect candidate -- the jazz standard "Stella by Starlight." Originally introduced as an instrumental piece in the (truly great, still underrated) Ray Milland supernatural thriller The Uninvited. The title is what it is due to a character being called Stella, Milland's character writes the piece with reference to her, etc. etc. A modified still from the scene in question:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7DInmoJ5JDE/hqdefault.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2017 17:55 (seven years ago) link
"the end is the beginning is the end" by the smashing pumpkins from Batman & Robin
maybe even "eye" from Lost Highway?
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 March 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link
"drown" from Singles, surely?
Everybody's Talkin' from Midnight Cowboy?
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 10 March 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
Pharrell - Happy from Despicable Me
― out comes stanley, Friday, 10 March 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Two.
― Mark G, Friday, 10 March 2017 23:40 (seven years ago) link
happy otm
― flappy bird, Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:27 (seven years ago) link
"The Way You Look Tonight," from Swing Time. Famous movie, but the song is way more famous
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Saturday, 11 March 2017 06:37 (seven years ago) link