songs whose fame has long since eclipsed that of the movie they originally appeared in

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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

"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 II
Eddie & The Cruisers
American Gigolo
Let 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

billstevejim, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link

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

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

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).

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

five years pass...

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


^^^

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 It
Across 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?

flappy bird, Friday, 10 March 2017 18:53 (seven years ago) link

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


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