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
not sure despicable me has receded in collective memory any more than "happy" has tbh
― dyl, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:11 (seven years ago) link
Justin Timberlake Can't Stop The Feeling is destined for this.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:32 (seven years ago) link
this probably says more about my ignorance than the extent to which top hat has (or hasn't) faded from public consciousness but i didn't know that "cheek to cheek" was introduced in a film lol
― dyl, Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:37 (seven years ago) link
"My Funny Valentine" from Babes in Arms
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:39 (seven years ago) link
thanks to Nina Simone and Buble's wannabe Simone rendition..."Feeling Good" from The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd (ok ok not a movie, a play, sorry)
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:41 (seven years ago) link
"Puttin on the Ritz" from...Puttin on the Ritz
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:43 (seven years ago) link
"I Can Dream About You" from <i>Streets of Fire</i>
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Sorry, wrong brackets.
"I can Dream About You" from Streets of Fire
― SlimAndSlam, Friday, 17 March 2017 11:10 (seven years ago) link
"Lydia, the Tattooed Lady" from At the Circus
Dylan's "Things Have Changed" from Wonder Boys
― neva missa lost, wednesday nights on abc (voodoo chili), Friday, 17 March 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Roger Daltrey: Quicksilver Lightning
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
I'm kidding about Roger Daltrey song, but not about this:
Lisa Loeb: Stay
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
"All Star" from Shrek and Mystery Men ?????
― frogbs, Friday, 17 March 2017 13:56 (seven years ago) link
So I guess this is going to be another thread where 90% of the answers range between unconvincing and wrong? Lots of these songs were released before the movie mentioned, and lots of other are inextricably linked to the movie.
You know on Amazon where people answer questions about a product ("Does it support bluetooth?") with things like "Sorry, I haven't received mine yet, so I don't know". Whelp, if you don't have an answer, you don't have to enter one.
― enochroot, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:13 (seven years ago) link
I think Que Sera, Sera has been the best answer so far, that scene actually felt really incongruous when I eventually saw The Man Who Knew Too Much.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Lots of these songs were released before the movie mentioned, and lots of other are inextricably linked to the movie.
was gonna say. and to note that a famous film song is no longer so linked does not prove that it has "eclipsed" the movie's fame.
― The sandwiches looked quite dank. (contenderizer), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
I feel like All Star's connection to Mystery Men is often forgotten, but it's connection to Shrek is very strong in its meme-ification.
― MarkoP, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
Yeah imo there's a lot of rong here mostly in the category of claiming films are forgotten when they're wildly popular, but maybe the other problem is ppl interpreting it as 'songs where the public has forgotten the song and movie were linked,' which might be where we're getting all the arbitrarily-tacked-on hits that aren't in any sense the film theme or whatever. In practice most folks rarely know that a song comes from a particular film in the first place unless it's super obvious like Men in Black or the video makes a big big deal out of it. Thread is most interesting when it's films that have completely vanished from people's miinds, and songs that have never fallen out of favor, imo.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
can't imagine anyone anywhere has rescreened buddy's song any time in the last decade or so but chesney hawkes' 'one and only' still haunts the airwaves of uk commercial radio
― not even my mate ross king sniffed out this hot gossip (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:34 (seven years ago) link
yea probably should've mentioned, Mystery Men is what I think fits the thread
people don't really remember this but the video was a tie-in to the movie, hell Ben Stiller is front and center in the first scene, and it's not just clips from the film either. then it got picked up in another, much more popular film, and seems to have even outlived that
― frogbs, Friday, 17 March 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
David Essex, "Silver Dream Machine"
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 17 March 2017 14:40 (seven years ago) link