Movie Songs

Music has the power to make movies better and everyone loves a good movie soundtrack. So what are your favourites?

These are mine

Faith Hill - There You'll Be (Pearl Harbor)
Chris Cornell - You Know My Name (Casino Royale)
Jack White & Alicia Keys - Another Way To Die (Quantum of Solace)
Muse - Neutron Star Collision (Twilight Eclipse)
Paramore - Decode (Twilight)
Paramore - Monster (Transformers Dark of Moon)

Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Full Metal Jacket)
Stealer's Wheel - Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Cher & Sunny - I Got You Babe (Groundhog Day)
Queen - Flash (Flash)
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (Trainspotting)
Underworld - Born Slippy (Trainspotting)
Dusty Springfield - Son of a Preacher Man (Pulp Fiction)
Urge Overkill - Girl, you'll be a Woman Soon (Pulp Fiction)
Echo & the Bunnymen - People are Strange (The Lost Boys)
The Pixies - Where is My Mind (Fight Club)

Janes Addiction - Just Because (SWAT)

Celtic Warrior wrote:Janes Addiction - Just Because (SWAT)

Cracking song!

The entire Kill Bill: Volume One and Two's soundtrack, all the songs on that are immense.

I always liked the Pirates of the Caribbean music.

Cracking band!

Yeah agree on that, Dave Navarro just oozes cool.

Eye of the Tiger - Rocky.

Eye of Tiger is great

The Dark Knight theme

Inception Theme

Matrix Theme

The American Beauty theme by Jakarta
28 Days Later theme

musical scores I really like

Last of the Mohicans theme
Inception theme
Dragon The Bruce Lee theme

invincibleILeak (CL-6WF) wrote:The entire Kill Bill: Volume One and Two's soundtrack, all the songs on that are immense.

I always liked the Pirates of the Caribbean music.

The RZA is fantastic on those albums.

If you want to talk movie scores there aren't much better than John Williams' Star Wars score.

If you want to talk movie scores there aren't much better than John Williams' Star Wars score.

Agreed. Got to be one of the best of all time.

Getting back to movie songs however, a few of my favourites are:

Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins (Top Gun)
Mighty Wings - Cheap Trick (Top Gun)
Echelon - 30 Seconds To Mars (The Core)
Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen (Highlander)
One Vision - Queen (Iron Eagle)
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr (Ghostbusters)
Footloose - Kenny Loggins (Footloose)
La Bamba - Los Lobos (La Bamba)
You Could Be Mine - Guns 'n' Roses (Terminator 2)
The One and Only - Chesney Hawkes (Buddy's Song)

Don't stop me Now - Queen (Shaun of the Dead)

As much of a naff film as it is, I love Hackers.

The soundtrack on that fits it perfectly too.

Ermm,

You Could be Mine is Terminator. Not Terminator 2.

Turtle Power - Partners in Kryme (TMNT)

King Beer wrote:Ermm,

You Could be Mine is Terminator. Not Terminator 2.

It's T2.

I can remeber the music video had clips of T2 in it.

Well as this was the song cover:

Spoiler:

I reckon that's pretty much nailed on it being T2.

Oh, my mistake! I swore the vid showed clips of T1?

When it comes to films, I really like the instrumental stuff that Thomas Newman does. His most famous film music is probably American Beauty, which is lovely, but he's done lots of other well known films for years. Gabriel Yared's music for Betty Blue is lush as well.

As for songs used in films my favourites off the top of my head would probably be:

Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me (The Breakfast Club)
Bruce Springsteen - Dead Man Walking (Dead Man Walking)
Honeyroot - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Red Road)
The Commitments - Dark End of the Street (The Commitments)
Aretha Franklin - Think (The Blues Brothers)
Gavin Clarke - Never Seen The Sea (This Is England)
New Order - Temptation (Trainspotting)
Leftfield - Shallow Grave (Shallow Grave)
Madonna - Into The Groove (Desperately Seeking Susan)

Just remembered these as well...

Blaze of Glory - Bon Jovi (Young Guns)
Doubleback - ZZ Top (Back To The Future III)
In The Air Tonight - Nonpoint (Miami Vice)
The Living Daylights - A-Ha (The Living Daylights)

Would it be bad form to mention:

Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)?

Rock and Roll Queen - The Subways - Rock 'n' Rolla

Billy Squier - The Stroke (Blades of Glory)

Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (A View To A Kill)
The Flowerpot Men - Beat City (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) - terrible band name, but a good song.
Eddie Vedder - Into The Wild - the whole soundtrack (Into The Wild)

Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop)

Actually learned to play this, back when I was into keyboards (have since switched to guitars).

dyrewolfe wrote:Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop)

Actually learned to play this, back when I was into keyboards (have since switched to guitars).

Do you do the version from a few years ago and make the sound of crazy frog over the top of it?

Hero wrote:

dyrewolfe wrote:Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop)

Actually learned to play this, back when I was into keyboards (have since switched to guitars).

Do you do the version from a few years ago and make the sound of crazy frog over the top of it?

Blasphemy

Even thought that Frog is animated...it deserves to be shot...along with everyone that was involved in creating it.

Hero wrote:Rolling Stones - Paint it Black (Full Metal Jacket)

I may be wrong about this but I think you are confused.

Paint it Black was the theme tune to the Vietnam TV series called "Tour of Duty"

It might have been on FMJ as well but for me its forever tied to that great series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z6fcd--354

Hobo - it's featured in the end on FMJ for the credits.

That reminds me The Doors - The End (Apocalypse Now).

Dick Dale - Misirlou (Pulp Fiction)
Buffalo Springfield - For What Its Worth (Forrest Gump)
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son (Forrest Gump)
The Doors - Break On Through (Forrest Gump)
Dropkick Murphys - Shipping Up To Boston (The Departed)

Bad Moon Rising - Creedance Clearwate Revival - An American Werewolf in London
Girl, You'll be a woman soon - Urge Overkill - Pulp Fiction
Moondance - Van Morrison - An American Werewolf in London
America, F*ck yeah! - Team America
Uncle F**ka - South Park the Movie

And a few of my favourites:

Your Song - Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor)
Roxanne - Moulin Rouge
Come What May - Moulin Rouge

Hobo wrote:Bad Moon Rising - Creedance Clearwate Revival - An American Werewolf in London
Girl, You'll be a woman soon - Urge Overkill - Pulp Fiction
Moondance - Van Morrison - An American Werewolf in London
America, F*ck yeah! - Team America
Uncle F**ka - South Park the Movie

And a few of my favourites:

Your Song - Moulin Rouge (Ewan McGregor)
Roxanne - Moulin Rouge
Come What May - Moulin Rouge

Rawhide - Blues Brothers behind the net being pelted with beer bottles classic

The Lost Boys soundtrack

I Still Believe - Tim Cappello
Cry , Little Sister - Gerard McMann
Lost in the Shadows - Lou Gramm
Power Play - Eddie and the Tide
People are strange - Echo and the Bunnymen

Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - U2 (Batman Forever)
God Gave Rock 'n' Roll To You II - KISS (Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey)

Anything from the Rocky IV or Flash Gordon soundtrack.

Take it Easy - Andy Taylor ........ from the American Anthem soundtrack

Any film with Dust in the Wind by Kansas

Sir. badgerhands wrote:Anything from the Rocky IV or Flash Gordon soundtrack.

Mr Badgerhands

Great soundtracks, both of them.

Hobo wrote:

Sir. badgerhands wrote:Anything from the Rocky IV or Flash Gordon soundtrack.

Mr Badgerhands

Great soundtracks, both of them.

got to agree both are great soundtracks listened to them loads when i was younger

Always Look On The Bright Side of Life - Monty Python (Life of Brian)

Got to be one of the best ever!

dyrewolfe wrote:Always Look On The Bright Side of Life - Monty Python (Life of Brian)

Got to be one of the best ever!

it really does make you smile

The entire soundtrack to Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is amazing.

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