The song that made Eminem's career is also a fitting anthem for the film 8 Mile, which follows a man who's chasing a dream. The American Film Institute names it as one of the top songs in movie history, and it's easy to see why.
We bet you started singing the song as soon as you read the title, but many people don't realize Dolly actually wrote it for a film of the same name starring her, Lily Tomlin, and Jane Fonda. It topped the charts and appeared in the Broadway play, too. Western fans may already know that the original song, written for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, included an extra instrumental break in the film.
It found its place in the Grammy Hall of Fame in While Grease has a fantastic soundtrack, this love anthem rises above the rest. Olivia Newton-John performed the song at the Grammy Awards and it's also become one of her concert staples. It's not hard to see why. While Harold and Maude might be a bit of a deep cut for some movie fans, the Cat Stevens song probably does come to mind. Its theme of freedom and following your own path definitely stands the test of time. Some parts of the classic Disney film may not quite hold up today, but this beautiful song certainly does.
It's become so imbued with so many different aspects of Disney that many people don't even associate it with the movie at all. It's since been covered by the likes of Lorrie Morgan and John Coltrane, not to mention scores of school choral ensembles.
Performed by Huey Lewis and the News, this banger of a rock song from the instant classic became the band's number one hit song. It still gets fans air guitaring along today. One of those songs that has gained fame beyond its original appearance, White Christmas first played in White Christmas. But it's such a perfect holiday song, it's appeared in many other Christmas movies, as well as all over the radio, ever since. Product Reviews. Home Ideas. United States. Type keyword s to search.
Thank Heaven for Little Girls. What a Feeling. Shall We Dance? The Samuel Goldwyn Company. Rock Around the Clock.
Make 'Em Laugh. Walt Disney Productions. Don't Rain on My Parade. That's Entertainment. Wind Beneath My Wings. The Way You Look Tonight. Luck Be a Lady. New York, New York. Fight the Power. Jalem Productions.
Days of Wine and Roses. Theme from Shaft. Swinging on a Star. RKO Radio Pictures. Let's Call the Whole Thing Off. I Got Rhythm. Theme from New York, New York. Stormy Weather. Pando Company Inc. Born to Be Wild. Some Enchanted Evening. Unchained Melody. The Trolley Song. Stanley Kramer Productions.
Universal Pictures. Ol' Man River. Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head. Jerome Hellman Productions. Everybody's Talkin'. Jailhouse Rock. Someday My Prince Will Come. Cheek to Cheek. My Heart Will Go On. Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend. Transcona Enterprises. The Man That Got Away. Robert Wise Productions. The Sound of Music. Stayin' Alive. The Way We Were. Walt Disney Animation Studios. When You Wish Upon a Star.
Lawrence Truman Productions. White Christmas. Moon River. Singin' in the Rain. As Time Goes By. Over the Rainbow. Cameron Crowe, who cut his teeth as a rock journalist, constructs his soundtracks obsessively, letting familiar songs do emotional work on screen. Say Anything But his romcom Singles , set in the Seattle grunge scene and starring Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Matt Dillon and Kyra Sedgwick, framed big moments using largely unfamiliar songs that went on to help to define an era.
While Nirvana doesn't turn up on the tracklist, Pearl Jam certainly does Eddie Vedder and the gang appear onscreen as members of Citizen Dick, the fictional band fronted by Dillon's goateed Cliff Poncier , and the album marks spawned the now-canon grunge-era classics " Would? Many of Crowe's older films hold up better and Singles feels dated as a movie, but its soundtrack remains a succinct, potent time capsule. Mario Van Peebles's crime classic New Jack City , which charts the rise and fall of Harlem crack kingpin Nino Brown Wesley Snipes , is mostly remembered for its opulent style, flashes of violence, and its star-making performances.
In addition to 2 Live Crew's politically nimble party-rap, the album showcases the range of the drum machine-powered new jack swing style pioneered by producers Teddy Riley and Bernard Belle. The "richies" in John Hughes' YA class study Pretty in Pink might scoff at their low income classmates Andie and Duckie, but they have their own form of capital: good taste. Unlike other teen blockbusters of the '80s, Hughes typically opted for more alternative soundtracks featuring groups like Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark that only cool kids knew of, like Andie working in her new wave record shop, and helped turn them into charting hitmakers.
Those new wave names, including Echo and the Bunnyman, New Order, and The Psychedelic Furs whose " Pretty in Pink " of course inspired the name of the film and was re-recorded for the soundtrack , make for a rosy, sincere collection reflective of the emotional turmoil of the young, lovestruck leads. It'll leave you holed up in your bedroom, waiting for the phone to ring, just like Molly Ringwald.
A movie as enigmatic and unsettling as David Lynch's Lost Highway , a trancelike exploration of the dark underbelly hidden beneath the surface of Los Angeles, needs an appropriate soundtrack, and this one delivers, with an original score by Lynch mainstays Angelo Badalamenti and Barry Adamson rounded out by Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, and two bangers from none other than German industrial metal group Rammstein.
The atonal bop of NIN's " Perfect Drug ," written for the movie, and the deep, chest-vibrating bass of Rammstein's " Heirate Mich " are bookended by David Bowie's haunting, melodic " I'm Deranged ," which ties the movie's frayed ends neatly together as Lost Highway speeds down its endless empty road. Teenage moodiness never sounded so sexy. As a love story between a high schooler and a vampire who can't resist her, Twilight is the epitome of goth teen melodrama, and the soundtrack elevates the paranormal romance of Stephenie Meyer's YA bestseller to grander, richer emotional heights.
Leave it to Paramore, who offered the Grammy-nominated original lead single " Decode ," to capture the dangerous, unadulterated desire of Edward and his beloved Bella. It's tender and lustful, like what brought many young fans to the franchise to begin with -- and, come on, would the baseball scene, for example, be as hot and silly as it was without the use of Muse's " Supermassive Black Hole?
Earlier this year at the Academy Awards remember that???? While many nay-sayers online took it as an opportunity to joke about Eminem and dismiss him as irrelevant, most viewers knew the truth in their hearts: " Lose Yourself ," a hard-edged jock jam soliloquy written in blood, sweat, and mom's spaghetti, still owns. The rest of the soundtrack to Marshall Mathers's semi-autobiographical origin story isn't quite as memorable, but the mix of Shady-adjacent acts D12, Obie Trice , early '00s rap luminaries Jay-Z, 50 Cent , and old-school legends Rakim, Gang Starr makes for an illuminating study of Eminem's taste as a producer.
In the current moment, it's difficult to imagine a mainstream pop star, much less a combative Detroit rapper, with the creative pull and overall vision to execute a hard-hitting, idiosyncratic soundtrack like this at this chart-topping, stadium-conquering scale.
When first introduced, Jon Voight's blonde Buck, a Texas dishwasher with aspirations of hustling in New York, dons his finest cowboy boots, places his hat on his head, and grabs a suitcase as Harry Nilsson's cover of Fred Neil's " Everybody's Talkin' " plays on the soundtrack, ushering in a new era of pop music needle-drops on screen.
Watching it now, what's most noticeable about Midnight Cowboy's use of music is how intuitive and natural it feels. Beyond Nilsson's easygoing opening song, the soundtrack also includes the raucous psych-rock of Elephant's Memory, sections of composer John Berry's Grammy-winning score, and the stomping " He Quit Me ," a track performed by singer Leslie Miller and written by Warren Zevon.
It's perfect music for walking down a crowded city block -- just look out for those stray taxi cabs. In his hip-hop history Can't Stop, Won't Stop , writer Jeff Chang describes Wild Style as "the only hip-hop film and soundtrack that adequately conveys the communal thrill of merging with the tide, riding the lightning.
The soundtrack has a similarly unfussy, unvarnished aesthetic: Ahearn, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein, and artist Fab Five Freddy assembled 13 tracks that form a kaleidoscopic mural of hip-hop's early days. Performances like " M. Battle " and " Basketball Throwdown " showcase rap as a competitive art form where verbal wit becomes the ultimate weapon. It's rare to hear any recorded music, much less a movie soundtrack, that has such a strong sense of possibility.
Like the looks, lingo, and cellphones of Clueless , the soundtrack, put together by music supervisor Karyn Rachtman who arranged a handful other soundtracks on this list , is drenched in '90s ephemera. While a stylish portrait of what was hip at the time, with songs from artists like Beastie Boys, Coolio, and Luscious Jackson, it's also timeless in the way its hodge-podge of genres reflects the various cliques Cher interacts with at her Beverly Hills high school.
It's like a glimpse at each character's Walkman. The Muffs' " Kids in America " cover couldn't be more appropriate to open the movie and track-listing. More than a stoner classic, Friday is a testament to Ice Cube's focus, ambition, and willpower. After launching himself as a solo artist and as an actor in films like John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood , the former NWA member wanted to see a movie that didn't paint his Los Angeles neighborhood " like it was hell on Earth.
He also recorded the title track of the soundtrack and helped select the songs that make up its regionally and musically varied tracklist, which includes L. G-funk Dr. It remains an ideal playlist for any day when, as Chris Tucker's Smokey says, " you ain't got shit to do " -- and Ice Cube made it happen.
Before cruising through the vastness of space, George Lucas put audiences in the driver's seat of classic cars for this odyssey through the teen culture of the rock n' roll '60s. A serendipitous deal between Universal Pictures and all the music publishers, in which they'd all get the same amount of money for their songs, allowed the future Star Wars director to trick out his movie with some of the greatest musical artists of the jukebox days.
The only musician conspicuously absent from the movie is Elvis Presley, whose label, RCA, was the only one that wouldn't agree to the deal. Regardless, American Graffiti's track soundtrack is a formidable collection of the best of what the midth century had to offer, saluting both the heyday and the end of an era.
Music has always been central to Lee's films -- his decades-long relationship with composer Terence Blanchard is as vital as any filmmaker-composer collaboration in recent history -- and Do the Right Thing is a testament to his singular taste, creative vision, and moral clarity.
It's a good thing Elvis never meant shit to him. Honestly, we knew it from the first official trailer. Can Lady Gaga carry a movie? But most crucially: Would the soundtrack tip it over into cultural phenomenon? The instant we heard Gaga belt her series of "ahhs" in the bridge of "Shallow," it seemed like it would work -- and it did.
The collaboration between Gaga, Cooper, Lukas Nelson, and other artists like Jason Isbell and Diane Warren stands completely on its own with its marriage of roots rock and pure pop. Perhaps the movie's greatest accomplishment is turning Jackson Maine and Ally into believable real life stars with mini catalogs of catchy and accomplished songs.
Even the dialogue tracks are not worth skipping. With its radio DJ interludes and impromptu dance parties, this adaptation of Terry McMillan's bestselling novel understands how music functions in the day-to-day lives of people struggling to find happiness, acceptance, and love. Never one to be upstaged, Houston nails the soft-focus exuberance of the whole endeavor on her lead single " Exhale Shoop Shoop ," an anthem for picking up the pieces of a broken heart and walking away from a car after you set it on fire.
Martin Scorsese didn't invent the needle drop, but he sure as hell perfected it with Goodfellas -- and only a handful of the 54 songs that were featured in the film made the soundtrack cut. It's a tightly curated, multi-decade spanning list of moments from the film: Tony Bennett's " Rags to Riches " plays over Ray Liotta's opening monologue where he "always wanted to be a gangster"; The Shangri-Las' " Remember Walking in the Sand " while Liotta, Robert DeNiro, and Joe Pesci dig up Billy Bat's decaying corpse; Bobby Darin's " Beyond the Sea " opening over Paul Sorvino slicing garlic paper-thin with a razor blade for an onion-heavy red sauce in prison; the bittersweet piano interlude at the end of " Layla " by Derek and the Dominoes finding the freshly whacked bodies -- in a car, in a dumpster, in a meat freezer -- of the guys who made expensive purchases with the Lufthansa heist money.
The only bummer was leaving 42 great songs on the cutting room floor. When Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette was released, critics were too obsessed with the historical accuracy and revisionist portrayal of the titular queen to see that the filmmaker really intended to tell a story about the devices that girls might turn to when left to unfulfilling boredom.
In part, that's where her new wave, post-punk, and garage soundtrack came in, mostly trading orchestral period pieces for bands like Bow Wow Wow, The Cure, and The Radio Dept. Antoinette said, "Let them eat cake," but Coppola absolutely served something sweet with this one.
If your movie draws its title from a song written and performed multiple times by a character in the storyline of the film, it needs to be so indisputably good that the audience won't get sick of it. Thankfully, The Harder They Come , a brisk and engrossing Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell, had reggae singer extraordinaire Jimmy Cliff on its side, both as an actor and as a musician, and he delivered an instantly hummable, sneakily poignant "hit" for his protagonist Ivan to record in the film, along with half the other songs on the soundtrack.
In addition to Cliff's contributions, the album also boasts Desmond Dekker's " Shanty Town " and The Maytals version of " Pressure Drop ," making it a collection that also doubles as a fitting introduction to a knotty chapter of politically agile, socially conscious music. The movie itself is a sharp study of how exploitation occurs in the music business and beyond.
Released after reggae developed in Jamaica during the late '60s, The Harder They Come helped popularize an entire genre, creating musical waves that crashed on new shores across the globe.
Both smooth and forceful, John Shaft's unquestionable cool is established in the music that accompanies him. No poseurs allowed. The songs blasting out of their car stereos suggest otherwise.
In the year of the American bicentennial, teenagers had never been so free. Nevertheless, the movie resonated with a small but fervent audience, who helped elevate it to cult status, while clinging passionately to a soundtrack filled with modern rockers like Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Cracker, and the Cranberries.
Cameron Crowe started writing the movie that would become Singles not long after he moved to Seattle, where the former Rolling Stone reporter was immediately impressed with the then-underground music scene. By the time Crowe finished the film, his friends in bands like Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Mudhoney were some of the biggest rock stars in the world.
More than just a collection of tunes that were featured in the movie, this soundtrack aims to recreate the whole experience of the latest A Star Is Born , with dialogue snippets and multiple versions of the same numbers, just like in the film. The songs tell a story, about the different ways of retaining some personal expression within the soulless behemoth that is the modern American recording industry. The soundtrack too plays with the sounds of the city and the times.
But the best actual Beatles soundtrack comes from their worst picture. The rambling, muddy-looking, made-for-TV Magical Mystery Tour is a chore to watch: all inside jokes and secondhand psychedelia. Then Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda decided to dedicate a big part of their Easy Rider budget to licensing the popular acid-rock songs that their editor Donn Cambern was at first just using as a temporary score.
The soundtrack commodified the pervasive feeling in the culture that something vital was being lost. Thirty-two million copies.
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