This is another offshoot from the Madonna's song is rubbish thread. Which are your favourite film songs or soundtracks. 1. All of the Blues Brothers soundtrack 2. Shaft-Isaac Hayes (Shaft) 3. Love Rollercoaster-RHCP (Beavis and Butthead do America) 4. The Living Daylights-A-ha (The living....) 5. Goldeneye-Tina Turner (Goldeneye)
How you can put Shaft over Superfly is beyond me. Shaft always seemed a little schtick-like, while Superfly is actually a very, very classic timeless album. My opinion, of course.
-Queen, Highlander soundtrack -Duran Duran, A View to a Kill -Eminem's 8 Mile song And if anyone says that horrid Celine Dion Titantic crap, I hope you get beat down hard.
Couldn't agree more... i will go with some of the classics Saturday Night (Live or Fever whichever was first) The Graduate
I like some of the covers that have been done for films: Lick the Tins' version of "Can't Help Falling in Love With You" from the movie, Some Kind of Wonderful Edie Brickell's "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," from Born on the Fourth of July Then these artists did great full scores for the following films Cat Stevens: Harold and Maude Aimee Mann: Magnolia Simon and Garfunkel: The Graduate
I love The Who, so one of the coolest scenes set to music I've seen in a movie was in Fever Pitch when he's getting ready for the match and Baba O'Rielly kicks on.
"Sister Christian" (Night Ranger) in "Boogie Night's" and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" (Iron Butterfly) in "Manhunter." I never get tired of seeing these two scenes. There are better songs, but mixed together I love these. And really, can you beat these lyrics?
The Faculty--Oasis, "Stay Young" (never seen the movie but it's a badass song) Snatch--Oasis, "******************in' in the Bushes" (great movie, great song) Tomb Raider--U2, "Elevation" Three Kings--U2, "In God's Country" Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels--Ocean Color Scene, "100 Mile High City" Top Gun--"Danger Zone" Alex
My opinion, too. Superfly was one of the finest examples of Curtis Mayfield's genius. One of my favorite movie songs was Elliot Smith's "Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting
Don't Bring Me No Bad News by Mabel King as Evilene in the classic movie The Wiz. It's Oh So Quiet by Bjork in Happy, Texas. It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones in Mars Attacks. The horridly wonderful remake of Puttin' On The Ritz by Peter Boyle and Gene Wilder in Young Frankenstein.
Some of my favorite soundtracks include: Alexander Nevsky - music by Sergei Prokofiev Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - music by Tan Dun Koyanisqatsi - music by Philip Glass Powwasqatsi - music by Philip Glass Naqoyqatsi - music by Philip Glass Mishima - music by Philip Glass Also, the soundtrack to Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
I absolutely agree with you. Shaft is great, but for its campiness. Superfly is well, super fly. Also: - the whole Harold & Maude soundtrack by Cat Stevens - Fight Club, "Where Is My Mind?" by the Pixies - Good Will Hunting, "Miss Misery" by Elliot Smith Right now, I'm digging "Lose Your Self" from 8 Mile.
Possibly the greatest opening to any movie ever made. Cheech Marin buffing down his car with his hat to the tune of "LowRider" by WAR in "Nice Dreams" They don't make 'em like that anymore.....
Aside from the obvious Philip Glass which nicodemus already covered the best use of a song in a movie is... "Fight the Power" in Do the Right Thing
Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" in Trainspotting was pretty effective. And Queen's "Flash Gordon"...I still have the album -- on Vinyl!
Yes, but these works are such seamless works of majesty you can't really break them up into songs. Although, "The Battle on the Ice" from Alexander Nevsky stands pretty well on its own.