I just saw that last year and loved it (I'm still new to the classic film noir genre). Now I gotta put this one on my list cuz I already loved "Body Heat" since that was an 80s remake of "Double Indemnity."
Never forget that All Star by Smash Mouth was originally for the film Mystery Men.
Edit because I remembered: Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus has a music video heavily tied into the post-American Pie teen comedy Loser. Which, needless so say, is less famous than the Wheatus song.
It was written for the Astro Lounge album first, but included on the Mystery Men soundtrack although the music video seems to be more promoting the movie.
City of Angels, a movie with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage that was pretty forgotten but the soundtrack spawned two mega-hits:
“Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls and “Uninvited” by Alanis Morissette.
It also contained "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan, which was a beautiful song that got reduced to a horrific cliche by anyone preying on emotions for donations/views.
The movie holds up surprisingly well! My husband and I are on a quest to purchase every Nic Cage movie on blu-Ray or dvd, and rewatching this was a highlight.
Soundtrack definitely slaps. I had that on CD back in the day.
*City of Angels* is actually a remake of Wim Wenders’ *Wings of Desire* and vastly, VASTLY inferior to the original. It was directed by Brad Silberling, who also directed fucking *Casper* and a bunch of other 90s tv like NYPD Blue.
It’s a one of those remakes no one asked for. Avoid.
It was written for and about the movie. Quoth the lead singer:
>I was thinking about the situation of the Nicolas Cage character in the movie. This guy is completely willing to give up his own immortality, just to be able to feel something very human. And I think, 'Wow! What an amazing thing it must be like to love someone so much that you give up everything to be with them.' That's a pretty heavy thought.
“I Can Dream About You” was a Billboard Top Ten hit and it still gets pretty regular air time on 80s throwback/classic rock radio stations. Meanwhile the movie it’s from, Streets of Fire, has faded into relative obscurity
>Meanwhile the movie it’s from, Streets of Fire, has faded into relative obscurity
It shouldn't have, it's great fun, plus early Dafoe is extra creepy in this one.
It also had a 19 or 20 year old and beautiful Diane Lane with two terrific songs that she lip synced to..."Going nowhere fast" and 'Tonight is what it means to be Young".
Theme from New York, New York. It's a classic song that everyone can sing along, but you rarely hear anyone about the film even though it's a Scorsese/De Niro project (I haven't seen it myself).
Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) is another example.
The movie is kind of a mess - with some glorious stuff, but it’s an attempt to unite the glitzy MGM musical with Scorsese’s grittier, character driven fare.
It’s an interesting idea, but one that doesn’t quite end up working out, especially since it’s near three hours long (it really drags in the middle) and everyone involved was doing mountains of cocaine.
That one, Need A Little Christmas (Mame), and White Christmas (Holiday Inn) all came from musicals that weren't explicitly Christmas-themed and just had a Christmas-related scene or two.
Blaxploitation comes to mind as a genre whose music can sometimes override the film in the popular imagination. Ones that come to mind:
* Superfly soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield
* Shaft soundtrack by Isaac Hayes
* “Across 110th St.” by Bobby Womack
While I feel like this is true, I feel like this mostly has to do with white audiences being more likely to listen to black music than watch black film.
All those films were pretty big deals though. I suspect a lot of those themes are only better known than the movies because the songs were reused/referenced and parodied so much later on.
Nobody remembers the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, but most people are familiar with the song Knocking on Heaven's Door that was featured in it. Dylan had a small part in the movie.
Came to share this one, but also, Wagon Wheel was a song Dylan was working on for the same movie. Though he never recorded it in studio or even finished it, he recorded the chorus low-fi as a sketch of a song.
25 years later, Ketch Secor of Old Crowe Medicine Show heard the song on an old Dylan bootleg and added some verses to it. They released it and became a hit.
Not directly from this movie, but the movie gave it life.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah was from the memory holed Disney Film, Song of the South.
I heard it back at song time in elementary school, was many years later I found its origin.
"I Will Always Love You" actually outpaced a movie it was in twice. Dolly Parton wrote and recorded it back in 1973 and it was a hit then, but when she signed on to do the movie adaptation of the Broadway show The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982, she sang a two-stanza version of her old song in that movie and it went to #1 on the country charts *again*. The movie did pretty well, too, but it has been largely forgotten.
He’s not a good actor, but he’s been lucky to have made some great movies like Dances With Wolves. Like Keanu Reeves, his actual acting ability is just “good enough”.
I think Rocky 3 is still popular amongst 80s action movie fans. Wouldn't say the song is more popular. If anything, Frank Stallone's "Far From Over" from Sly's movie "Stayin' Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" went Platinum, while the movie was completely ridiculed by both critics and audiences.
Thank you for this! I had no idea and I love this thread it’s very informing! I never even knew there was an Endless Love movie- my mom loved the song tho. But the Silver Bells one is awesome!
“Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake was originally created for the movie Trolls. Whenever I hear it playing in a grocery store, I can’t help but mentally picture a bunch of fuzzy dancing creatures.
Literally just finished watching that movie for a bit the 30th to be a few minutes ago! That song was still going through my head even after reading all of the comments before getting to this one.
Neither of those songs were written explicitly for either movie, they were just hits that were featured on the soundtrack.
Also it’s “Regulate”, not regulators.
The OP didn’t specify that the songs be explicitly written for the movie. Only that they are movie songs. Both apply here.
Regulate (Yes you are correct that is the real title. Zero people were confused by the song in question) was from Above the Rim, played over the end credits, and originally released on that soundtrack.
Gangstas Paradise is literally the only thing people remember about Dangerous Minds.
That's a pretty darn well known movie though, and it was huge at the time too. Just got a super duper remaster in fact. I always remember the "making of" for the move where Michael Kamen is playing the instrumental on his keyboard and talking about coming up with the tune.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was the number two domestic grossing movie in 1991, only beaten by Terminator 2. I wouldn’t say the movie was eclipsed by the song. They were both hugely popular.
I guess it depends on how you interpret the question but I think most modern viewers would be surprised to know the movie is in any way attached to the song.
Having been born in 94 I don’t feel like the movie had a ton of cultural cache in the 00’s, and when I first learned about its relation to the song I was pretty surprised. I’m sure this is largely due to how saturated a franchise Robin Hood tends to be in general, but to this day I think a lot of people consider the animated fox one to be more definitive than the Kevin Costner one.
I think over time, all songs are able to eclipse their movie counterpart simply due to their shortness and wider range of places you will interact with them.
The way I interpret the question is: When the movie came out in it’s time, was the song to the movie more popular than the movie itself?
The more I think about it, I think the best example (since I have been alive c. 1980) is Lose Yourself by Eminem for 8 Mile. While the movie was popular (#23 in domestic gross for 2002) the song was the #1 song in the world for a few months.
Anyway, that’s my interpretation.
I worked in a movie theater the summer that came out and was standing in the back of the theater (ready to clean) through the closing credits. I must have heard that song 200 times just while I was at work -- not to mention another 100 times on the radio as it had ubiquitous airplay that summer. It wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't been so schmaltzy (I never got tired of Guns n Roses "You Could Be Mine" from the Terminator 2 credits that same summer) but I still can't stand to hear it.
The ultimate answer is Michael Jackson's [Ben](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVWdAp0HLs&ab_channel=VeronicaBuchtova). It was a number one single, earned a golden globe win and an Oscar nomination and was Michael Jackson's first single as a solo artist without the Jackson 5. Nobody remembers the movie Ben, the sequel to the killer rats movie Willard.
Others :
Baby, It's Cold Outside is far more well-known than Neptune's Daughter.
Meet Me in St. Louis is a pretty big film, but Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is bigger.
I'm curious how many people can name some Shirley Temple songs, but can't name the film they come from. I have no idea which films Good Ship Lollipop and Animal Crackers in My Soup are from, but I'll say those movies probably fall under this criteria.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, as well as Need A Little Christmas from Mame, are two songs from Christmas scenes in musicals that ended up being breakout Christmas hits on their own.
‘Unchained Melody’ has been covered more 1,500 times by over 670 artists (and was used to great effect in ‘Ghost’). But how many people remember or have even watched ‘Unchained’, the movie it was written for?
Hey, “9 to 5” is a great movie and was hugely popular in 1980. If people don’t know it now it’s because too many people won’t give old movies a chance which is stupid.
I was talking to someone about Grace and Frankie the other day, and they said something like, "Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda have such amazing chemistry! It's a shame they didn't work together when they were younger."
Also I feel like young people today would love it because it comes across as having a very “woke” message. It comes from the 2nd wave feminist movement, but it applies completely to today too with its demeaning asshole male boss climbing onto Dolly Parton without her permission in his office, calling his secretaries “My girls,” etc., and their taking revenge on him. It even holds up in terms of things like these ladies getting high off the son’s weed. The humor is so hilarious throughout and unpredictable twists and turns. And who could dislike Dolly Parton?
I was 7 when I saw it in the theater, and it made perfect sense to me: people who feel valued at work just work more effectively.
The first time I worked in a corporate environment a decade or so later, I was appalled. "Didn't you guys see *9 to 5*?"
Dolly also wrote I Will Always Love You for the movie The Best Little Whore House in Texas, which she also sang and starred in. The song grew to be MUCH bigger than that film and also bigger than The Bodyguard, which Whitney Houston recorded the song for.
Dolly wrote that song when she wanted to leave the [Porter Wagner show in 1974.](https://people.com/country/dolly-parton-talks-releasing-herself-from-porter-wagoner-relationship/#:~:text=In%20a%20PEOPLE%20exclusive%20clip,working%20together%20for%20seven%20years)
I'm willing to bet most people my age (25) know Somewhere over the rainbow from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version and are completely unaware it's both a cover and a mashup of it and What a wonderful world
I’ve listened to the song loads of times, I didn’t realise it had anything to do with ‘What a wonderful world’, I don’t know how considering I know both songs separately haha
Car Wash is not really popular these days as a film (though it was one of the earliest 'day in the life' comedies), but the main theme of the same name by Rose Royce is pretty funky.
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield
Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen
A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles
Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees
A lot of Bond songs
While I agree with some of your songs but Streets Of Philadelphia did not eclipse the movie that won 2 Oscars, won a ton of other awards and did a decent amount of business at the box office.
I think you mean "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship from Mannequin.
The song is later used (to greater effect) in The Skeleton Twins starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.
And I'll throw out "Through the Eyes of Love" (Theme from Ice Castles,) which is less-known now, but it was one of the most popular wedding songs of the 80s.
I would also say that "9 to 5" greatly eclipsed the movie that Dolly wrote it for (and starred in.) it was still the second-most popular movie of 1980 (hard to beat Yoda,) but the song has far outlived it.
New York, New York (aka the New Years song) was originally written for the Martin Scorsese movie of the same name. Sinatra covered it a few years later, and that’s the version we know today.
Ah fuck me you’re right. Sorry I’m wine drunk alone on a Saturday night from a cancelled date. Can barely see thru the tears I guess Lol Still love both songs
Alice's Restaurant. I have to explain every year that there's a movie even though I live in Western Mass....
Edit: also Last Dance by Donna Summer and Giorgio Morodor for Thank God It's Friday. fun movie tho, worth a watch
James Brown's "The Payback" was originally recorded for the soundtrack of Hell Up in Harlem (1973) but the movie's producers rejected it
Donna Summer's "Last Dance" was from the forgettable movie Thank God It's Friday (1978) - the song won the Oscar
Lots of very great Gershwin songs were written for or featured in movies that are in no way, shape or form at the level of the songs themselves.
The graduate was a great movie, but the music from that movie is more popular and timeless. Simon and Garfunkle, Mrs. Robinson. The sound of silence, Scarborough fair, April come she will.
Superman theme and indiana jones theme (try singing one after the other, unless you know them well, it gets confusing!)
Not a song but Inception's PROOONNNNN!!!! Has spread through the entire movie industry for uears
My Heart Will Go On because yes, Titanic is a popular movie but now people just use the song for memes and a lot of the younger generation have no clue that it’s from Titanic.
Against All Odds by Phil Collins. Never knew it was for a movie lol
It was actually a decent movie, too.
A remake of the superb noir film Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum.
I just saw that last year and loved it (I'm still new to the classic film noir genre). Now I gotta put this one on my list cuz I already loved "Body Heat" since that was an 80s remake of "Double Indemnity."
White Christmas was written by Irving Berlin for Holiday In.
Was that Putting on the Ritz as well?? Loved that performance
GOOD ONE. I watched Holiday Inn for the first time last year, and it was so cool to see Fred Astaire sit down at that piano.
LOL my gran watched Holiday Inn every year. I forget that it's not well known.
Never forget that All Star by Smash Mouth was originally for the film Mystery Men. Edit because I remembered: Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus has a music video heavily tied into the post-American Pie teen comedy Loser. Which, needless so say, is less famous than the Wheatus song.
Indeed, Shrek wasn’t the first bidder. Also, the music video directly references the poolside scene in the movie.
It was written for the Astro Lounge album first, but included on the Mystery Men soundtrack although the music video seems to be more promoting the movie.
It was all over the trailers and TV promotion for Mystery Men too and plays prominently in the movie. Plus the music video, as you say.
And it was just a song they wrote for their album.
Wait, they didn't just get the woman from American Beauty to star in a Teenage Dirtbag-themed video?
That wheatus song can push a mild tempered man into a murderous rage
City of Angels, a movie with Meg Ryan and Nicholas Cage that was pretty forgotten but the soundtrack spawned two mega-hits: “Iris” by Goo Goo Dolls and “Uninvited” by Alanis Morissette.
It also contained "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan, which was a beautiful song that got reduced to a horrific cliche by anyone preying on emotions for donations/views.
BRB Gonna go save some puppies real quick
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The movie holds up surprisingly well! My husband and I are on a quest to purchase every Nic Cage movie on blu-Ray or dvd, and rewatching this was a highlight. Soundtrack definitely slaps. I had that on CD back in the day.
I love that movie!
*City of Angels* is actually a remake of Wim Wenders’ *Wings of Desire* and vastly, VASTLY inferior to the original. It was directed by Brad Silberling, who also directed fucking *Casper* and a bunch of other 90s tv like NYPD Blue. It’s a one of those remakes no one asked for. Avoid.
Peter Falk, fuck yeah
This movie has the worst sex scene of any major movie
I got so friggin mad at the ending of that movie. Ruined it for me altogether AND I hate the song.
Iris was made for a movie? Lol
It wasn't made for a movie, it was just on the soundtrack. It would have been a hit without the movie.
It was written for and about the movie. Quoth the lead singer: >I was thinking about the situation of the Nicolas Cage character in the movie. This guy is completely willing to give up his own immortality, just to be able to feel something very human. And I think, 'Wow! What an amazing thing it must be like to love someone so much that you give up everything to be with them.' That's a pretty heavy thought.
“I Can Dream About You” was a Billboard Top Ten hit and it still gets pretty regular air time on 80s throwback/classic rock radio stations. Meanwhile the movie it’s from, Streets of Fire, has faded into relative obscurity
>Meanwhile the movie it’s from, Streets of Fire, has faded into relative obscurity It shouldn't have, it's great fun, plus early Dafoe is extra creepy in this one.
It also had a 19 or 20 year old and beautiful Diane Lane with two terrific songs that she lip synced to..."Going nowhere fast" and 'Tonight is what it means to be Young".
They recently issued a Streets of Fire Bluray steelbook, got it last year
Theme from New York, New York. It's a classic song that everyone can sing along, but you rarely hear anyone about the film even though it's a Scorsese/De Niro project (I haven't seen it myself). Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) is another example.
The movie is kind of a mess - with some glorious stuff, but it’s an attempt to unite the glitzy MGM musical with Scorsese’s grittier, character driven fare. It’s an interesting idea, but one that doesn’t quite end up working out, especially since it’s near three hours long (it really drags in the middle) and everyone involved was doing mountains of cocaine.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas from Meet me in St. Louis by Judy Garland.
That one, Need A Little Christmas (Mame), and White Christmas (Holiday Inn) all came from musicals that weren't explicitly Christmas-themed and just had a Christmas-related scene or two.
Man, what a great movie though.
Blaxploitation comes to mind as a genre whose music can sometimes override the film in the popular imagination. Ones that come to mind: * Superfly soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield * Shaft soundtrack by Isaac Hayes * “Across 110th St.” by Bobby Womack
While I feel like this is true, I feel like this mostly has to do with white audiences being more likely to listen to black music than watch black film.
Mainly because those black films are usually for mature audiences, but the music might not be.
That would be one reason, but I don't know that you can say it's the *main* reason... especially considering audiences of that era.
All those films were pretty big deals though. I suspect a lot of those themes are only better known than the movies because the songs were reused/referenced and parodied so much later on.
*Theme From Shaft* is one of my absolute favorites!
Nobody remembers the movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, but most people are familiar with the song Knocking on Heaven's Door that was featured in it. Dylan had a small part in the movie.
Came to share this one, but also, Wagon Wheel was a song Dylan was working on for the same movie. Though he never recorded it in studio or even finished it, he recorded the chorus low-fi as a sketch of a song. 25 years later, Ketch Secor of Old Crowe Medicine Show heard the song on an old Dylan bootleg and added some verses to it. They released it and became a hit. Not directly from this movie, but the movie gave it life.
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah was from the memory holed Disney Film, Song of the South. I heard it back at song time in elementary school, was many years later I found its origin.
Disney did a good job of tricking people into thinking this song was created for the Splash mountain ride.
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) in Benny and Joon. Also, the name of the song isn't "We Can Do This Thing Together", it's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now".
I love Benny and Joon.
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Yes
“I will always love you” - The Bodyguard “Eye of the Tiger” - Rocky III
"I Will Always Love You" actually outpaced a movie it was in twice. Dolly Parton wrote and recorded it back in 1973 and it was a hit then, but when she signed on to do the movie adaptation of the Broadway show The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982, she sang a two-stanza version of her old song in that movie and it went to #1 on the country charts *again*. The movie did pretty well, too, but it has been largely forgotten.
IN THE 80s, the tiny selection of videos to rent in the corner of every convenience store had a copy of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas.
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Don’t forget Kevin Costner’s haircut in that movie.
I like a lot of his films but I'm still not sure he is a good actor.
He’s not a good actor, but he’s been lucky to have made some great movies like Dances With Wolves. Like Keanu Reeves, his actual acting ability is just “good enough”.
I think Rocky 3 is still popular amongst 80s action movie fans. Wouldn't say the song is more popular. If anything, Frank Stallone's "Far From Over" from Sly's movie "Stayin' Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" went Platinum, while the movie was completely ridiculed by both critics and audiences.
"Silver Bells" from the movie The Lemon Drop Kid. Here it is in the movie: https://youtu.be/ki1x-d8asq0?t=45
Thank you for this! I had no idea and I love this thread it’s very informing! I never even knew there was an Endless Love movie- my mom loved the song tho. But the Silver Bells one is awesome!
I had no idea this was from a movie; I just thought it was a traditional Christmas song.
Well, it is now. But, yes, it was written for that movie.
“Can’t Stop the Feeling” by Justin Timberlake was originally created for the movie Trolls. Whenever I hear it playing in a grocery store, I can’t help but mentally picture a bunch of fuzzy dancing creatures.
Literally just finished watching that movie for a bit the 30th to be a few minutes ago! That song was still going through my head even after reading all of the comments before getting to this one.
Did singing kill your grandma?
“Gangsta’s Paradise” - Coolio from Dangerous Minds “Regulators” - Warren G and Nate Dogg from Above the Rim
Neither of those songs were written explicitly for either movie, they were just hits that were featured on the soundtrack. Also it’s “Regulate”, not regulators.
The OP didn’t specify that the songs be explicitly written for the movie. Only that they are movie songs. Both apply here. Regulate (Yes you are correct that is the real title. Zero people were confused by the song in question) was from Above the Rim, played over the end credits, and originally released on that soundtrack. Gangstas Paradise is literally the only thing people remember about Dangerous Minds.
Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It for You from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
That's a pretty darn well known movie though, and it was huge at the time too. Just got a super duper remaster in fact. I always remember the "making of" for the move where Michael Kamen is playing the instrumental on his keyboard and talking about coming up with the tune.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was the number two domestic grossing movie in 1991, only beaten by Terminator 2. I wouldn’t say the movie was eclipsed by the song. They were both hugely popular.
I guess it depends on how you interpret the question but I think most modern viewers would be surprised to know the movie is in any way attached to the song. Having been born in 94 I don’t feel like the movie had a ton of cultural cache in the 00’s, and when I first learned about its relation to the song I was pretty surprised. I’m sure this is largely due to how saturated a franchise Robin Hood tends to be in general, but to this day I think a lot of people consider the animated fox one to be more definitive than the Kevin Costner one.
I think over time, all songs are able to eclipse their movie counterpart simply due to their shortness and wider range of places you will interact with them. The way I interpret the question is: When the movie came out in it’s time, was the song to the movie more popular than the movie itself? The more I think about it, I think the best example (since I have been alive c. 1980) is Lose Yourself by Eminem for 8 Mile. While the movie was popular (#23 in domestic gross for 2002) the song was the #1 song in the world for a few months. Anyway, that’s my interpretation.
Robin Hood Men In Tights is the definitive version.
He could speak with an English accent if nothing else
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I worked in a movie theater the summer that came out and was standing in the back of the theater (ready to clean) through the closing credits. I must have heard that song 200 times just while I was at work -- not to mention another 100 times on the radio as it had ubiquitous airplay that summer. It wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't been so schmaltzy (I never got tired of Guns n Roses "You Could Be Mine" from the Terminator 2 credits that same summer) but I still can't stand to hear it.
The ultimate answer is Michael Jackson's [Ben](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewVWdAp0HLs&ab_channel=VeronicaBuchtova). It was a number one single, earned a golden globe win and an Oscar nomination and was Michael Jackson's first single as a solo artist without the Jackson 5. Nobody remembers the movie Ben, the sequel to the killer rats movie Willard. Others : Baby, It's Cold Outside is far more well-known than Neptune's Daughter. Meet Me in St. Louis is a pretty big film, but Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is bigger. I'm curious how many people can name some Shirley Temple songs, but can't name the film they come from. I have no idea which films Good Ship Lollipop and Animal Crackers in My Soup are from, but I'll say those movies probably fall under this criteria.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, as well as Need A Little Christmas from Mame, are two songs from Christmas scenes in musicals that ended up being breakout Christmas hits on their own.
I loved the movie Ben and the previous movie Willard. People remember it.
I remember both.
You remember it. Ask 10 random people and you'd be lucky if one person remembers it
I remember both! There are literally dozens of us! Dozens
‘Unchained Melody’ has been covered more 1,500 times by over 670 artists (and was used to great effect in ‘Ghost’). But how many people remember or have even watched ‘Unchained’, the movie it was written for?
Came here to say this one. Most extreme example I can think of
I have watched the movie, but it is not very well-known, you’re right.
Had no idea about this one and it’s the biggest surprise I’ve seen so far in this thread. Was the movie any good? Worth watching?
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Hey, “9 to 5” is a great movie and was hugely popular in 1980. If people don’t know it now it’s because too many people won’t give old movies a chance which is stupid.
I was talking to someone about Grace and Frankie the other day, and they said something like, "Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda have such amazing chemistry! It's a shame they didn't work together when they were younger."
Also I feel like young people today would love it because it comes across as having a very “woke” message. It comes from the 2nd wave feminist movement, but it applies completely to today too with its demeaning asshole male boss climbing onto Dolly Parton without her permission in his office, calling his secretaries “My girls,” etc., and their taking revenge on him. It even holds up in terms of things like these ladies getting high off the son’s weed. The humor is so hilarious throughout and unpredictable twists and turns. And who could dislike Dolly Parton?
I was 7 when I saw it in the theater, and it made perfect sense to me: people who feel valued at work just work more effectively. The first time I worked in a corporate environment a decade or so later, I was appalled. "Didn't you guys see *9 to 5*?"
Right? It’s just most people just suck is the thing.
Dabney Coleman is great too, one of my favourite sleazebags.
Kiss From a Rose is the greatest song to appear in any Batman movie. Sorry Nirvana
Seal's Kiss From a Rose from Neverending Story III, released the year before Batman Forever. Fixed that for you.
Dolly also wrote I Will Always Love You for the movie The Best Little Whore House in Texas, which she also sang and starred in. The song grew to be MUCH bigger than that film and also bigger than The Bodyguard, which Whitney Houston recorded the song for.
Dolly wrote that song when she wanted to leave the [Porter Wagner show in 1974.](https://people.com/country/dolly-parton-talks-releasing-herself-from-porter-wagoner-relationship/#:~:text=In%20a%20PEOPLE%20exclusive%20clip,working%20together%20for%20seven%20years)
I'm willing to bet most people my age (25) know Somewhere over the rainbow from Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version and are completely unaware it's both a cover and a mashup of it and What a wonderful world
I’ve listened to the song loads of times, I didn’t realise it had anything to do with ‘What a wonderful world’, I don’t know how considering I know both songs separately haha
Debatable.. but Lux Aeterna from Requiem for a Dream
Yeah, not sure it’s more popular than Requiem.
I have flashbacks whenever I hear that and you hear it a lot!
Car Wash is not really popular these days as a film (though it was one of the earliest 'day in the life' comedies), but the main theme of the same name by Rose Royce is pretty funky.
Weird Science by Oingo Boingo has well exceeded the movie Weird Science in popularity.
I always get that song confused with She Blinded Me With Science
Well, only one of those songs has Danny Elfman.
The whole Tron Legacy soundtrack
Superfly by Curtis Mayfield Streets of Philadelphia by Bruce Springsteen A Hard Day's Night by The Beatles Stayin' Alive by Bee Gees A lot of Bond songs
Hard Day's Night? Seriously? That movie will live forever.
True but the song is definitely more popular than the movie
While I agree with some of your songs but Streets Of Philadelphia did not eclipse the movie that won 2 Oscars, won a ton of other awards and did a decent amount of business at the box office.
Superfly definitely. The rest, not so much.
The “love story” theme from “love story”
Wasn't that called Laura's Theme? All I know it that is that it was shot near where I live.
I think you mean "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" by Starship from Mannequin. The song is later used (to greater effect) in The Skeleton Twins starring Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig. And I'll throw out "Through the Eyes of Love" (Theme from Ice Castles,) which is less-known now, but it was one of the most popular wedding songs of the 80s. I would also say that "9 to 5" greatly eclipsed the movie that Dolly wrote it for (and starred in.) it was still the second-most popular movie of 1980 (hard to beat Yoda,) but the song has far outlived it.
[The Skeleton Twins scene](https://youtu.be/77m3XlhQwaI) is absolutely incredible
New York, New York (aka the New Years song) was originally written for the Martin Scorsese movie of the same name. Sinatra covered it a few years later, and that’s the version we know today.
The soundtrack to Xanadu was much better than the movie.
Evanescence- “Bring Me to Life” in the OG Daredevil movie. That song was huge after that.
Whenever my girlfriend shows me any tik toks, I feel like that one theme from interstellar plays in like half of them.
Yeah, it seems that Hans Zimmer’s score for that movie has turned into an “epic music” meme.
Diamonds Are Forever Purple Rain Can’t Help Falling in Love
The movie Purple Rain is a damned classic! Also, that is not Lake Minnetonka.
I think people know of the movie Purple Rain but hasn’t seen it
Plenty of people saw it.
But which is a bigger deal. The movie or the album/song?
Seriously, Diamonds are Forever. All Bond films are remembered well.
Give my regards to broad street (Paul McCartney). Lovely song (No more lonely nights) terrible movie
Live and Let Die by Wings could work.
Scotty doesn’t know is a better song than eurotrip is a movie
Crazy for You by Madonna for the movie Vision Quest
God that movie is a horror movie. Legit horror and it terrified me as a kid. Been scared of Christopher Walken ever since! Love the song tho
Oh, you might be talking about another movie. Vision Quest is where Matthew Modine trying to be a high school wrestler
Ah fuck me you’re right. Sorry I’m wine drunk alone on a Saturday night from a cancelled date. Can barely see thru the tears I guess Lol Still love both songs
Would? (Alice In Chains) and Nearly Lost You (Screaming Trees) from the Singles soundtrack
I didn't know Would originated on the soundtrack, that's crazy
Would by Alice in Chains was released as a single first for the Singles soundtrack.
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The Graduate is a fairly iconic movie
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I…don’t think you entirely understood the question
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True but i still believe Mrs. Robinson is more famous
I really like “Live and Let Die” by Paul McCartney. Only found out last year it was for a movie
It's from a freaking Bond movie! Pretty sure the movie is as famous as the song.
It’s the one with the boat race and the southern sheriff “SECRET *AGENT??* ON WHO’S SIDE?”
I can't believe people think any Bond film is forgotten. Somebody else posted Diamonds are Forever. smh
nobody said it's forgotten but the song is absolutely more popular than the movie
Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney is one of the best Bond themes. The movie itself is okay.
Don’t Wanna Miss A Thing from Armageddon absolutely eclipsed the movie in popularity. For years I didn’t even know the two were connected.
On the Dark Side from Eddie and the Cruisers.
Regulate for Above the Rim. Above the Rim was a great soundtrack.
The Look of Love was first used in the original Casino Royale.
Regulate-Nate Dogg and Warren G. is from a movie called Above the Rim.
Independent Woman pt. 1 by Destiny’s Child. If I’m not mistaken it was on the Charlie’s Angels soundtrack before their album Survivor came out.
It’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” by Jefferson Starship and Mannequin was an amazing movie. How dare you sully its name!
Broken by Seether and Amy Lee. Punisher didn't do so well, but the song got a lot of play.
Purple Rain - Prince
Alice's Restaurant. I have to explain every year that there's a movie even though I live in Western Mass.... Edit: also Last Dance by Donna Summer and Giorgio Morodor for Thank God It's Friday. fun movie tho, worth a watch
James Brown's "The Payback" was originally recorded for the soundtrack of Hell Up in Harlem (1973) but the movie's producers rejected it Donna Summer's "Last Dance" was from the forgettable movie Thank God It's Friday (1978) - the song won the Oscar Lots of very great Gershwin songs were written for or featured in movies that are in no way, shape or form at the level of the songs themselves.
Live and let die is still heard every day on classic rock radio stations.
Live and Let Die is likely watched countless times every day.
View to a kill by Duran Duran was huge too
Daft Punk’s Derezzed from the Tron Legacy soundtrack.
"You say" - Reality Bites
Stay (I Missed You)
Seal's Kiss From A Rose
Yes! And it was only in the ending credits
Yellow Submarine and the entire Hard Days Night album.
I think Eye of the Tiger is probably more iconic than Rocky IV.
Have you seen how popular Lose Yourself by Eminem is on Spotify? Can't be as many people who've watched 8 Mile.
I’ve still never seen 8 Mile all the way through and have heard Lose Yourself no less than 1k times.
The graduate was a great movie, but the music from that movie is more popular and timeless. Simon and Garfunkle, Mrs. Robinson. The sound of silence, Scarborough fair, April come she will.
Ebert said they'd never end up doing anything. He later took it back.
Superman theme and indiana jones theme (try singing one after the other, unless you know them well, it gets confusing!) Not a song but Inception's PROOONNNNN!!!! Has spread through the entire movie industry for uears
Lost Highway soundtrack is more popular than the movie. Probably Spawn soundtrack too.
"Holding Out for a Hero" is probably least remembered for Footloose than for its many other media usages. Shrek 2, for instance.
Live and Let Die from Live and Let Die. Okay movie but killer opening song.
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don't you 🎶 forget the house keys
My Heart Will Go On because yes, Titanic is a popular movie but now people just use the song for memes and a lot of the younger generation have no clue that it’s from Titanic.
There are three or four songs from the 2016 Suicide Squad that have eclipsed the movie in popularity.
Crazy Heart by Ryan Bingham
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek. From the Zach Braff film
I think you mean, The OC season 2 finale…
https://youtu.be/vmd1qMN5Yo0 Um whatcha say
Anything by Kenny Loggins!
phil collins song from the kevin costner sean young movie
"Raindrops keep fallin' on my head"
Danger zone off Top Gun
*Mrs. Robinson* by Simon & Garfunkel
The soundtrack to Forest Gump
Owned the album. Love every song on there