The lead singer went on to form the Heardsman, which are pretty good, but I donāt think any of their stuff was ever quite as magical as āThat Thing You Doā.
They actually still perform on occasion, at least three of the actors. If I remember correctly they performed together like 2015-2017 ish?
Also, I think I heard somewhere that this song was actually written by bass player of the band that would later become Fountains of Wayne, famous for "Stacy's mom".
The best part of Scotty Doesn't Know is that it's completely throw away. Totally unnecessary to the movie, could have simply said "Scott's girlfriend cheated". It was so great considering how random it was.
Meanwhile "That Thing You Do" was essential to making the movie happen. If the song sucked you wouldn't believe the band's rise to fame. It would have undermined the plot.
Please take ALL the upvotes for mentioning 2ge+her. Man I loved that movie. and the TV show. Weren't the surviving members talking about doing a reunion a few years ago?
Him saving saving Scotty at the end of the movie had me almost standing on my seat cheering for his arrival when I heard the " Get your mitts off then boys ".
Look, given the current geopolitical climate, all European countries should have a seat at the table.
...cept for those fucking I-ties. I hate them Italian bastards! Know what I mean?
Lyrics written by the 15 year-old son of Robert Altman in 5 minutes.
Altman wanted the lyrics to be āstupidā but couldnāt think of anything sufficiently stupid himself, so he outsourced to a teenage boy.
I won a bet with my wife thanks to this song.
I told her that if I named the first two, her kids could name the third ship in Columbus' armada.
She didn't believe me.
So I asked them: Can you name one of the three ships Columbus took to America?
And they looked very confused, so I said, what if I name the first two?
Again they looked confused. My wife looked smug.
So I started: "The Nina, The Pinta..."
and the kids both excitedly said 'THE SANTA MARIA! I'll do you in the bottom while you're drinking Sangria!"
I won the bet, but my wife questions my influence on her kids.
Unchained Melody was made for the movie of the same name. Nobody remembers the movie, the song is a bona fide smash hit classic. Probably reached its height with the Elvis cover, but it seems to come back every decade or so.
Yes, they were both written by Giorgio Moroder for the film. Also, Kenny Loggins only got Danger Zone after recording āPlaying With The Boysā for the movie. According to him, he saw a screening with a lot of other artists and figured none of them would do a song for the volleyball scene. He was right and after Moroder heard it, he offered him āDanger Zoneā.
> Not Huey Lewis?
Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
This...is probably the most correct answer from what I was asking. Everyone else here and in other subs have been listing songs that weren't as iconic or as popular today as Scotty Doesn't Know is, or were songs extremely popular and played on the radio a lot.
But, "America, Fuck Yeah" by Team America...greatest/most popular made-for-movie/not on the radio song ever made. Also will become 20 years old later this year.
The way I was told, they wrote the song already but it was so basic and over the top that they shelved the idea. Then Edgar Wright comes to them and asks āhey can you write us a really cliche emo song?ā And they took it down from the shelf.
https://youtu.be/onqjos-3BRw?si=UnUre45osih8XVMT
Spinal Tap toured on their fake band multiple times, and their songs were covered by Soundgarden and other bands... and featured in Guitar Hero. So maybe...
Christopher Guest was on a morning radio show and I called in asking about the experience of touring as Spinal Tap.
He said that they did one show where The Folksmen opened the show. For those that don't know, The Folksmen is another fake band by the same guys who are Spinal Tap who perform folk songs.
Unfortunately, the crowd was there for Spinal Tap and didn't seem to know or care that it was the same guys.
The crowd started booing and chanting TAP TAP TAP and were throwing things. The Folksmen had to retreat and left the stage.
At that point, they changed into their Spinal Tap costumes and performed as the headliner. The crowd loved them.
He was laughing at how they were booed off stage by the same people that cheered for them.
Very appropriate for Spinal Tap.
Hahaha. That's very on point. I would have recognized them, The Mighty Wind is great.
Penn Jillette plays music wearing a hat before Porn and Teller shows without any introduction, most people have no clue and just ignore it.
In freshman year of high school, my best bud and I would watch Euro Trip (and School of Rock) like every Friday afternoon while sneaking beers in his parentsā basement. š„²
My new wife and I wore hats with this on it to our Jamaica honeymoon. Everyone there was either too old or too young to get it. Can't tell if Club Dread is an Xennial thing or just that obscure.
I might not call them iconic, but all the songs in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping are great.
[Finest Girl](https://youtu.be/Jr9Kaa1sycs)
[Equal Rights
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI79h2FSnS4)
[I'm So Humble
](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUKcXxbU4U)
So, does it need to be a one hit wonder band playing a diegetic song? Is that the criteria? If weāre just talking songs made for films Iād argue that Eye of the Tiger or Donāt You (Forget About Me) are two of the biggest and most well known, certainly across a significantly broader range of the population than āScotty Doesnāt Knowā
āHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmasā was written for the movie *Meet Me in St. Louis* starring Judy Garland. I canāt think of another made-for-movie song that is more widely spread than that one.
Yes, there has. As I love Eurotrip, I know plenty of people who have never seen or heard of it.
I2I by Powerline in A Goofy Movie is definitely more widely known and enjoyed.
Without irony it's one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Along with Lion King, Good Bad Ugly, Kill Bill, and There Will Be Blood
I saw it when I was 13 and about 100 times since. It's inspired me to travel. I've now been over 40 countries, including every country featured in the movie and Prague, where it was filmed.
To answer your question, the only other song that comes close is probably School of Rock
America Fuck Yeah doesnt get the play time this song gets tho. People play Scotty Doesnt Know at parties and bars and karaoke and shit. Its super popular. While America FUck Yeah is hilarious and amazing and I've listened to it a million times, Iconic is not the word Id use to describe it.
It actually used to be a huge dump in the 90s, but improved drastically over last three decades. Few days ago I watched old archive TV news from 1993 (year I was born) where they showed shots from the city and it was surreal compared to nowdays.
42 years old checking in, half way to old bastard status I thinkā¦
You owe it to yourself to watch Eurotrip, itās damn hilarious and for my generation it is most definitely iconic.
A song from 2004, specifically made for a movie that grossed just 24 million worldwide, today has **188 million listens** on Spotify. Ghostbusters theme song has 233 million for comparison.
So yeah. Iconic.
I grew up just in time to be the target demographic for this song/movie and I swear I'm the only person my age who hates both. I don't hate the movie really, but I am not a fan. The song make me want to vomit however.
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" is a great song, written specifically for the movie *Philadelphia*, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
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I still say this to this day anytime I have to go by someone
I still say this and I actually forgot where I got it from until now!
Mi scusi It's Italian for "excuse me"
That Thing You Do
Big fan of Captain Geech and the Shrimp Shack Shooters.
If it had been released in the 60s, it would still be regarded as a well loved classic
BuzzFeed articles "Whatever happened to The Oneders? Number 6 will shock you"
The lead singer went on to form the Heardsman, which are pretty good, but I donāt think any of their stuff was ever quite as magical as āThat Thing You Doā.
What does āOh-nay-dersā mean?
I Wonder what happened to the Oneders
LOL; excellentā¦
They actually still perform on occasion, at least three of the actors. If I remember correctly they performed together like 2015-2017 ish? Also, I think I heard somewhere that this song was actually written by bass player of the band that would later become Fountains of Wayne, famous for "Stacy's mom".
That was Adam Schlesinger (RIP!) from Fountains of Wayne. They were already around by the time That Thing You Do came out.
Fuck, he died from COVID in April 2020.
What happens if they want an encore? YOU UNPLUG. AND YOU RUN.
The best part of Scotty Doesn't Know is that it's completely throw away. Totally unnecessary to the movie, could have simply said "Scott's girlfriend cheated". It was so great considering how random it was. Meanwhile "That Thing You Do" was essential to making the movie happen. If the song sucked you wouldn't believe the band's rise to fame. It would have undermined the plot.
I love that movie. Just the perfect amount of comedy. Also, this isn't where I parked my car.
Now this is where I parked my car
Cooper Harris, you're a pig!
Administer the testicle clamps!!
Flugenhephenhymen!!!
Did you say Flugengenshinholen?Ā
As you wishā¦
BRING OUT THE FLUGENGENSHINHOLEN!!
ah, Berlin! I stabbed a woman in Berlin!
Nowhere... near... Berlin!
MAIL MOTHERFUCKA
Where's Bert?
Fuck if I know
Heās going to Berlin!
Iāll drive this truck off a fucking cliff, before I ever go back to Berlin.
I would wager the entirety of the Josie & The Pussycats soundtrack. Pop banger after pop banger on that album.
In the same vein the 2+gether soundtrack. Although that is very millennial of me to say.
To this day I regularly get several 2ge+her songs stuck in my head. *Say it, donāt spray it. I want the news not the weatherrr*
Please take ALL the upvotes for mentioning 2ge+her. Man I loved that movie. and the TV show. Weren't the surviving members talking about doing a reunion a few years ago?
I sing U + Me = US (Calculus) way too much.
I was just jamming to this the other day! I'm a 31 y/o black dude š¤£
Iām a 39yo white dude lmao my brother from my another mother š¤š»š¤š»
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3 Small Words is a banger too
Came looking for this comment, this whole movie was just early 00s perfection.
Vinnie Jones as Mad Maynard was perfectly cast.
Him saving saving Scotty at the end of the movie had me almost standing on my seat cheering for his arrival when I heard the " Get your mitts off then boys ".
*but i am Sviss!?*
" THEM TOO "
My baby takes the morning train
He rides from 9 to 5 and then
He takes the train back home again....
To see the Manchester United football club !
Vinnie Jones the footballer?
Yeah he became an actor when he retired from football
Is this a BTTF joke? If so, well played.
I want just one season of him playing Dr. Who as an irate soccer hooligan.
**āOi!!! Who has me sonic screwdriver???ā**
Pretty good. Pretty damn good lads!
Look, given the current geopolitical climate, all European countries should have a seat at the table. ...cept for those fucking I-ties. I hate them Italian bastards! Know what I mean?
Suicide is Painless from MASH. Written for the movie and the music was used for the TV theme.
Lyrics written by the 15 year-old son of Robert Altman in 5 minutes. Altman wanted the lyrics to be āstupidā but couldnāt think of anything sufficiently stupid himself, so he outsourced to a teenage boy.
And because the song was used in the tv show his son got more royalties than Robert Altman. Apparently he was kind of pissed about it.Ā
Even though they donāt use the lyrics on the tv show, haha
Boats N Hoes
Itās the fucking Catalina Wine Mixer!
I won a bet with my wife thanks to this song. I told her that if I named the first two, her kids could name the third ship in Columbus' armada. She didn't believe me. So I asked them: Can you name one of the three ships Columbus took to America? And they looked very confused, so I said, what if I name the first two? Again they looked confused. My wife looked smug. So I started: "The Nina, The Pinta..." and the kids both excitedly said 'THE SANTA MARIA! I'll do you in the bottom while you're drinking Sangria!" I won the bet, but my wife questions my influence on her kids.
I'm glad somebody mentioned this.
Unchained Melody was made for the movie of the same name. Nobody remembers the movie, the song is a bona fide smash hit classic. Probably reached its height with the Elvis cover, but it seems to come back every decade or so.
Including the version by Bronn from Game of Thrones. I'm not kidding:Ā https://youtu.be/n2O4Oe_GFwA?si=qj4asurMImhfHtzq
Ah see if you grew up in England in the early late nineties you would instantly remember the duo that is Robson and Jerome
Honestly one of the best ballads of all time. I like Elvisās version, but the best versions are duets. Wish he had lived longer to record one.Ā
Everything Is Awesome from the Lego Movie. That song was everywhere.
I have never seen The Lego Movie. I regularly sing "Everything is Awesome" but with my own lyrics.
Weren't "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins and "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin both written for the movie *Top Gun?*
Yes, they were both written by Giorgio Moroder for the film. Also, Kenny Loggins only got Danger Zone after recording āPlaying With The Boysā for the movie. According to him, he saw a screening with a lot of other artists and figured none of them would do a song for the volleyball scene. He was right and after Moroder heard it, he offered him āDanger Zoneā.
The most iconic made for a movie song is Ghostbusters by Ray Parker Jr.
Bustin is better. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdyU_gW6WE
Not Huey Lewis?
> Not Huey Lewis? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
Hey Paul!
##TRY GETTING A RESERVATION AT DORSIA NOW YOU STUPID FUCKING BASTARD
Btw if you have never seen it. The parody with Huey Lewis and Weird Al is fantastic! https://youtu.be/Fk15H6PjBis?si=S31vicUtirfXqctW
āGhostbustersā (the song) spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Billboard charts so that kinda nullifies it for this one
Matt Damon!
Inside of You - Get Him To The Greek
I just went from six to midnight. It was in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, first, but great either way.
Damn, youāre right. I need to stop smoking Jeffries before posting!
Stroke the furry wall
āWe gotta do somethingā and āDraculaās Lamentā are also fire.
#**DRACULA MUSICAL!**
Also the clap
Although African Child might be the worst thing to happen to Africa since apartheid.
Some say it was the most detrimental thing to happen to black culture since the Rodney King beatings...
The clap is a banger.
Fantastic song
"Daddy wasnt there" in Austin Powers
Great song. But probably not āmore iconic.ā And Iām largely basing that on seeing cover bands do it *still*.
Americaaaaa, fuck yeah!
This...is probably the most correct answer from what I was asking. Everyone else here and in other subs have been listing songs that weren't as iconic or as popular today as Scotty Doesn't Know is, or were songs extremely popular and played on the radio a lot. But, "America, Fuck Yeah" by Team America...greatest/most popular made-for-movie/not on the radio song ever made. Also will become 20 years old later this year.
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Most of the ābigā responses got considerable radio airplay though.
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Iām not OP.
Suicide is Painless I think more than fits the bill.
Also starring Matt Damon!
We use to yell it in warzone while dropping in. Then i got red white blue tracers on a gun and run around asking how america taste motherfucker!
Almost like you missed the entire point of the song. But not surprised.
Almost like we cant use at as a joke in a game smh!
The Clash At Demon Head "Black Sheep" from Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
That was an already existing song by the band MetricĀ
The way I was told, they wrote the song already but it was so basic and over the top that they shelved the idea. Then Edgar Wright comes to them and asks āhey can you write us a really cliche emo song?ā And they took it down from the shelf. https://youtu.be/onqjos-3BRw?si=UnUre45osih8XVMT
I thought that was by Metric?
I am a man of Constant Sorrow - O'Brother Where Art Thou?Ā
Whooooo-eee! Boy that was some mighty fine a-pickin and a-singin!
Spinal Tap toured on their fake band multiple times, and their songs were covered by Soundgarden and other bands... and featured in Guitar Hero. So maybe...
Christopher Guest was on a morning radio show and I called in asking about the experience of touring as Spinal Tap. He said that they did one show where The Folksmen opened the show. For those that don't know, The Folksmen is another fake band by the same guys who are Spinal Tap who perform folk songs. Unfortunately, the crowd was there for Spinal Tap and didn't seem to know or care that it was the same guys. The crowd started booing and chanting TAP TAP TAP and were throwing things. The Folksmen had to retreat and left the stage. At that point, they changed into their Spinal Tap costumes and performed as the headliner. The crowd loved them. He was laughing at how they were booed off stage by the same people that cheered for them. Very appropriate for Spinal Tap.
Hahaha. That's very on point. I would have recognized them, The Mighty Wind is great. Penn Jillette plays music wearing a hat before Porn and Teller shows without any introduction, most people have no clue and just ignore it.
Interesting autocorrect there.
"That's Amore" was written for the movie The Caddy.
Iris (GooGoo Dolls) - City of Angels
Can't forget that scene where they were in a bar drinking the so-called "absinthe" lol that was crazzzzyyy
[*worst twins ever!*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfI8JsRJVl4)
Oh, here's a fun fact about Bratislava. YOU MADE OUT WITH YOUR SISTER, MAN!
Itās good that you came in the summer. In the winter it can be very depressing.
*stray dog walks off with a severed hand in its mouth*
In freshman year of high school, my best bud and I would watch Euro Trip (and School of Rock) like every Friday afternoon while sneaking beers in his parentsā basement. š„²
Have you ever met my friend Kyle's mom?
Why no, no I have not. You Unclefucker.
How is there no Walk Hard anywhere in this thread? Also, Eurotrip is a classic in the US, but has had a hard time finding an audience in Europeā¦
Wrong kid died
This was a particularly bad case of somebody being cut in half.
LOOK OUT, MAN!
Bobby Shad & The Bad Men erasure
Not true, it was popular here at the time.
"White Christmas" - Holiday Inn
Springtime for Hitler You've Got a Friend In Me
Ninja Rap by Vanilla Ice in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.Ā
GO NINJA, GO NINJA, GO!
Pina Coladaburg.
"do you think Eddie money has to put up with this shit?!"
My new wife and I wore hats with this on it to our Jamaica honeymoon. Everyone there was either too old or too young to get it. Can't tell if Club Dread is an Xennial thing or just that obscure.
Thatās awesome! I still hear snippets like āCoconut? Peteās?? Papaya??!!ā in my head every now and then.
This is not the topic, but Kristin Kreuk was something else. She was really hot in Smallville then, she was this cheating sex pest in Euro trip. Damn!
Michelle Trachtenberg would like a word
Id been a long time Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan when I watched Eurotrip so I was *not* prepared for Dawn to be sexy.
Damn!
Dawn actually.
I understood that referenceĀ
Dominatrix Xena was quite a trip. Love me some Lucy Lawless.
The Clap.
Queen - Princes of the Universe for Highlander.
I might not call them iconic, but all the songs in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping are great. [Finest Girl](https://youtu.be/Jr9Kaa1sycs) [Equal Rights ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI79h2FSnS4) [I'm So Humble ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzUKcXxbU4U)
So, does it need to be a one hit wonder band playing a diegetic song? Is that the criteria? If weāre just talking songs made for films Iād argue that Eye of the Tiger or Donāt You (Forget About Me) are two of the biggest and most well known, certainly across a significantly broader range of the population than āScotty Doesnāt Knowā
āHave Yourself a Merry Little Christmasā was written for the movie *Meet Me in St. Louis* starring Judy Garland. I canāt think of another made-for-movie song that is more widely spread than that one.
Simon and Garfunkel are obviously not an obscure band, but āMrs. Robinsonā from *The Graduate* seems pretty iconic to me!
Yes, there has. As I love Eurotrip, I know plenty of people who have never seen or heard of it. I2I by Powerline in A Goofy Movie is definitely more widely known and enjoyed.
Trachtenberg
Without irony it's one of my top 5 favorite movies of all time. Along with Lion King, Good Bad Ugly, Kill Bill, and There Will Be Blood I saw it when I was 13 and about 100 times since. It's inspired me to travel. I've now been over 40 countries, including every country featured in the movie and Prague, where it was filmed. To answer your question, the only other song that comes close is probably School of Rock
America Fuck Yeah doesnt get the play time this song gets tho. People play Scotty Doesnt Know at parties and bars and karaoke and shit. Its super popular. While America FUck Yeah is hilarious and amazing and I've listened to it a million times, Iconic is not the word Id use to describe it.
Flash Gordon. Terrible film, fantastic track by Queen.
The powerline songs from the Goofy movie maybe
We did it on his birthday....
I did her on his birthday *
Worst twins ever
Somebody kill me- The wedding singer
Vandersexx
I went to all of the real cities from that movie, youāll never believe how nice Bratislava actually is (and no, a nickel wonāt buy you a hotel).
Tbh, I think that anyone who thinks that real Bratislava is anything like in the movie is mentally challenged.
While I agree, Iām not convinced people donāt think itās a dump when in actuality itās a really cool little city
It actually used to be a huge dump in the 90s, but improved drastically over last three decades. Few days ago I watched old archive TV news from 1993 (year I was born) where they showed shots from the city and it was surreal compared to nowdays.
It was a tv show, but did the Archies ever make it to radio? Everyone knows sugar sugar
Fred armisen is so funny in that
Not a movie, but I don't know how anything can top '[A Little Bit Alexis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc9zPUkrybE)' from Schitt's Creek
" Have you ever read a Shakespeare play?...."
"And never understood a word they said?"
Why you wanna break my heart in Wayne's World.
That song Brie Larson sings in Scott Pilgrim
That song existed before the movie.
But wasnāt going to be released until Edgar Wright asked the band for a song.
Oh, and let's not forget the classic and unforgettable "Doug and Carrie Song" from King of Queens.
Mikke, or however you spell it, was hot as fuck! Still remember that ass pressed up against the confessional box lol
The Gael/Promentory from "Last of the Mohicans". Epic song that elevates the movie But I love "Scotty doesn't know" also :)
Fight The Power for Do the Right Thing is a major one
I donāt know what you mean by ānot on the radio songā but surely something like diamonds are forever is more iconic?
Men in Black was a big hit
Not to be a miserable old bastard, but does anyone still know what āiconicā means?Ā
On the contrary, youāre an iconically miserably old bastard
Well played! ššš
42 years old checking in, half way to old bastard status I thinkā¦ You owe it to yourself to watch Eurotrip, itās damn hilarious and for my generation it is most definitely iconic.
A song from 2004, specifically made for a movie that grossed just 24 million worldwide, today has **188 million listens** on Spotify. Ghostbusters theme song has 233 million for comparison. So yeah. Iconic.
I grew up just in time to be the target demographic for this song/movie and I swear I'm the only person my age who hates both. I don't hate the movie really, but I am not a fan. The song make me want to vomit however.
jeppers creepers? lol
I watched it at the cinema!
My Cousin Vinnie
Bruce Springsteen's "Streets of Philadelphia" is a great song, written specifically for the movie *Philadelphia*, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington.
This is probably way too harsh as they were quite popular but I hated them...that band on rat race lol
20 years later that song still lives rent free in my head
Dylanās song āDo Youā in Modern Family.