Best songs from movies

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Guitarist was Stevie Stevens from Billy Idol fame.

Encino Man

 

Twister

 

(Actually won a grammy in 1987 for this)

Top Gun

 

 

Your favorites?

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Evil Has No Boundaries by Slayer from River's Edge.

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Winner: "Wind Beneath My Wings", performed by the divine Better Midler, from the 1988 film "Beaches"

 

First Runner-up: "The Touch", performed by the stupendous Stan Bush, from the 1986 film "The Transformers: The Movie"

 

Honorable Mention: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", performed by the incomparable Emmylou Harris, from the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain"

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Any song from the movie "Maximum Overdrive"

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Winner: "Wind Beneath My Wings", performed by the divine Better Midler, from the 1988 film "Beaches"

 

First Runner-up: "The Touch", performed by the stupendous Stan Bush, from the 1986 film "The Transformers: The Movie"

 

Honorable Mention: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", performed by the incomparable Emmylou Harris, from the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain"

 

In a related story, Dongholster considers the Lifetime Network as destination programming.

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Winner: "Wind Beneath My Wings", performed by the divine Better Midler, from the 1988 film "Beaches"

 

First Runner-up: "The Touch", performed by the stupendous Stan Bush, from the 1986 film "The Transformers: The Movie"

 

Honorable Mention: "A Love That Will Never Grow Old", performed by the incomparable Emmylou Harris, from the 2005 film "Brokeback Mountain"

 

 

You've got the touch

You've got the power!

 

I rented this movie a couple years ago and thought, what sh!tty @ss music for a cartoon movie. Then I watched some of the extra's and the producers who made the movie were like, "The music is what really makes it. When Whatshisname grabs the Whateveritwas and becomes Rodimus Prime (or whatever it was) and the song You've got the Touch comes on...it just gives me chills."

 

I was like then I was like then finally I was

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Thread OVAH!

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Thread OVAH!

 

 

WRONG!!!!

 

Answer is: You're the Best Around - Karate Kid

 

You're the Best Around

Nothing is gonna ever keep you down!

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Focking Deadly!

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WRONG!!!!

 

Answer is: You're the Best Around - Karate Kid

 

You're the Best Around

Nothing is gonna ever keep you down!

 

Championship!

 

No Easy Way Out is a good choice, but all pales in comparison to Danielson's song.

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Just remembered another one of my favorites.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsiBhQ60rJE

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Queen had some decent ones. Wayne's World had 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and the Nerds movie had 'We are the Champions'. I mean come on, who didn't start balling like a baby when they hit that song at the end of that Nerds movie.

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Simple Minds 'Don't You Forget About Me' and Bob Seger 'Old Time Rock and Roll' are worth a mention.

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As far as soundtrack instrumentals go

and The Last Of The Mohicans finale

 

For other songs

 

Comfortably Numb from The Wall

 

 

from the 1981 movie Heavy Metal

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTUq8r-RGdM

 

 

 

 

 

:thumbsdown:

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I'll stop the world and melt with you- Valley Girl

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I'll stop the world and melt with you- Valley Girl

 

 

Another great song from that movie was

 

To the rest of you dickheads, put the name of the song and the movie in your post...dumbasses

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Steel Dragon - "Stand Up"

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you fockers are a disgrace. The only acceptable one so far is the Karate Kid one, yet, this is the correct answer:

Big Lebowski (what condition my condition is in)

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Best ORIGINAL soundtrack from a movie?

 

I agree with Twister, Van Halen had some songs on there. My favorite was

 

Maybe kind of gay, but Whitney on the Bodyguard had some incredible songs, the best vocals ever recorded.

 

It seems like the early-mid 90s are when movie soundtracks peaked. Also you can't forget about....

 

The best opening scene ever

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Dokken - Dream Warriors

 

Nightmare On Elmstreet 3: Dream Warriors

 

The theme song of the movie, Dream Warriors, was written and performed by the American heavy metal band Dokken. The success of the single led to the following sequels to include a heavy metal song in its soundtrack.

 

In the original VHS release of the film, during the opening sequence, a hard rock instrumental version of the song Quiet Cool is playing. The original version of that song, performed by Joe Lamont, was written for the movie with the same name in 1986. When Dream Warriors was released on DVD, the song that was on the original theatrical release, Into the Fire by Dokken, was reinserted.

 

:headbanger: :headbanger:

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High --Movin' In Stereo - The Cars

Wonderland--Shooting Star - Bad Company

Basketball Diaries-- People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band

Cool Hand Luke -- Plastic Jesus - Paul Newman

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Big Lebowski (what condition my condition is in)

 

 

May be time to roll up a big doobie and rewatch The Big Lebowski.

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"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor (Rocky III)

 

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You're the Best Around - Karate Kid

The original Rocky theme.

Eye of the tiger

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Queen: "Flash" theme

Guns N' Roses: "Welcome to the Jungle" - Lean on Me

George Thorogood: "Bad to the Bone" - Christine

Simple Minds: "Don't You (Forget About Me)" - The Breakfast Club

Tim Cappello: "I Still Believe" - The Lost Boys

Ray Parker Jr.: "Ghostbusters" - Ghostbusters

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyW9864AXVk

 

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Tim Cappello: "I Still Believe" - The Lost Boys

 

 

Really liked Good Times by INXS/Jimmy Barnes from that one as well.

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Another great song from that movie was

That entire soundtrack is greatness. My fav from that movie was actually Eyes of a Stranger by the Payolas......Agree with Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me as #1 maybe.

 

I'm Alright, Kenny Loggins - Caddyshack & St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion), John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire were good too.

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The entire soundtrack from Better Off Dead

 

# "Breakin' Up Is Hard To Do"

Performed by Neil Sedaka

 

# "She's Gone"

Performed by Hall & Oates

 

# "Fifty Ways To Leave Your Lover"

Written and Performed by Paul Simon

 

# "Hurts So Bad"

Performed by Linda Ronstadt

 

# "Winter Wonderland"

Performed by Darlene Love

 

# "Here Comes Santa Claus"

Performed by The Carpenters

 

# "Foxy Lady"

Performed by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

# "A Man Alone"

Written by Rod McKuen

 

# "One Way Love"

Performed by Elizabeth Daily

 

# "A Little Luck"

Performed by Elizabeth Daily

 

# "Everybody Wants Some!!"

Performed by Van Halen

 

# "Like To Get To Know You Well"

Written and Performed by Howard Jones

 

# "Mannish Boy"

Performed by Muddy Waters

 

# "Shine"

Written and Performed by Martin Ansell

 

# "Arrested By You"

Performed by Rupert Hine

 

# "With One Look"

Performed by Rupert Hine and Cy Curnin

 

# "Dancing In Isolation"

Performed by Terri Nunn (Berlin)

 

Where the hell else are you gonna get that kind of slew of 80's and 70's rock icons???!!!

 

Ok, on a more serious note...Best Around (Karate Kid), Eye of the Tiger (Rocky) and No Easy Way Out (Rocky) all enter the conversation. Say Anything has to merit consideration if only for Lloyd Dobler standing in the rain with is boombox blaring out "In Your Eyes" (Peter Gabriel).

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As far as soundtrack instrumentals go

 

That is one powerful piece of music! I love it when artist overcome people's pre-concieved ideas about there craft. In this case, I was a person who couldn't imagine the relevance of a German synth band. They sure kicked my a$$.

 

The truck on the shaking bridge with that music as a sound track is perfection.

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Any song in the film Team America: World Police. The AIDS song is greta, as is America, Fock Yeah.

Uncle Focker from South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut.

The Woo Hoo song by the 5678s from Kill Bill Volume I

Stuck in the Middle With You from Reservoir Dogs

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Some damn good ones in here.

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That is one powerful piece of music! I love it when artist overcome people's pre-concieved ideas about there craft. In this case, I was a person who couldn't imagine the relevance of a German synth band. They sure kicked my a$$.

 

The truck on the shaking bridge with that music as a sound track is perfection.

 

Have you heard Diamond Diary from their soundtrack to Michael Mann's Thief?

 

,really gets good after the 2 minute mark.

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Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Old Time Rock and Roll - Risky Business (come on, that was a cool moment that everyone has mimiced at some point)

Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson - The Graduate (Can you say MILF song?)

Michael Sembello - Maniac - Flashdance (Who will ever forget that workout?)

Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Pulp Fiction (Awesome scene)

Chuck Berry - Johnny B. Goode - Back to the Future (just a personal fave really)

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia - Philadelphia (maybe debated but powerful song for a powerful movie)

Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory - Young Guns II (I hate sequels but this song was pretty good for the movie)

The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody - Ghost (pottery made pretty hot. song has been overused but this is the place it will forever live)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - Wayne's World (brought Queen back from obscurity almost and headbanging in the car)

Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows - Pump Up the Volume (Christian Slater as an underground radio DJ)

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Best ORIGINAL soundtrack from a movie?

 

I agree with Twister, Van Halen had some songs on there. My favorite was

 

Maybe kind of gay, but Whitney on the Bodyguard had some incredible songs, the best vocals ever recorded.

 

It seems like the early-mid 90s are when movie soundtracks peaked. Also you can't forget about....

 

The best opening scene ever

Best opening scene evah? Your shitty taste in movies, never ceases to amaze me.

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Warning... movie ending spoiler in link

 

I always liked Michael Mann's use of In-a-gadda-da-vida in Manhunter as well

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Have you heard Diamond Diary from their soundtrack to Michael Mann's Thief?

 

,really gets good after the 2 minute mark.

 

No, I had not heard it, but I have now. Thanks, pal.