What's your favorite song/music featured in a movie?

[red dog 1]

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[ZDU]

1. If You Were Here

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[50 Shades Of Blue]

7. Loved this song!

[Chasstev365]

2. Going Home (Local Hero Theme, Mark Knopfler 1983)

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[FalloutShelter]

109. Love this too... and the movie.

[Skittles]

3. any of the Cat Stevens songs in Harold and Maude

yes INDEED

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. Love love love this song and movie!

[sheshe2]

51. I watched that movie a dozen times.

I need to watch it again.

TY, Skittles.

[Skittles]

53. I watched it again recently in honor of Bud Cort

when he passed he was 77 so he didn't make it to 80 like Maude, although in real life Ruth Gordon was 75 when she made this movie. And Vivian Pickles, who played Harold's mum. is still going strong at age 94

edited to add that Cat (Yusuf now), born the same year as Bud (and with Harold in one of those funeral scenes) is still entertaining!

[anciano]

4. The Third Man Theme, featured in the 1949 classic film "The Third Man"

[some_of_us_are_sane]

47. I've always LOVED that one!

It sounds so happy......................... yet CHILLING.

[yellowdogintexas]

72. I loved it too. One of the few pieces I learned to play on demand when

I was taking piano lessons.

[nuxvomica]

74. The zither music served a useful role in the movie

It kept the audience in their seats for that final scene in the cemetery. Did you know an entire orchestral score was done for the movie but when Carrol Reed heard Anton Karas' zither music he ditched the orchestra?

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. Hard to narrow down but I'll go with this one from the Dave Clark 5 movie, "Having a Wild Weekend."

It was on their album Coast to Coast that I got when I was 12. I saw their movie (still one of my favorites) when it came out the following year.

[Chasstev365]

55. This song and movie clip have really grown on me. Thanks for sharing!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

56. Glad you enjoyed it!

[MIButterfly]

8. I Would Walk 500 Miles from Benny and Joon

was the first one that came to mind.

Also Unchained Melody from Ghost; never did care for that song much until I saw that movie and now I like it.

[red dog 1]

19. Great song, Great movie!

[House of Roberts]

9. The Last Time I Felt Like This - Johnny Mathis & Jane Olivor

[MIButterfly]

20. Oh yes! I absolutely love this song

and I love that movie!

[House of Roberts]

22. Interesting fact I uncovered one day.

Ellen Burstyn started acting in TV and movies in 1958 as Ellen McRae, and changed to Burstyn in 1970. I watch a lot of old tv shows on various retro channels and spotted her in a show, and looked up the episode to see who she was, found her as Ellen McRae, then discovered the switch.

[Chasstev365]

10. Indian Love Call - Slim Withman - Mars Attacks

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[markodochartaigh]

16. This song was also in the quirky Asteroid City.

My little cat Pangur Bán finds it as fascinating as the youtube lynx screaming videos.

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[wcmagumba]

77. I love that song, my college advisor did too and you could hear it coming from his office sometimes...

He was a nice guy but this was back in the 70s when smoking was allowed everywhere...He smoked in his office and we always laughed about him because he had longer ashes on his cigarettes than anyone had ever seen...

[vapor2]

11. Come What May. - Moulin Rouge

[Shambala]

12. Can't really say this song was fearured but

I really dug this movie and the song spoke to me at the time.


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[Figarosmom]

92. Thought Burt Reynolds was a better actor

Then he was ever credited for. I really liked him.

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Right off the top of my head, I'd say

It Might Be You, from Tootsie.

[MIButterfly]

21. Love this song too!

And I love the movie. It still holds up today. A classic.

[IndianaDave]

14. "Forever Young," in Napoleon Dynamite

[cbabe]

29. Here ya go

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[markodochartaigh]

15. I think that I have to go with The Galaxy Song

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[FadedMullet]

36. What a great tune ! Pythonesque for sure and really clever. I'm pretty sure all the astronomical facts and.....

......figures are all spot on too, which you would expect.

[Dave Bowman]

103. The sperm song is hilarious too. 😆

[quaint]

17. Maybe trite, but one of my top choices is Also Sprach Zarathustra prelude from 2001.

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[FadedMullet]

38. Not trite, still wonderful. Many symphony "collections" on Youtube include it.

[WestMichRad]

39. That's my choice too!

Always have loved this work.

[av8rdave]

57. That movie and its soundtrack are epic!

I “discovered” Strauss because of that film!

[Nittersing]

18. I Will Remember You - Sarah Mclachlan

Heard it while watching The Brothers McMullen

[Morbius]

23. From Bagdad Cafe

"Calling You"

It's a magical movie.

[cbabe]

30. Yes! The movie is in my top two after Babe.

[debm55]

24. Come Feed the Birds from Mary Poppins.

[applegrove]

26. Tuppins, tuppins, tuppins a bag. (Two pence?)

[debm55]

40. Julie's voice is wonderful singing that song

[LogDog75]

25. Wild Summer Nights

From Eddie and the Cruisers.

[ProfessorGAC]

70. A Couple Songs From The Sequel Are Good Too

I think this is the best one.

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[Figarosmom]

93. I liked all the music in that movie👍

[Diamond_Dog]

27. Iris from City of Angels

Goo Goo Dolls

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[red dog 1]

60. I just saw City of Angels the other night for the first time - Great movie!

Good choice

[pandr32]

28. Ruthless People!Mick Jagger

He did it as the theme song for the movie with the same name. He did it in collaboration with Daryl Hall and David Stewart.
The movie was a whole lot of fun.

[Dave Bowman]

104. Really love that movie!

[4TheArts]

31. Arms of the Angel

Another from City of Angels (and another Sarah McLaughlin)

[cbabe]

32. If I had words/Babe

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[FadedMullet]

33. Here's an odd one, but I really like it. "Make Me Smile" from the movie "The Full Monty" performed by.......

.......Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel. Here's a video.........

I just looked at some of the other responses to your question, and I take back what I said about
this being "an odd one". It's certainly is no odder than many of the other entries in this contest.

Thanks, Red Dog, for posting this, it's a good one.

[FadedMullet]

34. Blues Traveler's tune "But Anyway" is one of my all time favorite tunes. What movie soundtrack used it?

[red dog 1]

59. Kingpin (1996)

[FadedMullet]

35. Deb55 - You're still my favorite pollster her on DU, but you'll admit that this is a good one.

[debm55]

41. Yes, it is, FadedMullet.

[SharonAnn]

37. Seems Like Old Times ... from Annie Hall

[Loisita123]

42. Les miserables

Really liking " Do you hear the people sing" right now.

Or maybe the Bad News Bears using the music from Carmen.

Or Bob Dylan's Knock knocking on heavens door from Pat Garrett and Billy the kid.

All the music from Last of the Mohicans

[Ferrets are Cool]

43. Ending sequence of Buckaroo Banzai AND

How I feel right at this moment in time: This is not America. Pat Metheny and David Bowie

[Brother Buzz]

44. Little Green Bag - Reservoir Dogs

Quentin Tarantino has a thing about eclectic music, and boy howdy, he picked a great one for the opening of Reservoir Dogs.

Oh, speaking of opening scenes, it was brilliant using Sea Lion Woman for a haunting mood setting opening for The General’s Daughter.

[no_hypocrisy]

45. Gideon's Oboe from "The Mission"

Instrumental -- is it still a "song"?

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[Emile]

46. Day-O Beetle Juice

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[some_of_us_are_sane]

48. Now and forever... this one!

it THRILLS, FRIGHTENS and TRANSPORTS ME back in time.........

[wnylib]

49. Unchained Melody in Ghost.

Not a new song written for the movie, but fit the film well.

[Tikki]

50. Amazing how they were able to place Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World" into..

those scenes in the Movie "Stranger Than Fiction".Love, love the song.

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Tikki

[sheshe2]

52. Somewhere over the rainbow.

Judy Garland.

[sheshe2]

54. I am adding Annie.

[av8rdave]

58. Just Dropped in to See What Condition My Condition Was In - The Big Lebowski

That movie made that song a decades long earworm for me.

[red dog 1]

61. One of my all-time favorite movies.

Good choice

[red dog 1]

63. Another great song from The Big Lebowski was played over the closing credits, the Rolling Stones' "Dead Flowers"

covered beautifully by Townes Van Zant.
(Not "featured," but it was there at the end of the movie)

[soldierant]

62. The Marseillaise in Casablanca.

[CTyankee]

100. And, of course, "As time Goes By" when Bergman says "PLay it Sam..."

And then he sees her...whatta moment in film history!

[soldierant]

113. Tht is definitely a moment, yes.

But I don't much care for "As Time Goes by." Too patriarchal for me.

[flvegan]

64. Rage Against the Machine - "Wake Up" from The Matrix

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Rep the stutter step and bomb a left upon the fascists

[lpbk2713]

65. Endless Love

[Tikki]

66. "Lovefingers". Silver Apples. Opening sequence song in the '24 Civil War' movie.

Blew my mind..I never believed I would hear a Silver Apples’ song in a movie.
The song is from 1968…

Tikki

[red dog 1]

67. True Grit (2010) - Iris Dement - Leaning on the Everlasting Arms

[Zorro]

68. I'd Love to Change the World -- Fahrenheit 9/11

Awesome Ten Years After song.

[red dog 1]

69. A J Michalka - "It's Who You Are" (Secretariat 2010)

[Alpeduez21]

71. Cavatina from The Deer Hunter, The Gael from Last of the Mohicans, and Can You Picture That? from the Muppet Movie

[wcmagumba]

78. Definitely "The Gael" from "The Last of the Mohicans", what a great movie...

[VGNonly]

73. I Wasn't Born To Follow from Easy Rider

The Byrds complete with psychedelic pedal steel!

[Figarosmom]

94. That was the first movie

That had me leaving at the end feeling angry.

[Sequoia]

75. Sunrise, Sunset

From, Fiddler on the Roof

[displacedvermoter]

76. Force of Nature (Oasis)

Love, Honour and Obey (with Ray Winstone, Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller)

[Permanut]

79. "What a Feeling", Irene Cara from Flashdance..

I'm still a disco fan.

[k55f5r]

80. Science Fiction Double Feature

From Rocky Horror.

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[patphil]

81. opening theme from Ghost in the Shell - Stand Alone Complex

[Tikki]

82. From the GENIUS that is Brian Eno.."Needle In The Camel's Eye" opening sequence...

to the Movie..Velvet Goldmine. (1998)

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Tikki

[red dog 1]

83. The Commitments - Try a Little Tenderness - Andrew Strong

[Boomerproud]

88. I liked the whole soundtrack.

[rurallib]

84. This song haunted me from the first time I heard it nearly 60 years ago

the theme from MASH "Suicide Is Painless"

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[Prairie_Seagull]

85. 'Aloha Bobby and Rose' 1975

Good soundtrack including 'Tiny dancer' and others.

[electric_blue68]

86. Going to "cheat". In God's Country" U2 - Rattle & Hum

[red dog 1]

87. (Another favorite) WAY DOWN SOUTH - My Cousin Vinny

[SorellaLaBefana]

89. Baja Oklahoma

From the otherwise mostly Cringe HBO film of the same name

[Tikki]

90. "Reel Ten". The Plugz (1984) from the movie Repo Man (1984).

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Tikki

[Figarosmom]

91. Against All Odds - Phil Collins

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And The End in Apocalypse Now

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Cry Little Sister - The Lost Boys

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The Way We Were

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[Mad_Dem_X]

95. Theme from Summer of '42

[Brother Buzz]

96. Stink by John Lurie and Lounge Lizards

The Lounge Lizards have some fun lyrics and dialogue going on during the song, but I can only pick up bits and pieces. Any help?

[red dog 1]

97. Secretariat - "Oh Happy Day"

[red dog 1]

98. Another favorite of mine..

[malthaussen]

99. The Halleluja Trail Theme.

Elmer Bernstein strikes again.

Honorable mention to The Begat, from Finnian's Rainbow

Of course, that was a stage musical first. Burton Lane and E.Y. Harbourg

-- Mal

[WhiteTara]

101. The Wind beneath my Wings

from Beaches. It makes me cry every time.

[BarbaRosa]

102. Knockin' On Heaven's Door

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

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[Dave Bowman]

105. Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World. 🤘

[Coolgoober]

106. The Warriors

Movie featured ' In The City' by Joe Walsh. Later recorded by the Eagles

[Botany]

107. Everybody is Talking @ Me midnight cowboy. Elenor Rigby Yellow Submarine

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[GiqueCee]

108. The theme song...

... from The Last of the Mohicans with Daniel Day Lewis.

[NNadir]

110. American Beauty, Annie Lennox's "Don't Let It Bring You Down."

While I fully understand Kevin Spacey's pariah status, more than a little disturbing given the plot of the movie, he was at the height of his acting powers in that film, perhaps because he wasn't actually entirely acting.

It was however the first time I heard the Lennox version of that song.

Elliot Smith's rendition of Because is also unbelievably moving.

[irisblue]

111. 2, Casablanca 1941

Love, loss, rediscovered love, killing Nazis and friendship

[bobalew]

112. The closing scene of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the third kind

it's the ending part of Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues....

[red dog 1]

114. Randy & The Rainbows - Denise - (From the movie Gidget)

[ColoringFool]

121. I Finally Saw Them In Concert! Guess My Name! 😃

[red dog 1]

122. Denise?

Where & when did you see them?

[ColoringFool]

123. That's A Bingo! 👍 It was an Oldies Concert, with Jimmy Clanton, the Duprees, others, either in ...

Lancaster or Easton, PA. It was about a dozen years ago now.

When Randy and the Rainbows started singing, I stood up and said, "That's ME!"

Grammar be darned! 😄😊

[FemDemERA]

115. So many to choose from! Let's see... It's Thursday, and I

need a little fun in my day, so... I think I'll go with the first song that popped into my head...

"That Thing You Do!" from the 1996 movie of the same name, starring Tom Hanks. Oh, now I have to go watch it...

[red dog 1]

117. Great film!

I've seen it multiple times.

The drummer, played by Tom Everett Scott, looks exactly like a young version of writer/director Tom Hanks.

[IcyPeas]

116. From the movie "Quadrophenia" I've Had Enough - The Who

[red dog 1]

118. "Calling All Angels" - Pay It Forward

[red dog 1]

119. School of Rock - "It's a Long Way to the Top"

[ColoringFool]

120. "FOOTLOOSE"! SO JOYOUS!

[Miles Archer]

124. That's an easy one. Moby's cover of Joy Division's "New Dawn Fades" as Al Pacino pursues DeNiro through night traffic.

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[red dog 1]

125. Sissy Spacek Sings "There He Goes" - from Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

[Ocelot II]

126. All the songs in "Amadeus."

[UpInArms]

127. Roads Untraveled by Lincoln Park

I still miss Chester

[Enter stage left]

128. Danger Zone from Top Gun!

[LoveMyCali]

129. All By Myself from Bridget Jones Diary

[Doc_Technical]

130. Expecting to Fly- Buffalo Springfield from the movie "Coming Home"

[Norrrm]

131. So many, so many. Hill Street Blues piano.

[Norrrm]

132. Once Upon A Time In America

[red dog 1]

133. Sixteen Reasons - Mulholland Drive

[red dog 1]

134. Men in Black 1997 - Promised Land

[red dog 1]

135. The Magnificent Seven - Main Theme - Elmer Bernstein

[Doc_Technical]

136. Doctor Zhivago (Main Title)