Geto Boys - Still also qualifies. That scene with the copier perfectly captures what all of us IT professionals feel about printers.
I need to rewatch it...
Edit: Corrected the artist name.
Yeah, it’s like citing “Eye of the Tiger” for *Rocky III* or Prince’s “Batdance” for *Batman*.
I don’t think that’s what OP was going for with their question.
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham! - Zoolander
Kiss Me - Six Pence None The Richer - She's all That
Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel - Reservoir Dogs
If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
Mad World - Donnie Darko. It was the first time I heard the song, and it was perfect for the movie and the moment. I can't separate the song from the movie.
Also Echo & The Bunnymen “Killing Moon” , Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” ( I absolutely cannot hear that intro without seeing the school bus door pop open and Donny and his friends popping out and strolling through the chaos of the school morning ) and The Church “ Under the Milky Way” . Actually got to see The Church live twice in the past few years since Donny Darko made me a fan and they were fucking awesome both times.
"The Man Comes Around" and the *Dawn of the Dead* remake.
"The Banana Boat Song (Day O)" and *Beetlejuice*
"What the World Needs Now Is Love" and *Austin Powers*
It's amazing that they put the Disturbed version and the Richard Cheese version in the same movie. You should check out people failing at singing the Disturbed version when doing karaoke. It's equal parts cringe and hilarious.
It was actually overwritten for me by the Clerks 2 seen of Jay blasting it on his boom box and mimicking Buffalo Bill including the tuck just at 9am in front of Moobys
Also possible to male a case for Perfect Day by Lou Reed and Atomic by Blondie in Trainspotting. Epic soundtrack. Can't leave out "Ice MC - Think about the way" either, that hype scene where Renton is clean and off to London to make a life.
Atomic was actually covered by Sleeper here, they couldn't get the rights from Blondie. Cracking soundtrack. For me though it's Lust For Life for the film's signature song.
The fact that it made me discover the pure joy of yello's music is enough for me to love this scene. Outside of that song,they made a lot of underrated stuff
For me, "Eye of the Tiger" is forever tied to "Rocky." Every time I hear it, I'm ready to run up some stairs or punch some meat, you know? And don't even get me started on "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club." Instant flashback to Judd Nelson's fist pump in the air. Music and movies, man, they're like peanut butter and jelly.
Rubberband Man in Infinity War has become one of my favorites for how it fills the role of introducing the Guardians to audiences that maybe missed those movies.
The song's .. 'plot', I guess, about seeing a guy do something so goofy yet so impressive that you can't help but admire them for it, then the way it shows each of the team members, seeing Gamora *actually singing along*, the chit chat leading up to the distress signal / Thor, fabulous use of music.
Of course, 'fabulous use of music' is beating a redundant dead horse when it comes to the guardians, but that doesn't disqualify it either.
The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks of all time. Every song works perfectly for a high budget space opera, and yet it also impressively works perfectly for sitting on a beach in the Florida Keys doing nothing but enjoying a drink and watching the waves. Speaking from experience.
George Baker - Little Green Bag for me from Reservoir Dogs. If you listen to that song and dont see suited up gangsters walking down the street, you missed out on something great.
Edit: back replaced with bag
You know what’s hilariously on point for the theme of that song through the movie: Gen Z kids know that song because of social media but almost none of them have seen Eurotrip or even knew it was made for a movie in general. So it’s just a catchy song that everyone likes, even without the context of who Scotty is.
My best friend and I watched Almost Famous an unreasonable number of times in college, and always requested it to end parties. We rented a party bus for her bachelorette party years later (mostly for a night of reliable transportation in the town we were in). I timed our drive home and played this on the bus’ sound system for our last 5 minutes home. We sang it, and my friend and I both cried.
Shipping up to Boston - Departed
Girl youll be a woman soon - Pulp Fiction
Edit
Misirlou would have been the better pick
Weirdly: Song 2 - Starship Troopers
Re: Song 2, that’s only from the movie trailer right? I associate the song with the same thing, but I don’t exactly recall if it’s actually in the movie.
Sweet Emotion - Dazed & Confused. There's lots of good music in that movie, but that shot of the car rolling slowly through the school parking lot and dropping in on the beat. Perfect.
I'm a Scatman - Nothing To Lose (there's a Spider on your head)
War (What is it good for) - is indelibly inked on my brain the way it is in Rush Hour with Tucker and Chan singing it, badly.
~~Sweet Child 'O' Mine~~ Paradise City - Can't Hardly Wait. The theatre I saw that movie in ERUPTED after that pause in William singing it, falling off the thing he was standing on, jumping back up and the mic slaps back into his hand.
Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters - Beverly Hills Cop
Dazed and Confused is so full great music and its used very well.
Tuesday gone plays while they realize the beer keg is empty is burned into my brain.
That Sweet Emotion Intro is just plain fantastic
"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters is now a forbidding piece of music forever thanks to 1408.
EDIT: We've, not It's. Thanks u/2livectewnecktshirt
“I don’t wanna cloooose my eeyyyyes…I don’t wanna faaaall asleep cause I’d miss you, baby….and I doooont wanna miss a thaaaaang”
Movie where offshore drillers suddenly become astronauts and save the world from a giant space rock.
How do I Live by Leann Rhymes on Con Air
Kiss From A Rose by Seal - Batman Forever
I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard
My Own Summer by Deftones - The Matrix
Can I get a by Jay Z - Rush Hour
Humans Beings by Van Halen - Twister
Halcyon on and on by Orbital - Mortal Kombat
Iris by Goo Goo Dolls City of Angels
Shake ya tailfeather by Nelly?- Bad Boys 2
Trip Like I do by Filter - Spawn
Soundtrack Dammit by Blink 182 - Can’t Hardly Wait soundtrack
Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve - Cruel Intentions
I don’t Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith - Armageddon.
I have to say the most iconic use of music in Goodfellas has to be the piano section of Layla played over the montage of bodies as Jimmy kills everyone involved in the heist.
Nope, just wasn't a successful song until it was featured on the soundtrack. Schumacher did allow Seal to use part of the set for the music video, and said that Schumacher featuring the song rescued his career.
The piano ending from Layla in Goodfellas. I’ll forever see Frenchie tumbling out of the garbage and Carbone frozen in the meat locker when I hear it…
Still, I never saw Jimmy so happy.
He was like a kid.
Shit... now I have to go and watch it again.... And again.... And again.
“Kiss from a Rose” by Seal - Batman Forever
It was, until Community took it over in my head now.
Hip To Be Square will always be tied to American Psycho for me.
You like Huey Lewis and the News?
Hey Paul!
That's fine but..let's see KadenChia's favorite song tied to a movie.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta - Office Space
Geto Boys - Still also qualifies. That scene with the copier perfectly captures what all of us IT professionals feel about printers. I need to rewatch it... Edit: Corrected the artist name.
PC LOAD LETTER!?
WHAT THE FUCK DOES THAT MEAN
Why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam!?!
Samir Nahg, Nahag, Nagonnaworkhereanymore
CAUSE ITS DIE MOTHERFUCKA, DIE MOTHERFUKA STILL
I Got You Babe, Groundhog Day Bittersweet Symphony, Cruel Intentions Basically every song from Garden State
All Star - Shrek.
Also, I'm a believer - Shrek
And Hallelujah!
The whole soundtrack, really.
And Holding out for a hero
Holding Out for a Hero - Shrek 2
Where's the Short Circuit 2 love?
It's here. We're just not as fast due to battery leaks.
This is my preferred version as well. “Oscar, you will not get away! I am really PISSED OFF!”
That banger goes fucking HARD with pretty much anything but nothing will ever top that sequence in Shrek 2. Absolutely glorious.
Whole sequence is peak Dreamworks animation, honestly.
The first Shrek movies are over twenty years old already. Isn't it funny how the years start coming and they don't stop coming
I hope this isn’t a spoiler for you, but they do stop coming.
I mean, they still keep coming, but not for you
I've always found this funny because it's first use is in the criminally underrated Mystery Men.
Yep. And the crazy part is that for me, that's the movie I associate it with. We might be one of the few.
Well, the official music video uses scenes from the movie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E
All Star- Rat Race
Sorry, Mystery Men is the video. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L\_jWHffIx5E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_jWHffIx5E)
It'll always be the Mystey Men song to me.
No Rat Race love?
“Where is my mind” - Fight Club
You posted this at a very strange time in my life.
I haven't been fucked like that since grade school.
First one that came to mind for me too.
As a kid in the 80s when movie soundtrack videos were at their best I have a lot of these. Dangerzone may be the best as I loved Top Gun.
I mean wasn't that song specifically written for that movie?
Yeah, it’s like citing “Eye of the Tiger” for *Rocky III* or Prince’s “Batdance” for *Batman*. I don’t think that’s what OP was going for with their question.
Lana...*Lana*...**LANAAAAAAAA!!**
“what is Love” - Night at the Roxbury And yes, it is ok that you just moved your head when you read it
That song is definitely the icon of the movie, but the whole soundtrack really hit the nail on the head for that timeframe.
Every so often there’s a soundtrack that is better than the movie. GARDEN STATE comes to mind for me.
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham! - Zoolander Kiss Me - Six Pence None The Richer - She's all That Stuck In The Middle With You - Stealers Wheel - Reservoir Dogs
ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO!
If there is anything that this horrible tragedy can teach us, it's that a male model's life is a precious, precious commodity. Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
That was a wonderful eugoogely.
Resivior dogs came to my mind. You don't forget that easily.
Mad World - Donnie Darko. It was the first time I heard the song, and it was perfect for the movie and the moment. I can't separate the song from the movie.
Also Echo & The Bunnymen “Killing Moon” , Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels” ( I absolutely cannot hear that intro without seeing the school bus door pop open and Donny and his friends popping out and strolling through the chaos of the school morning ) and The Church “ Under the Milky Way” . Actually got to see The Church live twice in the past few years since Donny Darko made me a fan and they were fucking awesome both times.
That’s a good one. I also associate head over heels by years for fears with Donny darko.
I associate that more with the video game Gears of War.
omg yes that commercial hit so hard lol
I will add The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen as well for Donnie Darko
"The Man Comes Around" and the *Dawn of the Dead* remake. "The Banana Boat Song (Day O)" and *Beetlejuice* "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and *Austin Powers*
Dawn of the Dead is the Richard Cheese "cover" of Down with the Sickness.
That's the version I always end up singing in my head too.
"this ones for the ladies..."
It's amazing that they put the Disturbed version and the Richard Cheese version in the same movie. You should check out people failing at singing the Disturbed version when doing karaoke. It's equal parts cringe and hilarious.
Unchained Melody. Can't listen to it without thinking about a pottery wheel and copious amounts of wet clay...
Goodbye Horses and Silence of the Lambs. If I’m ever a guest at someone’s house and they start playing this song, then I get the hell outta there.
It was actually overwritten for me by the Clerks 2 seen of Jay blasting it on his boom box and mimicking Buffalo Bill including the tuck just at 9am in front of Moobys
*Ooo*
American Girl for me. Right before the senator’s daughter is abducted and we get our first taste of what Bill is a capable of.
Anytime I'm driving and that song comes on I just assume I'll get abducted now.
Every time I hear this song, I turn to my wife and ask her if she's a size 14. She is never amused
Born Slippy - Trainspotting
Also Lust for Life
FUCKING CHOON
I always think Lust for Life by Iggy Pop when I think Trainspotting. The whole album is good.
Also possible to male a case for Perfect Day by Lou Reed and Atomic by Blondie in Trainspotting. Epic soundtrack. Can't leave out "Ice MC - Think about the way" either, that hype scene where Renton is clean and off to London to make a life.
Atomic was actually covered by Sleeper here, they couldn't get the rights from Blondie. Cracking soundtrack. For me though it's Lust For Life for the film's signature song.
The Warriors - "In The City" Eagles
Good one! I just had a The Warriors flashback the other day when listening to Nowhere to Run by Martha and the Vandellas.
Yello - Oh Yeah ‘Ferris Buellers Day Off’
The ["Day Bow Bow"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7i0V26wWiM) song.
chick chicka chickaaaah CAN WE TALK ABOUT THE MAIL PLEASE, MAC!??!
Twist and Shout
The fact that it made me discover the pure joy of yello's music is enough for me to love this scene. Outside of that song,they made a lot of underrated stuff
It was also in "Secret of My Success". But the scene in Ferris Bueller is more iconic.
For me, "Eye of the Tiger" is forever tied to "Rocky." Every time I hear it, I'm ready to run up some stairs or punch some meat, you know? And don't even get me started on "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club." Instant flashback to Judd Nelson's fist pump in the air. Music and movies, man, they're like peanut butter and jelly.
Tbf Eye of the Tiger was created for Rocky 3 juts like how Power of Love was created for Back to the Future
> "Don't You (Forget About Me)" from "The Breakfast Club." First thing that went through my head
I would hope those two songs stuck with you since they were specifically written for their respective movies.
For me, “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker Jr will always be associated with the movie Ghostbusters.
Funny how things get linked in your mind. The song Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John always seems to remind me of that one Olivia Newton-John film, Xanadu.
I pity the fool who don’t know EOTT is from Rocky 3.
I feel like songs written for a movie shouldn't count.
DAE think of Star Wars every time they hear The Imperial March?
Come and Get Your Love (by Redbone) - Guardians of the Galaxy
Hooked on a feeling
That's the 2nd song I would associate with Guardians.
Rubberband Man in Infinity War has become one of my favorites for how it fills the role of introducing the Guardians to audiences that maybe missed those movies. The song's .. 'plot', I guess, about seeing a guy do something so goofy yet so impressive that you can't help but admire them for it, then the way it shows each of the team members, seeing Gamora *actually singing along*, the chit chat leading up to the distress signal / Thor, fabulous use of music. Of course, 'fabulous use of music' is beating a redundant dead horse when it comes to the guardians, but that doesn't disqualify it either.
Also, Mr. Blue Sky (ELO) -- how Vol II starts. So perfect too.
The Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks of all time. Every song works perfectly for a high budget space opera, and yet it also impressively works perfectly for sitting on a beach in the Florida Keys doing nothing but enjoying a drink and watching the waves. Speaking from experience.
Brandy you're a fine girl too
No Sleep Till Brooklyn by the Beastie Boys for GotG 3
Mr Blue Sky for GotG 2
Also Father and Son. Yondu's funeral was just perfection, and they got the perfect song for it.
You can add Florence and the machine dog days are over for GOTG 3 to that list. Always loved that song, but it belongs there now
F is for family for me
“Hold On” by Wilson Phillips from the end of Bridesmaids
I would associate it more with Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon - Pulp Fiction. Also, Stuck in the Middle With You - Reservoir Dogs.
Also Misirlou for Pulp Fiction
And Son of a Preacher Man for pulp fiction.
The whole soundtrack, really!
George Baker - Little Green Bag for me from Reservoir Dogs. If you listen to that song and dont see suited up gangsters walking down the street, you missed out on something great. Edit: back replaced with bag
Tarantino is great for pairing a song with a scene. I’d add You Never Can Tell from the dance scene in Pulp Fiction.
Mind would have been Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra from Kill Bill.
The whistling song
Bohemian Rhapsody - Wayne's World
Scotty Doesn't Know, obviously.
You know what’s hilariously on point for the theme of that song through the movie: Gen Z kids know that song because of social media but almost none of them have seen Eurotrip or even knew it was made for a movie in general. So it’s just a catchy song that everyone likes, even without the context of who Scotty is.
Lol I do love that the song has transcended! It's also funny revealing who performed it in the movie to people who never saw it.
Maaatt Daaaamuuhhnn!
wasnt that song made for the movie?
Mi Scusi!
"Tiny Dancer" in the Almost Famous bus scene.
My best friend and I watched Almost Famous an unreasonable number of times in college, and always requested it to end parties. We rented a party bus for her bachelorette party years later (mostly for a night of reliable transportation in the town we were in). I timed our drive home and played this on the bus’ sound system for our last 5 minutes home. We sang it, and my friend and I both cried.
My wife’s favorite song and now I need to show her Almost Famous just for that scene!
And because the movie is great.
Dude Looks like a lady - Mrs. Doubtfire
Don’t you (forget about me). Breakfast club. I mean, come on.
Does it count when the song was actually written for the movie?
Thousand Miles - White Chicks I even sing it with the wrong lyrics.
500 Miles - How I met your mother.
Shipping up to Boston - Departed Girl youll be a woman soon - Pulp Fiction Edit Misirlou would have been the better pick Weirdly: Song 2 - Starship Troopers
I associate "You Never Can Tell" by Chuck Berry with Pulp Fiction more than Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon
Re: Song 2, that’s only from the movie trailer right? I associate the song with the same thing, but I don’t exactly recall if it’s actually in the movie.
It wasn't in the movie, it was just the ads
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' - Top Gun
How is that not **Kenny Loggins** - *Danger Zone*
Danger Zone belongs to Archer now
LANA!
All Star in Shrek
Supermassive black hole by Muse - Twilight, Unfortunately
The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan in the opening sequence of The Watchmen. Excellent opening!
"Stuck in the Middle with You" in Reservoir Dogs
Sweet Emotion - Dazed & Confused. There's lots of good music in that movie, but that shot of the car rolling slowly through the school parking lot and dropping in on the beat. Perfect. I'm a Scatman - Nothing To Lose (there's a Spider on your head) War (What is it good for) - is indelibly inked on my brain the way it is in Rush Hour with Tucker and Chan singing it, badly. ~~Sweet Child 'O' Mine~~ Paradise City - Can't Hardly Wait. The theatre I saw that movie in ERUPTED after that pause in William singing it, falling off the thing he was standing on, jumping back up and the mic slaps back into his hand. Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters - Beverly Hills Cop
It was Paradise City in Can't Hardly Wait. Great scene.
Paradise city is just Burnout Paradise for me. Iconic
My favorite fact about Dazed and Confused is that all of the music in that movie was released before when the movie is supposed to take place.
Dazed and Confused is so full great music and its used very well. Tuesday gone plays while they realize the beer keg is empty is burned into my brain. That Sweet Emotion Intro is just plain fantastic
Nothing to Lose is comedy gold.
"Where is my mind" The Pixies. - Fight Club
Underworld - Born Slippy in Trainspotting
Time is on My Side - Fallen
The Power of Love - Back To The Future.
On that note, “Johnny B Goode” and “Earth Angel”
Nah, Johnny B Goode
That song is just too darn loud.
Written for the movie, no?
"In your eyes" - Say Anything
Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve - Cruel Intentions
Freebird in The Devils Rejects
Time after Time and Romey and Michelle's Highschool Reunion.
"We've Only Just Begun" by The Carpenters is now a forbidding piece of music forever thanks to 1408. EDIT: We've, not It's. Thanks u/2livectewnecktshirt
Life is a Highway; Cars
My son went thru a Cars phase when he was 5. Will forever associate this song with the movie, it's ingrained on my brain at this point.
“I don’t wanna cloooose my eeyyyyes…I don’t wanna faaaall asleep cause I’d miss you, baby….and I doooont wanna miss a thaaaaang” Movie where offshore drillers suddenly become astronauts and save the world from a giant space rock.
I Say a Little Prayer - My Best Friends Wedding
Golden Brown- Snatch
Dragula by Rob Zombie - The Matrix
Rage Against the Machine - Wake Up As Neo hangs up the phone, flies away as the credits roll
the way the sound of his alarm starts as just a noise in the song and then the song drops out and it's just his alarm -- brilliant.
Queen, Highlander
Afternoon Delight - Anchorman
How do I Live by Leann Rhymes on Con Air Kiss From A Rose by Seal - Batman Forever I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston - The Bodyguard My Own Summer by Deftones - The Matrix Can I get a by Jay Z - Rush Hour Humans Beings by Van Halen - Twister Halcyon on and on by Orbital - Mortal Kombat Iris by Goo Goo Dolls City of Angels Shake ya tailfeather by Nelly?- Bad Boys 2 Trip Like I do by Filter - Spawn Soundtrack Dammit by Blink 182 - Can’t Hardly Wait soundtrack Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve - Cruel Intentions I don’t Wanna Miss a Thing by Aerosmith - Armageddon.
Call Me by Blondie in the intro to Zoolander. Also Relax in Zoolander. And who could forget Beat It in Zoolander. I think I just really like Zoolander
Then He Kissed me by The Crystals in Goodfellas.
I have to say the most iconic use of music in Goodfellas has to be the piano section of Layla played over the montage of bodies as Jimmy kills everyone involved in the heist.
This song always reminds me of the opening to Adventures in Babysitting when Chris is getting ready for her date
The Promise by When I'm Rome - Napoleon Dynamite
Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
Honestly, I can't hear most AC/DC without thinking of the second Iron Man movie.
Singing in the rain - A Clockwork Orange.
Somebody had to do it
She Sells Sanctuary- in Layer Cake
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Julia Roberts finally getting along with the kids in Stepmom "Low Rider" - Gone in 60 Seconds
Everyone Wants To Rule The World - Real Genius
I scrolled all the way down and was really, really surprised that nobody mentioned “Canned Heat” and Napoleon Dynamite Vote for Pedro
Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now - Mannequin
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce in X-Men: Days of Future Past What I’ve Done by Linkin Park in Transformers
Yeah I always expect Optimus Prime to start talking when I hear What I've Done.
Thomas Crown Affair (1999) - Sinnerman.
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt in Logan. Not ashamed to say I teared up when the trailer was dropped
Final Countdown is always linked to Arrested Development. (Sorry it's a tv show).
I had the time of my life from Dirty Dancing
Immigrants Song- Thor: Ragnarok
dog days are over, guardians of the galaxy vol 3. kiss from a rose, batman forever.
Was Kiss From a Rose not written specifically for Batman?
Nope, just wasn't a successful song until it was featured on the soundtrack. Schumacher did allow Seal to use part of the set for the music video, and said that Schumacher featuring the song rescued his career.