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@@MsMojo Forever Young by Journey in Vision Quest always, as well as The Heat is On by Glenn Frey for Beverly Hills Cop. That being said, Patty Labelle and the Pointer Sisters would have to be included as well.
More Honorable Mentions: Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland) - The Wizard of Oz; Que Sera, Sera (Doris Day - The Man Who Knew Too Much; Moon River (Andy Williams) - Breakfast at Tiffany's; Up Where We Belong (Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker) - An Officer and a Gentleman; Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) - Top Gun; Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) - Rocky II; (I've Had) The Time of My Life (Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes) - Dirty Dancing; I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) - The Bodyguard; Oh Yeah! (Yello) - Ferris Bueller's Day Off *_and_* The Secret of My Success Freebird (Lynard Skynard) - Kingsman, The Secret Service; And though I hate the song now... My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion) - Ttanic
"Power of Love" -- Back to the Future "Free Bird" and 1812 Overture -- Kingsmen: The Secret Service "All Star" -- Shrek "Friend Like Me" -- Alladin "You've Got A Friend In Me" -- Toy Story There's plenty more.....I just can't think of them right now.
Yeah, I noticed that. I first thought they had "Twist and Shout" (Ferris Bueller) #1. Should have been. Breakfast Club? I don't even remember that scene!
So I ´m not the only one that thinks that? Great. I dont even know some of the songs in the rank - maybe because they are tol old-, while lets say Beetlejuice on the other hand... Btw Nothing Hill, my best friends wedding, pretty woman, shrek, miss congentiality, rat race, electrodance and many other films had also much more iconic songs....
I say a little prayer for you from the movie my best friends wedding. I cannot hear that song without thinking of all of them singing that at the table
Have not seen some of these movies, agree with some others, too, but the top two are SO SPOT ON! And indeed, my right fist bumps the air every. Single. Time 😀
Never saw Saturday Night Fever but "Stayin' Alive" is linked to the trolls from the 10th Kingdom singing while rowing. It was a great scene. (Them misunderstanding the song was pretty funny too)
Too many good/memorable songs to pick just one! But I can't hear "Stand By Your Man" without thinking of the Blues Brothers Band's hilarious cover! I WISH that were on the soundtrack!
I can easily separate that song from the movie. I don't think of Top Gun when I hear that song. If I ever do, though, I cringe. That scene is cringe. Also, as far as Tom Cruise is concerned, I think the scene in Risky Business of him dancing in nothing but a dress shirt, his underwear, socks, and sunglasses to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" is way more indelible and iconic than that Top Gun scene, but then that's probably why Tom Cruise sliding into frame on those socks of his in that very scene is the very first thing we see at the very start of this video.
@@benjaminharman1987 sounds like you missed the point of the scene in Top Gun. Its supposed to be cringy, because it shows off that these fighter pilots are so arrogant and cocky that they think a stunt like that would actually work. It’s the main reason the scene is so memorable and iconic. Also, it is possible for an actor to be associated with more than one song.
I usually think about my grandma's dog Lucky whenever The Banana Boat Song plays because he would howl everytime Harry Bellefonte would hit the high note in the Day-O part! 🤣
I have a Spotify playlist only with songs that I can't separate from movie scenes - Great balls of fire (Top Gun) - Woldn't it be nice (50 first dates) - You make my dreams come true (500 days of Summer) - Dude looks like a lady (Mrs Doubtfire) - Wedding bell blues (My girl) - Johnny B. Goode (Back to the future) - Yeah! (Hitch) - I believe I can fly (Space Jam) - You're so vain (How to lose a guy in 10 days) - I get around (Look who's talking) - That's life (Joker) Among others......
"Eye of the Tiger"- Rocky III "Power of Love" (Huey Lewis & The News)- Back to the Future "The Touch"- Some would say Boogie Nights, but I'll go with Transformers: The Animated Movie back in 1986. "Heroes" (The Wallflowers)- You could put it in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I would go with the end scene in The Replacements because it encapsulates the overall meaning of the phrase. "I'm A Believer" (Smash Mouth)- Shrek
But "Eye of the Tiger" isn't from a scene. Each of these on this list is a song we can't separate from a particular movie scene. In Rocky III, "Eye of the Tiger" runs through a whole group of scenes, an entire montage of scenes even, including scenes of him training in various settings and circumstances and ultimately finishing that training as it briefly continues on after all of those scenes into yet another scene where he's ready. If there's a MsMojo list of top songs we can't separate from montages of scenes in movies, I bet "Eye of the Tiger" is on it.
"Dangerzone" Top Gun "I Swear" Just Friends "Purple Rain" Purple Rain "Wind Beneath My Wings" Beaches "The Sound of Silence" The Graduate "Ride of the Valkyrie" Apocalypse Now "Fight The Power" Do the Right Thing "Cruel Summer" The Karate Kid
@@JaDav40 Great Scene...But that song comes up in the first "Suicide Squad" when Harley Quinn is in jail. Also, it was a big part of the marketing of the 1st trailer. But you took me back to '96 for a minute.
The most iconic song now associated explicitly with a movie was written in 1896. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss, later to be recognizable only as the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). Honorable mention: Soul Bossa Nova, by Quincy Jones, 1962 (aka theme to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Well, if we go classical, then no one beats "O Fortuna" playing while King Arthur and his Knights ride to battle against Mordred and Morgaine while all around them the trees blossom in "Excalibur".
"All Star" and "Accidentally In Love" are connected to Shrek "Kiss Me" from the stairs scene in She's All That "Pretty Woman" from Pretty Woman But most of all...THE TIME OF MY LIFE from the final scene of DIRTY DANCING!!!
I love that Tom Cruise improvised the entire "Old Time Rock and Roll" scene, where in the script, it was written as "Joel dances to music." It's a testament to how skilled of an actor he is, he really should have won an Oscar by this stage in his career.
True_Sixteen Candles Time Of My Life_Dirty Dancing Footloose_Footloose Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now_Mannequin.... The best movie songs came from the 80's
If you grew up in the 80s, I think John Hughes had a knack for picking music that matched his films. Sixteen Candles has Wham and The Thompson Twins that I immediately think of the scenes when I hear those songs, same with Psychedelic Furs, from Pretty in Pink, Yello, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the remake of People are Strange by Echo and the Bunnymen for The Lostboys
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The gave a hat tip to Tarantino for his ability to pair a scene with music, but they could have populated this whole list with scenes from John Hughes movies.
"Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen in Shaun of the Dead. They beat a zombie with pool cues and try to turn off the lights in time with the beat of the song. First thought when ever I hear the song. Should have been at least honorable mention.
I agree with the comments more than the list. come on! Armageddon- Don't Wannna Miss A Thing!! Purple Rain!! Titanic-My Heart Will Go On. Flashdance- What A Feeling. Grease- You're the One that I Want. Dirty Dancing - Time of My Life Rocky- Eye of the Tiger Blasphemy! 😅🎶
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" still makes me think of the original Shrek. Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" still makes me think of Strictly Ballroom. And of course, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" still makes me think of BOTH Mannequin films! lol "Get Outta My Dream, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean still makes me think of that movie License to Drive. Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" always makes me think of the original Scream film.
"It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. in the beginning of Independence Day; "Back in Black" by AC/DC in Iron Man. Footloose by Kenny Loggins in Footloose. Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins in Top Gun; "Top Gun Anthem" by Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens. "Power Of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News as well as "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry in Back To The Future. These are just the ones off the top my head whilst watching this video.
I walked down the aisle to Unchained Melody at my wedding. 😊 I have so many memories of head banging with my dad to Bohemian Rhapsody. And my first “baby” I nannied for, her song was Tiny Dancer, I sang it rocking her to sleep. 😊
I knew that "Unchained Melody" was an older song, but I had no idea that it was originally from a prison film. Upon hearing the lyrics again, it makes a lot of sense.
When I hear the song "Oh Yeah" I have 2 movies that come to mind. The first movie is "Secret of My Success" where it was played in the limo and then later when they were doing bedroom roulette. The second movie is "Ferris Buller's Day Off" when Ferris is racing to get home before his mother and sister.
The race home scene was scored with "March of the Swivel Heads" by the English Beat. "Oh Yeah" played in the following scene with Mr. Rooney getting a ride on the school bus.
It's especially hard not to separate a song from a movie or movie scene if the song was actually made for that exact movie. Like "Don't you forget about me" was. So for a list such as this, I personally wouldn't count any song that was made for a specific movie.
@@bunnytater And here's you being wrong: "Singer-songwriter Previte was the lead singer of the band Franke and the Knockouts. He had success with the song "Sweetheart" in 1981, but by 1986 was without a recording contract. In late 1986 or early 1987, producer and head of Millennium Records, Jimmy Ienner, asked Previte about writing some music for "a little movie called Dirty Dancing". Previte initially turned the request down because he was still trying to get a record deal,[3] and he thought the film was a pornographic film based on the title,[4] but Ienner was persistent, declaring that it would "change his life", and got Previte to write several songs for the film, including "Hungry Eyes", later recorded by singer Eric Carmen, which also became a top 10 hit. Previte wrote the lyrics, and the music was written by John DeNicola and Don Markowitz. He compared writing the song to the writing process of "MacArthur Park". The title was conceived at random while he was traveling down the Garden State Parkway. He suggested that Ienner's pleading inspired the lyric.[5] After getting further approval, Previte, along with DeNicola and Markowitz, created a demo of the song, performing on it himself, along with singer Rachele Cappelli. The demo showcased how the harmonies were to be used, employing a "cold open", or a slow build-up of the song to its finale."
“Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” in Zoolander , “Hungry Eyes” in Dirty Dancing, “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” in Footloose, and personally “There She Goes” in ep1 of Gilmore Girls 🤗
I’m a 90s kid and I was first introduced to Queen through Wayne’s World. Now at 43 they are still my favorite band with Freddie Mercury being my favorite singer. I have a custom painting of him and I’m planning a tattoo of him so thank you for insisting on that song Mike Myers!❤
Life is a highway - CARS scene where Mac crossing the country I love to hearing this song while I drive in the night on the highway and overtaking trucks.. :D
Beetlejuice movie, and the Tom Cruise scene should’ve been in the top 10. That bass new old time rock ‘n’ roll is iconic in has been parodies so many times. Day-O from Beetlejuice is also iconic.
The Rockafeller Skank - She's All That Our Lips Are Sealed - Open credits of Fast Times at Ridgemont High Tubular Bells - The Exorcist Bamboléo - Sing La Vie en Rose - Emily in Paris (I figured this current generation may have Edith Piaf)
Fact check: it's not our lips are sealed that plays at the beginning of fast times at ridgemont high. It's we got the beat that plays at the beginning of the movie.
I'm kinda in shock that Johnny B Goode from Back to the Future nor Say a little a little prayer for you from My best friend wedding weren't even mentioned.
I can't think of "Tutti Frutti" without also thinking of Val Kilmer in Top Secret! Also...every time I hear the National Anthem, can't help also think of Leslie Nielsen singing it in "The Naked Gun."
Ms is a total miss on most of these, like #1, hands down, would be "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and the scene of Judy Garland singing it in The Wizard of Oz, but it didn't even make this list. Also, I'd replace any of about six or seven of these, all of which I've seen and most of which I've never found that memorable, with Aretha Franklin's "I Say a Little Prayer" and the scene in My Best Friend's Wedding when the entire wedding party and family at the pre-wedding brunch table just spontaneously (and quite hilariously) breaks out in song in middle of the restaurant singing it because I truly can't hear that song anymore without thinking of My Best Friend's Wedding. It's like the two of them got married back in 97 and have been joined at the hip ever since.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated, it doesn't seem like they counted songs written specifically for the move, so Somewhere Over the Rainbow wouldn't count.
Great list!! That scene in Almost Famous is iconic!! Although I would have ditched PeeWee's Tequila and would have added "Goodnight Sweet Heart" - from the movie - Three Men And A Baby
Can't Take My Eyes off Of You from 10 Things I Hate About You though I’m more familiar with the Lauryn Hill version, Grease from of course Grease, and In Your Eyes from Say Anything
Preach, love all those songs, though the example from "Say Anything" comes across as a little creepy when you realise that Lloyd has no idea that Diane secretly wants to get back together with him. If she hadn't, then his actions would come across disturbingly as stalking.
I also thought of Time of My Life, Be My Baby, Love is so Strange, and Hungry Eyes from Dirty Dancing though I never understood why She’s Like the Wind wasn't as popular as those last four.
Shout - Animal House Burn by the Cure - The Crow Take My Breath Away - Top Gun Danger Zone - Top Gun Black Sheep - Scott Pilgrim Vs the World Oh Yeah - Ferris Bueller
@@rickposter3534 Why are you telling me that? Seeing that MsMojo has the song ranked No. 1 on their list, maybe you should tell THEM that. It seems they didn't get the memo.
"Im deranged" David Bowie - Lost Highway (opening and closing scene) "Lust For Life" Iggy Pop - Trainspotting (openning scene) "Thats Life" - Frank Sinatra - Joker "Bang Bang" Nancy Sinatra - Kill Bill
Your number one is definitely the number one in my book. This was one of the very few movies that really spoke to me. I think that it is because I was the same age as those kids.
I may be old. But "holding out for a hero". Though most would say the iconic castle siege from Shrek 2. But to me it's the final chase scene in short circuit 2
No Johnny B. Goode Back to the Future? Some songs I associate with movie scenes: Back to the Future: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode" Huey Lewis & The News - "Power of Love" Dumb and Dumber: Carly Simon & James Taylor - "Mockingbird" and The Cowsills - "The Rain The Park and Other Things" Happy Gilmore: Exile - "Kiss You All Over" The Blues Brothers: "Rawhide theme" Cab Calloway - "Minnie the Moocher" Flight of the Navigator: The Beach Boys - "I Get Around" Gremlins 2: The New Batch: "New York, New York" The Quiet Man - "The Wild Colonial Boy"
No. 5: "Wayne's World" was instrumental (no pun intended) in reviving the popularity of the Queen hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" and bringing the song to the 1990's. That said, I agree with No. 1. I can't hear "Don't You Forget About Me" without thinking about "The Breakfast Club".
There's a story about how Freddie Mercury, in the last days of his battle with AIDS, watched the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World at Mike Myers' invitation, and loved it. He and his Queen bandmates thought it captured their brand of humor perfectly.
I’m an early 2000s kid who has heard my mom play Bohemian Rhapsody countless times and always bang my head around with the guitar solo. And I have never seen that movie.
OOOO YES!! #1 is SOOO AWESOME!! Songs from the movie St. Elmo's Fire are AWESOME too and SO many more 80's movies!! Movie music was BETTER in the 80's than MUSIC in general in the 80's. SOme of it was good though.
The Pretty In Pink performance/Lip synch is so beyond great.🙂 I love that Almost Famous song.performance.🙂That is my favorite scene in 10 Things I Hate About you..i kind of don't love that song in Beetlejuice,but that performance of is so wonderful and fun _Catchy.🙂😀😀So is Twist and Shout.:-)
when you love someone • Bryan Adams [Hope floats] Sweet Home Alabama • Lynyrd Skynyrd [Sweet Home Alabama] Susan Himmelblå • Kim Larsen [Midt om natten] 😁
Who be making these lists? How is it no mention of Dirty Dancing not on this list?! Instead of honorable mentions, Risky Business should had been on the main list.
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@MsMojo All Star by Smash Mouth cause everytime I hear it, I think of the opening scene from Shrek.
The scene where all the cops started to dance in The Mask😂
@@MsMojo Forever Young by Journey in Vision Quest always, as well as The Heat is On by Glenn Frey for Beverly Hills Cop. That being said, Patty Labelle and the Pointer Sisters would have to be included as well.
The Cars - "Moving in Stereo". If you are a guy that came of age in the 80's, you know! 🤣🤣🤣
More Honorable Mentions:
Over the Rainbow (Judy Garland) - The Wizard of Oz;
Que Sera, Sera (Doris Day - The Man Who Knew Too Much;
Moon River (Andy Williams) - Breakfast at Tiffany's;
Up Where We Belong (Jennifer Warnes and Joe Cocker) - An Officer and a Gentleman;
Danger Zone (Kenny Loggins) - Top Gun;
Eye of the Tiger (Survivor) - Rocky II;
(I've Had) The Time of My Life (Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes) - Dirty Dancing;
I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) - The Bodyguard;
Oh Yeah! (Yello) - Ferris Bueller's Day Off *_and_* The Secret of My Success
Freebird (Lynard Skynard) - Kingsman, The Secret Service;
And though I hate the song now...
My Heart Will Go On (Celine Dion) - Ttanic
I agree with some people here about “Johnny be good” in Back to the Future…
I was about to say that.
@@sureshmukhi2316 Same here!!!!
"Oh, Pretty Woman" -- Pretty Woman
"Shout" -- Animal House
Actually I think of Kiss by Prince for Pretty Woman!
Not having the Johny B Goode scene from Back to the Future felt like a crime, but still a great list
Completely agree
"Power of Love" -- Back to the Future
"Free Bird" and 1812 Overture -- Kingsmen: The Secret Service
"All Star" -- Shrek
"Friend Like Me" -- Alladin
"You've Got A Friend In Me" -- Toy Story
There's plenty more.....I just can't think of them right now.
I don't think songs specifically written for the movies are included in this list. So toy story and Aladdin don't meet the criteria.
@@swarlesbarkely2449didn’t allstar come out before shriek?
Johnny B Goode and Earth Angel- Back to the Future
@@brennathecatlover4360 I was only referring to Aladdin and Toy Story. Those songs were written specifically for those movies.
Songs written specifically FOR a movie shouldn’t count.
The honorable mentions are the best part of the list
Yeah, I noticed that. I first thought they had "Twist and Shout" (Ferris Bueller) #1. Should have been. Breakfast Club? I don't even remember that scene!
How can Risky Business "Old Time Rock & Roll" only be an honorable mention?
So I ´m not the only one that thinks that? Great. I dont even know some of the songs in the rank - maybe because they are tol old-, while lets say Beetlejuice on the other hand... Btw Nothing Hill, my best friends wedding, pretty woman, shrek, miss congentiality, rat race, electrodance and many other films had also much more iconic songs....
Time of My Life in Dirty Dancing!
"Time of My LIfe" was written specifically for the movie.
Right, Time of my life from Dirty Dancing and also Footloose!!!
Yes! I came to say this… I was surprised this was not included!
And Love Is Strange by Micky & Sylvia
I always think about the scene in Crazy, Stupid, Love with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone when I hear that song.
"Footloose" 🎵🎶🎼🎤
This would be my no. 1
I say a little prayer for you from the movie my best friends wedding. I cannot hear that song without thinking of all of them singing that at the table
Hated the movie but you are absolutely right, you hear it and it takes you right back to the film!
I'm sorry, but I can't hear "All star" without seeing Shrek come out of his bathroom
SOMEBODY-
@@tornadodee148 The fact that I could hear your reply💀
@@carmcakes1687 lol
Same here!
Have not seen some of these movies, agree with some others, too, but the top two are SO SPOT ON! And indeed, my right fist bumps the air every. Single. Time 😀
I think of Saturday Night Fever whenever I hear Stayin’ Alive by The Bee Gees
Excellent choice
How Deep is Your Love too.
Never saw Saturday Night Fever but "Stayin' Alive" is linked to the trolls from the 10th Kingdom singing while rowing. It was a great scene. (Them misunderstanding the song was pretty funny too)
@@EvlutnTrnrDaisy never seen it either. It’s just been brought up and referenced so much that I began using the association
That’s obvious though as it was written for the Film by the bee gees
“Hooked On A Feeling” - Guardians Of The Galaxy
Na, that song will forever be "Reservoir Dogs"
@@FloralShoppingCard Ally McBeal and the creepy dancing baby
Opening scene! Come and get your love!
What a great soundtrack overall.
The whole Guardians soundtrack is awesome.
Oh come on… the Blues Brothers didn’t even get a mention?!! Ray Charles man!!
Ray Charles, Aretha, Cab Calloway, "The Theme from Rawhide", "The Girl From Ipanema". So many from that movie.
@@sebbohnivlac True, True… 😁😁
Louie Louie
R.E.S.PE.C.T. - always think of the movie
Too many good/memorable songs to pick just one! But I can't hear "Stand By Your Man" without thinking of the Blues Brothers Band's hilarious cover! I WISH that were on the soundtrack!
Top Gun: You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling
As for the movie Top Gun, I usually think of the songs Danger Zone and Take My Breath Away.
@@melissacooper8724 me too. In fact I bought the soundtrack CD, and “You’ve lost that loving feeling” isn’t even on it.
That bar pickup scene is a classic
I can easily separate that song from the movie. I don't think of Top Gun when I hear that song. If I ever do, though, I cringe. That scene is cringe. Also, as far as Tom Cruise is concerned, I think the scene in Risky Business of him dancing in nothing but a dress shirt, his underwear, socks, and sunglasses to Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock & Roll" is way more indelible and iconic than that Top Gun scene, but then that's probably why Tom Cruise sliding into frame on those socks of his in that very scene is the very first thing we see at the very start of this video.
@@benjaminharman1987 sounds like you missed the point of the scene in Top Gun. Its supposed to be cringy, because it shows off that these fighter pilots are so arrogant and cocky that they think a stunt like that would actually work. It’s the main reason the scene is so memorable and iconic.
Also, it is possible for an actor to be associated with more than one song.
I can't hear Wonderful World without thinking of Good Morning Vietnam
Wonderful World makes me think of the end of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Love how Tim Burton added Harry Belafonte in Beetlejuice movie.
As well as the video.
I usually think about my grandma's dog Lucky whenever The Banana Boat Song plays because he would howl everytime Harry Bellefonte would hit the high note in the Day-O part! 🤣
Nobody gonna mention “A Thousand Miles” in the White Chicks? I always imagine Terry Crews singing when that song comes on.
I have a Spotify playlist only with songs that I can't separate from movie scenes
- Great balls of fire (Top Gun)
- Woldn't it be nice (50 first dates)
- You make my dreams come true (500 days of Summer)
- Dude looks like a lady (Mrs Doubtfire)
- Wedding bell blues (My girl)
- Johnny B. Goode (Back to the future)
- Yeah! (Hitch)
- I believe I can fly (Space Jam)
- You're so vain (How to lose a guy in 10 days)
- I get around (Look who's talking)
- That's life (Joker)
Among others......
Cuban Pete (The Mask)
The End (Apocalypse Now)
RESPECT and Minnie the Moocher (The Blues Brothers)
"Eye of the Tiger"- Rocky III
"Power of Love" (Huey Lewis & The News)- Back to the Future
"The Touch"- Some would say Boogie Nights, but I'll go with Transformers: The Animated Movie back in 1986.
"Heroes" (The Wallflowers)- You could put it in The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I would go with the end scene in The Replacements because it encapsulates the overall meaning of the phrase.
"I'm A Believer" (Smash Mouth)- Shrek
But "Eye of the Tiger" isn't from a scene. Each of these on this list is a song we can't separate from a particular movie scene. In Rocky III, "Eye of the Tiger" runs through a whole group of scenes, an entire montage of scenes even, including scenes of him training in various settings and circumstances and ultimately finishing that training as it briefly continues on after all of those scenes into yet another scene where he's ready.
If there's a MsMojo list of top songs we can't separate from montages of scenes in movies, I bet "Eye of the Tiger" is on it.
Some of these are things written specifically for those films, which puts them outside the scope of,the list.
The Elton John sing along on the bus is so iconic, that my cousins and I always tried to replicate it on long car journeys, but with mixed results. 😅
Tiny Dancer is #1
"Dangerzone" Top Gun
"I Swear" Just Friends
"Purple Rain" Purple Rain
"Wind Beneath My Wings" Beaches
"The Sound of Silence" The Graduate
"Ride of the Valkyrie" Apocalypse Now
"Fight The Power" Do the Right Thing
"Cruel Summer" The Karate Kid
I will always think about the opening scene of Top Gun when I hear Dangerzone!
@@ColorfulBallerina Same here 😅
I'd add "You Don't Own Me" from First Wives Club...
@@JaDav40 Great Scene...But that song comes up in the first "Suicide Squad" when Harley Quinn is in jail. Also, it was a big part of the marketing of the 1st trailer. But you took me back to '96 for a minute.
I Swear!! Yes, totally agree! I always want to wear a retainer and sing with a lisp when I hear that song!
The most iconic song now associated explicitly with a movie was written in 1896. "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss, later to be recognizable only as the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).
Honorable mention:
Soul Bossa Nova, by Quincy Jones, 1962 (aka theme to Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Well, if we go classical, then no one beats "O Fortuna" playing while King Arthur and his Knights ride to battle against Mordred and Morgaine while all around them the trees blossom in "Excalibur".
“Shout” from Animal House and “You’ve lost that Lovin’ Feeling” from Top Gun
"All Star" and "Accidentally In Love" are connected to Shrek
"Kiss Me" from the stairs scene in She's All That
"Pretty Woman" from Pretty Woman
But most of all...THE TIME OF MY LIFE from the final scene of DIRTY DANCING!!!
I love that Tom Cruise improvised the entire "Old Time Rock and Roll" scene, where in the script, it was written as "Joel dances to music." It's a testament to how skilled of an actor he is, he really should have won an Oscar by this stage in his career.
Hopefully he gets an honorary Oscar, and even an AFI Lifetime Achievement Award
Jerry Bruckheimer even said how impressed he was when doing Top Gun, how Cruise commanded excellence back then at his age
@@Omar-wq9dzwhat about Robert Redford getting an afi award? He definitely deserves it way way way more than Tom cruise
True_Sixteen Candles
Time Of My Life_Dirty Dancing
Footloose_Footloose
Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now_Mannequin....
The best movie songs came from the 80's
If you grew up in the 80s, I think John Hughes had a knack for picking music that matched his films. Sixteen Candles has Wham and The Thompson Twins that I immediately think of the scenes when I hear those songs, same with Psychedelic Furs, from Pretty in Pink, Yello, from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and the remake of People are Strange by Echo and the Bunnymen for The Lostboys
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. The gave a hat tip to Tarantino for his ability to pair a scene with music, but they could have populated this whole list with scenes from John Hughes movies.
@@sebbohnivlac totally agree 👍
"Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen in Shaun of the Dead. They beat a zombie with pool cues and try to turn off the lights in time with the beat of the song. First thought when ever I hear the song. Should have been at least honorable mention.
I think of movie like Shazam with that song
"Lust for Life" - Trainspotting
"Wild Thing" - Major League
"Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" - Blues Brothers
I agree with the comments more than the list. come on!
Armageddon- Don't Wannna Miss A Thing!!
Purple Rain!!
Titanic-My Heart Will Go On.
Flashdance- What A Feeling.
Grease- You're the One that I Want.
Dirty Dancing - Time of My Life
Rocky- Eye of the Tiger
Blasphemy! 😅🎶
...and "Summer Nights" from Grease...
These are sound tracks - the list in the video are songs within the movie. No one on the titanic hears “my life will go on”
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" still makes me think of the original Shrek. Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" still makes me think of Strictly Ballroom. And of course, "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" still makes me think of BOTH Mannequin films! lol "Get Outta My Dream, Get Into My Car" by Billy Ocean still makes me think of that movie License to Drive. Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper" always makes me think of the original Scream film.
was also thinking John Paul Young's "Love is in the Air" (Strictly Ballroom).
"It's The End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M. in the beginning of Independence Day; "Back in Black" by AC/DC in Iron Man. Footloose by Kenny Loggins in Footloose. Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins in Top Gun; "Top Gun Anthem" by Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens. "Power Of Love" by Huey Lewis and the News as well as "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry in Back To The Future. These are just the ones off the top my head whilst watching this video.
I walked down the aisle to Unchained Melody at my wedding. 😊
I have so many memories of head banging with my dad to Bohemian Rhapsody.
And my first “baby” I nannied for, her song was Tiny Dancer, I sang it rocking her to sleep. 😊
I knew that "Unchained Melody" was an older song, but I had no idea that it was originally from a prison film. Upon hearing the lyrics again, it makes a lot of sense.
My heart will go on, from Titanic
That was written specifically for the movie, so it doesn't count for this list.
day-o in Beetlejuice is iconic. on the other hand after seeing this I realise that a lot of Matthew Brodericks movies were part of my youth.
When I hear the song "Oh Yeah" I have 2 movies that come to mind. The first movie is "Secret of My Success" where it was played in the limo and then later when they were doing bedroom roulette. The second movie is "Ferris Buller's Day Off" when Ferris is racing to get home before his mother and sister.
The race home scene was scored with "March of the Swivel Heads" by the English Beat. "Oh Yeah" played in the following scene with Mr. Rooney getting a ride on the school bus.
Those honorable mentions shouldve made the list
Yup. Much better than some of the ones that did make the list.
It's especially hard not to separate a song from a movie or movie scene if the song was actually made for that exact movie. Like "Don't you forget about me" was. So for a list such as this, I personally wouldn't count any song that was made for a specific movie.
Mrs. Robinson - The Graduate
Oh Yeah - Ferris Bueller
Man in the Moon - Man on the Moon
Lebanese Blond - Garden State
I can't help separating Oh Yeah from The Secret Of My Success. The lipstick is the image in my mind.
Go with you on Mrs Robinson!
Top Gun: Dangerzone by Kenny Loggins and Footloose: by Kenny Loggins, 80s all the way!!
Top Gun: You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling.
You forgot about Gaurdians of the galaxy. The scene where Starlord is dancing to the song come and get your love by Redbone.
Seriously?!!! Ferris Bueller’s “Twist And Shout” should’ve been #1 on this list, instead of being in Honorable Mentions.
@fangirlable: yes!…and ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’-Risky Business should be 2 or 3.
Danke Schoen is also iconic in the same movie, but Twist and Shout is bigger.
Absolutely! I first thought they had it #1. Breakfast Club? I don't even remember that scene!
Or the previous one. He did two.
When I hear Can't Take My Eyes Off You I picture Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys.
What about All-Star from Shrek?
for me it’s “bennie and the jets” in 27 dresses
and “youre so vain” in how to lose a guy in 10 days
No mention abt “Time of my life” from Dirty Dancing….
That's because the song had no existence outside the movie. Written for it, performed in it.
@@bunnytater And here's you being wrong:
"Singer-songwriter Previte was the lead singer of the band Franke and the Knockouts. He had success with the song "Sweetheart" in 1981, but by 1986 was without a recording contract. In late 1986 or early 1987, producer and head of Millennium Records, Jimmy Ienner, asked Previte about writing some music for "a little movie called Dirty Dancing". Previte initially turned the request down because he was still trying to get a record deal,[3] and he thought the film was a pornographic film based on the title,[4] but Ienner was persistent, declaring that it would "change his life", and got Previte to write several songs for the film, including "Hungry Eyes", later recorded by singer Eric Carmen, which also became a top 10 hit.
Previte wrote the lyrics, and the music was written by John DeNicola and Don Markowitz. He compared writing the song to the writing process of "MacArthur Park". The title was conceived at random while he was traveling down the Garden State Parkway. He suggested that Ienner's pleading inspired the lyric.[5] After getting further approval, Previte, along with DeNicola and Markowitz, created a demo of the song, performing on it himself, along with singer Rachele Cappelli. The demo showcased how the harmonies were to be used, employing a "cold open", or a slow build-up of the song to its finale."
“Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” in Zoolander , “Hungry Eyes” in Dirty Dancing, “Let’s Hear It For The Boy” in Footloose, and personally “There She Goes” in ep1 of Gilmore Girls 🤗
"There She Goes" : So I Married An Axe-Murderer
I’m a 90s kid and I was first introduced to Queen through Wayne’s World. Now at 43 they are still my favorite band with Freddie Mercury being my favorite singer. I have a custom painting of him and I’m planning a tattoo of him so thank you for insisting on that song Mike Myers!❤
I would also say I’ve Had The Time Of My Life from Dirty Dancing because immediately I think of that scene.
Very nice work on your new top 10 list video.
As longtime music lovers and cinephiles alike, we LOVE it.
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All By Myself - Brigit Jones' Diary
Come and get your Love from Guardians of the Galaxy
And "Hooked On A Feeling" by Blue Swede from the same film.
Or Mr Blue Sky
Agree and I wwould add "I´m not in love" as well.... or Now "Bye Bye" from N-sync for Deadpool & Wolverine"
Life is a highway - CARS scene where Mac crossing the country
I love to hearing this song while I drive in the night on the highway and overtaking trucks.. :D
Great one! I watched that movie something like 200 times because my little son loved it! Life is a highway it's part of our lives' OST!
ALso "Real Gone" with the opening sequence of the cars race.
Town called Malice by The Jam and Billy Elliott are permanently linked in my mind.
I cannot hear the song without seeing the dance in my head.
For me, Billy Elliott is forever entwined with Cosmic Dancer by TRex.
Pulp Fiction dance is classic
Remember the scene had absolutely no idea what the song was
Beetlejuice movie, and the Tom Cruise scene should’ve been in the top 10. That bass new old time rock ‘n’ roll is iconic in has been parodies so many times.
Day-O from Beetlejuice is also iconic.
Singing in the Rain, Clockwork Orange. Ooofff, wish I could forget
I think we all do 😅
I can’t watch that movie a second time…I think it’s in my top most disturbing films. (Along with Deliverance, Seven, and The Exorcist)
Also in “Singin in the Rain”
"Golden Years" (David Bowie) in A Knight's Tale
That is an epic song and dance sequence. Good choice!!!
The opening scene with "We Will Rock You" is better.
I think all of your honorable mentions couldve easily taken the top 5 of your list!
Did I miss back to the future with Johnny be good?
The Rockafeller Skank - She's All That
Our Lips Are Sealed - Open credits of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Tubular Bells - The Exorcist
Bamboléo - Sing
La Vie en Rose - Emily in Paris (I figured this current generation may have Edith Piaf)
Fact check: it's not our lips are sealed that plays at the beginning of fast times at ridgemont high. It's we got the beat that plays at the beginning of the movie.
I'm kinda in shock that Johnny B Goode from Back to the Future nor Say a little a little prayer for you from My best friend wedding weren't even mentioned.
I can't think of "Tutti Frutti" without also thinking of Val Kilmer in Top Secret! Also...every time I hear the National Anthem, can't help also think of Leslie Nielsen singing it in "The Naked Gun."
Same here 😂
So many memories on this list!!
Ms is a total miss on most of these, like #1, hands down, would be "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and the scene of Judy Garland singing it in The Wizard of Oz, but it didn't even make this list. Also, I'd replace any of about six or seven of these, all of which I've seen and most of which I've never found that memorable, with Aretha Franklin's "I Say a Little Prayer" and the scene in My Best Friend's Wedding when the entire wedding party and family at the pre-wedding brunch table just spontaneously (and quite hilariously) breaks out in song in middle of the restaurant singing it because I truly can't hear that song anymore without thinking of My Best Friend's Wedding. It's like the two of them got married back in 97 and have been joined at the hip ever since.
Although it wasn't explicitly stated, it doesn't seem like they counted songs written specifically for the move, so Somewhere Over the Rainbow wouldn't count.
Is anybody going to mention I will follow him / Sister Act???
Can't imaginé nobody else but Whoopi singing it!!!
Great list!! That scene in Almost Famous is iconic!! Although I would have ditched PeeWee's Tequila and would have added "Goodnight Sweet Heart" - from the movie - Three Men And A Baby
How was As Time Goes By from Casablanca not make the cut???? 😭😭😭😭
Yeah especially since Warner Brothers uses that as their fanfare music nowadays
It was written for the film.
@ actually no. It was written for a 1931 musical called Everybody's Welcome
Can't Take My Eyes off Of You from 10 Things I Hate About You though I’m more familiar with the Lauryn Hill version, Grease from of course Grease, and In Your Eyes from Say Anything
Preach, love all those songs, though the example from "Say Anything" comes across as a little creepy when you realise that Lloyd has no idea that Diane secretly wants to get back together with him. If she hadn't, then his actions would come across disturbingly as stalking.
I also thought of Time of My Life, Be My Baby, Love is so Strange, and Hungry Eyes from Dirty Dancing though I never understood why She’s Like the Wind wasn't as popular as those last four.
@@kamsismith Preach, Patrick Swayze really should have sung more in his career. So many songs on the soundtrack are my go to songs for karaoke. 🎤🎶
@@trinaqI wish he did more songs too as his voice is incredible, but then again, he was focused on his acting and dancing career.
I’d add Summer Nights from Grease
No bitter sweet symphony from cruel intentions
oh god yes.
I Say A Little Prayer For You: My Best Friend’s Wedding
I related that to a big elephant girl in Sing 2 movie.
Shout - Animal House
Burn by the Cure - The Crow
Take My Breath Away - Top Gun
Danger Zone - Top Gun
Black Sheep - Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
Oh Yeah - Ferris Bueller
No honorable mention for "Take My Breath Away," by Berlin, from Top Gun??
That was written for the movie, so it doesn't count for this video.
@@10Peter25 And yet, “Don't You (Forget About Me)” was written for The Breakfast Club.
@@rickposter3534 Why are you telling me that? Seeing that MsMojo has the song ranked No. 1 on their list, maybe you should tell THEM that. It seems they didn't get the memo.
I regularly watch Say Anything because of John Cusack❤️❤️❤️
"Im deranged" David Bowie - Lost Highway (opening and closing scene)
"Lust For Life" Iggy Pop - Trainspotting (openning scene)
"Thats Life" - Frank Sinatra - Joker
"Bang Bang" Nancy Sinatra - Kill Bill
Your number one is definitely the number one in my book.
This was one of the very few movies that really spoke to me. I think that it is because I was the same age as those kids.
I would add Think - Aretha Franklin in The blues brothers and, even if it might be lesser known, Stay - Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs in Shag!
I may be old. But "holding out for a hero". Though most would say the iconic castle siege from Shrek 2. But to me it's the final chase scene in short circuit 2
Yes! Same for me!
I always think of Die Hard With A Vengeance whenever I hear Summer In The City
Me too, that song always harkens back to that movie for me.
I couldn't agree more. Great movie and great time.
“Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” from ‘Beetlejuice.’
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No Johnny B. Goode Back to the Future? Some songs I associate with movie scenes:
Back to the Future: Chuck Berry - "Johnny B. Goode" Huey Lewis & The News - "Power of Love"
Dumb and Dumber: Carly Simon & James Taylor - "Mockingbird" and The Cowsills - "The Rain The Park and Other Things"
Happy Gilmore: Exile - "Kiss You All Over"
The Blues Brothers: "Rawhide theme" Cab Calloway - "Minnie the Moocher"
Flight of the Navigator: The Beach Boys - "I Get Around"
Gremlins 2: The New Batch: "New York, New York"
The Quiet Man - "The Wild Colonial Boy"
I can't hear "This Magic Moment" in "The Sandlot" when Squints pranks Wendy Peffercorn and gives her the kiss of her life...😊😅
I figure it was the kiss of HIS life.
And "Stuck In The Middle With You" always makes me think of the TV show "Grace and Frankie."
"I have to go home."
"You are home."
“Everybody’s Talking” from Midnight Cowboy, AND the tribute to that film in the “I’m Walking Here!” scene in Forest Gump.
The Songs from the Shrek franchise
benny and the jets from 27 dresses
I can’t listen to Stayin Alive without thinking about the scene from Airplane!
No. 5: "Wayne's World" was instrumental (no pun intended) in reviving the popularity of the Queen hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" and bringing the song to the 1990's. That said, I agree with No. 1. I can't hear "Don't You Forget About Me" without thinking about "The Breakfast Club".
There's a story about how Freddie Mercury, in the last days of his battle with AIDS, watched the Bohemian Rhapsody scene in Wayne's World at Mike Myers' invitation, and loved it. He and his Queen bandmates thought it captured their brand of humor perfectly.
I always associated Tequila with the Sandlot personally, and I can't not think of Deadpool whenever I hear Careless Whisper.
I think the same thing with Tequila and Sandlot!
I can't believe that Ferris Buellers Day Off is only an honorable mention!!!! Should have been in the top three!
Beetle juice: saw it in the theater. When Banana Boat came on the screen, everyone in the audience just roared. It was great!
When the "honorable mention" list is better than the actual list...
The song, “Iko Iko” played in Rain Man.
Wasn't that one in "Beetlejuice" also?
All Star from Shrek
@colleenmcnaughton3634 I was really trying remember this song. I knew I was missing something
I’m an early 2000s kid who has heard my mom play Bohemian Rhapsody countless times and always bang my head around with the guitar solo. And I have never seen that movie.
OOOO YES!! #1 is SOOO AWESOME!! Songs from the movie St. Elmo's Fire are AWESOME too and SO many more 80's movies!! Movie music was BETTER in the 80's than MUSIC in general in the 80's. SOme of it was good though.
The Pretty In Pink performance/Lip synch is so beyond great.🙂 I love that Almost Famous song.performance.🙂That is my favorite scene in 10 Things I Hate About you..i kind of don't love that song in Beetlejuice,but that performance of is so wonderful and fun _Catchy.🙂😀😀So is Twist and Shout.:-)
when you love someone • Bryan Adams [Hope floats]
Sweet Home Alabama • Lynyrd Skynyrd [Sweet Home Alabama]
Susan Himmelblå • Kim Larsen [Midt om natten] 😁
Totally agree with #1!
Who be making these lists? How is it no mention of Dirty Dancing not on this list?! Instead of honorable mentions, Risky Business should had been on the main list.
“Tubular Bells” and The Exorcist-I know it doesn’t have lyrics, but still