Kenny Loggins' "Meet Me Halfway" is stuck in my head. And so, I did what any good blogger would: I came up with an item to write so it would get stuck in yours…I'd forgotten that the track is from the 1987 Sylvester Stallone arm-wrestling flick Over the Top. Can you think of more good songs from crappy movies? I'll once again whip out my favorite combo: Bryan Adams' "Heaven," written for the 1983 Christopher Atkins stripper movie A Night in Heaven. Your turn.
Jul 20
2009
06:00 PM ET
Good songs from crappy movies: List 'em!
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The whole soundtrack to City of Angels is amazing and so much better than that absurd movie. U2′s If God Will Send His Angels and Sarah McLaughlan’s Angel are gorgeous, Hendrix’s Red House is brilliant, and the Goo Goo Dolls’ Iris was a huge hit. The rest of the soundtrack with Alanis and Gabriel Yared and so on is also fantastic.
Amy Winehouse’s Crazy Train cover:
http://failedscreenwriter.com/2009/06/23/gravy-train-g/
Vision Quest-destined to be shown only a 3 am on the USA channel.
Madonna’s “Crazy for You”- classic love song.
“Calling You” from Confessions of a Shopaholic — the entire soundtrack was great… the movie, on the other hand, was utter dreck.
Good call about The City Of Angels soundtrack. Pineapple Express was just an ok movie but the MIA song was awesome.
Over The Top! LOL! A movie about arm wrestling?? Mandi you’re classic.
How about Pat Benatar’s “Invincible” from “The Legend of Billie Jean?”
I Am Sam the movie sucks, but I Am Sam the soundtrack has some great Beatles covers on it. Ben Harper, Rufus Wainwright, Black Crowes, Eddie Vedder, and The Wallflowers all contribute fantastic tracks. “The Glory of Love” from Karate Kid Part II is such a fantastically cheeseball song from a fantastically cheeseball movie, I’m not sure if it counts for this discussion! I’ll add some love to the City of Angels soundtrack as well.
Agreed with City of Angels. Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls is one of my favourite songs.
http://tvdonewright.com/
I’m going to eighties it up for a moment. Dream a Little Dream both makes no sense AND stars Corey Feldman, but Time Runs Wild by Danny Wilde is pretty kickass.
And at the gym, I run to Chesney Hawkes’s I Am the One and Only from the out-of-print film Buddy’s Song. Shameful but true.
“The End is the Beginning is the End” and its remix “The Beginning is the End is the Beginning” by the Smashing Pumpkins…they were for Batman and Robin…yeeeah
“Perfect” (1985, starring John Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis) has a “bad movie, good song” trifecta: Jermaine Jackson’s “(Closest Thing to) Perfect”, Wham’s “Wham Rap (Enjoy What You Do)”, and the Thompson Twins’ “Lay Your Hands on Me”.
Time Runs Wild, I forgot about that song, I loved it too!
The soundtrack for the Sharon Stone movie ‘Sliver.’ It’s a great time capsule of early 90′s music. Neneh Cherry’s ‘Move With Me,’ Lords of Acid’s ‘The Most Wonderful Girl,’ UB40′s ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’ and Enigma’s ‘Carly’s Song’ are just some of the gems on the soundtrack. But the best song on the CD, and one of the best ever recorded is Massive Attack’s ‘Unfinished Sympathy.’
IA, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls is pretty much the only good thing about City Of Angels
I am reminded of a movie called “Thank God It’s Friday” during the late 70′s disco era produced by Motown. Leonard Maltin famously wrote that it is “perhaps the worst film ever to have won some kind of Academy Award” for Donna Summer’s hit song, Last Dance…