Best Songs Written FOR a Film

[reminisco]

okay, here's where you all list what you consider the best songs written FOR a film. this DOES NOT include songs used in a film. for example, Gimme Shelter, although a great song used to great effect in three Scorcese pictures, would not be included in this list because it was written for the album Let it Bleed. by the same token, Something I Can Never Have or A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails are not applicable either, since they were written for the album The Downward Spiral, despite appearing on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack. (just copy and paste the existing list into your post, keep the same format: song, artist, film.

and of course all of this leads into the first song for the list:

1. Burn -- Nine Inch Nails (Natural Born Killers)
2.

[GabonX]

One by filter

[spurgistan]

Does Tenacious D count?

[reminisco]

yeah, i feel like they should... and remember to put down the name of the film the songs are from (i'm looking at you, GabonX)

[shadowsteel9]

Hearts on fire - Rocky IV

[InkL0sed]

Chariots of Fire?

[static_ice]

I can't think of anything except for Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) and Talk Show Host, for that modern Romeo and Juliet movie. And I'm not sure about Everything in it's Right Place for Vanilla Sky.

[nagerous]

I can't think of anything except for Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) and Talk Show Host, for that modern Romeo and Juliet movie. And I'm not sure about Everything in it's Right Place for Vanilla Sky.

None of them were written for the movies. Maybe Talk Show Host but I think that was Street Spirit B Side originally, Kid_A will know.

[InkL0sed]

I can't think of anything except for Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) and Talk Show Host, for that modern Romeo and Juliet movie. And I'm not sure about Everything in it's Right Place for Vanilla Sky.

Wait... Exit Music (For a Film) was actually for a film??

EDIT: I should learn to read... specifically posts right before mine

[static_ice]

I can't think of anything except for Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) and Talk Show Host, for that modern Romeo and Juliet movie. And I'm not sure about Everything in it's Right Place for Vanilla Sky.

None of them were written for the movies. Maybe Talk Show Host but I think that was Street Spirit B Side originally, Kid_A will know.

Maybe Talk Show Host but

"Exit Music (For a Film)" is a song by Radiohead, written specifically for the ending credits of the 1996 film William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet. Although not included on either of the two soundtrack albums at the request of Thom Yorke, the song appears on the band's highly acclaimed third album, OK Computer (1997).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit_Music ... _a_Film%29

[zligenije]

Philip Oaks - "Electric Dreams" (Electric dreams 1984)

[muy_thaiguy]

Who Made Who by AC/DC for a Stephen King movie, just don't remember which one.

[reminisco]

Who Made Who by AC/DC for a Stephen King movie, just don't remember which one.

yeah, that's a good song -- i can't remember which movie either. I still play the album Highway to Hell start to finish once a month or so. one of those few albums out there that just requires being played all the way through when it's put on... like OK Computer from Radiohead, or even Ten from Pearl Jam.

[Nataki Yiro]

The Flash Gordon Soundtrack by Queen

[btownmeggy]

If you want to sing out, sing out!

(Yes, I'm a troll.)

[Gypsys Kiss]

1. Burn -- Nine Inch Nails (Natural Born Killers)
2. Bright Eyes -- Art Garfunkel (Watership Down)

Written by Mike Batt who aslo wrote the Wombles(dont know if the Wombles made it to the US)

[lord voldemort]

pick of destiny kinda obvious

[muy_thaiguy]

Who Made Who by AC/DC for a Stephen King movie, just don't remember which one.

yeah, that's a good song -- i can't remember which movie either. I still play the album Highway to Hell start to finish once a month or so. one of those few albums out there that just requires being played all the way through when it's put on... like OK Computer from Radiohead, or even Ten from Pearl Jam.

I own nearly every AC/DC album ever made.

[Cypress333]

CIRCLE OF LIFE FOR LION KING

[Dapper Tom]

I have always been a great fan of 'Air on the G String' myself... a very fine composition indeed.

[Sackett58]

The Time Warp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu7xoHU9DA

Rocky Horror Picture Show

[InkL0sed]

If you want to sing out, sing out!

(Yes, I'm a troll.)

And if you want to be me, be me
And if you want to be you, be you
'Cause there's a million ways to be
You know that there are

Harold and Maude was a great movie.

[nagerous]

I can't think of anything except for Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) and Talk Show Host, for that modern Romeo and Juliet movie. And I'm not sure about Everything in it's Right Place for Vanilla Sky.

I really like the untitled 4 by sigur ros at the end of this movie, it fits in really well and it is also a version of the song I have not heard before.

[Shatners Bassoon]

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova-Falling Slowly

From the film-Once

This song is is beauty personified.


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3YAKOnt68 ... re=related

[jonesthecurl]

OK - the number wasn't written for the film-

but the version of "I'm a Believer" at the end of the first "Shrek" film is one of the finest things in the universe, despite previous excellent version by (at least) Carol King, the Monkees, and (best version ever) Robert Wyatt.