Songs From The Movies

[jpkansas]

With the Oscars coming up (not that I'm going to be watching), post some of your favorite songs or soundtracks.

This is my favorite soundtrack.



Here's an Oscar winning song from 1969.

[m c dornan]

An Oscar nominee (but not winner) from 1964:




A soundtrack from 1966:

[Ken]

A couple of my favorite soundtracks:

[H2IZCOOL]

While the soundtracks from the two smash hit John Travolta vehicles of the late '70s, Grease and Saturday Night Fever, rank right up there, my two favorite soundtracks are a little different:

That Thing You Do. The movie came out in 1996, but was set in about 1963 or 64. The soundtrack was all original, and features a series of songs by "The One-ders" which are decidedly early Beatle-esque, and several other songs that do a great job of mimicking some of the other sounds popular in that time period: the black girl group, the surfing sound, the lounge singer, and (shudder) the Lawrence Welk sound. I think the song writers did a great job of capturing the sounds of that time period with original music.

Moulin Rouge! This is a 2001 movie (in fact, the first time I saw it was on an airplane about 10 days after 9/11). This soundtrack takes some very popular songs and uses them to fit the storyline of a Paris nightclub at the end of the 19th century. One of the amazing things is that the shows stars (Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman) do their own singing, and they are both great! One of the highpoint of the movie is the use of Queen's "The Show Must Go On" in a scene where the Nicole Kidman character finds out that she is dying. This is tragically appropriate, as the song was originally written to portray the fact that Freddie Mercury was dying, but performing right up to the end.

If you have never seen one or both of these two movies, I highly recommend them both!

[Ken]

Mar 12, 2010 13:32:58 GMT -5 H2IZCOOL said:

While the soundtracks from the two smash hit John Travolta vehicles of the late '70s, Grease and Saturday Night Fever, rank right up there, my two favorite soundtracks are a little different:

That Thing You Do. The movie came out in 1996, but was set in about 1963 or 64. The soundtrack was all original, and features a series of songs by "The One-ders" which are decidedly early Beatle-esque, and several other songs that do a great job of mimicking some of the other sounds popular in that time period: the black girl group, the surfing sound, the lounge singer, and (shudder) the Lawrence Welk sound. I think the song writers did a great job of capturing the sounds of that time period with original music.

Moulin Rouge! This is a 2001 movie (in fact, the first time I saw it was on an airplane about 10 days after 9/11). This soundtrack takes some very popular songs and uses them to fit the storyline of a Paris nightclub at the end of the 19th century. One of the amazing things is that the shows stars (Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman) do their own singing, and they are both great! One of the highpoint of the movie is the use of Queen's "The Show Must Go On" in a scene where the Nicole Kidman character finds out that she is dying. This is tragically appropriate, as the song was originally written to portray the fact that Freddie Mercury was dying, but performing right up to the end.

If you have never seen one or both of these two movies, I highly recommend them both!

Hi Ed,
I love "That The Thing You Do!" I saw it when it was in the theatre and bought the soundtrack a couple of days after. Tom Hanks did a terrific job!

[dave910]

I thought back to a soundtrack of my youth. When I was a teenager, I saw the Lost Boys at our local drive-in. The soundtrack featured music from INXS & Jimmy Barnes, Lou Gramm, Roger Daltry & Echo and the Bunnymen to name a few. I bought the tape - no CD player at the time - a week later.

The Lost Boys was the first movie to feature Corey Haim and Corey Feldman together. The chemistry was right, so Hollywood decided to cast Haim & Feldman in seven pictures over the next two and a half years.

Not only did the drive-in theater close this past summer - the sign was taken down last week - we also lost a great talent. R.I.P. Corey Haim.

[Jughead]

The "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack was phenomenal. Not a bad song appeared on that album at all. I even remember that when my sister bought the original press of the album back in 1986 that the cassette tape was bright pink!

[Pete70s]

Mar 11, 2010 23:47:00 GMT -5 Ken said:

A couple of my favorite soundtracks:

Forrest Gump is one of my favorite movies of all time. I watched it recently and I especially loved how the songs fit the story, not so much because of the time-frame, but because of the emotions he was feeling at the time. Powerful use of music!