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Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio (feat. L.V.)
It was originally written for a movie called Dangerous Minds. I’m not an expert on Hip Hop, but I’d say it has definitely made it’s place among the best in the genre.
Also, it’s heavily by Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise.
can’t help falling in love, elvis. from blue hawaii (1961).
heard at weddings around the world for decades. in the present day it is the most-streamed elvis song. soundtrack and single both charted for weeks (the soundtrack for a year-and-a-half, 20 weeks at number one).
Every song in k-pop demon hunters
The way I look at it, K-Pop Demon Hunters is a musical.
Which means the songs aren’t bigger than the movie.
Because the movie IS the songs.
Id say Lose Yourself by Eminem. Maybe because I was too young to watch the movie when it came out, but that song was everywhere, and is still popular today
Yes but that’s only because em is bigger then 8 mile.
Circle of Life, which is impressive considering that The Lion King did quite well.
No way. Lion King is a giant in pop culture, it didn’t do “quite well,” it absolutely dominated for years and is still widely seen & known.
“Come with me” - Puff Daddy (P Diddy) from Godzilla (1998)
The song peaked at No 2 on the UK charts.
The movie was a colossal failure and got 20% on rotten tomatoes.
Ironically both feature monsters.
I’m surprised no one said Dolly Parton’s 9-to-5.
I watched that for the first time earlier this month. I was NOT expecting what it actually was.
I thought it was just at most like a concept album film, but way more likely to just have her as the soundtrack to a bad movie with a silly and relatable “fuck up your boss” theme.
Now I know she was respected for her vocalized beliefs and inclusion, but I really didn’t think it would go that hard. I was blown away.
Plus I was pretty high when I watched it, and some of those scenes were trippy af. It was a good day.
Now to watch The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Never even heard of that one til now.
I also really liked Straight Talk. We watched all her movies after she passed and even though it had poor reviews I actually liked it a lot
Despite the title, it’s a comedy.
Yeah it’s a trip! Not many movies would spend 15 minutes on a weed-infused dream sequence
Imho, the pacing of that movie was pretty rough. I know my attention span is fucked these days, but when I watch other movies from the late 70’s / early 80’s, 9 to 5 drags hard by comparison.
It did well at the box office, but I get why modern audiences don’t go back to it often.The direction feels really dated.
Was it only 15 minutes? High me remembers it as bring in one big dose, then just lil sporadic bursts the rest of the time.
I have a weekly “get high and watch a movie (a mix of “whatever strikes our fancy at the moment”, or “missed out on when it came out because we were raised super Christian”, with a healthy dose of “pride-related movies”) and then watch a few episodes of whatever tv show we’re working on” day, so I can confidently say that being stupid high is the best way to watch stuff. Even if we do miss a lot of context and plot from talking about tangentially-related stuff the whole time.
Good times.
This coming month will probably be horror movies (obvz), and I’ve already picked a movie that actually did scare the absolute shit out of me as a kid, and the memory still has some trauma attached to it for me, but I’m hate-watching it to maybe help heal my poor childhood memory.
And what is it? It would be “Thief in the Night”, made in the 70s. Basically a Christian rapture themed movie. I have almost no specific memory of any of the scenes (I saw it when I was a single digit age), but I feel like there was someone who thought they were “saved” and didn’t make it or something. That idea and the song on the end credits I forget the exact title now but I assume it’s “I wish we’d all been ready” as that line is prominent in the chorus. The idea that someone could think they were saved but not really be (and the fact that all the adults around me didn’t seem to have any concern about it) made me feel very, VERY insecure about it, and was probably the first of many, many cracks that finally led to me figuring it out way later.
I spent the next 20ish years “praying the prayer” several times every time I thought about that song, just to make sure. It is definitely the source of a lot of anxiety for me, and probably the scariest scary movie I’ve ever seen.
Coming back to it now, over 3 decades later, taking a victory lap on it, while using extremely non Christian friendly language and being high af, will be a real healing moment for me I think.
But I’ll keep a spot open later this year to watch the whorehouse movie (😂).
Right, yeah. That song from The Orville.
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Chariots of fire theme by Vangelis from a movie “Chariots of fire”.
Flashdance had two songs (“what a feeling” and “maniac”) that everyone knows even if they haven’t seen the movie.
Kiss from a rose. Still going.
St. Elmos Fire. It’s a one hit wonder, but the movie it was written for was typical 1980s “friends with issues” pablum. The kind that was better written and acted in a dozen other movies.
Would? by Alice in Chains was from the Singles soundtrack. The song was great, it was included as the last song on the album Dirt that came out shortly after the movie.
“Raindrops keep falling on my head” - Hal David & Burt Bacharach (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)
“Young Guns” - Bon Jovi (Young Guns 2)
“Wind beneath my Wings” - Bette Midler (Beaches)
“Cry Little Sister” - Gerard McMahon (Lost Boys)
Just a few I can think of off the top of my head.
Raindrops will always remind me of my uncle singing it while acting like a total lunatic 🤣🤣. RIP you crazy wonderful human.
Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission.
The movie was incredible but I feel like that tune has really stood the test of time.
