My Favorite Uses of Music In Film
Dating back to the silent era when music was the only audio component to the cinema experience, save the din of depression era gossip, music has remained as important an attribute of film as butter has to popcorn. The following is what I consider to be among the best uses of music in film.
Track List
Prince - Let’s Go Crazy – Film Edit (Purple Rain)
The Time - Jungle Love (Purple Rain)
Appolonia 6 – Sex Shooter – Rehearsal (Purple Rain)
Big Fun - Teenage Suicide (Heathers)
Gleaming Spires - Are You Ready For the Sex Girls? (Revenge of the Nerds)
Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me (Breakfast Club)
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (Donnie Darko)
Mick Smiley - Magic (Ghostbusters)
Ice T - Colors (Colors)
Fat Boys - Fat Boys (Krush Groove)
Public Enemy - Fight the Power (Do the Right Thing)
Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man (Trouble Man)
Willie Hutch - Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (The Mack)
Holger Czukay - Fragrance (Morvern Callar)
Unknown Artist – She-s Got To Have It (Deep Throat)
Mello - Take Me Higher (CQ)
The Beatles - You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Help!)
The Kinks - Nothing In This World (Rushmore)
High Numbers - I’m the Face (Quadrophenia)
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy (Goodfellas)
Jimi Hendrix Experience - If Six Were Nine (Easy Rider)
Ry Cooder feat. Mick Jagger - Memo From Turner (Performance)
John Hiatt - Spy Boy (Cruising)
Tangerine Dream - Guido the Killer Pimp (Risky Business)
Neil Young feat Bill Murray - Ode to Wild Bill (Where the Buffalo Roam)
America, Fuck Yeah - Bummer Mix (Team America)
The Kalikak Family - Top Gun
Berlin - Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
John Carpenter - He’s Still Alive (Escape From New York)
Daft Punk - The Grid (Tron Legacy)
Mark Mothersbaugh - Ping Island (Royal Tennenbaums)
J Spaceman feat. Diego Luna - Michael’s Opening (Mister Lonely)
Kermit the Frog - Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie)
Sigur Ros - Staralfur (Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Max Richter - On the Nature of Daylight (Stranger than Fiction)
Jon Brion - He Really Needs Me (Punch Drunk Love)
Dooley Wilson - As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
Gene Kelly - Singing in the Rain (Singing in the Rain)
George Gershwin - He Love and She Loves (Manhattan)
The Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love (Saturday Night Fever)
Spandau Ballet - True (Sixteen Candles)
Elton John - Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous)
David Foster - Love Theme From St. Elmo-s Fire (St. Elmo’s Fire)
The Flamingos - I Only Have Eyes For You (American Graffiti)
Cool Change - Streets of the Bronx (A Bronx Tale)
Air - Playground Love (Virgin Suicides)
Sebastian Tellier - Universe (Daft Punk’s Electroma)
Bernard Herman - Main Title (Taxi Driver)
Brad Fiedel - Terminator Love Theme (Terminator)
Vangelis - Deckard and Rachel (Blade Runner)
Giorgio Moroder and David Bowie - The Myth (Cat People)
Giorgio Moroder - Tony’s Theme (Scarface)
Pearlâ’s Song - Dirty Reissue (Night of the Hunter)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Rose - Hand Covers Bruise (The Social Network)
Jocelyn Pook - Masked Ball (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti - Musica Ricercata II (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Maria Callas - La Mamma Morta (Philadelphia)
Sonic Youth - Slambient Desire (Demonlover)
Neil Young - Why Does Thou Hide Thyself, Clouds (Dead Man)
Gabriel Yared and Underworld - Not Talking (Breaking and Entering)
Ry Cooder feat Harry Dean Stanton - Cancion Mixteca (Paris, Texas)
The Ink Spots - I Understand (Trees Lounge)
Percy Sledge - The Dark End of the Street (This is England)
Bette Midler - The Rose (The Rose)
Pinocchio - When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
Vera Lynn - We’ll Meet Again (Dr. Strangelove)
