Songs that will never not make you think of a specific movie (and which movie)

Good topic OP! I have a couple:

Kissing You by Des'ree - Romeo and Juliet

Gloria by Laura Branigan - Flash Dance

I am kicking myself for not specifying it shouldn't be the movie's theme song like, Footloose and well, Footloose :) or the Bond songs specifically written for the movie

Lady Sings The Blues

Gimme Shelter

Every movie I ever made.

"At This Moment" = Family Ties

Not a movie, but it's the most indelible song/production link I have.

Rainbow/Oz

I'm glad you stipulated that rescue-chick. I was gonna include Flash Dance what a feeling in my post, but figured that would be way too obvious, lol.

Rock Around the Clock (American Graffiti)

C'è la luna mezzo mare (The Godfather)

She Loves You (A Hard Day's Night)

Don't Leave Me this Way (Looking for Mr. Goodbar)

Disco Inferno (Saturday Night Fever)

In Your Eyes (Say Anything)

Be My Baby (Mean Street)

^^ meant Mean Streets ^^

And I've had...

the time of my life...

no I've never felt like this before...

-Dirty Dancing

Do you mean the Ronettes version of Be My Baby R8,? 'Cause if so, that song makes me think of Dirty Dancing

The Man That Got Away/A Star Is Born

As Time Goes By/Casablanca

Yes, R11 - but I'm most likely older than you and I saw Mean Streets on cable in the early '80s.

Anyway, in a "serious" music vein, I'd like to add Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse, Now) to my R8 list.

Do You Know The Way To San Jose/My Best Friend's Wedding

I Will Always Love You/The Bodyguard

Lady Marmalade/Moulin Rouge

ok, someone has to say it-

My heart will go on by Celine Dion

-Titanic

Someone mentioned family Ties earlier.. The Beatles' In My Life makes me think of that show. I think Elyse Keaton sings it in an episode and it was my first time hearing that song when I was a kid.

Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds -The Breakfast Club

A few more:

You Sexy Thing (The Full Monty)

O-o-h Child (Crooklyn)

Sabotage (Star Trek Beyond)

Space Age Love Song (the fabulously underrated Spanish-language gay film End of the Century)

and most especially Love for Life (Trainspotting)

And BTW, I specifically picked songs that weren't written for any of those films, but I now can't separate those songs from the movies because they were so effectively used in them.

Wind beneath my Wings

-Beaches

Eye of the Tiger

-Rocky 3

Boy, how the hell did I confuse "Love" for "Lust" in the Iggy Pop song I mentioned @ R19.

R19, you just reminded me that Ooh Child instantly draws me back to that scene in Boyz N Tha Hood when Doughboy and his friend get arrested.

I Never Dreamed You Leave in Summer - Poetic Justice 1993

"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan - Zodiac

Oh Yeah - Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Puttin' on the Ritz - Young Frankenstein

[quote]I'd like to add Ride of the Valkyries (Apocalypse, Now)

I also associate “The End” by The Doors with Apocalypse Now.

Puttin' on the Ritz - Idiot's Delight

Oops, sorry.

Puttin' on the Ritz - Idiot's Delight

All Summer Long - American Graffiti

Puttin' on the Ritz - Blue Skies

Puttin' on the Ritz - Blue Skies

"More Than This" (Roxy Music) - "Lost In Translation"

Somebody’s Baby in “Fast Times”

Poor Wandering One - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Lisa Loeb's Stay - Reality Bites

R19 and R22 O-o-h Child was first in a movie called Over the Edge with Matt Dillon.

The song Wild Horses in Camp, sung by Daniel Latterle at the height of his twinkness. I like how much the room comes alive and his earnestness and pride in performing it grows. I really had not known the song prior to seeing it here, unlike the show tunes, and at first though it might be his own like Paul McCrane’s song in Fame.

Plus one for OP.

Street Life - Randy Crawford

And

Didn't I Blow Your Mind -: The Delfonics

JACKIE BROWN

Courage in Sweet Hereafter sung by Sarah Polley. It comes early in the film and unknowingly works as foreshadowing for the movie and sets the tone of regret and melancholy.

True by Spandau Ballet - Sixteen Candles

Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey in the movie Monster.

"In Your Eyes" from "Say Anything".

Born Slippy - Trainspotting Wicked Game - Wild at Heart Into the Groove - Desperately Seeking Susan

Journey's Anyway You Want It always makes me laugh because I immediately start picturing Rodney Dangerfield and the ridiculous golf course dancing from Caddyshack.

Speedo - Goodfellas

Stagger Lee - Shag

That’s so strange, I don’t think of Scorsese’s movie having music let alone recognizable songs.

I can never listen to ABBA's "Dancing Queen" without picturing Toni Collette in the back of the taxicab at the end of "Muriel's Wedding":

"Never not" = always, OP. Songs that will always make you think of a specific movie.

Pretty much anything on the Sixteen Candles soundtrack. Ring Me Up by the Divinyls being a perfect example.

Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" Tom Cruise in underwear Risky Business

Cece Peniston’s Finally - Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Danke Schoen - Ferris Bueller’s day off

Carry On My Wayward Son - SUPERNATURAL

The Power of Love - Huey Lewis and the News: "Back to the Future"

Rhapsody in Blue - Manhattan

Unchained Melody - Ghost

Bridesmaids - Hold on

"Don’t Stop Believin’ by Journey in the movie Monster."

Weird, but in my mind this song is forever immediately connected with the Sopranos.

Liebestraum - All About Eve

The first time I heard "O Fortuna" from the Carmina Burana was when I saw Excalibur in the theater. I realize it's the most overused piece of classical music. Still, I hear it and think of Gabriel Byrne in Excalibur.

The prelude to Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (Vertigo)

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

^^^^ Fallin’

Super Freak - Little Miss Sunshine

Vanessa Williams' "Save the Best For Last" - Priscilla, Queen of the Desert's end credits.

Tom Jones's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" - The Full Monty

The Revels' "Comanche" - Um, THAT scene from Pulp Fiction.

Apache (Jump on it) by Sugar Hill Gang & It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones instantly conjure up The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. I can't hear "Unusual" and not do the Carlton dance.

I think it’s been (over) used I n other movies, but I immediately get images of peek beauty Freddy Prinze Jr. in She’s All That when Six Pence None the Richer’s Kiss Me comes on.

[quote]Tom Jones's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" - The Full Monty

And before that, Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" in 9 1/2 Weeks

It probably marks me as a philistine, but this Puccini aria will always make me think of A Room with a View

Danger Zone and Take my Breath Away by I don't know who

-Top Gun

Yeah, Take My Breath Away is inextricably linked to Top Gun.

Love My Way by the Psychedelic Furs in Call Me By Your Name.

Come Sail Away - The Virgin Suicides.

That music from Apocalypse Now during attack

Mama Mia by ABBA: "Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert".

Of the few times I've heard this song since seeing the movie, I immediately think of the actors from the movie lip-synching.

I see you and raise you R31 & R32

That would be "Ride of the Valkyries," r77.

Harper's Bazaar version of "Anything Goes": The Boys in the Band

Singing in the Rain - A Clockwork Orange. One of the most brilliant song choices EVER! (and for those who saw the movie and don't know, it was improvised by Malcolm McDowell).

"Panic" (The Smiths)/"Don't Stop Me Now" (Queen) -- Shaun of the Dead

The Power of Love - Back to the Future

For some funny inexplicable reason, "Theme from 'Dr. Zhivago'" always makes me think of "Dr Zhivago"!

Mr. Sandman by The Chordettes always reminds me of the Halloween series (and that episode of The Golden Girls, of course...)

In fact, all of John Hughes' moviees have some, iconic song. The '80s were ALL about movie soundtracks.

Another one that reminds me of Halloween: Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

Sliver had a great soundtrack. One of two songs that always remind me of that movie:

Shake your groove thing

I will survive.

Both Priscilla

And the other song from Sliver: Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy, one of my favorite songs EVER

Nobody saw SLIVER.

r95, I think of the miniseries 'The Stand v with that BOC song

"Alright" by Supergrass, from "Clueless"

ANYTHING from THE LAST DRAGON soundtrack.

This was the big hit:

Ghey anthem.

R101 what are you talking about? It was nominated for several Oscars, and won for Best Use of the Word 'Panties' in a Restaurant Scene

There are some I wish I could FORGET all about.

R95, This song reminds me of Orange is the New Black.

I'd pay good money to remove this from the collective consciousness:

Funny, r108. It reminds most people of Saturday Night Live.

[quote]Lady Sings The Blues

It’s a simple song, but hits all those emotions. I feel Diana Ross sings it better.

I can't hear this song without thinking of PRISCILLA, r97.

Absolutely R113. Can't believe I didn't think of that one.

Hot Chocolate's "You Sexy Thing" was in EVERY SHOW in the '90s, from TALES OF THE CITY, to FULL MONTY to BOOGIE NIGHTS to PATCH ADAMS, so it's never going to illicit the same movie for everyone.

It's like "Don't Fear the Reaper." Overused.

Santo and Johnny's "Sleep Walk" was used to such a creepy effect in Stephen King's SLEEPWALKERS that I always think of that movie when I hear it.

But again, nobody saw SLEEPWALKERS.

Open up, BLUE VELVET, Baby wants to fuck!

This song always reminds me of the opening scene of Foul Play and Goldie Hawn driving up the California coastline.

The ROCKY franchise has a lot of songs as iconic as the character.

What a throwback R122, Sleep Walk instantly reminds me of Richie Valens and La Bamba. The instrumental was played during the funeral procession scene. Because of that connection, this song has always been more sad and melancholy to me than creepy.

I can't hear "Sh-Boom" or "Shake, Rattle and Roll" without thinking of DL fave CLUE:

Mrs. Peacock was a man?!

R27 I associate The End (Doors) with the mini-series Feud. (I know it's not a movie, I just wanted to acknowledge a great song again.)

Speaking of The Doors

People are Strange

The Lost Boys

Right, r130.

That movie made my '80s middle school suddenly get into the '60s and The Doors.

Here's another song I wish I could erase from history. It was played and copied A LOT when it came out.

For what it’s worth by Buffalo Springfield in Forrest Gump when Jenny is high and walking on the edge of the roof

American Woman! From American Beauty when Kevin Spacey's driving down the street singing with the radio....

R133, I thought Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd was playing during that scene?

[quote] it's never going to illicit the same movie for everyone.

Oh, [italic]dear.[/italic]

Mrs Robinson - The Graduate

R135 you are correct it was freebird

Slave to Love by Bryan Ferry 91/2 Weeks.

Still love the soundtrack and film.

Soul on Fire—LaVern Baker

Angel Heart

The Sparks eaten by the monster of love The Plimsouls a million miles away Valley Girl

A Thousand Miles - White Chicks

R.E.M.'s "It's the End of the World as We Know It" - Independence Day

La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid, No. 6, Op. 30 (String Quintet in C) by Luigi Boccherini - Master and Commander

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies -- Dumb and Dumber

Wagner's Das Rheingold vorspiel - "The New World"

The Lonely Goatherd.

Ride of the Valkyries - Apocalypse Now

"In Dreams" by Roy Orbison in BLUE VELVET

Bob Seger "Still the Same" - Ozark

Bob Seger "We've Got Tonight" - The Wonder Years (I don't care - I'm including TV shows)

if we're including tv shows I am going to confess something to perhaps the only people who will understand my RAGE at the Campbell's tomato soup commercial that has a cover of 'Thank you for being a friend' as the commercials theme song.

RAGE

Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - The Year of Living Dangerously

Free Bird, by Skynard, always makes me think of Forrest Gump. I can just see coked out Jenny in those big platforms, standing on the ledge.

The duet from Lakme (as heard below) has been overused in many a movie and show, but I first remember it from the lesbian love scene in The Hunger between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve.

I associate a lot of music with Donnie Darko (particularly Sparkle Motion dancing to Duran Duran's Notorious) but it also has Gary Jules' cover of Tears for Fears Mad World.

Pete Townsend’s Let My Love Open the Door - Look Who’s Talking

R155 Don’t mean to blow your mind, but when they filmed Sparkle Motion dancing they used West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys, but the rights were to expensive. Watch the sequence again sound off, substituting WEG and you’ll never think of it the same again.

Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You"- Reservoir Dogs

Jump by The Pointer Sisters - Love Actually

Tiny Dancer -- Almost Famous

Unchained Melody - Ghost

Little Green Bag- Reservoir Dogs

For as much as Martin Scorsese used the song, Gimme Shelter will always remind me of Adventures in Babysitting when the sheltered suburban kids have to drive into the big, bad city. Very effective.

Day-O!

Sympathy for the Devil - Interview with the Vampire

Carol of the Bells

Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

Both from Home Alone

Welcome to the Jungle - Lean on Me

Time is on my Side - Rolling Stones

from the Denzel movie Fallen

The Tequila song from PeeWees big Adventure

Bruce Springsteen’s The Secret Garden from Jerry Maguire

and, obviously, Streets of Philadelphia, from Philadelphia

Almost Famous- Tiny Dancer

Madonna’s This Used to be My Playground from A League of Their Own

Build Me Up Buttercup

There’s Something About Mary

Adagio For Strings- Platoon

Beautiful music, but it makes me so freaking sad and depressed.

Layla always makes me think of Good Fellas

Yeehaw

Johnny B. Goode makes me think of Back to the Future and the scene where Marty jams out

R166=The Ghost of Michael Jackson

R173 Wow, even with that cheesy mustache Matt Dillon looks so handsome, as did that sexy football player.

That's a good one R174! I haven't listened to Adagio for Strings in years but whenever I hear it, I automatically think of Platoon and Willem Dafoe's character. A high school teacher of mine once told me that Adagio was playing during the news broadcast after Walter Kronkite announced President Kennedy's death. This music is very, very mournful.

Kokomo makes me think of Cocktail and this scene from the show Scrubs when Turk says that he wants to go to Kokomo for his honeymoon and his fiancé, Carla, tells him, again, that it’s not a real place.

Doesn’t sound funny here, but it was funny on the show.

Movie: Death in Venice

Music: Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 - Gustav Mahler

Leonard Bernstein conducted the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5 at RFK's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral, June 8, 1968.

Mrs. Robinson. The Gradute

I Dont Want to Miss a Thing by Aerosmith from the movie Armageddon

Kiss From a Rose from Batman Forever

Dangerous Minds

All-Star and Shrek

I Need a Hero reminds me of two movies- Short Circuit 2 and Shrek 2

Here’s Short Circuit

Shrek 2

Killing Me Softly from About A Boy

The goofy looking kid grew up to be hot. Well done, Nicholas Hoult

Clint and Donna Mills making love to "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" in PLAY MISTY FOR ME

No matter how often it has been featured in various productions and how famous it is, I'll always associate Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again" with Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove":

"BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD" by Bauhaus in the opening credits for The Hunger.

r194 I've appropriated "We'll Meet Again" as a theme song for now. I hope someone uses it in a movie that gets made about Our Troubled Times.

Yes, R50! Also from Muriel’s Wedding: Waterloo, which Muriel and Rhonda lip sync to in the talent contest.

Another one (a little obscure?): One Way Or Another, heard during the bus joyriding scene in Little Darlings.

Wow, I didn't realize Dame Vera Lynn was still alive. Showing my ignorance again. She's 103!

Raspberry Beret and the .Purple Rain Soundtrack don't remind me of a movie ( besides Purple Rain)but take me back to my final years in college. I was a cheerleader at my university, had moved out of the Fraternity house to my own efficiency piece of shit apt and worked at a liquor store in our downtown area. I was the happiest I'd ever been in my entire life or have been since.

The Entertainer by Scott Joplin makes me think of The Sting

On the Radio/Foxes.

Somebody’s Baby/Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Little Boy Sweet/Vacation.

It’s a Living Thing/Boogie Nights.

I Melt With You/Valley Girl.

In the Air Tonight/Risky Business.

While r169 associates Tequila with Peewee’s Big Adventure, I associate the song with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

The interesting posts are the ones that have famous songs that just happen to play on the soundtrack. The boring posts are the ones that have themes from the movie that everyone automatically associates with the film like “My Heart Will Go On” from Titanic and “What A Feeling” from Flashdance.

Holiday Road- Vacation

I like this song, should be played on the radio more

For r203: Live & Let Die/Live & Let Die :)

Whenever I hear Heart’s Magic Man I think of Josh Hartnett opening the door and walking in the school in the Virgin Suicides.

Hot guy, terrible wig

I Touch Myself reminds me of this scene from Austin Powers

This song really ties the movie together

Just Dropped In

Freebird has been used in a few movies, but it is now always connected with The Kingsman for me.

This scene was unreal.

Warning- very violent and graphic

Where Is My Mind

The Pixies

Fight Club

God Only Knows will never not remind me of this awkward scene from Enduring Love

Hip To Be Square.

One of my favorite sports scenes ever- Wild Thing. From Major League.

Staralfur by Sigur Ros was used perfectly in this scene from the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and I always think of it when I hear the song.

Both Sides Now = Emma Thompson getting her heart broken in Love Actually.

Long Tall Sally as used in Predator. The first time I ever heard this song was in this movie, so that’s probably why it always reminds me of it.

Talking Heads’ Burning Down the House always makes me think of the frat house scene in the beginning of Revenge of the Nerds.

Green Onions makes me think of these rich kids riding up on their bikes in The Sandlot

Two from Jefferson Airplane.

1. White Rabbit from the pot smoking shotgunning scene in Platoon. Always makes me think of Willemstad Dafoe

2. Somebody To Love from The Cable Guy

Ode To Joy is the Die Hard song

Wayne’s World made me unable to hear Hendrix’s Foxy Lady without making the fox ears

[quote]Willemstad Dafoe

Who says autocorrect has no sense of humor?

^little known fact, Willemstad is his full name

He shortened it to Willem when he joined SAG

One of the Living (Tina Turner) - Mad Max

Check out the sax player's muscles.

From Collateral:

Rollin' Crumblin'

Perfectly underscores the building tension.

"You Make My Dreams" by Hall & Oates in (500) DAYS OF SUMMER

"Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" - Mannequin

I love it, R224!

One of my favorite Tina Turner sings!

It’s really powerful and raw.

Party Up (Up in Here) by DMX - Zack and Miri Make a Porno

And Then He Kissed Me....Goodfellas, in that one long shot at the nightclub...

R230 that reminds me Rags to Riches always reminds me of Goodfellas. Well that and Carmine singing it on Laverne & Shirley, but I’d kind of rather forget about that one.

Love will turn you Around (Kenny Rogers) Six Pack

The Fight Song (Barbra Streisand) The Main Event (1979)

Looking For Love (Johnny Lee) Urban Cowboy (1980)

Love lift us up Where We Belong (Joe Cocker) An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)

My Fair Share (Seals & Crofts) One On One (1977)

If You Leave by OMD - Pretty in Pink The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss) by Betty Everett - Desperately Seeking Susan

R230, And Then He Kissed Me always reminds me Adventures in Babysitting

"Also sprach Zarathustra" Richard Strauss - 2001 Space Odyssey

Georgy Girl from Georgy Girl.

R235 Same here.

The SNL skit and later A Night At The Roxbury

There are some really good mentions already.

Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs) & If You Leave (OMD) - Pretty in Pink Stuck in the Middle With You - Reservoir Dogs My Heart Will Go On (barf) - Titanic

The Way We Were - The Way We Were

Born To Be Wild - Easy Rider

This is from a tv show, but I’m including it.

Walking in Memphis will always make me think of the ending of the X-Files episode, The Post-Modern Prometheus, when Mulder and Scully take the Great Mutato to a Cher concert and she sings this. (Unfortunately, the real Cher didn’t make a cameo, this is an impersonator.)

This was one of my favorite tv moments growing up and every time I hear this song I think of it

I Believe I Can Fly - Space Jam

Be My Baby, Dirty Dancing

Mambo italiano, Married to the Mob

Not a movie, but I will always associate that Journey song with the excellent assasination scene in the Sopranos. Can’t remember the title but it starts with “she was just a small town girrrrrrl...”

R215 I now associate Both Sides Now with the disturbing Hereditary! 😳

Across the Overpass by The Solids - Strictly Sexual (2008)