Songs from movies that have nothing to do with the movie

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Would Prom Night using covers of Time After Time, and Time of the Season count

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Feb 23, 2024 5:35:27 GMT -5 Lance Uppercut said:

Then I remembered Kiss from a rose by Seal. Great song, what the hell does it have to do with Batman? It has absolutely no connection with the rest of Batman forever except, it just randomly starts playing during the end credits.

Joel Schumacher heard it on the radio in 1994 and decided it would be a perfect fit for a Bruce Wayne/Chase Meridian love scene that was ultimately cut. As they'd already paid a pretty penny to license the song they kept it on the soundtrack, had Seal come to set to shoot a new music video for it, and released it as a single to try to pay back the licensing fee. And then it became a monster hit a year after it had barely charted.

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

Zombie by The Cranberries plays at the end of Army of the Dead and it's just the funniest shit. It's like Snyder wanted a cool song to play at the end of his zombie flick so he picked that because the chorus repeats the word zombie.

[A Platypus Rave]

Feb 24, 2024 17:30:11 GMT -5 Harry The Arrow was Wrong! said:

Zombie by The Cranberries plays at the end of Army of the Dead and it's just the funniest shit. It's like Snyder wanted a cool song to play at the end of his zombie flick so he picked that because the chorus repeats the word zombie.

It say Zombie in it doesn't it?

Clearly it's about Zombies... what is subtext? -Snyder probably. >_>

[IgnahtaSempria]

Honestly, you could say this about 80% of all 90s/early 00s kids movies without original soundtracks. Power Rangers, Jimmy Neutron, Digimon, Pokemon, all their soundtracks were just whatever artists were on the Top 40 charts at the time, and one or two of the songs were tangentially related to the plot of the movie by sheer coincidence.

[DSR]

Feb 24, 2024 2:08:48 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

The song "Run With Us" by Lisa Lougheed, a Canadian classic, the theme song for the fondly remembered cartoon series "The Raccoons", was used for the end credits of "Hobo With A Shotgun".

Well, the makers of HOBO are also Canadian.

[thechase]

Feb 24, 2024 18:43:48 GMT -5 IgnahtaSempria said:

Honestly, you could say this about 80% of all 90s/early 00s kids movies without original soundtracks. Power Rangers, Jimmy Neutron, Digimon, Pokemon, all their soundtracks were just whatever artists were on the Top 40 charts at the time, and one or two of the songs were tangentially related to the plot of the movie by sheer coincidence.

MMPR The Movie actually used the hits wisely...it helped that it was based off an action show that delved into various degrees of high octane sports, so there was a track for every instance of that, and it also had an original orchestral soundtrack mixed in as well, even the MMPR theme was a mix of rock and an orchestra!

Some of the movie's memorable hits, Shampoo's Trouble, and Van Halen's Dreams, either relate in some way to the movie's situation or are used for big celebratory scenes. In both cases, they actually play over the speakers in Angel Grove in their respective scenes

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie had a rock based soundtrack, but was produced entirely in-house by Ron Wasserman, and most of the songs are related to the Rangers kicking ass or the 'Turbo' themes of the film.


However, that movie's soundtrack album couldn't escape having songs from the back catalogue included that had nothing to do with the actual movie. The album has music about the previous season Power Rangers Zeo, of which there's only about 2% of callbacks to it in the movie itself, and one song about the Gold Ranger. Yeah, Austin St. John is in the film, but he'd lost his powers in the Zeo finale

[dirtyoldman]

I think every film in the 80s had 'I'm walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the waves playing during the end credits.