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Favorite Movie Theme Songs

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Everyone has their favorite quotes but what are your favorite movie theme songs? Mine are:

 

Halloween

Beverly Hills Cop

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

dont know the names to any of the songs:

 

beginning tune in seinfeld

James Bond always had a good theme song

Lord of the rings

remember the titans orchestra like song

 

thats all ive got so far

off the top of head cant really think of any...liked dawn of the dead's use of "the man comes around" by cash. also like carl orff's "o fortuna" which don't remember if it has been a theme song in movies but has been featured prominently in some. most anything by hans zimmer.

Suicide is Painless from M*A*S*H

 

At the end of Heroes, they played Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas. It is easily the best use of an existing song in a movie I have ever heard. Inexplicably, the cheap asses at the studio dropped the song from the DVD version of the movie.

 

Carry on my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more

 

Once I rose above the noise and confusion

Just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion

I was soaring ever higher

But I flew too high

 

Though my eyes could see I still was a blind man

Though my mind could think I still was a mad man

I hear the voices when I'm dreaming

I can hear them say

 

Carry on my wayward son

There'll be peace when you are done

Lay your weary head to rest

Don't you cry no more 

Hmm I guess there's a difference between a movie theme and a prominent song that seems to represent a movie.

 

If we take both into account I love

 

Little Green Bag in Reservoir Dogs

Woke Up This Morning in The Sopranos

Not Going to Stop by Aimee Mann in Magnolia

Theme de Camille in Contempt

Mystic River theme composed by Clint Eastwood

 

those are just a few of the top of my head

QUOTE(chi-guy2 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 05:59 PM)
remember the titans orchestra like song

Yes I love that one.

Little Green Bag in Reservoir Dogs

Life is Brief in Ikiru

 

And I have to give a shout to Partyman by Prince in Batman (it is during the scene where Joker (Nicholson) takes over the museum and they start destroying it -- "Gentlemen, let's broaden our minds!"

Rocky gonna fly now, Eye of the tiger,Anything by Bill Conti

Terminator 2: Judgement Day the end theme and beginning

The Godfather

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

And... Suburban Commando :lol:

Edited by Spod=Ratings

I'll second Suicide is Painless.

 

The classics:

Chariots of Fire

Ghostbusters

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

Top Gun

 

And I'll throw in the theme from GI Joe the Movie, just to be different.

I'd have a pretty big list if I were to take my time, but here are a few that I can think of as of right now:

 

Star Wars

Terminator 2

The Untouchables

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

 

... man, I know there's a lot more out there...

Titanic
QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 09:33 PM)
Titanic

:notworthy :lolhitting

 

I'm on my laptop and saw that coming from you and my first thought was OMG! This from a lady who doesn't like cliches. Then I turned slightly and the font looked green :D

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 08:35 PM)
:notworthy  :lolhitting

 

I'm on my laptop and saw that coming from you and my first thought was OMG! This from a lady who doesn't like cliches. Then I turned slightly and the font looked green  :D

:D

 

(I was going to put The Bodyguard, but then realized a lot of the youngin's might not even know that theme song....)

2001: A Space Odyssey

"Escape From New York" comes to mind immediately.

 

Also, "Young Guns Pt. II" with the Jon Bon Jovi theme.

QUOTE(hammerhead johnson @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 11:12 PM)
Also, "Young Guns Pt. II" with the Jon Bon Jovi theme.

 

Harley Davidson and the Marlborough Man also features the Bon Jovi song, "Dead or Alive," which I believe was written specifcally for that movie.

 

To whoever said 2001, you realize that was a classical concerto first, right?

Halloween - Unmistakable toon there...love to hear it, people cringe when they hear that. John Carpenter's great work

 

 

Oceans 11 - Matter of fact, I LOVE all the music in Oceans 11. Great sound.

QUOTE(Wedge @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 12:55 AM)
To whoever said 2001, you realize that was a classical concerto first, right?

 

[Listening to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony]

Alex: Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!

 

Not all of the choices have been songs written specifically for the particular movies, and yes, I do realize that.

 

I just really like how the music and the images were put together in 2001.

Tubular Bells from The Exorcist

Ravel's "Bolero"

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 01:03 AM)
Not all of the choices have been songs written specifically for the particular movies, and yes, I do realize that.

 

I just really like how the music and the images were put together in 2001.

 

Fair enough. I wasn't sure if this was supposed to be themes that were made specifically for the movies or not.

The Natural

Jurassic Park

Star Wars

John Carpenter has always been great, and I loved how Ennio Morricone took the Carpenter style for Carpenters The Thing.

 

The whole soundtrack for Let Sleeping Corpses Lie.

The Cat Stevens soundtrack from Harold and Maude.

 

That Pink Floyd soundtrack from Wizard of Oz

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