![]() The song itself is soulful, cries out for escape, and eventually becomes so earnest, it loses sight of which reality its supposed to be describing: Rabbit’s or Eminem’s. The song tells the story of 8 Mile‘s protagonist, Rabbit, who is a thinly-veiled analogue for Eminem himself. The first rap song to ever win an Academy Award was Eminem’s theme song to Curtis Hanson’s 8 Mile. “Weird Science” is catchy, wicked fun, and has awesome lyrics. They also did the music for the excellent cult musical Forbidden Zone, directed by Richard Elfman. Oingo Boingo were, as I have come to understand from speaking to non-natives, not very popular elsewhere in the U.S., but I can assure you they were pretty enormous here with hits like “Only a Lad,” “Just Another Day,” “Private Life,” and others. I would be remiss as a Los Angelino if I failed to mention local boys Oingo Boingo, the bizarro New Wave band behind the theme song to John Hughes’ Weird Science. All classics, none cinematic greats, all fun to watch and to listen to. His three most notable come from Footloose, Caddyshack, and Top Gun. Loggins, that master of bold, ballsy, bluesy hard rock hit a pleasure-inducing sweet spot throughout the pop consciousness, and his songs have come to define not only the movies they come from, but the entire decade. There were a lot of really fantastic movie theme songs in the 1980s, and we have Kenny Loggins to thanks for three of the most memorable. “Footloose,” “I’m Alright,” and “Danger Zone” (Tie) It’s a song sung by the weathered, leathery man who has lived too hard and not learned enough.ĩ. Bruce Springsteen’s theme for The Wrestler – all about a sad one-trick pony – is a quiet sensitive tearjerker of the highest order. Pro wrestlers were icons of masculinity to young boys growing up in the 1980s, and Aronofsky seemed to know how to sensitively reach into that myth and extract the sad, vulnerable, withering human soul living within. To this day, “Burn” has the power to scorch the soul.Ĭonfession: Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler makes this reviewer bawl like a little girl. This is no more true than in Nine Inch Nails’ theme song, “Burn,” which is about wanting to watch the world die off in a fiery ball of death. Through the music alone, you can practically see the film’s extreme violence. It was an very, very intense collection of hard-edged industrial music punctuated by dialogue from the film. Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers had one of the best soundtrack records of the 1990s, which also means it had one of the best soundtrack records of all time. By all means, let us know your favorites as well. SoundTreks has selected the following 11 songs as the best that have ever been put to film. Only pop songs that serve as a movie’s official theme music. ![]() No songs previously heard in stage musicals. The song must have made its debut in the film. The song must be about the events or characters in the film, at least tangentially or metaphorically, and 3. The song must have been written explicitly for the film in question, 2. Which logically leads us to query: What are the best ones? This is when the unending selection process begins, and the discussion opens. ![]() It’s well-known, but it’s hardly one of the best of all movie theme songs. But it’s not exactly complex, creative, or textured. In brief, when one takes a look at the ultra-catchy original song by Ray Parker, Jr., one finds that it’s actually not a great song. Here in the journalism trade, there have been innumerable retrospectives, reviews of the new films are now plentiful ( including my own), and we at SoundTreks even recently wrote about the original film’s schizophrenic soundtrack record. ![]() The release of the new Ghostbusters film has the entire nation going a little Ghostbusters nutty. ![]()
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