Top 10 Movie Soundtracks Featuring Classic Rock Music 1 'Almost Famous' 2 'Blow' 3 'Dazed And Confused' 4 'Easy Rider' 5 'Fast Times At Ridgemont High' 6 'Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas' 7 'Juno' 8 'Pirate Radio' 9 'Rock 'N' Roll High School' 10 'Watchmen'
Even when you eliminate the obvious—biopics and documentaries about rock stars and events—you'll find that classic rock is a key part of today's feature films. Hollywood has employed rock from the '60s and '70s to enhance films about everything from motorcycles to drugs to high school angst.
If nothing else, it's a plot that lends itself to a classic rock soundtrack that includes the obligatory "School's Out" by Alice Cooper and other '70s anthems like Deep Purple's "Highway Star," "Tush" by ZZ Top, Foghat's "Slow Ride" and Rick Derringer's "Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo" among its 14 tracks.
Done right, there are few moments in film more adrenaline spiking or emotionally impactful than those soundtracked by an inspired choice from the catalogues of our favourite bands. The best songs can set the mood, change the tone, anchor the intended time period or switch the momentum in all the time it takes to hit play.
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This 2014 Disney/Marvel collaboration is brilliant for a whole host of reasons. From iconic central ‘healthcare’ robot Baymax to its San Fransokyo setting (fusing Californian cool with the ...
Deep for an action flick. Well, sort of, but t he soundtrack got as much talk as the movie itself. It marked Schwarenegger re-teaming with Guns 'N' Roses, who had not put out an original song in ...
Top 30 movies featuring the rock. In Jumanji: The Next Level, the gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game.
The soundtrack includes all those great bands whose names start with "The"—Who, Hollies, Kinks, Turtles, Troggs, Box Tops plus Hendrix, Moody Blues, Cream, Rolling Stones— in all, 32 classic rock tracks.
Giant Records. The year is 1976. On the day they graduate from high school, a group of friends contemplates where they've been and where they're going. If nothing else, it's a plot that lends itself to a classic rock soundtrack that includes the obligatory "School's Out" by Alice Cooper and other '70s anthems like Deep Purple's "Highway Star," ...
A coming of age story detailing the brief affair between a high school wrestling champ and an older woman, the film is consummately forgettable, but for its soundtrack—the Tangerine Dream score and this Madonna megahit which actually led to the film being retitled “ Crazy for You ” in some territories.
Along with Berlin ’s ballad “Take My Breath Away,’ “Danger Zone” is probably the most enduring musical contribution from the movie. Co-written by Giorgio Moroder, it was turned down by Toto, Bryan Adams and REO Speedwagon before 80s soundtrack superstar Kenny Loggins stepped up.
Paul Schrader ’s 1982 remake of “ Cat People ” ultimately can’t hold a candle to the great Jacques Tourneur/Val Lewton 1942 original, but it’s still fascinating stuff with a lot that’s worthwhile in it, just one element of which is the theme song, performed by David Bowie.
And again we feel the long shadow cast by 80s synth wizard Giorgio Moroder, as this classic track was written by the Italian maestro, who then asked Philip Oakey, himself a composer and a founding member of The Human League, to record it.
Most movie musicals have a track that’s most associated with them, but not all have theme tunes as such. Alan Parker ’s 1980 stage-school tuner is certainly the exception, with a title track that helped the film to… wait for it… live forever.
The third solo film starring Chris Hemsworth’s godly Avenger, and directed by Oscar-winner Taika Waititi, was given the rare honor of having godly rock and roll band Led Zeppelin play his theme music, and there was no better choice than the epic single off of their third self-titled album.
1” track list from Guardians of the Galaxy memorized. The films of the MCU are just as well known for having an epic soundtrack, such as Kendrick Lamar ’s Grammy-winning Black Panther: The Album, as they are known for their epic superheroes.
As the eventual Guardians of the Galaxy are first brought to the Kyln, an employee of the interstellar prison is sorting through their belongings when he comes across Quill’s Walkman, forcing the enraged music lover to cry out that the song playing from the headphones, “Hooked on a Feeling, " belongs to him, only to be incapacitated by a stunning device. Luckily, Star-Lord would eventually get his revenge, and his “Awesome Mix” back when the ragtag crew make their escape. Now, anytime you hear that “Ooga-Chaka-Ooga-Ooga,” you can’t not think of Star-Lord, right?
While the de facto theme song of Robert Downey Jr.’s debut MCU appearance would most likely be 1971’s “Iron Man” (it is in the name, after all), Black Sabbath is not the first band you hear when you think of Tony Stark.
Tony Stark is riding through Iraq with soldiers from the United States military, in a Humvee blasting the title track of AC/DC’s 1980 comeback album Back in Black through the speakers, when they are surprisingly attacked by the weapons developer’s own missile, leading to his capture, from which he eventually escapes with the first Iron Man prototype armor. “Iron Man” may be synoymous with Stark’s alter ego, but the pivotal moment that led to his heroic evolution is synonymous with “Back in Black.” The song also made a funny reprisal in Spider-Man: Far From Home, to Peter Parker’s reply, “I love Led Zeppelin!”
Each song that appears in both volumes of Peter Quill’s “Awesome Mix,” and the Zune that Kraglin gives him to replace his destroyed Walkman, reflects an important theme in the story, and no song from the 2017 sequel represents that like this Fleetwood Mac song .
The soundtrack includes all those great bands whose names start with "The"—Who, Hollies, Kinks, Turtles, Troggs, Box Tops plus Hendrix, Moody Blues, Cream, Rolling Stones— in all, 32 classic rock tracks.
Giant Records. The year is 1976. On the day they graduate from high school, a group of friends contemplates where they've been and where they're going. If nothing else, it's a plot that lends itself to a classic rock soundtrack that includes the obligatory "School's Out" by Alice Cooper and other '70s anthems like Deep Purple's "Highway Star," ...