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Live Poll: What is the Best Song From a Non-Musical Movie?
Pretty much all movies feature songs, but that doesn't mean they're musicals. A popular song (sometimes written specifically for the movie, sometimes not) is usually played once or twice, and usually whenever we hear that song, we think of that film. Which one is your favorite tune?
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"A Real Hero" by College & Electric Youth - Drive (I) (2011)
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"Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life" by Eric Idle- Life of Brian (1979)
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I would suggest something from one of the Deadpool movies, but there are so many wonderful soundtracks in them, my favorite of which seems to be "In Your Eyes" by Peter Gabriel, featured in Deadpool 2.
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Highlander (1986): I honestly can't choose between Queen's "Princes of the Universe", "It's a Kind of Magic" and "Who Wants to Live Forever" (not to mention "Don't Lose Your Head" and "Gimme the Prize" being practically of the same great level).
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For your consideration:
Titanic (1997)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/soundtrack
My Heart Will Go On
Performed by Céline Dion (as Celine Dion)
Music by James Horner
Lyric by Will Jennings
Produced by James Horner and Simon Franglen
Celine Dion performs courtesy of 550 Music/Sony Music Entertainment (Canada) Inc.
Casablanca (1942)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/soundtrack
As Time Goes By
(1931) (uncredited)
Written by Herman Hupfeld
Performed by Dooley Wilson (piano dubbed by Jean Vincent Plummer)
Variations played often in the score
(originally from the 1932 Broadway show "Everybody's Welcome")
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Jessica
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Please add a discussion link in your list.
You have a typo in #8 (Lana del Rey)
FYC:
Armageddon (1998)
- "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" by Aerosmith (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8AalbfPv8I)
Pretty Woman (1990)
- "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssXAkg0bV6o)
- "It Must Have Been Love" by Roxette (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0MdP8KeAII)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
- "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by Simple Minds (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3CUh8v7MNo)
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
- "Everything I Do (I Do It For You) by Bryan Adams
Notting Hill (1999)
- "When You Say Nothing At All" by Ronan Keating (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfx9pdpLMyE)
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ElMaruecan82
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First of all, when you say "all movies feature songs but they're not all musicals" (I'm paraphrasing), you're just stating the obvious. When we think of memorable songs, some pretty iconic ones come from non musical movies: "As Time Goes By", "Mrs. Robinson", "Moon River", "Que Sera Sera", "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head", "Unchained Melody", "Everybody's Talkin'", "High Noon"... and so on and so forth.
I'm not saying your initial assumption is wrong but it just misleads itself because songs have always been integral to cinema's appeal and the association of "movies" and "songs" is so broad that even by excluding non-musicals, your list would be endless.
Seriously, there are many good inclusions in your list but I was surprised by the inclusion of movies like Maleficent, Tron Legacy or Brave among undeniable classics like Ghostbusters, The Bodyguard or Rocky III, not saying these movies are random choices, but songs-wise, they didn't reach that "classic" status yet... at least have Frozen instead of Brave. By the way, even Top Gun and Terminator 2 were misleading, to be honest, I expected "Take My Breath Away" and "Bad to the Bone"...
I think the "core-idea" of this poll is interesting but it needs some re-working because if you have to ask us about the best songs from non-musicals, then consider every field where you can find strong contenders (of course, these categories overlap a little):
- Oscar-nominated (or winning) songs
- Pre-existing songs that became standards or their respective movies' signature songs
- Pre-existing songs that became parodied countless times (Tom Cruise's dancing to "Old School Rock'n'Roll", the Pulp Fiction's song "You Never Can Tell" or "Stuck in the Middle With You" from Reservoir Dogs)
- Classic opening credits songs (you can't have this poll without 3 or 4 James Bond's hit-songs in my opinion)
To put it simply, you need another parameter, just one, it can be "Oscar-winning", "AFI-listed" (check this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Songs), it can be "from the last ten or twenty years" or it can simply ask for our personal choice and make it a subjective list but there should be an extra key-word. Good luck!
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FYC:
Color of Night (1994): "The Color of the Night" by Lauren Christy.
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- Against All Odds (1984): "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins ;
- Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961): "Moon River" by Audrey Hepburn ;
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by B.J. Thomas ;
- Dangerous Minds (1995): "Gangsta’s Paradise" by Coolio ;
- Flashdance (1983): "Flashdance... What a Feeling" by Irene Cara ;
- Footloose (1984): "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins ;
- Live and Let Die (1973): "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney ;
- Reality Bites (1994): "Stay" by Lisa Loeb ;
- Space Jam (1996): "I Believe I Can Fly" by R. Kelly ;
- The Fault In Our Stars (2014): "Boom Clap" by Charli XCX ;
- The Graduate (1967): "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon & Garfunkel ;
- The Great Gatsby (2013): "Love Is Blindness" (accoustic) by Jack White ...
all the above 'by' refer as 'performed by'.0
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