That's actually a slow, dark cover song written exclusively for that film. If you listen to the original version by Tears for Fears, it's a much more energetic, happy-sounding song. You wouldn't even know it was dark unless you were paying attention to the lyrics.
Yeah I remember the Tears for Fears original, wasn’t a fan when I first heard it. It wasn’t until Michael Andrews/Gary Jules’ version that I became hooked.
I remember that summer, stuck in the countryside, satellite TV being the only entertainment other than fucking around on my bike. I disappear and Take a look around are similarily linked in my mind.
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Zathras@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 2y
Don't You Forget About Me - The Breakfast Club
orangeNgreen@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Danger Zone - Top Gun
DickFiasco@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Would you say we're in a zone of danger?
gotrandom@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 2y
Mad World: Donnie Darko
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
This is a great answer.
cobysev@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y
That's actually a slow, dark cover song written exclusively for that film. If you listen to the original version by Tears for Fears, it's a much more energetic, happy-sounding song. You wouldn't even know it was dark unless you were paying attention to the lyrics.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Or the minor key.
gotrandom@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Yeah I remember the Tears for Fears original, wasn’t a fan when I first heard it. It wasn’t until Michael Andrews/Gary Jules’ version that I became hooked.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 2y
Stuck In The Middle With You - Reservoir Dogs.
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Had to do a high school speech presentation set to the song doing nonverbal dances.
The trauma has taken the place of the movie lol
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y
Power of love - back to the future
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 2y
I would have picked Johnny B Goode.
Illogicalbit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
You’re right, that is better
goldenbug@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y
Power of love - All of us strangers
superduperpirate@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 2y
Just Dropped In - The Big Lebowski
kindenough@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
Smash Mouth - All Star, Shrek
midnight@kbin.social · 10 pts · 2y
Where Is My Mind? by Pixies - Fight Club
Analyse by Thom Yorke - The Prestige
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org · 10 pts · 2y
Wake Up - The Matrix
5wim@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 2y
Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus - Silence of the Lambs
NIB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V_NW0UH9EQ
This version is fun too.
5wim@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y
Ha I do think of that one, too.
Fermion@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 2y
All Star by Smash Mouth will forever conjure images of Shrek.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
The Touch - Transformers
meathorse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Short Circuit 2 - Holding on for a hero.
Much more impactful than how it was used in Shrek 2.
Real stakes, life and death. Spoiler warning - clip spoils the climax of the movie...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfjv66w9u7c
gotrandom@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Omg yes! I didn’t even think of this one until you mentioned it. I was so in love with those movies as a kid.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Run dmc Christmas in the hollies - die hard when argyle is driving mcclane to nakatomi plaza.
Brenda Lee rockin around the Christmas tree - home alone
Wouldn't it be nice (I think thats the name) by the beach boys - 50 first dates
Hero by nickleback - spiderman
Seal kiss from the rose and U2 hold me thrill me kiss me kill me (something like that) - batman forever
U2 elevation - tomb raider with Angela Jolie
Massive attack Protection - Hackers
BoisZoi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Hero wasn't by them, it was only by Chad.
JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I stand corrected. 🏆
BoisZoi@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
No worries, it's a common misconception. It doesn't help that Nickelback was founded in 1995 and the song came out in 2002 iirc.
CentauriBeau@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Cry Little Sister - The Lost Boys
Pandantic@midwest.social · 4 pts · 2y
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls to City of Angels, but looks like it was written for the movie so not sure if it counts..
BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Freebird will always bring back the Kingsman church scene.
Tuesday's Gone will always remind me of Happy Gilmore.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
Back in 2000, I think you were practically brainwashed into linking Metallica with Mission: Impossible II.
It's a decent song but I seem to remember that summer its all I heard. 😄
goldenbug@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
This is the song that got me into rock and eventually metal
misk@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y
I remember that summer, stuck in the countryside, satellite TV being the only entertainment other than fucking around on my bike. I disappear and Take a look around are similarily linked in my mind.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 2y
I was always annoyed a little bit because I was a bigger Limp Bizkit fan and at least their song used the M:I theme music!
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Not really a song, but Carmina Burana and Boorman's Exalibur (also bits of the Götterdämmerung I guess).
scytale@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Moby - Extreme Ways from the Bourne franchise.
Zier@fedia.io · 3 pts · 2y
Xanadu.
Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
28 Days Later when they were shopping
Watchmen intro
Shaun of the Dead- Bar fight scene
disheveledWallaby@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
Not a movie but Men at work Overkill - Scrubs
Underwaterbob@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
The End - Apocalypse Now
MadBob@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 2y
Raglan Road always reminds me of In Bruges.
dog_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ocean Man, SpongeBob movie.
lemonmelon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
The Promise - When In Rome; Napoleon Dynamite
tsuchino@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y
Night Ranger - Sister Christian / Boogie Nights
0ops@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
The boys are back in town - a knights tale Right place wrong time - Sahara
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Can you feel the love tonight.
Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y
Die another day - obviously made for the movie of with that title, but could stand on its own imo