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GaryB — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:16:07 -0000

How about "Killer Klowns from Outer Space"?

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TaylorKLong — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:21:04 -0000

It was a wig? Damn. I was hoping the men of Deadliest Catch really *had* brought the mullet back.

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shweeney — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:03:50 -0000

I recalled liking "Spies like us", but listening to it there it must be one of the worst things Macca ever did (and that's really saying something). When they asked him to do it they were probably thinking "hey, he managed to do great things with a clunky title like Live and Let Die, he'll have no problem with this one". How wrong they were.

far and away the worst Bond example is "Die another Day" an awful awful song to accompany a monumentally stupid movie. I'm kind of hoping they try and crowbar the movie title into the next theme, but sadly they probably won't. Instead we'll have to make do with this from Adam and Joe:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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BobCashill — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:33:21 -0000

Ah, "The Lonely Lady." Or: "The LONELY LAAAAAAADDDDDYYYY..." A singer lost to history, I'm afraid. (But Ray Liotta's film debut.)

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JonCummings — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:36:57 -0000

Also, there were "Let's Do It Again" and "Which Way Is Up?"

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JonCummings — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:34:40 -0000

Nobody's mentioned the title song from one of our favorite movies, Bob--the Pia Zadora classic "The Lonely Lady." Who sang that piece of shee-ite?

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jasonhare — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:13:51 -0000

Nope, doesn't count. He mentions "Ghostbusters" but does not mention "Ghostbusters II."

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TomA — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:57:43 -0000

You Light Up My Life.
I'm sorry to even have to type it.

Re: Popdosers Weigh In: Soundtrack “Title” Songs

BobCashill — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:26:52 -0000

Good try, but I think the "rules" state that it has to be the fuil title. (Which is hard: Try lyricizing "A Nightmare on Elm Street III.")

That made me think of "Freddy's Dead"...but you'd still have to get "The FInal Nightmare" in there. Right? (And it's not a song original to the movie, like "Stayin' Alive," the SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER sequel.)

A terrible title tune I love is "Looker," performed by Sue Saad. "She's a looker/Check it and see/She's got it all, yeah, she's got it made/She's a looker..." (Somewhere, "A pretty face/reflected in a mirror/so perfect in every way" fits in there.)

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Christian Kennedy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 19:00:44 -0000

Does "Dream Warriors" by Dokken (Rockin' with Dokken!) count even though it's only part of the movies title?

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Christian Kennedy — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:33:21 -0000

I don't know if they have been mentioned, but I have a soft spot for "The Secret of My Success" by Night Ranger and "The Last Unicorn" by America. Sadly, I too like "Spies Like US."

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BobCashill — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:07:56 -0000

"Grease" originated with the 1978 film and not the Broadway musical, though it has become part of subsequent revivals.

Also from the 80s, "Xanadu" and "Can't Stop The Music"...oh, and do Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees covering "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in '78 count?

The film MONA LISA is one big homage to one of the all-time great movie theme songs, one that Oscar got right, from the 1950 film "Captain Carey U.S.A." I wonder how many songwriting teams tried to figure out lyrics for "Captain Carey U.S.A" till someone decided to take the indirect route?

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BobCashill — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:30:41 -0000

Don't forget "The Blob," as performed by The Five Blobs (including Burt Bacharach). Drive-in perfection. (The Blob is 50 years old next month.)

QUANTUM OF SILENCE is likely to join ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, OCTOPUSSY, and CASINO ROYALE as that rare Bond that doesn't reference the title.

Not "spies," but Nancy Sinatra did sing "The Last of the Secret Agents," from the film.

Old-school, Oscar-nommed or -winning classics (that is, in the ear of the beholder) that do incorporate the title: "Blues in the Night," "Three Coins in the Fountain," "My Foolish Heart," "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing," "Gigi," "Days of Wine and Roses," "Born Free," "Bless the Beasts and Children," "The Way We Were," "You Light Up My Life," "Fame," "Nine to Five," "Endless Love," Neil Young's "Philadelphia," from the film; Springsteen's "Dead Man Walking"; and "That Thing You Do!" There may be others, but in the film, "Love Letters," for example, has no lyrics.

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Ray — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:11:40 -0000

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY - Love and Kisses

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Elaine — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 02:31:38 -0000

I thought of 9 to 5 also. And To Live and Die In L.A. (for me) is too classy for this list, just like Streets of Philadelphia is for Jason. Did anybody mention The Neverending Story yet? My kids play that godawful DDR2 version because it's a Neverending title song loop when they leave the thing running and no one's playing it. I really hate that song.

Does La Bamba count? How about Ice Castles, seeing as they were stupid enough to parenthetically name it "Whatever it is (Theme from Ice Castles)?" And I think the theme to Blazing Saddles might have been just that

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kshane — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:21:31 -0000

Oops, you did mention it. I agree with you.

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kshane — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:19:22 -0000

When I saw that there were so many comments, I was sure that someone would have mentioned "Live and Let Die," especially because you mentioned spy songs. It goes in the awesome category.

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BenW — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:35:43 -0000

I present a Jamaican four pack -

Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
Eddy Grant - "Romancing the Stone"
Bunny Wailer - "Rockers"
Kenneth Milligan - "Shottas"

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DwDunphy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:10:47 -0000

With crackwhores.

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steed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:06:48 -0000

And one of the best - was hit in Chartburn right before this - "On Our Own" by Bobby Brown.

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steed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:03:54 -0000

I'm so sad. I love Spies Like Us!

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steed — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:02:27 -0000

Frank Stallone totally rocks!

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forwardgirl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:15:43 -0000

Ones that come to mind, in my order of diminishing awesomeness:
FM - Steely Dan (a gimme, my binky band)
Return To Waterloo - Ray Davies
Nothing In Common - Thompson Twins
She's Having A Baby - Dave Wakeling

Hmm. Have to dig these albums (err, cassettes) out, there's some real good stuff on these soundtracks. God, I feel so old. Oooh, and have to track down Love Rules by Don Henley from the Fast Times album...

Re: Popdosers Weigh In: Soundtrack “Title” Songs

Chris Holmes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:15:29 -0000

Where's Norm MacDonald when you need him?

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DwDunphy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:04:23 -0000

And I have a soft spot for A-Ha's "The Living Daylights"