Great songs that you have discovered via film soundtracks?

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I love this from Adventureland

Ooh I saw that film Shelduck by the same guy who did Fucking Amal. It was a great film.

hairtoday I am going to listen to those now thanks, love Mark Kermode (his recent review of Entourage movie made me laugh).

Thought of another one...Sinnerman Nina Simone Thomas Crown Remake
(bloody love this film, one of the few that beats the original but I am having a huge crush on Pierce Brosnan atm) it was also used in Scrubs and a remix in miami vice remake but I heard it the art heist scene first. Sublime.

ohh - nick cave O children out of Harry Potter.

Tito and Tarantula out of from dusk till dawn

The theme from Crazy Heart, by Ryan Bingham.

The song is

Anything by Craig Armstrong!

Also had it work the other way,my godmother always used to play the soundtrack to Peter's Friends when we were on holiday and finally got round to watching it last year.

"Goodnight Moon" by Shivaree and "Malagueña Salerosa" by Chingon, both from Kill Bill 2

SmartAlec - No the Goldsmith score really does nothing for the film, especially with the dancing dress scene, the tangerine dream music works so much better there. Also can't find any other Legend fans haha! Sadly the copy of the film I have on dvd is American (all others only had the Goldsmith score) so wont play on any device I own

Ohh I'll look the other film you mentioned up and give it a watch!

Thatsnotaknife:- Ohhh another Legned fan! Agreed the Goldsmith score was crap. I was about 7 when I first saw Legend in the 90s... My dad had recorded it onto a vhs as he'd figured it sounded like a film I'd love (unicorns were my favourite mythical beast) Needless to say I was enchanted.

I've just listened to in your eyes. I plan to buy the film asap

"Memo From Turner" (Rolling Stones with Ry Cooder) from "Performance"

'Brighter than sunshine' by Aqualung - from the film A Lot Like Love

Hero, by Family of the Year, from the film Boyhood.

Wes Anderson generally has great soundtrack. I like the The Kinks but hadn't heard one until seeing Darjeeling Limited.

(This time tomorrow)

Outro by M83 from Tracks.

It seems that I was the last person on earth to find out about this song, though; now that I know it, I hear it EVERYWHERE: ads, trailers, BBC self-publicity clips ...

I do still love it though.

There are lots of good songs in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Also from Only Lovers Left Alive (yes, that is where my username is from!)

Oh, and I discovered Sia via Grey's Anatomy with a Kinks cover (Go to Sleep)

I discovered the amzingness of Elliott Smith from the film Good Will Hunting. Now i have all his albums.

With the kind permission of the OP, we are going to move this lovely thread over to our even lovelier Films topic in a mo.

CrimsonSunrise - yes I had the same problem I think, the Dvd I got was region 1. I think I managed to watch it on a laptop. I believe there is a way to unlock Dvd players from their set region if you Google the model number - quite legit I believe but have never got round to it myself.

Yes, the dance scene! When I first saw Legend I was absolutely mesmerised by that, the TD music is perfect. When I saw it in tv years later I was really looking forward to it and got a shock when the rubbish JG music came on in that scene, it really ruined it for me. Can't actually watch the film at all now with the JG score.

Reading this thread is giving me some happy times on YouTube

For the Legend fans, if you have a blu-ray player you can get a region free US import version on Amazon which has the TD soundtrack.

Mine are a bit

I've got Wonderful World by Sam Cooke-from the canteen scene in Animal House. Years on this is still, to me, the perfect marrying of action/soundtrack and still makes me grin thinking of it (I recently bought dvd to show son what we had to do for fun in Olden Days and was HORRIFIED to find they'd changed it, to some rawk shite iirc)

Oh and Shrek was the first time I noticed Hallelujah, and that version (John cale??)is still my definitive version. Because shrek

"Jane Wiedlin" I'm partial to her Rush Hour which IIRC features on one of the Rush Hour films, along with War but can't remember who sang it (Edwin Starr?)

On the actual film of Shrek it is John Cale's version of "Hallelujah" but on the soundtrack album it's Rufus Wainwright's. I always thought that was odd.

The Eddie vedder soundtrack to 'into the wild' thought the film did great justice to the book and the soundtrack is beautiful.

I bought say anything yesterday because of this thread. I love the Peter Gabriel song. It brings me to tears nearly