# movies knownmore for their soundtrack than anything else **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521 "2019-05-25T23:58:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2019, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/101 "2019-05-30T22:56:11Z")
Electric Dreams (1984) ---
**Author:** ![Annoying\_Buzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Annoying\_Buzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annoying_Buzz)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/102 "2019-05-31T04:29:59Z")
**The Bodyguard** was a relatively forgettable romance-suspense film, but everyone remembers Whitney’s singing. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/103 "2019-05-31T13:37:47Z")
> [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](#): > > ACDC’s album **Who Made Who** is the soundtrack for the Stephen King Film **Maximum Overdrive**. While it was a compilation, a few new tracks (including the Top 40 hit title song) were recorded, and older forgotten tracks were rediscovered/rescued from previous forgotten albums. Mentioned above. 🙂 **Dangerous Minds**? ---
**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/104 "2019-06-05T03:35:26Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > I’ll add “Chariots of Fire” and “St. Elmo’s Fire”. Both with memorable themes, but I haven’t seen the latter and don’t remember the former. Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1982. I haven’t seen it either but I don’t consider that means it wasn’t memorable. (Making note to get Chariots of Fire out of the public library.) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/105 "2019-06-05T04:03:51Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > The Crow. Stole mine. So I’ll add Hackers, even though I still have a soft spot for it and Mathew Lillard. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/106 "2019-06-05T13:07:49Z")
Mentioned in a previous thread as examples of fairly execrable movies with very good soundtracks: _Heavy Metal_ _La Bamba_ ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2019, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/107 "2019-06-05T17:55:56Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > _Guardians of the Galaxy_. It had its charm,but the soundtrack was the most groundbreaking thing about it. 😕 The movie box office was over $750 million, and not because of the soundtrack. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/108 "2019-06-06T15:41:43Z")
> [@swampspruce](#): > > I am shocked, Shocked we get to 70 posts and no one has mentioned[Repo Man](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repo_Man_(soundtrack)). Great punk soundtrack, weird ass movie. “Repo Man” doesn’t count as it is both an excellent movie and excellent soundtrack. I really enjoyed Stewart Copeland’s soundtrack to “Rumble Fish”, but to be honest I’ve never seen the movie so I can’t say if it was any good or not. ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/109 "2019-06-06T16:28:42Z")
_[Children of Sanchez](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077326/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1)_ – the Chuck Mangione theme got lot of radio play, enough such that I bought the soundtrack–but I never have seen or heard any mention of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2019, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/110 "2019-06-13T16:08:02Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > [Sunshine on Leith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_on_Leith_(album)) was released in 1988, five years before [Benny & Joon](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106387/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1). That was an example of a movie using an existing popular song. Not that that would make it wrong or off-topic for the thread or anything. Just sayin’. Well, an example of a movie making an existing song popular. The song may have existed 5 years prior to the movie, but the movie made it a “one hit wonder”. The video for the song is full of clips from the movie, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2019, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521/111 "2019-06-14T02:57:45Z")
I don’t think the Cocktail soundtrack has been mentioned. I never saw the movie, but I had the cassette. Don’t Worry Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin), Rave On (Mellencamp version), Hippy Hippy Shake (probably a cover but the Georgia Satellites version), Kokomo (Beach Boys). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-knownmore-for-their-soundtrack-than-anything-else/834521.md?page=5)