# Songs surprisingly left out of soundtracks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 31, 2004, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719 "2004-07-31T14:41:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/21 "2005-01-25T15:43:43Z")
> [@Mississippienne](#): > > I was ticked off when I purchased the soundtrack to \*Daredevil \* and discovered they had omitted the House of Pain song, “Top O the Morning To Ya”. I finally just bought their album instead. Why oh why isn’t it on the DD soundtrack, though? It’s Bullseye’s theme song, and the background music to the best 5 minutes in the movie. **grumble** Because a movie’s music budget can get blown to pieces if the licencing fees are too high. For a song to appear in a feature film, it can cost the production anywhere from $10,000 to $500,000. The fees largely depend onthe demand of the music (like if it’s from an insanely popular band) or if there are contract negotiations that include the music ending up on the soundtrack album. If it’s also going to be in the album, it gets a LOT more expensive. If it doesn’t appear on the soundtrack album it often because the production simply couldn’t afford the asking price (or because the artist’s label refused to prevent the soundtrack album from competing with album sales). ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/22 "2005-01-25T15:48:21Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > And I was ticked when I bought the soundtrack to **Pump Up The Volume** and the first track was “Everybody Knows,” not by Leonard Cohen, but by Concrete Blonde. Gimmie the song he actually played in the movie, dammit! Was Cohen’s version in the film? I don’t remember hearing it. I do remember Concrete Blonde playing it, though. And for missing songs, The Plimsoul’s “Million Miles Away” wasn’t on the _Valley Girl_ soundtrack for years and years. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/23 "2005-01-25T18:04:19Z")
**Eats\_Crayons** : That’s very interesting data, I never knew how much it cost for a movie to use a song. All things being equal however, I do wish House of Pain had made it onto the soundtrack instead of the oh-so-craptastic Moby song. > [@](#): > > or because the artist’s label refused to prevent the soundtrack album from competing with album sales House of Pain was defunct and their relevent album was ten years old at the time _Daredevil_ was released. I can only assume they asked for some ungodly amount of money for “Top O the Morning”. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/24 "2005-01-25T18:21:05Z")
On a reverse note, I was very disappointed that the soundtrack to the miniseries _From the Earth to the Moon_ chose to include mostly generic pop oldies rather than the excellent orchestral theme music, other than the opening and closing theme. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_chao_goes_mu/32/3191_2.png) [@The\_Chao\_Goes\_Mu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Chao_Goes_Mu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/25 "2005-01-25T19:51:29Z")
I was certainly expecting to hear \*\*Your Cheatin’ Heart \*\* on the Fatal Attraction soundtrack ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/26 "2005-01-25T20:40:18Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > Was Cohen’s version in the film? I don’t remember hearing it. I do remember Concrete Blonde playing it, though. I believe Cohen’s version opens the film. Doesn’t the Rocky Horrow Picture Show soundtrack omit “Sword of Damocles”? But it does include “Superheroes” a song cut from most prints of the film. It’s been awhile since I’ve listened to it. ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/27 "2005-01-25T20:43:45Z")
> [@depocali](#): > > …one not so memorable track (What Shall we do Now?); although they included a great replacement (Hey You) to be found nowhere in the movie. The former was cut from the album because it wouldn’t fit in the LP (the lyrics are still there) and the latter was cut from the movie but included in the DVD. * * * The Stones’ “Satisfaction” wasn’t on the **Apocalypse Now** soundtrack. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/28 "2005-01-25T21:52:39Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > Was Cohen’s version in the film? I don’t remember hearing it. I do remember Concrete Blonde playing it, though. It was the opening song. he also used it to open each broadcast of the radio station so it was on (in a clipped form) many times in the film. The COncrete blonde version appeared at the end when he had the jeep/mobile station. ---
**Author:** ![chukhung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@chukhung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chukhung)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/29 "2005-01-25T22:39:00Z")
> [@Max Torque](#): > > And I was ticked when I bought the soundtrack to **Pump Up The Volume** and the first track was “Everybody Knows,” not by Leonard Cohen, but by Concrete Blonde. Gimmie the song he actually played in the movie, dammit! Disappointingly, the soundtrack album for [Exotica](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/) doesn’t include _Everybody Knows_ either. Perhaps Mr. Cohen has a policy of not allowing that song on soundtrack albums? ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/30 "2005-01-25T23:07:48Z")
I know a few people who were disappointed that the Steve Martin movie **Roxanne** didn’t include the Sting song. Personally, I would have been disappointed if it was there. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2005, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/31 "2005-01-25T23:13:37Z")
I was really disappointed that the _Concert for George_ soundtrack CD left off the best song of the evening – **Lead a Horse to Water** performed by Sam Brown. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/32 "2005-01-26T03:39:06Z")
I for one was appalled that The Lord of the Rings soundtrack was completely absent of Leonard Nimoy’s “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”! ---
**Author:** ![yoyodyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a9a28c/32.png) [@yoyodyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yoyodyne)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/33 "2005-01-26T03:59:27Z")
I was pissed that the **Fifth Element** soundtrack didn’t have the song that played during the taxi-cab chase scene. It was **Alech Taadi** , by **Khaled**. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/34 "2005-01-26T04:16:46Z")
You know “Having My Baby” would have been perfect for one of the “Alien” films. Tragic oversight, that. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/35 "2005-01-26T08:04:58Z")
The soundtrack to “Monkeybone” didn’t have Lisa Zane’s _Fall Away_, which played during the credits, and was one of two good things about that movie. (Three things, if you give the movie credit for not actually burning the viewers’ eyes out of their sockets.) ---
**Author:** ![Princess\_Mombi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Princess\_Mombi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princess_Mombi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/36 "2005-01-26T08:14:16Z")
The Garden State soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks ever made but it doesn’t include a few songs featured in the movie. The song “Orange Sky” by Alexi Murdoch is not on the soundtrack. It is the song that Natalie Portman’s character starts playing on her record player and is played as they walk towards the pet cemetary in her yard. It was on the OC soundtrack, so that is probably why it wasn’t included here. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/37 "2005-01-26T08:24:51Z")
“Hell Isn’t Good” by Metallica is in the film _South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut_ (the scene were Kenny goes to hell) but does not appear on the soundtrack. Ironically, the only way to obtain that song is to download it. 🙂 What’s more vexing is when songs get changed or removed from movies when they appear on VHS or DVD. For example, the “girl in Corvette” scene from _National Lampoon’s Vacation_ had the song “Little Boy Sweet” replaced by the excrable “I’m So Excited” in many home versions. > [@depocali](#): > > Well, as being the entire basis for the Movie is the lyrics of the songs, it is incredible that Pink Floyd’s The Wall does not include a hauntingly beautiful track (When the Tiger’s Broke Free), and one not so memorable track (What Shall we do Now?); although they included a great replacement (Hey You) to be found nowhere in the movie. You do know the album’s not really a soundtrack, as it came out three years _before_ the movie, right? “When The Tigers Broke Free” wasn’t even written until 1982, and “What Shall We Do Now?” was recorded but cut from the album at the last minute. (More info [here](http://www.rock.co.za/files/thewall.html).) It’s more logical to ask why “Hey You” doesn’t appear in the film at all (answer: cut for time.) ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/38 "2005-01-26T09:48:31Z")
I don’t think the Pixies’ fantastic “Where is my mind?” made it onto the soundtrack of Fight Club, despite its prominence in the film’s conclusion. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/39 "2005-01-26T09:59:29Z")
Never having seen it through - does ‘Things To Do in Denver When Your Dead’ have the Zevon song over the end titles? MiM ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719/40 "2005-01-26T15:33:09Z")
Now that I think of it, “(Once, Twice,) Three Times a Lady” would have worked fabulously well in the _Psycho_ remake. What are they paying these music directors for, anyway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-surprisingly-left-out-of-soundtracks/257719.md?page=3)