But that song was written specifically for the movie, so it doesn’t count.
Bohemian Rhapsody.
I don’t think I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing was written for Armageddon.
I think it was.
Paranoid by Black Sabbath will always remind me of The Stoned Age. So will Don’t Fear the Reaper by BOC, and a few other songs for that matter.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for Die Hard.
“Burning Down the House” always makes me think of the scene in Revenge of the Nerds where the jocks’ house burns down.
I will always associate “Don’t Fear the Reaper” with the TV miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand.
And while it may not be exactly what the OP is looking for, we can’t forget Loretta Lynn’s “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Richie Valens’ “La Bamba,” and Jerry Lee Lewis’ “Great Balls of Fire.”
Alice in Chains’ “Got Me Wrong” always reminds me of Clerks. As well it should, since the rights to it cost more than the movie did.
You Sexy Thing/Hot Chocolate Boogie Nights
Woops! Correction
You Sexy Thing- Full Monty
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” - Real Genius
Every single song in Moulin Rouge! reminds me of that movie, even, maybe especially, songs that I hated or scorned prior to the movie. Never thought hearing “Silly Love Songs” would make me smile in rememberance.
I think it might have been written specifically for the movie, but “Live To Tell” always reminds me of At Close Range. It had to have been written for the movie. It’s one of the most perfect meldings of song lyrics and movie plots I know of. If it was written for the movie, it should have been nominated for an Oscar.
Unchained Melody - Ghost
BOC’s Veteran of The Psychic Wars -Heavy Metal
Barber’s *Adagio – *Platoon.
Mozart’s *Piano Concerto in C, k467 – *Elvira Madigan.
Rachmaninoff’s *Piano Concerto #3 – *Shine.
Puccini’s *Gianni Schicchi: “O mio babbino caro” - ***A Room with a View **and Prizzi’s Honor.
Giordano’s *Andrea Chénier: “La Mamma morta” - *Philadelphia.
Oh for crying out loud, Sixpence None the Richer’s version was a lame, sad-sac cover of the original by the La’s. Man, I was 7 years old when they’re debut album came out (1990), and even I knew that. Sixpence probably didn’t even get that the song is about heroin (“racing through my brain,” “pulsing in my vein” “no one else can heal my pain”), just thought it was a cute love song.
Nevertheless, I do agree, the song always reminds me of So I Married an Axe Murderer, which is good cause I like that flick a lot.
Gaudere’s law strikes again! :smack:
Oh well, it’s my karma for coming off like such an a-hole. I just really didn’t like their cover, so I felt compelled to credit the true version (which is the one in the movie).
Also, I have to agree with a lot of these listings. That is, the one’s that weren’t written for the movies, or where the movie was written around the song. 
“We’ll Meet Again” Dr. Stranglove
“Peter Gunn Theme” Blues Brothers
“Fur Elise” Charlie Brown. (Actually, Schroder.)
“Who are You?” CSI
I know that the last two are TV shows, but I just had to add them. 
For accuracy’s sake, the version actually used in the movie is by neither The La’s nor Sixpence None The Richer but instead a cover by the The Boo Radleys.
“Hip Priest” by The Fall → Silence of the Lambs
“Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worrying 'Bout That Girl” by The Kinks → Rushmore
“The Crying Game” by Dave Berry → The Crying Game
“You’re Gonna Miss Me” by The 13th Floor Elevators → High Fidelity
“This Woman’s Work” by Kate Bush → She’s Having a Baby
“Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard” by Paul Simon → The Royal Tennenbaums
“Mile End” by Pulp → Trainspotting
“In Dreams” by Roy Orbison → Blue Velvet
“As Tears Go By” by Marianne Faithfull → Made in USA (the Godard film)
“Ooh La La” by The Faces → Rushmore
That was written specifically for the movie. John Hughes sent her the scene where Kevin Bacon was waiting in the hospital waiting room and she wrote the song for it. In retrospect, it’s amazing she did that. Unless my brain is too tired and I’m forgetting something, the only other music she’s ever written for hire was “Be Kind To My Mistakes” for the Oliver Reed movie Castaway (not to be confused with the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away) and a series of short musical cues for Fruitopia commercials.
Blondie’s “Atomic” always reminds me of Trainspotting and “Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” always reminds me of The Blues Brothers. Powderfinger’s “These Days” is synonymous with the movie Two Hands (an early Heath Ledger movie).
Currently, “Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine in” makes me think of The 40 Year Old Virgin as much as the movie it was in before. That may fade with time. “The Sound of Silence” makes me think of Kingpin. I love that scene.
I always associate the Rolling Stones’ ‘Monkey Man’ with Goodfellas, where Ray Liotta’s driving around in a paranoid amphetamine daze - it’s better in the film, because without the visuals you can’t help noticing the terrible lyrics…“I’m a cold Italian pizza, I could use a lemon squeezer”… :dubious:
Yes to American Girl, Stuck in the Middle with You, You Sexy Thing, and anything off Dirty Dancing.