There are songs that would make a good fit in certain TV shows and movies, but for whatever reason were never used. Place your nominations here.
I’ll start with this one for Lost:
Find Me– Husker Du
Obvious nomination:
This Song - Paul & Storm
I’m honestly still irrationally annoyed that in 1993 the song by Counting Crows Mr. Jones was a big hit, but it doesn’t appear anywhere in the soundtrack of 1993’s Richard Gere vehicle film Mr. Jones.
A lot of critics pointed out when an American Werewolf in London was released that, among the many pop songs on its soundtrack, there was the conspicuous absence of Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London. It came out in 1978, three years before the film.
Many years ago, I was annoyed by the completely inappropriate background music that was pretty much thrown onto VHS editions of silent films. I was planning to put together my own track for the silent Lon Chaney version of The Phantom of the Opera. For one of the scenes with The Phantom playing the organ – ideally The Unmasking Scene, I’d planned to use Rick Wakeman’s Judas Iscariot track from Rick Wakeman’s Criminal Album – it sounds like the work of a psychotic organist.
I never did do it, and a couple of years later I saw that Wakeman himself had composed a new score for the silent Phantom. “Great,” I thought, “He’ll do it right. Maybe excerpt Judas Iscariot for the film.”
Only he didn’t. The score was appalling, and had nothing that I liked about any of his work. I’d liked his previous film scores, but this one had nothing to recommend it. And no psychotic organist.
I’ve long thought that U2’s “Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of” needed to be dropped through a time warp so it could be part of the soundtrack for “Groundhog Day.”
In Annie (the musical), there’s a reprise of “Tomorrow” when Annie meets FDR. That should have been replaced with “Put On a Happy Face” from Bye Bye Birdie Same songwriter and it fits better (and is a better song).
Sorry, but the one song they should have played on Lost is, of course:
Run Through the Jungle- Creedence Clearwater Revival
Oh, and Alicia Keys’ hit song Girl on fire? Nowhere on The Hunger Games movie franchise (2012 - 2015)
Sort of infuriating.
That’s Warren’s fault for not putting the word “moon” in the title, which is the joke underpinning the music selections for that movie.
Pink’s Just Like Fire was used in “Alice Through the Looking Glass” but IMHO should’ve been used in “Now You See Me 2” which was in theaters at the same time.