# What songs have appeared in the most movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 11, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314 "2006-06-11T16:41:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/21 "2006-06-12T16:28:56Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Proud Family [/QUOTE] Do made-for-TV movies count? ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/22 "2006-06-12T18:17:20Z")
[QUOTE=spoke-] Smashmouth’s **“All-Star”** shows up in _Shrek_, _Digimon: the Movie_, and _Mystery Men_. [/QUOTE] It is also performed “Live” by Smashmouth in _Rat Race_. Thanks to the incredible oversaturation of our culture with this song, I now consider it the worst song in the entire history of human endeavor. It causes me actual, physical pain to hear it. A close runner-up would be Rod Stewart’s “Passion,” which, thankfully, is so incredibly, soul-wrenchingly terrible, that it does not appear on many movie soundtracks, lest the entire audience be wracked with spasms and fits of vomiting. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/23 "2006-06-12T18:23:47Z")
[QUOTE=Scupper] Thanks to the incredible oversaturation of our culture with this song, I now consider it the worst song in the entire history of human endeavor. It causes me actual, physical pain to hear it. [/QUOTE] Y’know, I really liked the song before Hollywood got hold of it. Now I cannot tolerate it. ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/24 "2006-06-12T19:24:14Z")
> [@B\_Black](#): > > Slightly off topic, but i remember reading (no cite sorry) that Moby’s album “Play” is the only ever album to have every song used in movies. (that is different movies). I remember hearing something like that as well, but I think it was with regards to commercials, not movies. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/25 "2006-06-12T19:57:21Z")
Edward Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” gets a lot of use - whenever the moviemakers want to convey a sense of things spinning dangerously out of control, or of something evil getting more and more intense and frenzied. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/26 "2006-06-12T21:32:50Z")
[QUOTE=Lama Pacos] Solsbury steak on the mind? 😉 (The song is _Solsbury Hill_.) [/QUOTE] Aw, geez. :o Thanks for the correction. I’m hungry. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/27 "2006-06-14T04:56:33Z")
According to Wiki, The Who’s _Baba O’Riley_ appears in: Fever Pitch (1997) Prefontaine (1997) A Bug’s Life (1998) [trailer only; not on soundtrack] American Beauty (1999) [trailer only; not on soundtrack] Summer of Sam (1999) The Girl Next Door (2004) plus on TV: Miami Vice CSI: NY House Life on Mars ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314/28 "2006-06-14T06:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=B\_Black] Slightly off topic, but i remember reading (no cite sorry) that Moby’s album “Play” is the only ever album to have every song used in movies. (that is different movies). [/QUOTE] I have Play, it was a compilation of songs he wrote for movies, tv, etc., or original songs that sampled movie themes (the Twin Peaks and James Bond songs; the Bond one was eventually used in a film and to promote it, but was originally written just for the fun of sampling that famous theme, hence the inclusion of dialogue from _Goldfinger_ midway through and Pierce Brosnan introducing himself at the end). It was not written first, and then every song was used in a film or commercial. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-have-appeared-in-the-most-movies/360314.md?page=1)