Do made-for-TV movies count?
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.
Y’know, I really liked the song before Hollywood got hold of it. Now I cannot tolerate it.
I remember hearing something like that as well, but I think it was with regards to commercials, not movies.
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.
Aw, geez. :o
Thanks for the correction. I’m hungry. 
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
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.