Musical Montage Musical Montage: Beverly Hills Cop August 15, 2016 The Grammy winning soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop was a massive hit in the summer of 1984, hitting #1 on the charts and featuring hit singles like Glenn Frey’s “The Heat is On” and Patti Labelle’s “New Attitude”.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Oingo Boingo “Dead Man’s Party” August 8, 2016 Among many of the awesome things Rodney Dangerfield does to take over Grand Lakes University in Back to School, one of the best is throwing an epic party featuring a live performance from Oingo Boingo, who contributed “Dead Man’s Party” to the movie’s soundtrack.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Suicide Squad August 1, 2016 The soundtrack for this week’s Suicide Squad is almost as diverse as the team of supervillains featured in the movie with artists like Wiz Khalifa, Skrillex, twenty one pilots, Imagine Dragons, Avril Lavigne and Grace all contributing tracks.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Bone Thugs N Harmony “War” July 25, 2016 For the Small Soldiers soundtrack, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony along with Tom Morello, Flea and Henry Rollins covered Edwin Starr’s classic anti-Vietnam song War and also starred in one of the most insane music videos of all time.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Starship “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” July 18, 2016 The theme song for both Mannequin movies, Starship’s song “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” was nominated for an Academy Award and hit #1 on the UK and US Billboard charts in 1987.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Sunny BlueSkyes “Night Trap Theme” July 11, 2016 Bizarrely controversial and insanely cheesy, Night Trap was a 90’s FMV game that tasked you with clearing rooms of vampiric creatures called Augers but, in doing so, you missed amazing sequences like the performance of the game’s theme song by the girls attending a slumber party.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Johnny Rzeznik “I’m Still Here (Jim’s Theme)” July 4, 2016 Trying to differentiate from the Broadway inspired movies of the 90’s, Disney Animation brought on Goo Goo Dolls frontman Johnny Rzeznik to create the them for their sci-fi action/adventure Treasure Planet in 2002.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Blondie “Call Me” June 27, 2016 Not only becoming Blondie’s biggest ever hit, Call Me, the theme song for the movie American Gigolo, went on to stay on the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks and was eventually the biggest and best selling single of 1980.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Curtis Mayfield “Superfly” June 20, 2016 Super Fly, the movie, was outgrossed by it’s legendary soundtrack by soul legend Curtis Mayfield, anchored by the title song of the same name.