Musical Montage Musical Montage: Ghost “Hunter’s Moon” October 18, 2021 If you saw Halloween Kills this past weekend, you probably heard “Hunter’s Moon” from Swedish hard rock/heavy metal group Ghost on the soundtrack, which is the first new single from the band since 2019.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: The Beach Boys “Problem Child” September 6, 2021 For the first Problem Child movie, The Beach Boys provided the title song “Problem Child”, with the music video featuring movie cast members Gilbert Gottfried and Junior himself, Michael Healy, in the music video.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Los Lobos “La Bamba” November 30, 2020 To go along with the musical biopic La Bamba, which starred Lou Diamond Phillips as rock star Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos performed a number of covers for the movie’s soundtrack, including their version of Valens’ biggest hit, “La Bamba”, and made a music video for the song as well.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Kenny Loggins “Nobody’s Fool” September 28, 2020 While pretty much everything about Caddyshack II was a disappointment, especially its box office and critical reception, Kenny Loggins managed to score another top ten hit with the movie’s theme song, “Nobody’s Fool”.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Jon Bon Jovi “Blaze of Glory” September 16, 2019 Originally approached by star Emilio Estevez for the rights to use “Wanted Dead or Alive” for 1990’s Young Guns II, Jon Bon Jovi instead wrote a new song with more thematically appropriate lyrics, “Blaze of Glory”.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: The Psychedelic Furs “Pretty in Pink” June 24, 2019 You may think the song “Pretty in Pink” was inspired by the movie of the same name but it actually came first in 1981, with John Hughes taking inspiration from the title while the band The Psychedelic Furs performed a new version to go with the movie in 1986.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Enrique Iglesias “Bailamos” June 3, 2019 Will Smith’s wonderfully ridiculous title rap gets most of the attention from the Wild Wild West soundtrack but it also featured “Bailamos” from Enrique Iglesias, which became a massive hit as part of the early 2000s Latin Pop explosion and also got a movie tie-in music video.
Musical Montage Musical Montage: Taylor Dayne “Original Sin” March 18, 2019 Best known for her song “Tell It to My Heart”, Taylor Dayne provided the bombastic and insanely rock operatic main theme for 1994’s The Shadow, “Original Sin”.