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Sometimes, another way to enjoy a movie has nothing to do with sitting in a theater.
Instead, it might have you sitting in traffic, singing along with the radio on full blast.
But which songs written for movies are truly the greatest of all time?
In some extreme cases, its musicians themselves who appear in the movies too.
Below, we rank the greatest songs made for movies.
(Believe it or not, Seals Kiss From a Rose wasnt actually made for Batman Forever!)
With that in mind, these are the songs that made some of our favorite movies so unforgettable.
The Wonders, That Thing You Do!
is like hearing the greatest American rock band that never lived.
Listen closely for the ethereal backup vocalists, who help give the song a daydream-esque texture.
Billie Eilish, What Was I Made For?
In doing so, Eilish wrestles with her own status as a modern icon.
And then, over the next couple days, I was listening and I was like …
I’m writing for myself and I don’t even know it.
But in contention was the tender acoustic song The Moon Song, for Spike Jonzes romantic sci-fi Her.
assistant (voiced by Johassnon).
In 2017, the song was certified platinum by the RIAA.
(Coolio actually died in 2022, at age 59.)
(Funny enough, the Bee Gees were far away in a Parisian village when they wrote it.)
Sometimes the best ones are about love thats lost forever.
(Thats on top of other major factors to consider, like a potential title change to Ghostbreakers.)
But director George Roy Hill clearly saw something in the juxtaposition, and he was right.
Skyfall justsoundslike Bond, an astonishing feat when some 20 other artists have tried to do the same before.
Heavy is the head that wears the vibranium crown.
As the story goes, Sylvester Stallone hoped to use Queens Another One Bites the Dust for Rocky III.
After he passed on Punkys Dilemma and Overs, the band offered a work-in-progress song tentatively titled Mrs. Roosevelt.
When he heard it, he was floored.
Theyre probably glad they did, as the song wound up being a hit worthy of crushing icebergs.
