Favorite Movie Songs

I'm presumming you mean songs written specifically for a film Mike, not just existing songs inserted ala Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie etc etc?

Ha, Erik - I actually did search and came up with that thread but it didn't seem to fit.

Timmer, yes indeed, although any songs appearing in movies are fair enough game.

Zimmer is particularly good at this, no doubt owing to his pop sensibilities. "I'll Be Holding On" is outstanding, as is "The Closing of the Year." I even like "Letting Go" from THE FAN.

No, no, no.... I was just pointing out that we did talk about it but it was too bad it got buried in a Now Playing thread. Thank you very much for opening up the very first Favourite Movie Songs thread in the long history of MainTitles.



It's shameful that we never had one before.

-Erik-

I have so many favourites, many of them very well known by most people such as Louis Armstrong's WE HAVE ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD ( more than just a favourite film song to me ), MOON RIVER, BORN FREE, YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE, The Windmills of Your Mind from THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR and so many many more.

I'm going to focus on songs I really like that are maybe a tad more obscure to the general public, here's a fine example from the Eddie Murphy film THE GOLDEN CHILD...

THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD

Music by JOHN BARRY. Sung by Ann Wilson of rock band HEART.

Of Horner's songs my favourite is Wind Song from MIGHTY JOE YOUNG.

He doesn't write enough songs, really, but yeah. My favourites are I'll Be Holding On (I prefer the film version, thank you Lala!) and Letting Go, which is plain beauty.

There are so many, I wouldn't know where to start.

But one I've always liked is "Windmills of your Mind" from THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. I recommended this to Johan Söderqvist when we had a beer together (Michel Legrand is one of his favourite composers), and he liked it.

^ Some one had too much time on their hands...

-Erik-

Had he never heard it before?

Thanks for putting these links together Alan!

Had a listen to the ones I didn't knew, and I love the one from Hidalgo, the ones from Virgin Queen (pity of the quality!) and the one frpm Mists of Avalon.

I didn't like Honolulu Baby at all!

On that same note (oh see what I did there), "Gollum's Song" is one of my two or three favorite pieces from the entire LOTR saga. It's such a haunting tune, and given such an otherworldly sound by Emiliana Torrini.

"Gollum's Song" is a very good song, but it's so distinctive that it's not a particular favourite (if that makes sense?) There are a number of songs (maybe better described as score where voices play a more prominent part) that I thought to include in my list but decided that they were not really self-contained songs as such.

I have to confess I had the same thought before posting, but in the end I decided it was worth it because it's a song that makes use of material from the score (which IMHO is criminally underused in the films). But I'll admit it's not really the same thing as, say, Zimmer writing a pop tune for the end credits based on a theme he'd already written.

I've never heard that story specifically but I have read many times that the collaborative process between Barry and a-Ha was strained, to say the very least. Perhaps it started with his insistence on using the other song.