I just heard a new track today by DJ Evol called 'Texas Chainsaw'. made me think how many other tunes named after films there are.
Deep Blue something - 'Breakfast At Tiffanys' is one.. (obviously they don't have to be good songs :smile:)
Wuthering Heights by Pat Benatar. Awesome, awesome tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlTRlIOAXak#
Hammer Horror, Kate Bush.
I know it's a company not a film but it's close...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nyx4akq9_rA
"Mars Attacks" by The Misfits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5Vo_gYqjk
Granted, it was a card series prior, but I believe they wrote it after the movie came out. Hell, a majority, if not all, of the Misfits songs are named after movies.
nice, keep em coming...(btw, surely Wuthering Heights is a Kate Bush tune as well?)
D/Bridge - 'True Romance'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=r2C-cdySGHk
Lock Up - 'The Matrix'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZEAVW-GP2bw
Beastie Boys - High Plains Drifter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMzZlVZEV_w
Dokken - Dream Warriors
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcjUE6XDeY
Tigertailz - For a few Dollarz More
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4h-U8dPDKss
Showbiz & AG - 'Silence Of The Lambs'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SG1Ljs4mtxQ
Mortal Kombat, Utah Saints...they made it for the film not the video game. So it counts.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ0fFgU22ls&feature=related
Primal Scream did an album called 'Vanishing Point' after the film, but the title track - where they say "vanishing point" a lot in the chorus - is actually called 'Kowalski' after the main character. so it kind of counts...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZVcwG-gY9dM
Celine Dion And Some Dude...Beauty And The Beast...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKLZ11LHeM
White Zombie - I Am Legend
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcWiTaDWrM
White Zombie - Spiderbaby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fblYQ2Q0wU
Skid Row - Creepshow
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-zyEh-VdCek
"Nosferatu" by Blue Oyster Cult.
Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=sKy73feGlSM
Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHRm2DioMA
Quote from: DCA on January 24, 2009, 10:06:33 AM
btw, surely Wuthering Heights is a Kate Bush tune as well?
Yeah, I just like Pat's version better. :teddyr:
The Haunting - Testament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwHcgPRu-4
Though I'm not 100% sure if its about the movie.
I'm guessing Rob Zombie's "House of 1,000 Corpses" song doesn't count? I mean, it was written specifically for the movie he wrote and directed. But it is a song named after a movie. I dunno.
Quote from: HappyGilmore on January 25, 2009, 10:02:40 AM
I'm guessing Rob Zombie's "House of 1,000 Corpses" song doesn't count? I mean, it was written specifically for the movie he wrote and directed. But it is a song named after a movie. I dunno.
yeah I didn't exactly mean songs written
specifically for movies they're about. but this is only bit of fun, they can all count really...
Iron Maiden- 'Aces High'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4Sam5omG0v0
(not sure if its inspired by the movie called Aces High or not)
DJ Sappo - 'Dawn Of The Dead'
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YWq9ESv0TUI
also here is a tune not named after a film, but which samples quite a bit of dialogue from 'Jaws', to the point where someone has made a video for it on youtube matching up various scenes from the film with the appropriate bits of the track... it's really good IMO people should check it out:
DJ Excel - 'Just When you Thought It Was Safe'
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WYIkM_R3A9I
incase the preview doesnt show up heres the link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WYIkM_R3A9I
If the previous post was the chicken and the egg, then this post is the egg and the chicken. Actually, I found more movies named/inspired for/by songs, then I found songs named/inspired for/by movies. But . . . as previously stated
Song: Who Woke Snow White Up
Film: Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs
Song: Along Came Jones
Film: Along Came Jones
Song: Western Movies
Film: Not a specific film, but the western genera