Movie Soundtracks That Make You Time Travel

Back in the day, seemed that almost every film came packaged with some great song that was meant to go top of the pop charts. Often times, some of these randomly just sneak into my head out of the blue where it gets stuck there on an earworm loop, so I queue it up on my stereo and bam! I'm instantly transported back to my youth or a particular moment in my past. There are WAY too many to list in one go, so I'll just get this party started and add as I think of them. Post up your favorite movie tracks!!!

Let's begin:

From Roger Moore's For Your Eyes Only, title track by Sheena Easton (warning, typical classic Bond intro mildly NSFW - geez I miss these... sigh...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kNksLL0sv4

From Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. "We Don't Need Another Hero" by Tina Turner:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcm-tOGiva0

From Lynch's Dune. "Take my Hand" by Toto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjJPjAkLXS8

https://media.tenor.com/jnc3U7VSgMwA...-nostalgia.gif

This happens to me with ski movies. Like any time I hear ELO's Don't Bring Me Down, I think of Petit's segment in Attack of La Nina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapKwdEojQQ

Same goes for Fugazi / Waiting Room and Mike Douglas' segment in Yearbook (couldn't find a video of that one).

Mainstream: Animal House, Vision Quest, Pretty in Pink
Skiing: Continuum, Uprising, Sinners

Get ready to go back to 1985 with a couple bangers by Rupert Hine. "I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS!!!"

Arrested by You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Qy56crC8w

and With One Look (the Wildest Dream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILh-NrIuY4

Breakfast Club and Valley Girl

https://youtu.be/t932mq9YdVo?si=Ah0nrCHDPbWv5eaf

Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack

Tom Petty - American Girl
Jackson Brown - Somebody’s Baby
Led Zep - Kashmir
etc

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Fast Times at Ridgemont High soundtrack
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Jackson Brown - Somebody’s Baby

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YES! That soundtrack is all time for sure!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhPSAytpd-s

https://youtu.be/wZgIt5MPKqI?si=CgXp1s919gm75NOR

Man, always thought Carly Simon knocked it out of the park with the Spy Who Loved Me's "Nobody Does It Better." Bam! Right in the feels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isAUOa50wdA

Always hated it when that song would pop in my head after breaking up with a girl I wasn't over (and we both loved doing Bond marathons together)
https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2...ubek/giphy.gif

The Commitments and Dazed and Confused were two of my favourite soundtracks


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https://youtu.be/mrMLMV6E4CM?si=TN9HqWpkI_ZDNEcR

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Man, always thought Carly Simon knocked it out of the park with a View to a Kill's "Nobody Does It Better." Bam! Right in the feels.

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Ms Simon’s joint was the theme song to The Spy Who Loved Me (Duran Duran did the theme song for A View To A Kill, though imho the producers should have gotten Grace Jones to do that one…).

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That is one of my favorite Bond movie theme songs, though!

#3: https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/11...nd-theme-songs

Okay, so I am failing the assignment by mentioning a score as opposed to a soundtrack, but in terms of transporting me elsewhere, I have always been partial to Ennio Morricone’s score to The Mission…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E

Against All Odds had a great s/t…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agains...s_(soundtrack)


Peter Gabriel - “Walk Through the Fire”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BfCxKowJxA




Phil Collins - “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvtoyVi7vY

Back in another lifetime, when I was paid to compile listicles, I put this together:

IGN.com’s Top 25 Soundtracks
https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08...25-soundtracks

Main stream:
Gross Pointe Blank
Beetlejuice
Ski:
Mitch Ryder-When You Were Mine

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Ms Simon’s joint was the theme song to The Spy Who Loved Me (Duran Duran did the theme song for A View To A Kill, though imho the producers should have gotten Grace Jones to do that one…).

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That is one of my favorite Bond movie theme songs, though!

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Haha. Brain fart! I knew that! Thank you for fakt checking me. Edited to reflect the correction.

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https://youtu.be/mrMLMV6E4CM?si=TN9HqWpkI_ZDNEcR

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Yes!!! This one used to get stuck in my head SO bad! Thanks for taking me right back to 1987 with this one. Damn, what a great song.

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Originally Posted by dookeyXXX

Against All Odds had a great s/t…]

Phil Collins - “Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuvtoyVi7vY

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Hell yes! Can't believe that was 1984! Timeless soundtrack where Collins brought the feels for real. SUCH a great theme song!


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this one always does it for me:

https://youtu.be/3CY0ZjtuHvs?si=FxsqZrBQZwK6do9E

Can't believe I forgot High Fidelity in my original post.

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Okay, so I am failing the assignment by mentioning a score as opposed to a soundtrack, but in terms of transporting me elsewhere, I have always been partial to Ennio Morricone’s score to The Mission…

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No doubt! Morricone's Mission score is utterly magnificent. Scores are definitely allowed for this thread!!! Speaking of film scores, basically ANYTHING by Vangelis transports me to times past and future alike...

See: Blade Runner OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4pYju_hEOk

Or how about his music he did for Cosmos?!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ720sKllMM

Can't forget Chariots of Fire tho ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a-HfNE3EIo

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Originally Posted by dookeyXXX

Back in another lifetime, when I was paid to compile listicles, I put this together:

IGN.com’s Top 25 Soundtracks
https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/08...25-soundtracks

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Wow! What a list! I'm going to have to start working my way through those post-haste. :yourock:

One of the songs that was HUGE at the time and really is a great tune in it's own right was Madonna's "Live to Tell" from At Close Range (1986). Always takes me back. Not the movie so much, but the song. Haha. Was on the radio all the time, along with SO many other movie tracks, like so many things by Kenny Loggins. :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzAO9A9GjgI

Anybody else remember the OST from St. Elmo's Fire? Man, this takes me back!

John Parr's "Man in Motion"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx7vNdAb5e4

& the so-called "Love Theme" by David Foster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2hGqJved8

Don Bluth and James Horner were on fire back in the 80s. Saw this one at the theater when I was young and the theme song and Diana Ross' "If We Hold on Together" was always a tear jerker. I'm not crying. YOU'RE crying. It's allergies! SHUTUP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VDe92aTeVw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2dm1RF5RmA

Man, 70/80s family movies did NOT screw around when it came to bringing the pain. From Watership Down to Land Before Time, the Secret of Nimh, Return to Oz, the Neverending Story, the list goes on. Us Gen X kids were no strangers to death and loss. Dayum. Haha.

Now in that vein, James Horner also did An American Tail and its sequel, Feivel Goes West. But one if its main songs "Dream to Dream" was performed by the unbelievably talented Linda Ronstadt (one my favorite female vocalists of all time). She crushed it with this song. Unreal! Crazy good for a kids movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmQb_yE3eyk

Heard this one on the radio the other day. Still a classic and definitely a time warp. It may have been way overplayed back in 1986, but it's still a great jam for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx51eegLTY8

Had to mention another classic Dune track. Toto absolutely rocked that score. This one's been on repeat in my brain since 1984. Anybody else, or am I alone on this one? Haha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mt36O2nVkM

From the kick ass Tank Girl soundtrack, but of course the 1994 album "Dummy" is Portishead's "Roads." What a song!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60

And while we're on the subject of Portishead and songs that take us back, let's not forget "Glory Box." One of my kids may or may not have been conceived to this tune. :p

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qQyUi4zfDs

Something Wild

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091983...thing%2520wild

Played it to death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqR2r6toaEg&list=PLp6WWcZCHeSgsAyDf-rKnFH_9pX-bjV2M

The Crow for sure.

The first cassette tapes I ever bought (I think I was maybe 10) were the Apocalypse Now and Over the Top soundtracks. I remember watching Apocalypse Now on HBO or something at my buddy's and hearing The End for the first time. Minds were blown.

One clearly was better than the other.

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As a teen in the 90’s, there were some interesting movie soundtracks.

Spawn
Crystal Method and Filter’s “Trip Like I Do” is great.

Singles (of course)

Friday

Judgement Night.
Movie blew but crazy soundtrack.

The Crow.

Natural Born Killers.
Used to eat acid and watch this one, first time hearing Leonard Cohen.

Hearing that soundtrack and Voodoo Child (not slight return) still gives me those flashback tingles.


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As a teen in the 90’s, there were some interesting movie soundtracks.

Spawn
Crystal Method and Filter’s “Trip Like I Do” is great.

Singles (of course)

Friday

Judgement Night.
Movie blew but crazy soundtrack.

The Crow.

Natural Born Killers.
Used to eat acid and watch this one, first time hearing Leonard Cohen.

Hearing that soundtrack and Voodoo Child (not slight return) still gives me those flashback tingles.


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You could probably do a whole thread on the best movies with Voodoo Child. For me, SRV's version in Blackhawk Don't win was pretty well timed.

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Natural Born Killers.
Used to eat acid and watch this one, first time hearing Leonard Cohen.


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That's a bold move, Cotton.

Been marching on recently with my James Bond marathon. HIGHLY recommended if you haven't done that lately. Non-TV edits, theatrical release versions of course. By blasting through from the days of Connery to the 1 Lazenby film to Roger Moore to Timothy Dalton and so on, and each film being representative of their respective eras, it's been quite the time travel experience with a touch of existential crisis as it hit me just how old those films, and thusly me, are getting. Anyway, while I love most of the older Bond films (except Diamonds are Forever - still thought that one was Connery's worst by far), it was the 80s films that by FAR brought me back in time the most. Probably since I grew up with those ones. Some notable tracks from my recent viewings...

Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVbVT3igdw

A-Ha's "The Living Daylights"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9p0FJnk2vM

From the Living Daylights' outro by the Pretenders - "If There Was a Man"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5L1_NAKy1o
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Then there was Gladys Knight's "License to Kill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju_by-sC79c

And finally one my all time favorites, Patti LaBelle's "If You Ask Me To"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da-RjeCObyA

I DARE you to listen to all those tracks and tell me they don't flood you with nostalgia. You'll especially get a kick out of going through the Bond library again. So many great intro/outro songs. So many recognizable actors along the way, particularly with the villains and love interests. LOVED Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill, Christopher Lee in the Man with the Golden Gun, Robert Davi in License to Kill (highly underrated IMO), tons more, and also enjoyed the hell out of the Moore and Dalton eras. I don't care what all the haters say. Haha. Now on to the Pierce Brosnan era. I don't have as fond of memories with those films, although I remember liking Goldeneye a lot, but we'll see how the rest of them stack up! Anyway, enjoy my little stroll through memory lane.

I haven’t intentionally watched Bond since view to a kill and had no idea they had ones featuring A-ha and Pretenders. I don’t know why Duran Duran makes sense to me but aha and pretenders seem weird as fuck but bond generations are like that

Ahnuld & time travel, I think this belongs: