Movie Soundtracks That Make You Time Travel

[MontuckyFried]

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!





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.

[MontuckyFried]

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.

[MontuckyFried]

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.

[MontuckyFried]

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.

[MontuckyFried]

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



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.

[Mike Pow]

Something Wild

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

Played it to death

[The Reverend Floater]

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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[AK47bp]

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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[The Reverend Floater]

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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[Djongo Unchained]

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.

[MontuckyFried]

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"


A-Ha's "The Living Daylights"


From the Living Daylights' outro by the Pretenders - "If There Was a Man"

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[MontuckyFried]

...
Then there was Gladys Knight's "License to Kill"


And finally one my all time favorites, Patti LaBelle's "If You Ask Me To"


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.

[mcski]

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

[powpig]

Ahnuld & time travel, I think this belongs: