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Garlador

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Oct 30, 2017
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So you're a band that's been together for awhile. Say you're Godsmack, you've been around since 1995, making music. But your big breakout hit doesn't arrive until 2002 when you're attached to the soundtrack of the greatest The Rock/Michael Clark Duncan team-up.
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Or, say, you're Evanescence, which got together in 1995 making moody jams, but your big breakout hits don't arrive until Ben Affleck squeezes into tight red leather.
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Hell, maybe you're pretty talented already, a great singer, and you got acclaim with your debut album in 1991, and even got a hit single in 1994, but for some reason that hit single really exploded in popularity a year later with more Robin love power.
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The more I thought about it, there's so many artists out there that got really big (or bigger) after being attached to movies that, admittedly, aren't that good or popular. They may not even be bad films, but for some reason the artists on their soundtracks were the real winners.

Can you think of any other examples?
 

Good4Squat

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Nov 2, 2017
3,148
I've never actually seen it, but The Bodyguard only has a 33% on rotten tomatoes and the movie itself rarely gets talked about, while Whitney Houstons cover of "I will always love you" is obviously incredibly iconic and often referred to.
 

Tuorom

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Oct 30, 2017
10,915


Unchained Melody from the Righteous Brothers? Yea definitely The Bodyguard lol

Maybe



Papa Roach in The One with Jet Li?
 

2CL4Mars

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Nov 9, 2018
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I've never actually seen it, but The Bodyguard only has a 33% on rotten tomatoes and the movie itself rarely gets talked about, while Whitney Houstons cover of "I will always love you" is obviously incredibly iconic and often referred to.

It made bank that's what.

411 million on a 25 m budget in 1992... and it helped having Whitney Houston, a very very popular singer.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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So you're a band that's been together for awhile. Say you're Godsmack, you've been around since 1995, making music. But your big breakout hit doesn't arrive until 2002 when you're attached to the soundtrack of the greatest The Rock/Michael Clark Duncan team-up.
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Godsmack already had a platinum album and had a string of big songs before this movie came out.
 

Dan

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Oct 25, 2017
8,958
Seal got initially famous from him featuring in Adamski's Killer (1990).
 

Tapiozona

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Oct 28, 2017
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Unchained Melody from the Righteous Brothers? Yea definitely The Bodyguard lol
Maybe


Dunno about unchained melody. It definitely got popular again after ghost, arguably even more so than after initial recording success but the song was still massively popular 25 years earlier.

As for the Righteous Brothers, they didn't need that song to become famous. You've Lost That Loving Feeling is the most played radio song of all time. Literally.
 

RedDevil82

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Oct 25, 2017
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Endless Love by Diana Ross and Lionel Ritchie

So popular that I don't think many people know it was meant for a movie in the first place.
 

Tuorom

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Oct 30, 2017
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That's very vague. Their music was featured in countless movies.
Shrek I think because it's been memed, but the movie is amazing so I dunno
Dunno about unchained melody. It definitely got popular again after ghost, arguably even more so than after initial recording success but the song was still massively popular 25 years earlier.

As for the Righteous Brothers, they didn't need that song to become famous. You've Lost That Loving Feeling is the most played radio song of all time. Literally.
That's fair, it just came to mind because I always associate the song with that scene. Even when I was typing I was thinking, wait The Righteous Bros were probably popular a long time before this movie...
 

Rats

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Oct 25, 2017
8,112
I thought Wayne's World made their popularity shoot up in the US, sure I've heard that mentioned on a documentary.

This is true, the song charted higher in the US after the movie came out than it did when it originally released.

But we shouldn't even be talking about it in this thread because Wayne's World is an amazing movie.
 

Mush

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Nov 1, 2017
651
Does Jimmy Eat World count? I love Bleed American/self-titled, but I can't stand The Middle.
 

Tapiozona

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Oct 28, 2017
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Shrek I think because it's been memed, but the movie is amazing so I dunno

That's fair, it just came to mind because I always associate the song with that scene. Even when I was typing I was thinking, wait The Righteous Bros were probably popular a long time before this movie...
American Boomers are nutty about the Righteous Brothers. But they've also had a double career because their songs blew up a second time because of popular 80s/90s movies. Unchained melody but also You've Lost That Loving Feeling because of the bar scene in Top Gun. Wonder if any other band has had that level of resurgence for their original songs.. maybe the eagles when hotel california blew up mid 90s or Journey with Don't Stop Believing to lesser extents.

Edit:. Someone mention queen above with Bohemian Rhapsody. That's another great resurgence song
 

Imperfected

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Nov 9, 2017
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While it definitely wasn't what made the band popular, Aerosmith's song on Armageddon definitely seemed to outshine the movie.
 

hiredhand

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Feb 6, 2019
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Some older examples:

Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You (The Woman in Red)



Willie Nelson - On the Road Again (Honeysuckle Rose)



Dusty Springfield - The Look of Love (Casino Royale)



I've never actually seen it, but The Bodyguard only has a 33% on rotten tomatoes and the movie itself rarely gets talked about, while Whitney Houstons cover of "I will always love you" is obviously incredibly iconic and often referred to.
It's a terrible film that is rightly forgotten. Houston and Costner have like negative chemistry.
 

Tuorom

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Oct 30, 2017
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American Boomers are nutty about the Righteous Brothers. But they've also had a double career because their songs blew up a second time because of popular 80s/90s movies. Unchained melody but also You've Lost That Loving Feeling because of the bar scene in Top Gun. Wonder if any other band has had that level of resurgence for their original songs.. maybe the eagles when hotel california blew up mid 90s or Journey with Don't Stop Believing to lesser extents.

Edit:. Someone mention queen above with Bohemian Rhapsody. That's another great resurgence song
CCR gets a resurgence every time a new Vietnam movie is made :p

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