Bohemian Rhapsody, Wayne's World.

Barbie Girl - Aqua

Kiss From a Rose by Seal. I couldn’t even tell you what the plot of Batman Forever was.

Aerosmith - don't want to miss a thing

I bet most people don't even know it was the lead track written for a movie when it came out.

Joel Schumacher of all people. To follow Tim Burton. That's like hiring Dean Koontz to finish George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series (Game of Thrones), or to pick up an unfinished Neil Gaiman series.

I will always love you

Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. Written for the forgotten "Radioactive Man" Simpsons spin-off movie.

TMNT2 Go ninja Go ninja Go!

Armageddon was a pretty popular movie tho. 🤨

Goo Goo Dolls "Iris" comes to mind.

I Believe I Can Fly by....wait maybe not

The entire Romeo Must Die soundtrack

It was extremely popular, it had several big stars and was the second highest grossing movie of 1998 after Titanic.

Smash Mouth - All Star. It’s so popular from Shrek that most people forget (or never knew) that it started in Mystery Men.

Smashmouth's "All Star" got a lot bigger than 1999's Mystery Men

Hey at least Dean Koontz would have finished the fucking thing.

John Cafferty And The Beaver Brown Band – Eddie And The Cruisers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

"On the Dark Side", in particual.

When initially released in September 1983, the song peaked at No. 64 on the Billboard, while the film itself was pulled after three weeks in the theaters.

Nine months after the film was released in theaters, the main song in the film, "On the Dark Side", was the number one song in the country on Billboard's Mainstream, Rock, and Heatseeker charts and #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Another single from the film, "Tender Years," peaked at #31 on the Billboard Hot 100

I saw the movie when it came out on VHS.

https://www.discogs.com/master/27926-John-Cafferty-And-The-Beaver-Brown-Band-Eddie-And-The-Cruisers-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack

In what?

Somebody...

“Lovefool” - Cardigans

From the film Romeo + Juliet (1996)

Mystery Men. It’s an ensemble cast supe comedy from the 90s.

Aerosmith

Don’t you mean “fletcher”?

The Rose by Bette Midler- as a lot of people probably don’t even know it was a movie also.

Ironically it’s Tim Burtons fault it went to Schumacher after his self indulgence with Returns. If he’d matched the tone of the 1989 movie (wildly successful) it could easily have been another hit.

That whole situation leads me to the unpopular opinion that the 1989 Batman was as good as it was because of Burton, yes, but importantly the other creatives and producers.

More popular than both the movies it featured in!

Shaft

My kids saw Shrek! not too long ago and got into that song. So I put the video from YouTube up for them and did a double take because I had completely forgotten that the video itself is a tie-in to Mystery Men (which is severely underrated imo)

The graduate soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel. Mrs. Robinson was a work in progress and adapted to fit the movie, and sound of silence, and Scarborough fair are classics of the period and folk rock pillars of the century.

Interestingly, this was one of if not really the first time popular, contemporary artists had their music featured in a film. Prior, scoring a film was the purview of someone with a music phd. Talk about the beginning of sea change for the industry.

And the movie was both surprisingly good and ahead of its time as a superhero critique.

I can dig it.

Came here to say this.

(recently I learned that the song is much older)

Which movie?

You can pause the video and see the exact moment Vanilla Ice realized he ruined his career.

Rock 'N' Roll High School

As good as the 1995 movie was, and it was good, the Techno Syndrome Mortal Kombat song was a certified banger.

Honorable mention to Blood Rave from the Blade Soundtrack

Wild Wild West was bigger than Wild Wild West

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from the trailers for the movie Disturbing Behavior.

Also obligatory shout out about how they are a criminally underrated band and their albums are fucking great if you like clever, sarcastic indie rock.

The entire 'Spawn' soundtrack.

Ghost Busters. After liking the song, I found the movie kinda meh

A bit off from the question, but "the queen of the damned" soundtrack is the most fire soundtrack from any movie, ever.

Honestly that movie's soundtrack was absolute fire, had a lot of great tracks on it.

How the fuck has no one said breakfast at Tiffany's ?!??? That song is/was everywhere

I was literally just talking about Peep Show at the bar tonight and I completely forgot it was the theme song! Great fucking show.

Purple rain by Prince, from the movie with the same name

Flash by Queen

From the movie Flash Gordon

It wasnt in the movie though, right?

Too bad the movie was crap

Great fucking show