If you’ve just been manhandled into the cinema by your girlfriend because she wanted to get her perve on at the lads in Twilight Eclipse, then you may have been pleased to note that the music in the film was at times listenable verging on good.
By Robert Carry
JOE.ie investigated this strange phenomenon and while we expected to find a load of tenny-bopper American shite on the sound track, it turned out that the list of contributing artists was for the most part a respectable collection of Oxegen-playing indie/rock outfits.
Florence and the Machine, Metric, Muse, The Bravery, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses and UNKLE all sold out and took Hollywood’s shilling. However, their combined efforts didn’t manage to deliver that stand-out track or score which would forever in our collective consciousness be associated with the film.
There once was a time when a major movie would not be complete without a tie-in track, often featuring the movie name being sang repeatedly during the chorus, but sadly the art of the soundtrack lead tune appears to have been lost. With that lengthy and somewhat circuitous lead-in out of the way, here’s JOE.ie looks back at some of the best loved, and most instantly recognisable, movie tunes:
1. James Bond, A View to a Kill – A View to a Kill, Duran Duran.
2. Karate Kid – You’re the best, Joe Esposito.
3. Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr., Ghostbusters:
4. Rocky III – Eye of the Tiger:
5. James Bond, On her Majesty’s Secret Service – We have all the time in the World, Louis Armstrong.
