Best known for the song “Maniac” from the Flashdance soundtrack, Michael Sembello contributed to a bunch of other 80’s soundtracks, including Gremlins and Monster Squad.

Before breaking up, J. Geils Band, of Centerfold fame, delivered the theme song for the original Fright Night, and you can kind of sense why they broke up because it’s cheesily terrible.

After a few movies of pretenders to the hockey mask, Jason Voorhees returned and, to celebrate, Alice Cooper was brought in to contribute the song “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask) along with two other songs to the movie’s soundtrack.

Cameo was apparently so funky in 1986 that they were some sort of public nuisance so the police, led by Levar Burton, arrive to arrest them in the video for Word Up.

Although Not Another Teen Movie parodied mostly 90’s movies, Marilyn Manson reached back to the 80’s for his contribution to the soundtrack, a cover of Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love”.

Although it was widely thought to be deserving of many more nominations, Selma managed to get at least one win at the Oscars last night for it’s original song “Glory”, performed by John Legend and Common.

When Gob gets too weird and needy, the leader of his new entourage, Mark Cherry, creates a diss song to try and get him to leave in the fourth season of Arrested Development.

Getting lost among other 80’s dance movies, Fast Forward, from legendary director Sidney Poitier, follows a dance group from Ohio who arrives in New York City to try and win a huge dance contest.

Koko B Ware delivered the title track to the, at the time, WWF’s second wrestling album, Piledriver, which features a ton of his fellow superstars in the official music video.

Before they teamed up for Back to the Future, Alan Silvestri composed the smoothest of smooth jazz for Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing the Stone, which also featured 80’s stars like Eddy Grant and Billy Ocean on the soundtrack.