Musical Montage: School of Rock
Jack Black, after scamming his way into a substitute teacher gig, tries to mold his students into the world’s greatest rock band in Richard Linklater’s School of Rock.
Musical Montage: Tina Turner “We Don’t Need Another Hero”
The Mad Max is not really known for it’s music with the lone exception being “We Don’t Need Another Hero” by Tina Turner for Beyond Thunderdome, where she played the ruthlessAunt Entity.
Musical Montage: The Lonely Island “Natalie’s Rap”
Back in 2006, the “true” Natalie Portman was revealed when she dropped the gangsta rap classic “Natalie’s Rap” on SNL with The Lonely Island.
Musical Montage: Mickey Thomas “Stand in the Fire”
Despite starring Rob Lowe and Patrick Swayze, 1986 hockey movie Youngblood, and it’s rocking theme song, has been sort of lost to time, until now.
Musical Montage: Peter Cetera “Glory of Love”
Originally created as the end theme for Rocky IV, Peter Cetera’s Glory of Love was moved over to Karate Kid, Part II to highlight the budding romance between Daniel and Kumiko, whom Daniel-san meets in Japan when he goes there with Miyagi.
Musical Montage: Lemon Demon “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”
From the early days of Internet videos, Lemon Demon describes the final battle of almost every fictional and real life character in The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny.
Musical Montage: Michael Sembello
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.
Musical Montage: J. Geils Band “Fright Night”
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.
Musical Montage: Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
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.
Musical Montage: Cameo “Word Up”
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.