Coming from the soundtrack for Andrew Dice Clay’s The Adventures of Ford Fairlane from 1990, “Cradle of Love” became one of Billy Idol’s biggest hits and his last major hit in the US.

Although “Come With Me” by P. Diddy is probably the song most remembered from the soundtrack to 1998’s Godzilla, there were a ton of other songs off that album, including “Deeper Underground” by Jamiroquai.

Playing during the end credits of 1994’s The Pagemaster, “Dream Away” by Lisa Stansfield and Babyface was one of two pop songs from the movie. 

Celebrating its 35th anniversary this past weekend, Dirty Dancing still has one of the most iconic movie soundtracks of all time between its classic licensed music from the likes of The Ronnettes, The Drifters, and Mickey & Sylvia and the new songs like “Hungry Eyes” by Eric Carmen, “She’s Like the Wind” by star Patrick Swayze and the show-stopping finale song, “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” by Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes.

With the passing of Olivia Newton-John last week, we’re paying our respects with this week’s Musical Montage by featuring one of her most enduring contributions to pop culture, Grease.

Along with the bafflingly sincere ballad from Ernest, “Gee I’m Glad It’s Raining”, Ernest Goes to Camp also had a classic 80s “gearing up” montage in the vein of something like The Monster Squad set to the song “Brave Hearts” by Gary Chapman.

Kicking off (and closing out) Tony Scott’s 1991 action movie The Last Boy Scout, “Friday Night’s A Great Night for Football”, performed by Bill Medley, was a clear send-up of “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight”, which Hank Williams Jr. performed for Monday Night Football starting in 1989.

Coming off their greatest hits album Cross Road in 1994, “Always” by Bon Jovi became one of their biggest hits of all time and featured a quartet of Hollywood stars in the music video.

A staple of Remedy games since Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall have provided and created songs for Alan Wake and Control along with becoming the in-universe metal band Old Gods of Asgard. For their song War, they recreated scenes from Alan Wake in live-action for the music video, with Alan’s real-life model Ilkka Villi reprising his role.

During their wild night in Chicago, babysitter Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) and the kids she’s watching end up in a blues club after being chased by criminals. When the patrons won’t let them leave without performing, Chris busts out “Babysitting Blues” with the band, led by actual blues legend Albert Collins.

Along with the miniseries in 1955 on the Disneyland TV series, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett” on radios helped set off a Davy Crockett craze and there were three different versions that all charted on the Billboard charts, with the version by Bill Hayes hitting #1.