First released in 1985 off of her Hounds of Love album, Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” has hit a massive new level of popularity thanks to its pivotal inclusion in Stranger Things 4, hitting #1 on the UK charts and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 along with being one of the most streamed songs on Spotify and other streaming apps.

Released as a single from the massively popular album The Beavis and Butt-Head Experience in 1993, the boys meet and sing “I Got You Babe” with Cher while visiting a “virtual reality karaoke” kiosk.

The Bourne Identity is celebrating its 20th anniversary this week and the first film in the franchise established the tradition of ending each movie with “Extreme Ways” by Moby, who composed new versions of the song for each movie starting with The Bourne Ultimatum, with the first two entries using his original version from the 18 album.

In 2001, it only made sense for some of cinema’s most beloved drug dealers, Jay and Silent Bob, to be a part of arguably the greatest drug song of all time, Afroman’s “Because I Got High”, which was the theme song for Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

After his death at the hands of Hughie, Butcher, and Frenchie, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) was forced by Vought to perform the ridiculous power ballad “Never Truly Vanish” at his memorial service, a song that was nominated for an Emmy in real-life and actually sung by Moriarty herself.

One of the most iconic aspects of the original Top Gun is its soundtrack and Top Gun: Maverick has brought in Lady Gaga for its big soundtrack song, “Hold My Hand”, which seems closest to Berlin’s “Take My Breathe Away” from the original with its sweeping power ballad tendencies.

One of the roles the late Fred Ward was known for was Remo Williams in 1985’s Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, which Orion Pictures hoped would become a James Bond-style action series for them. However, the movie failed critically and commercially however and there were no other Remo Williams movies. Adding to the James Bond feel, Styx lead singer Tommy Shaw contributed a theme song, “Remo’s Theme (What If)”, with a music video set on the movie’s replica of the Statue of Liberty that was used in one of the main set pieces of the film.

One of the most wonderfully terrible music videos ever made, The Karate Rap extolls the virtues of martial arts and the prowess of husband and wife practitioners, David Seeger and Holly Whitstock Seeger.

Director Richard Curtis approached Scottish soft rock band Wet Wet Wet to do a cover of a classic song for the soundtrack of 1994’s Four Weddings and a Funeral and the band went with “Love is All Around”, which was a 1967 hit by the band The Troggs.

Best known today for Hawaii Five-0 and his role in the Ocean’s series, back in the day Scott Caan was one half of the rap duo The Whooliganz, going by the name Mad Skillz and working with Alan Maman aka Mudfoot, who is now known for his role as the hip-hop producer The Alchemist.

A self-professed superfan of Nicolas Cage, Kesha crafted an ode to her idol in quarantine during the spring of 2020 with the song “Nicolas Cage”, which dropped in April of 2020 a few months after the pair got to meet in person at the premiere of Color Out of Space.