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.

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.