Playing a pivotal role in last year’s body horror hit The Substance, along with the score by Raffertie, is the electronic song “Pump It Up” by DJ Endor.  The song’s original version was by Belgian musician Danzel, with his version becoming a Top 10 hit in multiple countries in 2004.  DJ Endor’s remix was released […]

Capping off Tango & Cash as the end credits song, “Best of What I Got” was part of a massive 1989 for British rock band Bad English.  Formed in 1987, Bad English’s debut album, Bad English, was released in June 1989 and featured “Best of What I Got” along with the band’s biggest hit, “When […]

Max Headroom was massive in the mid to late 80s, with multiple TV shows, endorsement deals with companies like Coca-Cola, and even a Christmas special, Max Headroom’s Giant Christmas Turkey, which spawned the musical single, “Merry Christmas Santa Claus (You’re a Lovely Guy).”  The Christmas special aired on December 18th, 1986, in the US on […]

Setting the tone immediately for the beloved Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Christmas, “Christmas Time is Here” by jazz musician Vince Guaraldi has become a staple of the holiday season since audiences first heard it in 1965.  Guaraldi had already worked with the Peanuts properties, composing “Linus and Lucy” for an album in 1964 called […]

To promote their movie Spice World, the Spice Girls released the single “Too Much,” the follow-up to “Spice Up Your Life” from the Spiceworld.  Spiceworld was not the official movie soundtrack but essentially acted as it, with almost every song except “Move Over” appearing in the film.   The Spice Girls had to record the album […]

Along with all the other over-the-top things that happen in director Brian De Palma’s 1984 homage to Hitchcock, Body Double, the 80s band Frankie Goes to Hollywood is featured in a sequence that finds main character Jake Scully (Craig Wasson) on the set of a porn movie, performing their hit “Relax.” “Relax” was released in […]

Wicked dominated the box office this past weekend (see how much in Battle at the Box Office later today), but the original Wizard of Oz has dominated pop culture for 85 years and counting. There are several iconic aspects of the 1939 classic, including the songs.  All the songs were composed by Harold Arlen, and […]

Celebrating its 35th anniversary this past weekend, Don Bluth’s All Dogs Go to Heaven hit theaters in 1989 and featured Irene Cara & Freddie Jackson singing its main soundtrack song, “Love Survives.”  Released on the same day as Disney juggernaut The Little Mermaid, All Dogs Go to Heaven couldn’t match the same success in theaters that […]

Just as big as the movie itself, the soundtrack for Pokemon: The First Movie went double platinum and featured the single “Don’t Say You Love Me” from M2M, which played over the movie’s end credits.  A Norwegian pop duo, M2M consists of Marion Raven and Marit Larsen.  “Don’t Say You Love Me” was their debut […]

With Big Hero 6 turning ten this week (and it being this week’s Everything Actioncast topic), it seems like the perfect time to highlight “Immortals” by Fall Out Boy.  Written for the movie, the song is used for a training montage as the superhero team develops their high-tech gadgets and also plays over the movie’s […]

An alternative rock supergroup, Class of ’99, was assembled to provide Robert Rodriguez’s The Faculty with cover versions of both parts of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall.”  The band featured Alice in Chains Layne Staley on vocals, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine on lead guitar, Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction on […]