David Newman got started composing film scores in the mid 80’s and has done the scores for a bunch of great movies, including The Mighty Ducks, The Sandlot, Serenity, Tommy Boy, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure and much more.

Blasted constantly by Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s character, Dusty, was the theme song for 1996’s Twister, “Humans Being” by Van Halen.

After dominating the music charts in the early 90’s, Vanilla Ice tried his hand at movies and the result was the hilariously bad, completely insane cult classic, Cool as Ice. Since it starred the Iceman, there were plenty of rap performances in the movie and you can check them all out in this week’s Musical Montage.

Taking a break from singing about Transformers, Stan Bush gave JCVD the will to win the Kumite in the 80’s classic, Bloodsport.

Simultaneously one of the most bad ass and nerdy metal bands is Powerglove, wearing Koopa armor and specializing in metalized covers of cartoon theme songs.

Our commentary for this 80’s ninja classic will be going up tomorrow but you can get ready by checking out the theme song for Pray for Death, “Back to the Shadows” by Peggy Abernathy.

When Disney, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola and Michael Jackson combined, you get the 17 minute sci fi epic that is Captain EO.

We close out this month’s salute to action ballads with maybe the ultimate action ballad, “Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing” by Aerosmith from the Armageddon soundtrack.

A musical Three Musketeers was assembled for Disney’s take on the classic novel in 1993 with Sting, Bryan Adams and Rod Stewart joining forces for “All for Love”.

The power ballads continue in Musical Montage this Valentine’s Day week with the theme from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, delivered by the dulcet tones of Bryan Adams.

This month we’re featuring the best of action ballads/love songs, what with Valentine’s Day and what have you, and to kick things off, the theme from Con Air, How Do I Live? by Trisha Yearwood, probably not something a lot of the cons in that movie would listen to.