Taking its title from the Leonard Cohen song, the 1990 movie Bird on a Wire featured a new version of the song from The Neville Brothers on its soundtrack.  The movie stars Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, with Gibson’s character in witness protection and Hawn as his ex-girlfriend whom he unexpectedly runs into.  The pair is […]

Celebrating its 35th anniversary this past weekend, 1990’s Pretty Woman kicked off with Go West’s “King of Wishful Thinking”, which played during the movie’s opening credits.  Go West was formed in 1982 and features the duo of Peter Cox and Richard Drummie.  The duo had released two albums before the release of Pretty Woman and “King of […]

Becoming an international dance craze in the late 80s and early 90s, the Lambada, aka “The Forbidden Dance,” spawned two films released on the same day in 1990 and a worldwide pop hit, “Lambada” by the band Kaoma.  The Lambada originated in Brazil and spread to other countries, especially the Philippines, Latin America, and the […]

Coming off the soundtrack for 1998’s Doctor Dolittle, “Are You That Somebody?” from Aaliyah is a pretty sultry R&B/Hip-Hop jam for a goofy Eddie Murphy movie.  Written and produced by Timbaland and Static Major, “Are You That Somebody?” was included on the Doctor Dolittle soundtrack album, which was a huge success, peaking at #4 on the Billboard […]

A movie that definitely fits the idea of an “Oscar Movie” is 1993’s Philadelphia, which earned a Best Actor win for Tom Hanks and a win for Bruce Springsteen for the movie’s primary single, “Streets of Philadelphia.”  Approached to write a song by director Jonathan Demme, Springsteen wrote it following his 1992-1993 World Tour in August […]

When Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) hit theaters in his first movie, Bean aka Bean: The Ultimate Disaster Movie, in 1997, he brought the Irish boy band Boyzone, who provided the movie’s main soundtrack song, “Picture of You.”  Boyzone formed in 1993 with Ronan Keating as the band’s frontman and lead singer, and “Picture of You” […]

We’re talking about 1996’s Fear on the Everything Actioncast this week as Mark Wahlberg plays the bad guy again in this weekend’s new release, Flight Risk. Along with starring as the psychotic David McCall in the movie, Marky Mark also provided the song “The Illest” for the movie’s soundtrack.  The Fear soundtrack is an eclectic […]

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 […]

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 […]

One of the biggest hits for 90s R&B superstars En Vogue, “Don’t Let Go (Love)” came off the soundtrack for the 1996 heist movie Set It Off. The movie starred Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise as friends who decide to start robbing banks in Los Angeles. Fox’s character uses […]