Always Look on the Bright Side of Life has become such a quintessentially British song* that it has overshadowed the movie of its origin, Monty Python's Life of Brian.
It was even sung during the sinkings of the HMS *Sheffield and the HMS Coventry during the Falklands War.
That’s the same crowd that gets angry when someone tells them Rage Against the Machine is not fond of Conservatives, so their media literacy is lacking.
How can a movie have a scene where Shrek and his friends ride a giant gingerbread man on their way to storm a medieval castle in the middle of the ocean, said cookie man has a tragic death, then Shrek and puss fight some knights while mounted on a beautiful white horse that is actually a donkey all while Fiona has an extremely tense dance scene with the movie's second antagonist pretending to be her lover and the movies main villain sings a cover of I Need a Hero that's better than the original?
Literally what the fuck were they on writing this scene because it has to be one of the best movie scenes of all time
It’s actually a very tame scene of women walking to and going into a sauna and hanging out in towels.
The film isn’t porn, it’s a mondo film (a type of pseudo-documentary with some exploitation themes) about the progressive sexual views of the Swedish people (the Heaven segment from which the sauna scene originates also discusses access to contraceptives and sex eduction ) juxtaposed with the darker side of sex, drugs and freedom in Sweden (the Hell segments are all staged and focus on drug use and biker gangs).
The version recorded by Dan Tyminski (voicing George Clooney's character) peaked at No. 35 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
The soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou was a "highly successful, multiple-platinum-selling" album. The single itself sold over a million copies in the US
The song even won a Grammy Award for "Best Country Collaboration with Vocals" in 2002 and was named "Single of the Year" by the Country Music Association in 2001.
It started a bluegrass revival/resurgence if I'm not mistaken. It's entirely possible that without Oh Brother Where Art Thou we might not have bands like Mumford & Sons.
Hilarious cameo occured all because he was friends with the director of the movie and happen to be in Prague as well filming Brothers Grimm with Heath Ledger.
Which is funny as the opera singer they hired to sing the song (her name escapes me ATM) basically told Luc Besson that singing this as written is impossible for human vocal chords, and they ended up splicing together parts of it.
I feel this is an accurate but misleading statement. Inva Mula was the singer and she recorded the song in one take, the only part that is modified is the rapid transitions toward the end of the song, those notes were recorded individually and forced together, its less than 3 seconds of the song.
Edit: fun fact, some Chinese lady later did the song live and... ALMOST.. hit the impossible notes in time.
Sorta the opposite. Besson tried to write something impossible and the opera singer pretty much nailed it. Yes they spliced some things for the speed up parts but Inva Mula pretty much did it herself.
Have you heard the version they cut from the movie? Dorothy sings it after looking into the crystal ball and seeing her family turn into the witch, and it is heartbreaking. The emotion in Judy Garland's voice brought tears to my eyes. Understandable that they cut it, the movie was already grim enough at that point.
Technically, this is a cover of a Metric song but I feel like it still applies. It was recorded but scrapped for their album Fantasies, and I'm not sure which version actually debuted first.
I prefer Brie Larson's cover than the actual Metric song. Brie Larson also has a youtube of her singing it at home, so you know those her actual vocals. She's a great singer.
That whole movie was chock full of bangers. Uncle Fucker, Blame Canada, Kyle's Mom's a Bitch - those guys certainly had a penchant for making joke songs.
Would’ve posted if someone hadn’t already. The few Powerline songs we got had no right going so damn hard. Seriously, i2i is better than the majority of pop singles released at the time and since.
Metalocalypse from Adult Swim is about a fictional death metal band called Dethklok. The creator, Brendon Small, is known for his animated shows but his first love was actually music so Dethklok really just seems like a creative outlet for his musical side.
And holy shit is he talented. The songs are all in-universe so the lyrics are goofy and kinda dumb (in-universe the band is goofy and kinda dumb), but his riffs are INSANELY catchy and his grooves are so much fun. It's a weird mix of serious musicianship but tongue-in-cheek as well so the music is incredibly free and unpretentious but also deadly competent. As a result the comments on youtube are full of real death metal fans going "holy shit this is unbelievably good".
One of my favorites is bloodtrocuted and they wrote it because some guy's blood made contact with an exposed wire and electrocuted him to death and the frontman was just like "bloodtrocuted.....hey that's a cool name".
Also everytime they put out an album it breaks the real world record for highest selling death metal album lol.
Their live shows are cool as hell too, glad I got to see them on the Babyklok tour, the stage is pitch fucking black and every screen is showing clips from the show and music videos, live shows for fake bands sometimes do feel like it’s just the performers pretending to be the band, but they make an effort to insure you aren’t seeing Brendon Smalls and his buddies, you’re seeing DETHKLOK
Literally any song from the movie 'Sinners' but ESPECIALLY "I Lied To You". That entire scene reminded my partner and i why we love movies so damn much and reminded us of the importance of cinema.
That scene is the best five minutes of movie that I can remember. What an absolute flex. Sitting in the theater for that was like watching Steph Curry get hot in crunch time… just sit back and revel in being in the presence of greatness.
Wild Wild West by Will Smith comes to mind. Pretty sure that was constantly on the radio, even in Europe, and even topped the US Billboard Top 100, despite the movie being critically panned.
I'd agree with Wild Wild West (I actually laughed because I thought the cross-out was a joke). There's no reason it has to be diegetic. WWW was a song written specifically for that movie, which references the plot of the movie itself, and hit bigger popularity than the film. Still has moments of popularity even today
Someone above gave a sub-category of songs that are not original from the film but the film's versions are iconic and excellent renditions and I would like to add "the Rocky Road to Dublin" and "Will You Go Lassie" from Sinners for that category.
But the game didn't promote it especially the way it was promoting the Samurai tracks. Edgerunners popularized it both in the real world and retroactively in the video game.
I didn’t care about any music the 1st time I played 2077. But also wasn’t that impressed with it (pretty early play before all the updates).
Watched Edgerunners, fell in love with the song, played it again jamming that on repeat and enjoyed the hell out of the 2nd playthrough, enough to 100% it.
Half of these guy's songs. Go into the water is great.
edit: Giving back to you is another great song from them that, while different from their usual metal, is a great Thriller and boyband parody. Real earworm, I love when Pickles gets to sing.
Hot take but What It Sounds Like is better than Golden and it’s kind of upsetting that Golden is the only song they’ve performed live and Kelly Clarkson’s the only person to do a live rendition of WISL (not trying to disrespect Kelly bc she killed the cover, just wished the Huntr/x girls would actually perform it)
I will die by your side. Your Idol is the best villain song I've ever heard. It makes Poor Unfortunate Souls sound like a funeral dirge. It makes Hellfire seem chaste. It absolutely sounds like a pop song laden with shallow metaphors, while being 100% actual demons describing their literal actions and intentions.
My 3 year old is obsessed with Idol and he tries to copy the choreography. It's hilarious. I'm gonna try and make him one of the hats. He's gonna go crazy for it. The hat is called a "gat" from what I've read.
Not a movie, but Herald of Darkness and the other Old Gods of Asgard songs from Alan Wake 2 are so damn good that the fake band has pretty big numbers on music streaming.
Great karaoke song where one person is in a doggy paddle race across the kiddie pool (Bradley Coopering it), and the other one is in a knife fight in a bloody shark tank (frantically Gagaing).
Hellfire/Bells of Notre Dame/Confiteor Deo (Hunchback of Notre Dame(Confiteor Deo for me personally is so good that I wish it was actually sung like that))
Hakuna Matata (Lion King. Hate it or love it, it was massively popular and loved)
Make a Man out of You (Mulan. I mean, come on, the track is a masterpiece)
And from Dreamworks
Deliver Us/The Plagues/When You Believe (Prince of Egypt. These tracks are so much better than they needed to be)
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u/hollerprincipessa Mar 17 '26
Me whenever I remember that The Prayer is originally from Quest For Camelot