The Off Topic Topic

[Sheilbh]

Let it Go? Anything from Lion King? I'll make a man out of you - Mulan?

[derspiess]

Let it Go?

Make it stop.

[Eddie Teach]

I'm assuming musicals don't count?

The LEGO Movie.

That song was terrible.

[Admiral Yi]

Either "To Sir With Love" or "That Thing You Do."

[Malthus]

I was thinking of something odd today. What is the best ever song in a movie...that was actually IN the movie.
I don't mean movie soundtrack even if it was specifically created for the film.
I mean a song that was created for the movie (or made super famous by it perhaps...though that could be a different category) and was actually played by major characters or danced along to by them or whatever (background band which happened to be playing a song irrelevantly need not apply).

In-movie bands playing covers of previously existing songs also count.

"Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap. 

[crazy canuck]

I was thinking of something odd today. What is the best ever song in a movie...that was actually IN the movie.
I don't mean movie soundtrack even if it was specifically created for the film.
I mean a song that was created for the movie (or made super famous by it perhaps...though that could be a different category) and was actually played by major characters or danced along to by them or whatever (background band which happened to be playing a song irrelevantly need not apply).

In-movie bands playing covers of previously existing songs also count.

Eddie and the Cruisers.

[Malthus]

More seriously ... "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[Barrister]

"Shout" in Animal House.

[crazy canuck]

"Shout" in Animal House.

That was a cover of a song that had been famous

[Syt]

More seriously ... "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Good one. I'll throw in Urge Overkill's "Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon." Not written for the movie AFAIK but made widely popular by it, and Mia Wallace dances to it. Similarly, Tito and Tarantula's After Dark from From Dusk Till Dawn.

[lustindarkness]

Don't you forget about me in Breakfast Club.
Ghostbusters.
Eye of the Tiger in Rocky.
Footloose.

There are many more, but a few from the 80's that pop into my head.

[crazy canuck]

Don't you forget about me in Breakfast Club.
Ghostbusters.
Eye of the Tiger in Rocky.
Footloose.

There are many more, but a few from the 80's that pop into my head.

"I don't mean movie soundtrack even if it was specifically created for the film."

[Syt]

Well, Ghostbusters was sung (briefly) in Ghostbusters 2 when they appear at the children's birthday party, IIRC.

[lustindarkness]

Ah, like songs that were sung by the characters in the movie?    I don't think my memory is that good. 

Edit: And no musicals right?

[lustindarkness]

I'll have to go with Hakuna Matata for now, I got to get back to work, but I'll keep thinking about it I'm sure.