My top 10 movie soundtrack songs! (Top 10 Singles)

Member Name: thedevilinme

Product:	Top 10 Singles
Date:	12/09/09 (147 review reads)
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Is it me or is there a hint of an atmosphere on dooyoo of late? A lot of the fun seems to be seeping out of the site with members being giving naughty letters from dooyoo for over using the Not Usefuls and plenty of smacked wrists over the comments section. It's almost like we are falling back to 2004 when it was eggshells and the big stick. A tale reached me where one writer had their Room 101 review locked because they put me in it, which I was rather flattered by and probably deserve to be in it, but it wasn't me who complained. How does that work? As I have been banned from flirting and pretty much everything else here I want to dedicate ten songs to ten cool members who are anything but miserable and the life and soul of the party. Hope you don't mind me mentioning your names.

***WARNING***

This list includes Suck Rock, big hair, and cheesy power ballads!!!!!!

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'In Your Eyes'

Artiste-Peter Gabriel
Dedicated to 'Dixie Chick 101', just for those beautiful eyes of hers :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXyX45A0Alk

The 80s were awash with cool teen movies and likewise soundtracks, the latter what often made them, Cameron Crowe's film 'Say Anything' no exception. The standout song for the film cuts in where the geeky but confident American college guy (Cusak) gets the girl (Ione Sky), cheesily holding his boom-box over his head outside her house playing the track. This song was never released in the U.K at the time and so didn't chart and so not many of you will have heard it. The video isn't great from youtube, a surprise when you consider its Gabriel and Godley & Crème making it, but an amazing song all the same. If you haven't heard it you should.

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'In the Arms of the Angel'

Artiste-Sarah McLaughlin

Dedicated to: Karimkha, our gorgeous sexy intelligent Spanish dooyoo girl that all the boys love!

Like Karimkha this hauntingly beautiful love song is from the not so hauntingly beautiful Nicholas Cage vehicle, 'City of Angels', where a doctor (Meg Ryan) falls in love with an angel (Cage), based on the lugubrious and extremely pretentious German film The Wings of Desire. Meg is a heart doctor and Cage has had his broken and so it needs fixing. Oh boy!

The song is the film if you ask me and is played out as Cages angel sweeps over the illuminated city at night, making for a pretty decent piece of cinematography, the film more visual than well written. Songs are critical in these movies. I'm sure you have all heard this one but you really need to hear it again. It is truly wonderful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVbkz_3lO3c

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'Flashdance'

Artiste-Irene Cara

Dedicated to Sexy Kay. She's not on dooyoo any more but my word she wrote naughty reviews.

We had a local talent contest in Northampton, the stage set up in the local shopping centre, the entrants mostly children aged from 4-16. There was none of that pushy parent
stuff when we were kids, shy toddlers in tu-tus sucking their thumbs not the order of the day in 2009. Since the X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent kinds want to be famous, O-Level math and English dumped for A-Level media studies and Drama, nothing else relevant in their lives. What was striking about this talent contest were the kids had no discernable talent, not quite understanding the rules of being famous, in that you must be cute and thin, Michelle McManus's depression and forced weight loss by her record company not in the fame manual. But if only they had been like Jennifer Beal's.
As silly and as OTT her final dance audition is in the film that gets her the job, that what's required at the top, not podgy 14 year-old batton twirlers from Redditch! Flashdance is all about that impossible dream young girls have that fame will solve all their hang-ups.

In the era of High School Musical and Zac bloody Efferon the adults are rather sniffy to the tweeness of it all. But hang on; did we not enjoy Footloose and Dirty Dancing, Fame and Break-Dance? Ok, I will let you off the last one. There's just something about these films that people love, dancing your way out of obscurity and poverty to a hi-energy tune. Flashdance is a fabulous uplifting track from a very run-of-the-mill movie, Irene Cara no Whitney Houston, but her song iconic and very 1980s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZ5R3C5bzs


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'I Don't Want To Miss a Thing'

Artiste-Aerosmith

Dedicated to friendofmaddo, dooyoos Liv Tyler!

Power ballads are just too much for some people but the life of the party for movie soundtracks, this a classic from the film Armageddon. I do find Ben Affleck unbearable as I find Liv Tyler adorable but your dad writing a love song for you and then singing it over the film when your daughter is making out with Ben Affleck is a little odd. But its a great song and bombastic enough for a film that cries out for this type of big tune, yet another asteroid heading for America; yet another American square-jawed hero blowing it out of the sky and saving the earth. Shame a fragment didn't hit Affleck full in the face so the stunning Tyler is once again alone and in need of a cuddle.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo_0UXRY_rY

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Keep on Rockin in the Free World

Artiste-Neil Young

Dedicated to '1stToTheBar' as we drink the same coffee and know the same secrets.

One of the great rock rebels of our time penned this brilliant likewise anthem, the sort of tune that still gets them on their feet at the Woodstock rest home waving the Zippos on their Zimmer's. Its most recent cinema appearance was when it exploded on to the screen from the blackness at the end of Michael Moore's brilliant polemic, 'Fahrenheit 911', one of the great movies of the decade. It's such an energising tune that after seeing the movie you just wanted to run out of the multiplexes and burn Bush out of The Whitehouse! Whether you believe Bush's shadowy black ops guys had nothing to do with 911 or not this film and tune certainly caught the political fervour of the start of this troubled decade. I know Charlie Sheen is playing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdiCJUysIT0

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'Footloose'

Artiste-Kenny Logins

Dedicated to Blackmagicstar!

At college I learnt the whole dance steps to this one to impress at the final leaving do, my sad quest to be Kevin Bacon falling well short. I had the tight jeans and cool black leather jackets and shades back then but not the moves. I managed some of the steps but soon lost the rhythm, my lady friend playing Lori Singer (but not looking like her) had not learnt her steps so when I threw her in the air she wasn't there to throw her in the air! Kenny Loggins classic 80s dance floor foot tapper is not the only great song on the movie soundtrack, his other numbers 'Playing With The Boys' and 'I'm Free' very catchy. Sammy Hagar's, 'Girl Gets Around' is really cool track of the AOR 80s. But Footloose is the one your dodgy uncle dances to at the weddings and so it gets in the list. The 80s was so much more fun, pretentious Indy college rock not even a wink in Morrissey's eye.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwBbMXYDsXw

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'How do I live Without You'

Artiste-Le Anne Rimes

Dedicated to totalserenity for being too darn gorgeous at 40

This is not the patronising token black winner of the pretentious pile of poo that is the Mercury Music Prize but one of America's youngest singing stars, belting out this country & Western classic when just 15, but the record company refusing to release it because her version was to 'country pop'. Trisha Yearwood originally released it soon after in 1997 for the movie 'Con Air' with Nicholas Cage, this song the lerrrveee connection between the soldier (Cage) with his screen wife(Monica Potter) in the movie, separated from her when he stabs a guy in a bar brawl when trying to protect her, so put in prison for life.

Although Con Air is a cool dumb action film this tune is almost the perfect love song and so wasted in it, the song having so many different facets to it and tempo changes that you have to be brave to tackle it on the karaoke machine, which sadly people do. With a timely guitar solo and plenty of passion to it I love it. Go on, listen to it again. I guarantee you will listen to it until the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr4kbVNB5rk&fe ature=related
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'My Heart Will Go On'

Artiste-Celine Dion

Dedicated to Fiver29 for the fact she hates this song.

Ok, I know, it's that bloody song again, the one you either love or hate. Well I love it, and like Le Anne Rimes romantic ditty it's a very sophisticated tune in its construction and momentum. Staring up the Canadians flaring pouting nostrils under the wind machine doesn't help but my word it fits the movie, Titanic unfairly picked on as a bad movie because of this song, but for me a genuinely good movie and one of cinemas best love stories. This song compliments the genuine screen chemistry between our Katey and their DiCaprio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbw8OycJrE

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'Gonna Fly Now'

Artiste: Bill Conti

Dedicated to kate2009 because she gets me going.

Pretty much every big fight night has played the Rocky music as the champ comes out at one point. It's considered corny in the fight game if a fighter asks the PA to belt it out but my word is it a magnificent tune to get the crowd and fighter going, as it did indeed Rocky as he took Apollo Creed to the memorable time. It's just the ultimate movie anthem and part of the reason why the film worked so well and won the surprise Oscars. I need say no more as you all know the song.

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'Amore'

Artiste-Dean Martin

Dedicated to: Praskipark, my favourite film writer, and as she was around in the 1960s and has the hots for Nick Cage and her beloved Johnny Depp then for that reason too.

This, of course, is a crooners classic, sung in smoky bars in velvet diner suits across the world, some murdering it, some overdoing it, that kind of gravel voiced 50s tune. Although its been in many films my favourite would have to be its role in the Oscar winning 'Moonstruck', a delightful little love story from director Norman Jewison, Cher playing the haggard singleton wife who has to marry Danny Aellio out of respect of her elders to get a respectable husband, one she does not love but needs a good man to pay the bills, he happy with that deal. But, alas, she is infatuated with his brooding baker brother, (Nick Cage again!), his smouldering alpha maleness too much for her to resist as the sexual tension rises. The 'Amore' song absolutely encapsulates that close knit love and respect that binds the Italian American family, New York always a great backdrop for great love stories, the song so perfectly knitted to this movie. One of the reasons why I didn't like Sleepless In Seattle is because there's no great love song in it. The song must melt your heart more than the movie and performance...

Summary: Saturday night is movie night!