Cheesy Music In Movies

[Companero]

Whether it's a poptastic synth score or a really cringeworthy song, there's loads of sh*te music in movies that endear themselves upon us. Here are some of mine:

'Going To A Showdown' - Maniac
'Rush Rush' by Debbie Harry - Scarface
The whole Nightmare City score
Theme from Django
Theme from Companeros
The opening track from Tony Arzenta (aka Big Guns ) which was nicked by Soderbergh and used in Ocean's Twelve , incidentally
Opening cue from Lenzi's Eaten Alive
That song from House On The Edge Of The Park
Theme from Day Of The Cobra

I'm sure I've forgotten loads, but this is a start

[Vaughan]

Man, what is that song in "Madman"?

[Companero]

I only saw that film once and wasn't impressed

[James Lee]

Queen's score for Flash Gordon
Ride To Atlantis from The Spy Who Loved Me
The Gonk from Dawn Of The Dead
The Disco version of Friday The 13th (part 3d)

[Companero]

Talking of Bond - The Pretenders' 'Where Has Everbody Gone' from The Living Daylights is superb

[James Lee]

I preferred 'If There Was A Man' but 'WHEBG' is very good too!

That Madonna song for Die Another Day was terrible - she used to be good!

[lee]

house on the edge of the park always calls me back as all the ones companero has said i dont know why but i love this soundtrack as well as mangiati vivi i love cheap disco music in my exploitation movies here s some of the top of my head? TIGER ON THE BEAT can not get the main title sequence outta my head. DJANGO gotta love this DJANGO KILL IF YOU LIVE SHOOT plays like a bad trip but i love it? LIVE LIKE A COP DIE LIKE A MAN this one always calls me back HITCH-HIKE this always brings me back to the movie time and time again? but my number one for cheese on cheese has to be brian de palmers GREETINGS and HI MOM greetings has a really naff monkees thing going on but i go back time and time again to watch this i really like this movie honest i do? HI MOM is the same the cheese on cheese

[Peter Neal]

The worst of all cheesy songs EVER to be recorded on this planet has to be a song from one of THE worst cannibal movies of all time: "Emanuelle and the last Cannibals" . The song in question goes something like this: "You're my King/ And I'm your Queen..." HORRIBLE!!!

The Showdown song from Maniac is also painful to listen to, exspecially when you show the film to someone who's not yet in the state to appreaciate this kind of cheese.

The disco songs in Prom Night are on the brink of being real cheese, but what pushes really the envelope are the christmas songs in "Silent Night, Deadly Night": HELP!!!

There are also some cheesy country songs in the original Friday,the 13th ("My heart belongs to you" ...or something like that) AND the "Harry Warden" song at the end of "My bloody Valentine" is -although somewhat ironic - tough to swallow.

Not to forget the song playing over the end credits of the U.S. version of "Tenebrae"

[lee]

emmanuelle and the last cannibals sountrack rules

[Mark Y]

I preferred 'If There Was A Man'...

Superb song, one of my favourite non-title Bond pieces.

[James Lee]

We Have All The Time In The World and Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown (both from OHMSS) are my favourites.

On the subject of chessy song, Weird Al Yankovic's 'Dare To Be Stupid' from Transformers is VERY cheesy - what with lyrics like "Stick Your Hand on the microwave and get yourself a tan!"

[lee]

come to think of it all the black emmanuelle movies what joe d amato done? have fun cheapy disco music

[Companero]

Lee - how could I forget the almost Christian-sounding "There's Music Everywhere" from Hitch-Hike. Quality. Absolutely love it. I can just imagine Harry Seacombe and Thora Hird singing along to that one.

Die Another Day is a proper pony song - pure and simple and without a doubt, the worst Bond song ever. Then again, the film is pretty much the worse Bond movie ever, so it's kind of fitting in a way

[Mark Y]

We Have All The Time In The World and Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown (both from OHMSS) are my favourites.

Getting all dewy-eyed just thinking about We Have All The Time In The World

There's a song at the end of Prom Night that I really liked when I first saw it (aged about 17), but now I think it's naff...

[Peter Neal]

Halloween 5 (the only one ever coming out with the "songs" on the soundtrack album, which I proudly own ) has some pretty cheesy titles, as far as I'm concerned: "Romeo,Romeo", "Anything for Money" (which is somewhat fitting, considering this movie's artistic merit )

"Nightmare 4" is plastered with songs of very, very varying quality

Not to forget a melancholic cheese de luxe life performance in "Nightmares in a Damaged Brain", when Baird Stafford alias George is sitting in a bar on his trip down to Florida, where he spots his first victim.

Also prime cheese, perfect for the summer time: "Give me that holiday feeling" (or whatever that song is called) at the start of "Bloody Moon", which also features a fairly bad early Eighties synth score.
For those familiar with German TV series: the main theme in this Franco fest was composed by Frank Duval, who's also responsible for many cheesy 80's songs and themes in German crime series such as "Derrick" and "Der Alte"

[lee]

HITCH-HIKE we love sunshine we love moonshine we love everything that where ve got? come and get me? through the fields now then together lets sing a song? theres music everywhere the breeze whispering there? the sun will make us warm at night the moon will shine and now lets clap your hands and then please slap your arse the world will seal around as we can sing along? lets fly lets fly lets fly lets fly onto the sky and the clouds will be all strange to dance and sing with love i smile you smile you smile? and all a round is white re light my heart goes wooo lets sing together now there s music everywhere the brezze is whispering there the song will make us warm at night the moon will shine and now please clap your hands and then please clap your hearts the world will still go around as we can sing along

[Companero]

You've seen that film far too many time, Lee. If Mary Whitehouse were still alive, she'd be scared of you...

[lee]

true compenero im a big fan of david hess HELLLLLLLLLLLLO LADY

[James Lee]

David Hess is one cool dude!

[Companero]

Any of you lot go up to Paul Brown's Cine XS fest back in 1999? Hess was there to do a signing (boy did he make some money!) and introduce an uncut print of the then banned Last House On The Left. Anyway, after the 80 odd minutes of Hess at his depraved best, he came back on stage, sat down with an acoustic guitar and sang the songs from the soundtrack.

My mate and I were sat at the back of the auditorium and couldn't contain ourselves at this most surreal sight and just cracked up laughing, much to the dismay of some of the other people. It was one of those scenarios - the more we laughed, the harder it was to stop