The Cheap Trick thread got me thinking, ever since the 1930's and sheet music, movies and the record industry have gone hand in hand. And in pretty much every decade since the 30's, music from movies have become some of the biggest sellers of all time ("white christmas" "sound of music" "South Pacific" "Saturday night fever" "Top gun" "dirty dancing" "The Bodyguard" "titanic" etc..).

But the last movie tie in song I can actively remember was "Hero" for Spiderman 2, and that was years ago now. I know movie scores still get released, but Iam hard pressed to name film composers that are from the past 10 years? So where have these songs gone? Did "Twilight" have a hit soundtrack? Does Tv's "Glee" count?

Iam not too up to date with movies or music so has there been any big hit songs from movies recently?

Gotta love this one:

It's all about the scores now. The only film songs I can remember that got widespread airplay here were the crappy Linkin Park ones from those shitty Transformers films, but apart from them...

RKJCNE said:

Gotta love this one:

Yes.

thesexofit said:

What happened to good movies with real actors?

Other than Glee, I would say the last really monster movie soundtrack was Titanic, but that was primarily just the musical score with the Celine Dion song thrown in. 8 Mile was big but not a monster movie soundtrack, and of course there was Glitter, but that suffered when Mariah's movie tanked at the box office.

Part of the reason movie soundtracks don't do well anymore is because most movies don't incorporate music in a meaningful way into their storyline. For the most part, the major soundtrack single is just slapped on during the credits at the end of the movie.

728huey said:

Other than Glee, I would say the last really monster movie soundtrack was Titanic, but that was primarily just the musical score with the Celine Dion song thrown in. 8 Mile was big but not a monster movie soundtrack, and of course there was Glitter, but that suffered when Mariah's movie tanked at the box office.

Part of the reason movie soundtracks don't do well anymore is because most movies don't incorporate music in a meaningful way into their storyline. For the most part, the major soundtrack single is just slapped on during the credits at the end of the movie.

I agree with your point but putting song montages only really started to happen in the 80s, inparticular a movie like "top gun" and some other 80's movies, otherwise songs over actual scenes or montages didn't seem to happen much in the 60's or 70's, yet you still had hit songs taken from them.

Now the music montage is pretty much gone from movies (unless its a classic track), but not even any real hit songs played over the credits either anymore...

HohnerCatcher said:

I miss them too! Every summer there would be the huge box office movies and the huge soundtracks which meant one non-album mega hit from top stars of the day, or "bubbling under" emerging stars. These soundtracks had multiple singles and was usually relevant on radio past the life of the movie itself. All I see now are "scores". Even Daft Punk's soundtrack for Tron was a "score". The Batman movies don't even get soundtracks anymore, what the hell? How come this year's comedies didn't have soundtracks? The last romantic movie with a soundtrack was... Eat Pray Love?

Yeah, you could find some decent obscure artists on OST, and find out about what else they might of done too. Record labels would put as you said "bubbling under" or obscure acts on their OST's for padding and exposure, and it was fun to hear these obscurities sometimes.

The 80's was the decade for soundtracks. Yes the 90's had some of the biggest single hits of that decade, but pretty much any moderately budgeted hollywood film had an OST back then LOL.

Without OST's, we wouldn't of got dated classics like this:-

Youtube has kept these obscure OST tracks alive LOL

Footloose 2 soundtrack is out but I'm not into the artists but hte original Footloose soundtrack had some classic sounds.

We have Whitney and the Sparkle soundtrack coming up next year where the music truly will be incorporated into the movie. Then we have Waiting to Exhale 2 coming where we know Whitney will have her hand in that.

She truly is the soundtrack queen.