soundtrack rate ballot

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Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson: 9 good little acoustic ditty. been listening to these boys a lot later (idk why but they hit in the winter) and not sure if anyone watches this movie anymore but i have seen the simpsons parody!

Issac Hayes - Theme From Shaft: 10 you can't not fw that guitar riff at least a little bit. i know next to nothing about shaft but it is iconic. perfect bgm for action scenes in a big city

Wings - Live and Let Die: 8 good intro but as with the other wings cut we rated not long ago it has a monstrous chorus and the rest is kind of boring like that reggae-ish part. also a very mid james bond flick but most of them are. also for the last time he says "world in which we're living" which is not grammatically wrong! but it's funnier to think otherwise

Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive: 10 saw this movie when i was a kid and frankly too young to understand it but my dad was a big fan of bee gees and i will defend those silly guys and their silly falsettos. they could write some awesome pop ditties

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5: 6 have to be radically vulnerable i know dolly is a national treasure and so on but i don't enjoy her music very much. this is a good ditty but i'd never want to listen to it on its own. i guess kind of based tho

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger: 10 while most of the rocky movies are mid i did grow up with them and this is an alltimer a perfect encapsulation of 80s hard rock cheese that unironically bangs. inspirational stuff for idk running around philly or whatever rocky does you know the scene like training montage type beat

Irene Cara - Flashdance ... What A Feeling: 10 i don't think i've ever seen this movie and know it mostly from parodies and couldn't tell you what the plot is about (is that the one with jennifer beals ... oh yeah it is). still a sick tune i love 80s synthy stuff like this can't get enough of it

Madonna - Into The Groove: 10 this is from a movie?! i just know it as a peak 80s madonna cut i love that era of her career when she was doing these dance-pop ditties and the whole retro sound and aesthetic it rules

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters: 10 very unserious cut for an unserious movie (which i don't know if i've ever seen, if i have i don't remember it lol, but i did grow up playing a ghostbusters game for the commodore 64). catchy

Huey Lewis & The News - The Power of Love: 8 weirdly i've seen this movie so many times but don't remember this song and what little i know of huey lewis is that they're kind of a meme and poster children for cheesy new wave but anyway whatever. this sounds more like john hughes coming of age movie-core but pretty alright cut i just could not for the life of me tell you which scene this is even in (the opening lol? idk)

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me): 11 god i know this movie has not aged super well and so on and has been parodied to death but i've still seen it so many times i can't be mad and the ending with this cut playing still rules. in high school i had a thing for 80s new wave with this exact kind of sound and the aesthetic of the era and this is peak you cannot fw this perfect ditty.

Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome): 8 lol i have a thing for 80s tracks with that new age-y sound in the intro (theme from rain man is a good example) and this is a fairly mid entry in the mad max series but sure this is a good cut strong chorus

Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone: 6 weirdly i have a vague memory of liking top gun as a kid because planes are cool but don't remember like, anything about the movie at all and also had no idea this song even existed. one time a friend of mine was shocked i didn't know it (she was older than me and remembered the 80s better). the top gun ride at canada's wonderland was pretty cool though i was very into that but i don't remember this song at all! it's like, okayish

Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes - (I've Had) The Time Of My Life: 4 as a kid i got flashdance, dirty dancing and footloose mixed up at all times and still have not seen any of them nor any other 80s movies about dancing. weird fad for them around that time i think. song of course i knew and it's okay i guess kind of annoying i don't care to hear it again. in theory it's pretty good i just don't want to hear it

Public Enemy - Fight The Power: 9 based!? i like how he says "sound of the funky drummer" and then the beat is literally "the funky drummer" good bit

Seal - Kiss From A Rose: 5 only the vaguest memory of seeing this as a kid and no memory whatsoever of this song as iconic as it was. it's like fine? nothing against this man just don't see how this fits into the movie

Warren G - Regulate (feat. Nate Dogg): 8 idk where i've heard this but the beat and synth rule. never heard of this movie idk

Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.): 10 as a kid this track fascinated me with its dark and moody aura never heard anything like it before

The Wonders - That Thing You Do!: 3 pop-rock of all kinds has become my nemesis over my lifespan and never seen this movie but i guess credit for holding the drumsticks right with traditional grip, i get so annoyed when that's shown wrong. boring song though.

Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On: 10 as a kid i loved this movie (still do) and the soundtrack is good idc if it's cheesy this is an alltimer. i don't even listen to celine i just have an inexplicable thing for cheesy ballads like this

Elliott Smith - Miss Misery: 3 never seen this and also never listened to this guy's music (seems like it would be too much of a downer) i know it's sad he died and so on but i don't enjoy this much at all. i guess the drums are good

Will Smith - Men In Black: 8 very unserious cut. will smith's rap career was Something to witness in real time. how does this kind of bang, defies all laws of physics, and yet it moves,

The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris: 8 yeah it's whiny-white-guy-with-acoustic-guitar-core but it's one of the better examples of that misguided genre

Underworld - Born Slippy (Nuxx): 0 uhh i have never seen this movie (not sure if it would be enjoyable at all or just make me feel bad) and don't know this song at all and it's giving me the irrational hate 0 with how repetitive it is and how nasal and flat and droning this guy's voice is. alright beat but f this song.

Destiny's Child - Independent Women, Pt. 1: 10 QUESTION: how did such a mid movie have such a heater track

Eminem - Lose Yourself: 7 the piano intro rules the rest eh it's got drama and it's got memes on its side i guess it's fine much as i am done with this guy. can't fault it for being cheesy after how i rated the 80s cuts

A.R. Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny): 7 honestly kind of unrateable post-good track how does this exist and from as far back as it does. i think i like it though ?! great example of many later 2000s pop trends (gratuitous autotune, vaguely "~eastern" influences, energetic uptempo synthpop, you get the vibe)

Metric - Black Sheep: 6 sigh. i am so tired of this song in every form, as a big metric fan, to be exact this era of metric's career the most, and scott pilgrim enjoyer, i never saw this as a particularly good song, just a filler track for one scene (yes really) that even the band rejected from their album fantasies (which is their best) so you see why i am so frustrated this is their most popular song by a mile (kilometre?) when i don't think it's even good. as well saying the brie larson version is better is ehh to me as someone who is so used to emily haines' voice being in my headphones for almost 20 years. you don't have to agree i just want to be seen and understood. i don't want this to be The Only Metric Song Anyone Cares about that we rate it over and over while ignoring the rest of their whole catalogue. so if you love this cut please listen to fantasies (if you haven't) they have more music like this i promise! but also i did send a metric cut that won a server rate here so i am thankful for that :imthankful:

Kavinsky - Nightcall: 8 unsure how i've never seen drive yet heard the drive soundtrack a lot and yes was one of those cliché "white guys who are really into the 80s synthwave vibe of the drive soundtrack" but yeah it's a good track although it's a blatant pastiche of daft punk - discovery era. whatever it's a good song but college - a real hero would be the 11. maybe i should just watch drive idk

Lana Del Rey - Young and Beautiful: 9 while i'm sure this movie was mid and more about aesthetic and glamour than anything this is a really good ballad from when i still liked pretty much everything lana put out

Tegan & Sara - Everything is Awesome!! (feat. The Lonely Island): 7 all the ingredients are there i like tegan & sara i like lego i like uplifting synthpop jams so idk i'm not the biggest fan of this eurotrance pastiche well you know what. screw it it put a smile on my face i like it more than i thought. it's VERY silly but it's fun idc. lol that gd cascada-esque "unsolicited rap verse by some guy" is so bad and the wubwubs and the half tempo drop. this is so aggressively 2012 i can't handle this. this is post-good really how did tegan & sara of all acts make this. i burst out laughing but why is it such an earworm?? this sucks so much (complimentary)

Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake - King's Dead: 7 i only saw this once and don't remember this song but look at the talent on this you can't really go wrong. having said that the falsetto part is funny

Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga - Shallow: 5 all i know is something wine moms idk i haven't seen this only the original and somehow dodged the overplay of this. i like both of them it's kind of boring idk it's okay

RRR Cast - Naatu Naatu: 8 missed out on this cultural phenomenon. kinda whips

Ryan Gosling - I'm Just Ken: 10 the other day i was shovelling my driveway and thinking pensively about ken's arc in barbie and its implications for men in the real world.

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