The song playing during the opening car chase in Baby Driver is “Bellbottoms” by The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. It was originally released on the band’s 1994 album Orange. But the connection with the film…
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The strange little piano song performed by Coraline’s Other Father was written and recorded by American alternative-rock band They Might Be Giants. It’s called “Other Father Song”. And it lasts just 28 seconds. Despite its…
The haunting song sung by Sarah Sanderson in Hocus Pocus is “Come Little Children”, also known as “Sarah’s Theme”. It’s performed by Sarah Jessica Parker in the 1993 Disney film. The music was written by…
The famous theme from The X-Files was composed by Mark Snow. But the recording’s most recognisable musical idea developed almost accidentally. Snow was experimenting with a synthesizer. He placed his elbow on the keyboard while…
The song playing at the end of The Breakfast Club is “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds. The recording became one of the defining songs of 1980s cinema. But the band originally didn’t…
The beautiful instrumental music from La La Land’s planetarium scene is called “Planetarium”. It was composed by Justin Hurwitz for the 2016 musical. The recording accompanies the extraordinary sequence where Sebastian and Mia appear to…
The disturbing opening music from American Horror Story was developed from an experimental recording created by Puerto Rican musician César Dávila-Irizarry. And here’s the surprising part. He originally made the music in 1998. That’s thirteen…
The explosive guitar instrumental at the beginning of Pulp Fiction is “Misirlou” by Dick Dale and His Del-Tones. But Dick Dale didn’t originally write the melody. The composition comes from an older Eastern Mediterranean musical…
“Woke Up This Morning” by Alabama 3. But the story is stranger than: TV producer finds gangster song. Alabama 3 are British. They are not from Alabama. There are more than three of them. And…
“Clubbed to Death” by Rob Dougan. More specifically, The Matrix uses the “Kurayamino Variation” of the track during the training sequence involving the Woman in the Red Dress. Released before the film, the instrumental became…
