You may not remember some of these songs from the films for which they were recorded you may have forgotten about some of these songs (or movies) entirely.

Also, because she had no fewer than four charting singles, we excluded Madonna because-as always-she is in her own category (though “Vogue” is the best one). To collect the 35 best songs from 1990s movie soundtracks, we had to eliminate from selection one of the decade’s trends of reviving an older song for new, anachronistic use, beginning with Ghost’s use of The Righteous Brothers’ “Unchained Melody” in 1990, and continuing through Wayne’s World (Queen’s “ Bohemian Rhapsody”), Pulp Fiction (Dick Dale’s “Misirlou” among several others), Trainspotting (Iggy Pop’s “Lust For Life”), and more. Afterward, filmmakers and studious couldn’t get enough of tracks and full albums engineered as tie-ins and spinoffs to their films-especially if they could stake out a spot for themselves on the Billboard charts.

employ his client for an album “inspired by” the film rather than one meant to be played wall-to-wall behind the characters. If the 1980s marked a soundtrack explosion, commemorating a decade of aggressive merchandising and cross promotion, it entered a new permutation after the release of Tim Burton's Batman in 1989, when Albert Magnoli, Prince’s then-manager, suggested that Warner Bros.

Wild at heart 1990 cd cover