A few weeks ago we asked the IRC community to name their favorite song from a movie soundtrack. There were so many responses to that question that there’s no way we can feature them all, but we’ve done our best to represent as many of the answers as possible. That’s one of the things we love most about the Sunday mixes – it’s always the one day of the week that we put together playlist mixes about just about anything you can think of, and the songs in the mix are not restricted to ‘indie’ rock, whatever that is.
In addition to being a mix of great movie soundtrack songs, this week’s Sunday Sampler is also cool because it is a creation of community participation and sharing. In fact, we are planning more such mixes because people really do like them so much. The most obvious reason why is the basic human desire to be part of something creative with a group of people that share similar interests – in this case, music.
It’s not often that a music site or blog encourages their audience to decide what content is presented on the site. We’re doing our best to change that, in our own way. Plus, who doesn’t enjoy seeing their contribution to a community effort on the pages of a website that gets over a half of a million visits per month from around the world.
So, here are you and your friends favorite songs from a movie soundtrack. Please add your own to the Comments section – we’d love to see a robust discussion about this topic since it intrigues so many people. (Where only contributor name appears as an attribution, those are Facebook members.)
“Our Swords” – Band of Horses from Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (Joel Salcido and Jonathan Antunez)
“Atlas” – Fanfarlo from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Kayla Hilko)
“Nothin In This World Can Stop Me Worrying ‘Bout That Girl” – The Kinks from Rushmore (Brandy Burtis)
“Caring is Creepy” – The Shins from Garden State (Whitney Stiles)
“Dancin in the Moonlight” (King Harvest) – Toploader from A Walk to Remember (@carmilleF)
“The Man in Me” – Bob Dylan from The Big Lebowski (Joel Joelskii Salcido) *
“Where Is My Mind” – The Pixies from The Fight Club (@IndieFavs)
“No Sound But The Wind” – Editors from The Twilight Saga: New Moon (@Eddy_Figueroa)
“Miss Misery” – Elliott Smith from Good Will Hunting (Kay Nola Lee)
“Dead Sound” – The Ravonettes from Whip It (@PolaRoid_Rage)
“Friends” – Band of Skulls from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (Mark Shaut)
“If You Want to Sing Out, Sing Out” – Cat Stevens from Harold and Maude (Brandy Burtis)
“Sweet Disposition” – The Temper Trap from 500 Days of Summer (@jayindie93)
“Such Great Heights” – Iron and Wine from Garden State (Mark Shaut)
“From West Texas” – Explosions in the Sky from Friday Night Lights (Jay Graham)
“Dead Man Theme” – Neil Young from Dead Man (Emily Hart)
“Wayfaring Stranger” – Jack White on Cold Mountain (@styveobscura)
“You Never Can Tell” – Chuck Berry from Pulp Fiction (@namepr)
“Sven F-Englar” – Sigur Ros from Vanilla Sky (Spencer Colvin)
“There Goes The Fear” – The Doves from 500 Days of Summer (Brandon Conway)
“Don’t You Forget About Me” – Simple Minds from The Breakfast Club (Rick Thibault Levy)
“Powerman” – The Kinks from Darjeeling Limited (Josh Carrafa)
“Scatterheart” – Bjork from Dancer in the Dark (@CanofVodka)
“Cry Little Sister” – Gerard McMann from Lost Boys (TwoDudesCRs)
“State of Love and Trust” – Pearl Jam from Singles (Mark Shaut) *
“Hot Sauce” – The Donkeys from Dear John (Alec Witthohn) *
“Virginia Plain” – Roxy Music from Velvet Goldmine (@toronto_red)
“I’ve Seen It All” – Bjork with Thom Yorke from In The Dark (Brandy Burtis)
“Green Onions” – Booker T & The MGs from A Single Man (@mcdonaldrenee)
“Tommib” – Squarepusher from Lost in Translation (Spencer Colvin)
“Superfly” – Curtis Mayfield from Bar None (recommended by Evan La Ruffa)
“The End” – The Doors from Apocalypse Now (Richard Segal)
“I Love NYE” – Badly Drawn Boy from About A Boy (Rahel Fisseha)
Bonus Track: “Dead Sound” (Peter Holmstrom and Jeremy Sherrer Remix) – The Raveonettes
- When we were unable to find a MP3 link for a recommended track, we chose an alternative track from the same soundtrack; where neither option was available (very rare), we did not include the recommendation at all.