Movie Title equals Song Title

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I’ve been thinking about songs from movie soundtracks. Not songs from movie musicals, nor songs that characters in the movie sing. (Yes, I think there’s a slight difference there. In musicals, the characters sing their feelings in situations where real people would not actually sing. In movies about singers, however, the character will sing in situations where a singer would sing. See the difference?) Nor am I thinking of popular songs that were then added to a movie soundtrack. I’m thinking about songs that were either written for the soundtrack (“If You Leave” by OMD, for the Pretty in Pink soundtrack) or that were rather obscure until they were put on a movie soundtrack (“500 Miles” by the Proclaimers, on the Benny & Joon soundtrack.)

Then there’s an even more specific category: the soundtrack songs that have the same name as the movie.

So, in the same-name category, I came up with four that I really like:


  1. “The World Is Not Enough” by Garbage
  2. “Footloose” by Kenny Loggins
  3. “A View to a Kill” by Duran Duran
  4. “Ghostbusters” by Ray Parker, Jr. (and, post-lawsuit, Huey Lewis)

I’m actually hard pressed to think of many more (other than the rest of the Bond themes), and I’m not particularly fond of the others I came up with: “Weird Science” by Oingo Boingo and “Pretty in Pink” by the Psychedelic Furs.

Anyone have other suggestions for good movie songs with the same name as the movie?