Comments on: Top Five Fictional Hit Songs From Movies https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/ Brian Cronin takes a look at interesting pieces of pop culture history from the worlds of TV, film, music and more. Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Brian Ingram https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9225 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:50:05 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9225 No list like this is complete without Stand Up and Shout, by Steel Dragon, in the movie Rock Star. Great movie, killer soundtrack.

]]> By: Xander https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9221 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:20:17 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9221 I think any of the songs from “A Mighty Wind” could earn an honorable mention. All of these songs were hits within the reality of the movie, so they had to be good folk songs anyway, and I think the writers (mostly Guest perhaps?) did an amazing job of evoking the feeling of old folk music.

]]> By: John Jechura https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9220 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 16:12:29 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9220 I have a place in my heart for Spinal Tap’s “Big Bottom”. Don’t know if it was heard much outside the movie.

]]> By: Michael Rebain https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9219 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 15:18:32 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9219 How about “God Give Me Strength” from Grace of My Heart?

]]> By: Cory Springhorn https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9218 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 14:09:45 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9218 I won’t say I disagree with your picks, because I haven’t actually seen most of the movies your choices came from, but two of my favorite “fictional hits” in movies are:
*”Christmas Is All Around,” a holiday novelty version of The Troggs’ real world hit “Love Is All Around,” as performed by Billy Mack (Bill Nighy) in “Love Actually”
*”A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow,” which was a ’60s folk hit for Mitch & Mickey (Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara) in the universe of “A Mighty Wind.”

]]> By: Fraser https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9216 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:01:37 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9216 I remember Siskel and Ebert saying “That Thing You Do” had to have been a real challenge to write: It has to sound like a 1960s song that could plausibly be a smash hit, but not sound too good because the band clearly aren’t Beatles-class talent. I think it succeeded.

]]> By: Glenn Miller https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9211 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 02:13:50 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9211 I love Shallow and especially that moment in the film, but That Thing You Do! is still definitely number one for me. Feels like they play it 5 times in the movie and it never gets old. (And then I bought the soundtrack.)

]]> By: Kevin Wilson https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9210 Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:17:45 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9210 I see three “Honorable Mentions” and the number one song. Where are the other four? I think you’re missing some subheads.

]]> By: Geno https://popculturereferences.com/top-five-fictional-hit-songs-from-movies/#comment-9206 Mon, 17 Apr 2023 23:36:13 +0000 https://popculturereferences.com/?p=4743#comment-9206 “On the Dark Side”

Did I miss where you ranked On the Dark Side from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers?

The movie was a total flop and yet the song remained in heavy rotation on oldies rock stations for decades.

Hard to be a bigger fictional hit than that song.

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