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[manzoman96]

The real winner:

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones

you know where

 

[Switch Back 9]

Where Is My Mind by The Pixies in Fight Club

Can't believe it took this long! My first thought when I saw the thread title.

 

[Luke_Wal]

I can't hear "Sound and Color" by Alabama Shakes without thinking of Mr. Robot. I don't know how many people that applies to specifically, but it's so real for me.

 

[nillapuddin]

Running Up That Hill - The OC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E12beHvmUWY


It really stuck with me

 

[eLGee]

Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

The Stand opening scene. All those dead bodies.

Although, I cannot unhear that fucking cowbell!

 

[rekameohs]

Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

The Stand opening scene. All those dead bodies.

Naaah, that's the More Cowbell song

Spoiler

 

[zeemumu]

Dragonheart theme (skip to 1:40) - It's one of those theme songs that you hear everywhere but the original place.

Honorable mention to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons becoming synonymous with CW.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

♪ RADIOACTIVE ♪

Arrow Love Triangle
or
We're back, bitches!

Basically: The CW.

.
.
.

 

[StoneFox]

Roundabout's use as the ending theme song in Jojo's Bizarre Adventure made me forever associate the song with Jojo and the "To be continued" meme.

 

[offtopic]

Queen needs more love.

Who Wants to Live Forever - Highlander

 

[MMarston]

Dragonheart theme (skip to 1:40) - It's one of those theme songs that you hear everywhere but the original place.

Mostly in a parodic manner too.

 

[forgeforsaken]

The real winner:

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones

you know where

Mars Attacks?

 

[BigMack]

I Touch Myself - Austin Powers (NSFW)

War - Rush Hour

Bad Boys - Theme from COPS (someone already mentioned but I had a link ready)

 

[Violence Jack]

Love and Marriage - Married with Children
Dangerzone - Archer
Believe it or Not - Seinfeld
I Wanna Sex You Up - New Jack City
The Touch - Transformers the Movie
Hip to be Square - American Psycho

 

[blame space]

baby blue

 

[Currygan]

that tune from Die Hard 3, you know? The one you can hear in Dr. Strangelove as well

 

[choco-fish]

Queen needs more love.

Who Wants to Live Forever - Highlander

Didn't queen have heavy involvement with the Highlander soundtrack? Most the tracks in the film were written for it, so they would always have that association.

Opening to Iron Man 3, Eiffel 65 - I'm Blue.

 

[Shaffield]

everything by Europe in Hot Rod

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

The real winner:

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones

you know where

Wow, can't believe I didn't think of this one. Absolutely nailed it.

 

[manzoman96]

Mars Attacks?

I was thinking more this

honestly surprised no one else posted this.

Edit: ^ He gets it

 

[Jaroof]

It's impossible for me to hear Paper Planes without thinking about Pineapple Express.

 

[Calvero]

Some early 00s and late 90s tracks from the pillows that became the music for FLCL are forever associated with the show.
like Ride on Shooting Star

 

[whitemex88]

Guys I win. https://youtu.be/be5OgWR7EKM
I can never hear this song and not think of this movie I haven't seen since I was 5. Well over 20 years

 

[kai3345]

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek, I can only laugh when I hear it now.

The OC - Shooting Scene

SNL bit

this is probably the best answer

 

[Mr. X]

Tonto jump on it
http://youtu.be/BWiqnPIxIdM

 

[Surface of Me]

♪ RADIOACTIVE ♪

Arrow Love Triangle
or
We're back, bitches!

Basically: The CW.

Yeah, I'm sure Imagine Dragons owes its cultural relevance to the CW. It's not like the YouTUbe vid you linked has 500 million views or anything.


OP is asking about songs relying on other media for cultural relevance, a lot of people in this thread seem to be misinterpreting it to "Do any think of a piece of media when you hear X song?". That or they have no idea how culturally relevant a lot of these songs are.


Sound of Silence by Disturbed definitely blew up because of the new Gears commercial. It's been playing on the rock radio stations a bunch ever since around here and the DJs talk about how it just now took off.

 

[whitemex88]

Also. SleepWalker. https://youtu.be/Sj5wiejeKEE
Can't listen to this song without yelling RICHIE!!!! At the end

 

[whitemex88]

OP is asking about songs relying on other media for cultural relevance, a lot of people in this thread seem to be misinterpreting it to "Do any think of a piece of media when you hear X song?". That or they have no idea how culturally relevant a lot of these songs are.


Sound of Silence by Disturbed definitely blew up because of the new Gears commercial. It's been playing on the rock radio stations a bunch ever since around here and the DJs talk about how it just now took off.

That M.I.A song used in Pineapple Express. Song was over a year old at the time and it received my OK nonstop radio play when the movie came out.

 

[Magwik]

♪ RADIOACTIVE ♪

Arrow Love Triangle
or
We're back, bitches!

Basically: The CW.

I'm actually pretty sure that Defiance did Radioactive first

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

All songs on Person of Interest - Person of Interest

I remember when Dallas used Johnny Cash's version of Hurt a week after Person of Interest did. You tried Dallas, you tried.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Don't Stop Believing by Journey in the final scenes of The Sopranos. Can never listen to it now without thinking about that.

Spoilers, obviously:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM

One of the best scenes in anything ever.

 

[UraMallas]

Also sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Tiny Dancer by Elton John in Almost Famous

What Condition My Condition Was In by Bettye Lavette in The Big Lebowski

 

[Jakten]

I can't enjoy Modern English's I Melt With You anymore thanks to Burger King

 

[Jason Frost]

Yeah, I'm sure Imagine Dragons owes its cultural relevance to the CW. It's not like the YouTUbe vid you linked has 500 million views or anything.

Well, I think that Radioactive was used by like 3 shows from The CW in their 2013-2014 tv schedule.

It probably helped Imagine Dragons to get many new fans that year.

 

[True Savior]

Animals House of the Rising Sun to me is just a music that evokes a bunch of mob guys being hit cause of Casino.

 

[Surface of Me]

Well, I think that Radioactive was used by like 3 shows from The CW in their 2013-2014 tv schedule.

It probably helped Imagine Dragons to get many new fans that year.

CW likely used it because it was already a huge hit. OP is asking for songs that rely on other pieces of media for popularity. Imagine Dragons definitely do not rely on anything else.

 

[LFMartins86]

Queen needs more love.

Who Wants to Live Forever - Highlander

That was written especially for the movie.

The Frey´s How To Save A Life and Grey´s Anatomy

The Goo Goo Dolls´s Iris and City Of Angels

 

[VeryGooster]

I feel bad for anyone who loved the "Thousand Miles" song before White Chicks.

Now I associate that song with How I Met Your Mother

 

[nkarafo]

Celine Dion's My Heart will go On.

Every time i hear this song i think of sinking ships.

It doesn't help that most people who upload videos of sinking ships or wrecks, also use this song like 100% of the time.

 

[teruterubozu]

Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart

Vikings theme

Also in Breaking Bad when Jesse loses his shit.

 

[jdstorm]

Joyful joyful and O happy day from Sister Act 2. Since those versions are now the definitive versions of those songs

Jonny B Goode - Chuck Berry : Back to the Future
Tiny Dancer - Elton John : Almost Famous

edit: Kissing you - Romeo + Juliet
kiss me - serendipity
Fix You - The OC
Only Hope - A walk to remember
Breakaway - the princess diaries
Top of the world - Friends

 

[Skiptastic]

Goodfellas - Layla.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6MJIjCJ20

My dad and brother once told me that Layla was a perfect rock song until it added the piano ending. Because I had heard it in Goodfellas first in my recollection, I love that part so much.

 

[Apt101]

People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul - Spider-Man 3

Wow that actually happened. Still not sure what Raimi was going for there.

 

[Hazelhurst]

Personally speaking, the trailer for Suicide Squad changed Bohemian Rhapsody forever for me.

My second favorite song of all time masterfully used in a trailer for one of my most anticipated, if not my absolute most anticipated movie ever. Every time I listen to it I now think of the trailer and made me love the masterpiece EVEN MORE than I already did <3

Honestly, nothing against Suicide Squad, but Bohemian Rhapsody is a legendary song on its own. In other words, Bohemian Rhapsody will still be epic, spectacular, and timeless long after Suicide Squad has come and gone.

 

[Retro]

Ahem... No mention of

"I Got You, Babe" by Sonny and Cher in Groundhog's Day? Really?

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

The real winner:

It's Not Unusual by Tom Jones

you know where

While we're on the topic of Tom Jones, it's not a visual medium, but "What's New Pussycat" in John Mulaney's "Salt and Pepper Diner" routine.

 

[wighti]

I don't like Mondays, the Tori Amos version. It was used beautifully in The West Wing. The song coupled with the speech by Martin Sheen was a thing of beauty.

 

[NervousXtian]

Paint it Black at the end of Full Metal Jacket

 

[UrbanRats]

I think Do you feel it? from Chaos Chaos, got some popularity because of Rick and Morty.

Also, all the various neo-80s bands, kind of blew up after Drive (and Hotline Miami later).

Wow that actually happened. Still not sure what Raimi was going for there.

Greatness.
But he was too ahead of its times for people to get it.

 

[retroman]