100 Greatest Movie Theme Songs
The 20 Greatest Movie Theme Songs Of The 1980s. After Eddie Murphy’s Axel Foley in the film) became an instantly recognizable, simple little earworm, and when released as a single. What are the Top Ten Most Recognisable Movie Theme Songs Ever? A bit of fun – can you help us pick the top ten most recognisable movie theme songs? I could not pick my top ten however so have listed below my top twenty and thought it would be fun for others to vote to create the ultimate top10 most recognised movie themes of all time.
Songs From Movies
Most of these scores are relatively recent (i.e. Within the last 50 years) and therefore omit the two greatest composers to write music for major films – Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Prokofiev’s scores for Eisenstein’s films ‘Alexander Nevsky’ and ‘Ivan the Terrible’ rank as the two greatest film scores of all time. John Williams is wonderfully skilful but very derivative – for example, Jaws is Stravinksy’s ‘Rite of Spring’ and ET is Tchaikovsky’s ballet music. Star Wars is in the tradition of music for the big Westerns, absolutely fitting a western shot in space.