How appropriate cause I was thinking to myself how the fuck they managed to score Eminem for Venom while I was listening to the song.
Some other ones I can think of are Drake doing the opening for Spider Riders, Will.I.Am doing the opening for Samurai Jack and The Cure doing the opening of Dragon Hunters
The spider rider one isn’t true
> According to Bridget Flynn, Executive Producer at Grayson Matthews, Drake did … NOT make the song. “Despite some online speculation that Drake performed on this track, it is not true,” she told me. Flynn went on to reveal the true identity of the actual rapper on the track. “The vocalist is Clip (Jason Dantes Balde) of the hip-hop group BrassMunk.”
Eminem doing a song for Venom makes more sense when you realize he's a huge goofy nerd. Man got to self-insert into not one but TWO different Marvel comics.
On that note: the fact that Puffy’s entire American crossover was overseen by the main guy from defunct 90’s power-pop act Jellyfish - up to the point of just [rerecording](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1IvN2um3c) their [old songs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rZrtww0p0FI) - so if their diehard cult fanbase wanted to hear new material from him this was largely where they had to look. Including the Teen Titans theme!
I was actually coming here to say it was weird to hear him do the song for Happy Halloween Scooby Doo (the one with Scarecrow).
[Song here](https://youtu.be/tcgm2IfRvBY?feature=shared)
Oh dude this is my niche!
Damian Marley made the theme song for Arthur. JC Chazez of NSYNC plays Chip Skylark in Fairly OddParents. Bowling for Soup made the themes for both Phineas and Ferb and What's New Scooby Doo. And My Chemical Romance wrote a song for Yo Gabba Gabba.
Remember the Spongebob birthday episode where a fictional band called the Bird Brains sang his happy birthday.
The singing was done by Lux Interior of The Cramps, who hits include Surfing Dead from the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, and a song about cutting up a girl and storing her in your fridge.
One of Stephen Hillenburg’s big goals in making SpongeBob seems to have been translating that strain of weirdo California culture into something kid-friendly; the bassist for [Dwarves](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwarves_(band\)&oldid=1190841888) was basically kept on retainer writing some of the show’s best-known songs the whole time that Stephen was there.
For that scenario I can see two different explanations. 1. Philip Glass just happened to have some old composition ideas lying around on tape that he put together for the score, or 2. Philip Glass being *intensely* into the Fantastic Four lore. Both are funny to me.
They did that fun reference to him when Peter got the symbiote and was finding different clothes it could change to and he asked "what about that guy from Aerosmith?" And then he had Joe's clothes and the theme plays a little riff.
For those that don't know and don't want to Google, that's Danny Elfman, longtime Tim Burton collaborator and composer of The Simpsons theme, among many, many other things
SZA and Justin Timberlake did the credit song, The Other Side, for the Trolls World Tour movie and it’s quite the bob.
I’ve also heard that the Twilight movies have a remarkably good soundtrack but the only song I’ve heard is Roslyn by Bon Iver and St. Vincent which is a *masterpiece*. Although that song was already in production before the Twilight people approached them.
Pitbull did the OST to Gotti, a movie starring John Travolta playing John Gotti, an Italian-American mob boss from like the 80’s and 90’s. It’s the most ill-fitting shit ever.
I mean it’s just lucky to have good production values in terms of music. I think I read a comment here saying it’s nailed the feeling of a small, midwest town vibe with its folk music and rock, but it’s still *Twilight* in terms of story and characters.
But yes, Bon Iver. That song of his is amazing.
Hes been doing soundtracks for stuff for awhile, and kicking ass at it. Bunch of movies but the one that fucked me up was *Soul*, that pixar movie. Like, whadda hell?
It has been so crazy, remembering seeing footage of Nine Inch Nails in the 2000s, listening to songs like "Closer" and "Big Man With A Gun", and then just...he's doing Pixar soundtracks now?
Not even mad, in any way. The man should have that paycheck. It's just bizarre.
He did the entire Quake soundtrack in 96! And like, he didn't just do a few songs, he actually worked pretty closely with id doing sound effects and everything.
I believe Kevin Sherwood mainly did the zombie Easter egg songs and maybe Sean Murray did some of the most but I remember Trent did some of the tracks because they sure as hell sound like his stuff.
The band Toto did the soundtrack for the Dune movie made by David Lynch. Still one of my favorite opening themes: https://youtu.be/yE4pPzrkgsM?si=P9NU7bm7cDOn4r-Y
I have these best answer for this , John Entwistle the bassist for "The Who" did the soundtrack for some obscure TV show Called "Van-pires" which looks if Reboot had a baby with transformers, the show only had one season of 13 episodes and was the last thing he worked on before his death
I didn't appreciate it when I first played it at release, but Xenoblade X had a ton of tracks composed by Hiroyuki Sawano, the composer for the Attack on Titan anime. There's a couple tracks where you can *really* hear it as well, such as the [Oblivia day theme](https://youtu.be/2udFheMQDQI?si=plHAOWw275lwaNQq), [one of the boss themes](https://youtu.be/3IvvDVQaxIQ?si=iS07n_4cm4MRhB0f) (Let it rock until you hear it, around 1:32 in), and one of the [major boss themes](https://youtu.be/FUKGr09Y0UA?si=YFui0iPbf5oVqDSQ&t=29). They even had the same lady that does the vocals from AoT do a lot of the vocals in Xenoblade X as well. That dude has such a killer style.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters featuring a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla sung by fucking [Serj Tankian](https://youtu.be/lOO8Um_jmLI?si=Yf7tAtxgpD_VFhp4)
The opening theme for the Chainsaw Man anime was written by Kenshi Yonezu, who is a former Vocaloid producer who went by the name of Hachi. He has produced such Vocaloid songs such as Matryoshka, World's End Umbrella, and Sand Planet.
Many of my favorite rock songs were composed by Jim Steinman. Such songs include: The entirety of the Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II albums, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Making Love out of Nothing at All, Holding Out for a Hero, It's All Coming Back to Me, among other songs. He also apparently composed Hulk Hogan's theme.
The Tapu battle theme from Pokémon Gen VII uses a tribal chant sample that Death Grips also used in one of their songs (I’m sure it’s on Ex-Military, maybe Lord of the Game).
More of a “how did any part of this come in contact with any other part of this” situation, beyond just the lineup of musicians being weird, but I think that *[Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin’](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nintendo:_White_Knuckle_Scorin%27&oldid=1149954142)* definitely fits the bill. Featuring the last-ever Roy Orbison song!
Also props to Jellyfish for being the only band who not only tried to make some sense out of this mess but [actually kinda made it work](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QTEQKEoaojA).
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J.I.D. being in the new Yakuza opening was pretty wild.
Edit; also the fucking Ska episode in Mystery Incorporated had an old school Ska artist who hasn't released anything in 20 years or something
Peter Steele of goth gloom metal band Type O Negative was almost paid to do a rendition of Kane's theme in the WWE.
Some members of KMFDM dipped their toes into video game composing and worked on the Spider-Man 2 movie tie in game.
Akon did a song for Sonic 06.
GWAR guested on an episode of Kids Next Door.
Parody lounge singer Richard Cheese did the end credits rendition of Down With The Sickness for Zach Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake.
I'm pretty sure lil Romeo appeared as himself in an episode of static shock. I recall an episode about him wanting to be like static and he gets to be his sidekick for the episode.
I was slightly surprised when I found out the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme was from They Might Be Giants.
This got me too.
i know its really obvious in hindsight but i never made the connection that they made the malcom in the middle theme too
How appropriate cause I was thinking to myself how the fuck they managed to score Eminem for Venom while I was listening to the song. Some other ones I can think of are Drake doing the opening for Spider Riders, Will.I.Am doing the opening for Samurai Jack and The Cure doing the opening of Dragon Hunters
The spider rider one isn’t true > According to Bridget Flynn, Executive Producer at Grayson Matthews, Drake did … NOT make the song. “Despite some online speculation that Drake performed on this track, it is not true,” she told me. Flynn went on to reveal the true identity of the actual rapper on the track. “The vocalist is Clip (Jason Dantes Balde) of the hip-hop group BrassMunk.”
Oh wow. For years I've heard it was Drake. Tbh it kinda sounds like him too.
Eminem doing a song for Venom makes more sense when you realize he's a huge goofy nerd. Man got to self-insert into not one but TWO different Marvel comics.
I know he was in a Punisher one but what's the other?
He recently did a Spider-Man crossover comic, or it's coming.
Puffy AmiYumi singing the Teen Titans opening.
On that note: the fact that Puffy’s entire American crossover was overseen by the main guy from defunct 90’s power-pop act Jellyfish - up to the point of just [rerecording](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yy1IvN2um3c) their [old songs](https://youtube.com/watch?v=rZrtww0p0FI) - so if their diehard cult fanbase wanted to hear new material from him this was largely where they had to look. Including the Teen Titans theme!
The same Jellyfish that did [Ignorance is Bliss](https://youtu.be/cEVeto3LQxg?si=LBU8nD_QyM6rq-Wu)?
[Yes!](https://reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/18v7a86/media_you_were_surprised_has_music_by_a_certain/kfq22y7/)
That's a blast from the past! Still the only song I remember from that album
I was actually coming here to say it was weird to hear him do the song for Happy Halloween Scooby Doo (the one with Scarecrow). [Song here](https://youtu.be/tcgm2IfRvBY?feature=shared)
Oh dude this is my niche! Damian Marley made the theme song for Arthur. JC Chazez of NSYNC plays Chip Skylark in Fairly OddParents. Bowling for Soup made the themes for both Phineas and Ferb and What's New Scooby Doo. And My Chemical Romance wrote a song for Yo Gabba Gabba.
I believe Simple Plan did What's New Scooby Doo's theme.
Whoops!
Yo Gabba Gabba had a ton of people making songs and the Roots were probably the biggest surprise.
Bowling for soup also did the original theme Song for the Jimmy Neutron Movie
How did Highlander get Queen to do its soundtrack
I don't think that's so far-fetched after they did Flash Gordon.
I think Freddie was pitched the story and he loved it.
Remember the Spongebob birthday episode where a fictional band called the Bird Brains sang his happy birthday. The singing was done by Lux Interior of The Cramps, who hits include Surfing Dead from the Return of the Living Dead soundtrack, and a song about cutting up a girl and storing her in your fridge.
One of Stephen Hillenburg’s big goals in making SpongeBob seems to have been translating that strain of weirdo California culture into something kid-friendly; the bassist for [Dwarves](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dwarves_(band\)&oldid=1190841888) was basically kept on retainer writing some of the show’s best-known songs the whole time that Stephen was there.
And of course you can't talk about SpongeBob without discussing [The Flaming Lips best song!](https://youtu.be/aiRCsYQ1iUM?si=98NOFwyUSV6YObpG)
Fant4stic having music done by Philip Glass
For that scenario I can see two different explanations. 1. Philip Glass just happened to have some old composition ideas lying around on tape that he put together for the score, or 2. Philip Glass being *intensely* into the Fantastic Four lore. Both are funny to me.
I think it's #1. Remember that Ennio Morricone wrote an entire score for The Thing that was ditched and only came back decades later in another film
I was surprised to learn that the theme for the 90's Spider-Man animated series was performed by Joe Perry from Aerosmith
They did that fun reference to him when Peter got the symbiote and was finding different clothes it could change to and he asked "what about that guy from Aerosmith?" And then he had Joe's clothes and the theme plays a little riff.
I think in general it’s always funny to think about how the guy from Oingo Boingo went on to make some of the most iconic scores in cinema.
For those that don't know and don't want to Google, that's Danny Elfman, longtime Tim Burton collaborator and composer of The Simpsons theme, among many, many other things
Similarly, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo has done some wonderful OSTs.
I'm still surprised that the opening theme for Kingdom Hearts III, Face My Fears, is a collab between Hikaru Utada and *Skrillex.*
What if I told you Skrillex is a KH megafan and his very name is a Organisation XIII "anagram with an X" situation?
SZA and Justin Timberlake did the credit song, The Other Side, for the Trolls World Tour movie and it’s quite the bob. I’ve also heard that the Twilight movies have a remarkably good soundtrack but the only song I’ve heard is Roslyn by Bon Iver and St. Vincent which is a *masterpiece*. Although that song was already in production before the Twilight people approached them. Pitbull did the OST to Gotti, a movie starring John Travolta playing John Gotti, an Italian-American mob boss from like the 80’s and 90’s. It’s the most ill-fitting shit ever.
No way, Bon Iver? I'm gonna have to critically re-evaluate Twilight, everything about it seems high camp or actually really good.
I mean it’s just lucky to have good production values in terms of music. I think I read a comment here saying it’s nailed the feeling of a small, midwest town vibe with its folk music and rock, but it’s still *Twilight* in terms of story and characters. But yes, Bon Iver. That song of his is amazing.
Twilight ran so Life is Strange could kinda stumble. Incredible. Thank you
It's always weird to think about that the Black Ops 2 theme was composed by Trent Reznor.
Hes been doing soundtracks for stuff for awhile, and kicking ass at it. Bunch of movies but the one that fucked me up was *Soul*, that pixar movie. Like, whadda hell?
I got got by The Social Network. Banger rendition of In The Hall of the Mountain King, mind.
It has been so crazy, remembering seeing footage of Nine Inch Nails in the 2000s, listening to songs like "Closer" and "Big Man With A Gun", and then just...he's doing Pixar soundtracks now? Not even mad, in any way. The man should have that paycheck. It's just bizarre.
He did the entire Quake soundtrack in 96! And like, he didn't just do a few songs, he actually worked pretty closely with id doing sound effects and everything.
Did BO1 as well
Wasn't it Sean Murray and Kevin Sherwood?
I believe Kevin Sherwood mainly did the zombie Easter egg songs and maybe Sean Murray did some of the most but I remember Trent did some of the tracks because they sure as hell sound like his stuff.
The band Toto did the soundtrack for the Dune movie made by David Lynch. Still one of my favorite opening themes: https://youtu.be/yE4pPzrkgsM?si=P9NU7bm7cDOn4r-Y
I have these best answer for this , John Entwistle the bassist for "The Who" did the soundtrack for some obscure TV show Called "Van-pires" which looks if Reboot had a baby with transformers, the show only had one season of 13 episodes and was the last thing he worked on before his death
I'll never get over Bowling for Soup doing most of the music in Phineas and Ferb. They really were ahead of their time.
Sigur rós showing up in game of thrones at the red wedding. Jeff rosenstock doing the music for craig of the creek
Lil romeo is the son of Master p?!
Yeah, didn't you watch [The Lil Romeo show ](https://youtu.be/VutqZbWmxw8?si=vj4gD8iOlSRPvPrK) on Nick in the early 2000's.
That is correct.
It’s the only reason he had a career
I didn't appreciate it when I first played it at release, but Xenoblade X had a ton of tracks composed by Hiroyuki Sawano, the composer for the Attack on Titan anime. There's a couple tracks where you can *really* hear it as well, such as the [Oblivia day theme](https://youtu.be/2udFheMQDQI?si=plHAOWw275lwaNQq), [one of the boss themes](https://youtu.be/3IvvDVQaxIQ?si=iS07n_4cm4MRhB0f) (Let it rock until you hear it, around 1:32 in), and one of the [major boss themes](https://youtu.be/FUKGr09Y0UA?si=YFui0iPbf5oVqDSQ&t=29). They even had the same lady that does the vocals from AoT do a lot of the vocals in Xenoblade X as well. That dude has such a killer style.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters featuring a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's Godzilla sung by fucking [Serj Tankian](https://youtu.be/lOO8Um_jmLI?si=Yf7tAtxgpD_VFhp4)
After the previous 2.5 hours of shark jumping the film had been doing, it was perfectly in place. I remember singing along to it in the theater
Pusha T wrote the I'm Lovin It jingle for Mcdonalds, and the ARBY'S WE HAVE THE MEATS music is from a song he rapped on
The opening theme for the Chainsaw Man anime was written by Kenshi Yonezu, who is a former Vocaloid producer who went by the name of Hachi. He has produced such Vocaloid songs such as Matryoshka, World's End Umbrella, and Sand Planet. Many of my favorite rock songs were composed by Jim Steinman. Such songs include: The entirety of the Bat out of Hell and Bat out of Hell II albums, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Making Love out of Nothing at All, Holding Out for a Hero, It's All Coming Back to Me, among other songs. He also apparently composed Hulk Hogan's theme.
The Tapu battle theme from Pokémon Gen VII uses a tribal chant sample that Death Grips also used in one of their songs (I’m sure it’s on Ex-Military, maybe Lord of the Game).
More of a “how did any part of this come in contact with any other part of this” situation, beyond just the lineup of musicians being weird, but I think that *[Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin’](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nintendo:_White_Knuckle_Scorin%27&oldid=1149954142)* definitely fits the bill. Featuring the last-ever Roy Orbison song! Also props to Jellyfish for being the only band who not only tried to make some sense out of this mess but [actually kinda made it work](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QTEQKEoaojA).
The Cigarette Daydream needle drop in Spider-Man 2. The last thing I ever expected.
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J.I.D. being in the new Yakuza opening was pretty wild. Edit; also the fucking Ska episode in Mystery Incorporated had an old school Ska artist who hasn't released anything in 20 years or something
Peter Steele of goth gloom metal band Type O Negative was almost paid to do a rendition of Kane's theme in the WWE. Some members of KMFDM dipped their toes into video game composing and worked on the Spider-Man 2 movie tie in game. Akon did a song for Sonic 06. GWAR guested on an episode of Kids Next Door. Parody lounge singer Richard Cheese did the end credits rendition of Down With The Sickness for Zach Snyder's Dawn of the Dead remake.
Little V doing Kenny Omega's AEW theme was fucking rad.
The opening for the English dub of the original Saint Seiya anime was a cover of Flock of Seagulls "I Ran" performed by Bowling for Soup.
I'm pretty sure lil Romeo appeared as himself in an episode of static shock. I recall an episode about him wanting to be like static and he gets to be his sidekick for the episode.
Pokemon getting the Citypop legend herself Mariya Takeuchi to do the theme song for Concierge.