Guardians of the Galaxy did a cracking job of finding old songs that were basically forgotten about and bringing back to a new audience. Some of the songs I'd never heard of, so they were new to me as well. But they fit in so well to the movie and wasn't just a Katy Perry track to keep the yoof happy.

These songs fall kind of in between the two camps. The film Honeymoon in Vegas yielded an amazing soundtrack album. I went out and bought this, its fantastic. The film starred Nic Cage, Sara Jessica Parker & James Caan. The soundtrack was Elvis cover versions by some of the biggest stars, so old songs but reworked.

Travis absolutely rocking it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4zX5cfcv9o

Billy Joel sounding more Elvis than Elvis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pno3Q0jvc

Featured in one of the most memorable scenes in Jerry Maguire

Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

Pulp Fiction soundtrack

This is the point in the movie where shit gets crazy for Travolta and Uma, which I can't relate to, but I always loved this song.

This is the whole soundtrack - songs by Bryan Adams, Music by Hans Zimmer

I'll branch off your Linkin Park a little bit here https://youtu.be/nTEIsrBJJRM?si=duxd_4WoRrOe_XDl

Heroes by The Wallflowers (David Bowie cover) from the movie Godzilla.

Great cover.

Music in movies falls in to these different camps.

Music especially written for a movie can either be a one off song or a complete album of songs (plus incidental music in the background) or a chart hit shoehorned in to a film.

I've watched an awful lot of kids movies in my time and some of the best were the ones that had music especially written for the movie and performed by some of the top artists of the time or ever.

Here's Elton John with a couple of tracks from animated film The Road to El Dorado These great songs can by and large go un-noticed by the fans as they were deemed to be movie music or they were too old for the film

Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West, "Once upon a time (there was) the West") is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone, who co-wrote it with Sergio Donati based on a story by Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci and Leone. It stars Henry Fonda, cast against type as the villain,[5][6] Charles Bronson as his nemesis, Jason Robards as a bandit and Claudia Cardinale as a newly widowed homesteader. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli and the acclaimed film score was by Ennio Morricone.

Just love Asian movies, and I'll share a song from the movie Crows: Zero about Japanese hooligans.