10 Songs That Got Popular After Being Used In Movies

10. The Hearts Filthy Lesson - David Bowie

David Bowie was never a man who was looking to find one sound and stay with it for too long. From his beginnings all the way to his pop years in the '80s, he had gone through everything from glam rock to soul to krautrock to eventually making bangers like Let's Dance. The '90s saw him getting a little bit darker though, and before the electronic bug really took over, The Hearts Filthy Lesson gave us something pitch black.

Around the same time that acts like Nine Inch Nails were lighting up the charts, Bowie made this for his grand album Outside, which was framed as a concept album record where people kill each other as a form of artistic expression. The entire premise may seem really messed up at the outset, but it's a kind of philosophy that John Doe knew a little too well. Being one the staples of the soundtrack to Seven, there aren't too many pop-leaning songs that delve into this kind of morbid sound, having an industrial tinge to it while Bowie talks about affairs of the heart reaching a tipping point.

Used as basically bookends for the movie, the song really does its job at sinking you into the world of this city, where things are grimy and more than a little bit disturbed when you look further. It might just be a great song, but you walk out of theater a changed person when you hear that song playing over the credits.