10 Legendary Rock Songs That Were Used Perfectly In Movies

Throughout most of the '80s, every single teen movie wasn't short of a good tie in song to wrap everything together. If you look back to the Brat Pack style of movies that came out around this time, you always had the key scenes that hook you in from the song alone, from Simple Minds playing everything out at the end of the Breakfast Club to the Psychedelic Furs playing in the background of Pretty in Pink. By the end of the '80s though, teen romance had started to look a lot different, and Cameron Crowe understood that music could do the talking towards the end of Say Anything.

Going back and watching the movie, John Cusack's character is left dejected towards the end of the film, being emotionally spent after having to cut ties with his girlfriend. And while the idea of him playing their favorite song with a boombox above his head might seem like one of the cheesiest things imaginable these days, you have to remember the song that's connected with it.

If you listen to Peter Gabriel's In Your Eyes, this song is about love on a much more spiritual level, as Peter talks about seeing the doorways to a thousand churches in his partner's eyes. With this one song, Cameron Crowe made every other sappy love song from the '80s look like kids' stuff. This is a lonely man that's desperately trying to use this song so that his soulmate won't walk out of his life. It's left open ended in the movie, but I'd like to think that they ended up somewhere better.