2007-07-13 03:33:32 · 8 answers · asked by slim415 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
It was the trend. Just like the 1980s are big now, the music of the 50s and 60s was big then.
2007-07-13 03:36:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Flamingo. Oldies just kinda got big in the 80's, maybe it had something to do with surfing becoming so popular again, so stuff like the Beach Boys were real popular. I remember when I was a kid in the 80's and listened to nothing but the oldies station.
2007-07-13 11:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by GK Dub 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the 80's movies I know had soundtracks of 80's music:
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Buller
Against All Odds
Flashdance
Streets of Fire
Buster = mixed contempery with 60's
Ladyhawke = specially orchestrated
2007-07-13 11:13:38 · answer #3 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they need some extra help to attract people from different ages or generations to see the movie. But it´s not just 80´s movies, it happens in the 90`s and today.
2007-07-13 10:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by Bruce W. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was a kid in the 80's those old movies all were about fun an the oldies have alot of fun songs in them, all but the horror movies that is, if you listen to TV commercials they use alot of oldies in them too
2007-07-13 10:45:19 · answer #5 · answered by panthor001 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not all 80's films had older soundtracks. Beverly Hills Cop had up to date music for the time it was released.
But even now some films have old music in them, Reservior Dogs is one such film but there are many others.
2007-07-13 10:42:15 · answer #6 · answered by Paul R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What were you expecting? Christina Aguilara? Avril Lavigne? They were using popular music and older music because that's what they had!
2007-07-13 10:39:09 · answer #7 · answered by Danger! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they're old movies.
2007-07-13 10:36:47 · answer #8 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋