Discography: Soundtrack Contributions U2's contributions to the silver screen other than Rattle and Hum
07 January 2014
The title of the movie will be listed first, followed by U2’s contribution, and the year of release.
Note that U2’s most successful contribution to a movie would have to be the original song, “Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me” which was on the Batman Forever soundtrack.
The song was released as a single with other tracks from the movie, and the single reached number 2 in the UK charts, number 1 in Australia, number 11 in Canada and number 16 in the U.S.
- They Call It An Accident - “October” [1982]
- The Last American Virgin - “I Will Follow” [1982]
- Captive - Edge co-authors entire soundtrack with Michael Brooks [1985]
- The Courier - “Walk to the Water” [1987]
- Until the End of the World - “Until the End of the World” [1990]
- A Clockwork Orange - Bono / Edge co-write music for theater production [1990]
- State of Grace - “Trip Through Your Wires” [1990]
- Honeymoon In Vegas - Bono sings “Can’t Help Falling In Love” [1992]
- Faraway, So Close - “Stay (Faraway, So Close)” and “The Wanderer” [1993]
- Reality Bites - “All I Want Is You” [1993]
- Pret-a-Porter - “Lemon Remix” [1994]
- Threesome - “Dancing Barefoot” [1994]
- Milk Money - “Some Days are Better Than Others” [1994]
- In the Name of the Father - “Thief Of Your Heart”, “In the Name of the Father” and “Billy Boola” [1994]
- Blown Away - “With or Without You” and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” [1994]
- Johnny Mnemonic - “Alex Descends Into Hell For a Bottle of Milk” [1995]
- Batman Forever - “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me” [1995]
- Heat - “Always, Forever, Now” (The Passengers) [1995]
- Par-dela les Nuages - “Your Blue Room” and “Beach Sequence” (The Passengers) [1995]
- The Pillow Book - “Daddy’s Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car” [1995]
- Show Girls - “Numb (Gimme Some More Dignity Mix)” [1995]
- Short Cuts - Bono and the Edge co-write “Conversations on a Barstool” [1996]
- Mission: Impossible - Adam and Larry perform title track theme song [1996]
- Gun (U.S. TV show) - “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” [1997]
- Blackout - “Miami” [1997]
- The End of Violence - “I’m Not Your Baby” with Sinead O’Connor [1997]
- City of Angels - “If God Will Send His Angels” [1998]
- Cookies Fortune - Bono / Edge appear on separate tracks [1998]
- Forces of Nature - “Everlasting Love” [1999]
- Entropy - “MOFO (Live)”, “Mysterious Ways (Live)”, “Lemon (Perfecto Mix)” [1999]
- Runaway Bride - “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” [1999]
- Three Kings - “In God’s Country” [2000]
- Million Dollar Hotel - U2 contributes “Stateless”, “The Ground Beneath Her Feet”, and “The First Time” and Bono contributes “Never Let Me Go”, “Falling at Your Feet” and “Dancin’ Shoes” [2000]
- The Family Man - “One” [2000]
- Moulin Rouge - Bono covers “Children of the Revolution” with Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer [2001]
- Tomb Raider - “Elevation (Tomb Raider Mix)” [2001]
- Vanilla Sky - “Wild Honey” [2001]
- Buskers - “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” [2001]
- Bandits - “Beautiful Day” [2001]
- About a Boy - “Zoostation” [2002]
- Mr. Deeds - “Sweetest Thing (Single Mix)” [2002]
- Bloody Sunday - “Sunday Bloody Sunday (Live)” [2002]
- Black Velvet - “Beautiful Day” [2002]
- Gangs of New York - “Hands That Built America” - different mix from The Best Of 1990 - 2000 [2003]
- The Good Thief - Bono covers “That’s Life”[2003]
- Veronica Guerin - “Everlasting Love” [2003]
- Intermission - “Out of Control” [2003]
- Taking Lives - “Bad” [2004]
- Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man Documentary - “Tower of Song” [2005]
- Don’t Come Knocking - “Don’t Come Knocking” - Bono and Andrea Corr [2006]