Few things are as torturous as an overplayed song (besides actual, medieval torture). All of us have lived through some period of time when we heard a song so much that we wanted to strangle someone, like a fellow moviegoer when a hated track pops up in cinema. Sometimes, a song gets popular because of a film and becomes all but inseparable from it, like Aerosmith's massively overplayed "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" from 1998's asteroid-based disaster flick "Armageddon." Other times, songs keep getting used again and again until they're totally stripped of their original impact, no matter how good the song.

There are plenty of overused movie songs to choose from — far more than we have space for — so the reader should take our choices as a sample of the phenomenon in question. Also,

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