Reply To: Prejudice of the Melodic
Yes, songs or themes based on songs have a bigger chance to develop a life on their own. And even though we soundtrack fans fell in love with some soundtracks of movies we never have seen we cannot deny, that classics, especially those based on textures like Jaws of the murder from Psycho are often closely connected to the movie experience or even particular scenes and their popularity comes to a certain degree from quotes in tributes or parodies.
The Star Wars main title or Morricone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly would never have become that popular music pieces without the movie association.