There are plenty of songs that modest chart success when they were originally released but got a significant boost later when they were featured on a TV show or in a movie.
Readers of Rolling Stone voted U2's Joshua Tree the Number 1 album of the 80's followed by Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction in a recent poll conducted by the magazine. Usually I ignore anything that comes out of Rolling Stone because I just don't feel like they're in touch with the times and when they do finally get around to covering a band magazines like Decibel and Revolver have been cove