Ranking the 10 best songs to appear on the original Spider-Man movie soundtracks

As Sony re-releases all of the Spider-Man movies in theaters as part of Columbia Pictures’ 100th anniversary, it’s worth going back and admiring the genius that was the original Spider-Man movie soundtracks.

“Hey, everybody, an old man’s talking!” Grandpa’s the name. If you are a Zoomer and unfamiliar with why a movie soundtrack to a Spider-Man movie would be a big deal, then let me regale you.

Back in the 2000s, superhero movies used to court these curated soundtracks filled with a bunch of alternative rock groups that the the youths loved, and some that they’d never heard of because filling out an entire CD with random bands can be tough business. Instead of listening to these on Spotify, we had to go to a Sam Goody or Circuit City, buy the CD and listen to it on a portable CD player until the disc got scratchy. We didn’t even communally have access to iTunes until Spider-Man 3 came out in 2007.

The Spider-Man movies easily won the contest for best soundtracks of superhero films from the 2000s, even though special commendation goes to Seether and Evanescence’s Amy Lee for randomly popping off with one of the most epic rock ballads of 2004 for that random Punisher movie with John Travolta.

In honor of Sam Raimi and the greatest web-slinger of cinema history (sorry, Tom Holland, it’s still Tobey Maguire’s to lose), we’ve tallied our favorite songs from those soundtracks. Sure, you might find them to be corny and dated, but let us old and decrepit millennials bask in the glories of our dorky adolescence.