Anti-cliche soundtrack

Cafe Society
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Inspired of course by this thread.

What are the some incongruous songs you can think of to use in a place in a movie soundtrack that normally is screaming for a certain type of song.

My example is for a sad moment a song like Sounds of Silence or Mad World would play. What if instead the protagonist is taking a sad walk and the 59th Street Bridge Song came on instead. Then I thought it wasn’t that great of an example because the music somewhat fits the mood albeit in an ironic way, so it would be more of a dark humor than a bizarre ha ha moment.

Let me try for a better one. The movie opens up in a funeral where normally a sad piano tune would be playing. Instead, as each attendee goes up to the casket, Oh Yeah comes on.

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Our movie opens to a scene of two factions, armed to the teeth with automatic firearms, blasting away at each other to the background score of Gregorian chants.

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Two young lovers are in the bedroom. She’s slim and willowy. He looks like a Greek god. An eyebrow is raised. They undress each other. Steamy sex ensues.

“Boy, the way Glenn Miller played … SONGS that made the HIT parade…”

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Mud-covered marines slogging through the bogs in Vietnam.

Soundtrack: Viva Las Vegas! (or would that be too ironic?)