# Anti-cliche soundtrack

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 12, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812 "2013-06-12T14:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812/1 "2013-06-12T14:50:00Z")

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Inspired of course by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=692344).

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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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812/2 "2013-06-12T15:01:24Z")

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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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**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812/3 "2013-06-12T15:13:54Z")

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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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**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-cliche-soundtrack/660812/4 "2013-06-12T23:18:38Z")

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Mud-covered marines slogging through the bogs in Vietnam.

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