# Any way to cross reference songs to movies?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-cross-reference-songs-to-movies/607060>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 22, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-cross-reference-songs-to-movies/607060 "2011-12-22T07:35:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-cross-reference-songs-to-movies/607060/1 "2011-12-22T07:35:55Z")

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Listening to some Townes van Zandt’s “Dead Flowers” right now, and I know I’ve heard it in a movie before and it’s fucking killing me as to which film it was. Any way to find out?

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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-cross-reference-songs-to-movies/607060/2 "2011-12-22T08:42:32Z")

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The Big Lebowski according to Wiki.

I just looked up the song title. I’m somewhat surprised I didn’t get an article that starts “Dead flowers are flowers that have died. They are commonly found in the fall season…” etc.

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**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-way-to-cross-reference-songs-to-movies/607060/3 "2011-12-22T09:39:16Z")

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Yeah, Google will do it. Try restricting the search to IMDB which lists a soundtrack section for every movie.