So I’m going to be taking a road trip (eventually) and want to burn some CD’s for the drive. And I’m way too anal-retentive to just put a bunch of songs on a CD; I gotta have a theme. So the idea is this: pick a movie, then pick a bunch of songs (not recorded for the movie, preferably) that will tell or make reference to the story. Examples:
Vertigo Up on the Roof - The Drifters Picture Book Pretty - Lawsuit Down by the Water - PJ Harvey Is She Weird - Pixies Redwood Tree - Van Morrison She Said She Said - Beatles Falling - Poi Dog Pondering I Miss the Girl - Soul Coughing Dogs of Lust - The The Mission Drive - The Wonder Stuff Devil In Disguise - Elvis Presley I Will - The Beatles
Hours of fun. You can play too! (If this thread has been done before, my apologies.)
Witchy Woman - Eagles
Black Magic Woman - Santana
Black No 1 (Little Miss Scare All) - Type O Negative
Maps and Legends - REM
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Don’t Fear the Reaper - either BOC or the Goo Goo Dolls version
Heretic - Soundgarden
Moondance - Van Morrison
(and Morgainelf, you forgot “Down on the Corner” by CCR/John Fogerty)
Rear Window
Summertime - from Porgy and Bess
Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off - Gershwin
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
She Came In Through the Bathroom Window - The Beatles
Ring - Towa Tei
Hold On, I’m Coming - Sam & Dave
Flash - Queen
There’s a pretty decent Arling & Cameron CD called “Music From Imaginary Films”. Kind of your idea in reverse (rather than make up a soundtrack for a movie, it makes up movies for a soundtrack).
The CD’s theme is that it contains the title theme music from several different movies over time (lots of them campy sci-fi or teen movies) that didn’t actually exist. It’s most interesting when you read the booklet alongside the music (the booklet contains the movie posters and synopsis).
Although All-In is still the best A&C CD, and I always drive to it.
