Anything with higher BPM and some sort of decent sub or sine wave reminds me of my previous love of Jungle or Goa Trance, man I’m getting old as fuck these days
I’m not sure if that fits the OP. It’s certainly iron-clad associated with the Main Street Electrical Parade, but it’s not exactly a piece of classical music, or something you’re likely to encounter casually anywhere else. I had to look around to find any of Perrey and Kingsley’s other works. The only place I found it easily was on a collection of “Disney Hits”. Aside from the Main St. Electrical Parade, the only place I ever heard it aside from that was the short “The Collector” that Mike Jittlov* made for Disney:
*Jittlov is a truly under-appreciated animator best known for The Wizard of Speed and Time, although he’s made a lot of poorly-distributed, highly creative animated pieces. Have a look at his demo reel, Animato:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Mike+Jittlov+Animato&view=detail&mid=66074F52629878562DCB66074F52629878562DCB&FORM=VIRE
I just thought of another one: “Non, je ne regrette rien” is the Inception music, in more ways than one. Not only is the song itself featured in the movie, but the iconic Inception “BRAAAM!” is the song slowed way, way down.
The Sailor’s Hornpipe is and always will be the first part of the Popeye theme.
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“The Final Countdown” will always remind me of the entrance of Gob and his [del]tricks[/del] illusions.
I’m surprised with so many Python fans on SDMB, nobody has mentioned John Phillip Sousa’s “Liberty Bell March” yet.
Vera Lynn’s rendition of We’ll Meet Again always fills me with a warm glow … from the heat of global thermonuclear war.
And who can listen to Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 without imagining a cheeky mouse gliding up and down the keyboard? Not the first nor last toon to feature this tune, but T & J was certainly the best.
Oh, yes, I still hear the Skipper’s voice when I hear that song. “There’s just one other thing, you ought to do…to thine own self be true!”
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Barber’s Adagio for Strings is irrevocably tied to the game Homeworld for me.
This isn’t a bad thing, as it was one of my favorite games and the use of the song was inspired, given the plot–a perfect mix of melancholy and epic. But I suspect that most people don’t associate the song with “space opera video game”.
I have never heard Aram Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance in its proper milieu, the ballet Gayane*
Whenever I hear it, I immediately picture some performer on Ed Sullivan or some similar show attempting to spin twenty dinner plates atop twenty long thin upright poles
Sometimes it’s used for ice skaters, or some other random physical activity. After seeing it used as a signature tune for other sorts of frenetic activity, I’m kinda curious to see someone actually dance to it with sabres
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Sabre+Dance+ballet+youtube&view=detail&mid=3458747940841DDCA3D23458747940841DDCA3D2&FORM=VIRE
*(which apparently gave us the ballet suite music used in 2001: a Space Odyssey, another irrevocable association for me)
Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye will forever belong to the Chicago White Sox
I thought about that, but I couldn’t remember the name of the march and I got distracted before I looked it up.
I was just sitting here, thinking, “It’s…”
I have a very silly one. Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill and the video game Descent came out about the same time. So on certain songs, I still hear the laser blast sounds from the game.
LOL, other than ‘I’m getting old as fuck these day’, I don’t understand a single word you wrote 
‘Our Love’ based on Tchaikovsky has been used in endless romantic reunions, endless love! I remember it played behind a bit about a tree growing, on Sesame Street, years ago. But it’s so swooningly romantic.
Then you might have achieved ‘old as fuck these day’ status… as have I, I’m proud to say.
All mine are naughty.
I don’t find Old Spice very rock and roll.
Having grown up in Boston in the 1960’s I cannot hear Camelot without thinking of the Kennedy’s. Particularly the reprise:
That once there was a fleeting glimpse of glory
Called Camelot.
Don’t let it be forgot
That once there was a spot
For one brief shining moment
That was known as Camelot.
When I hear the march from Henry Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary I’m not so much sad for Queen Mary as for poor Alex getting beat up by his own Droogs.
Pretty much all of mine are movie associations, Singin’ in the Rain in the same movie is another one.