Barber’s Addagio for Strings will never be heard by me again without thinking of the Elephant Man. 
HUGS!
Sqrl
“Stuck in the Middle With You” will always conjure up that horrific scene from Resevoir Dogs. When I first saw that movie in the theater when initially came out, people were leaving in droves. I was hyponotized.
Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” is also very movingly used in Platoon.
Carmina Burana. Cool as it is, it’s just movie music these days.
And not a movie per se, but Bugs bunny has permanently changed Wagner for me.
Well, the movie Blue Velvet screwed up both the title song and Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” for me.
(“A candy-colored clown they call the Sandman
tiptoes to my room every night…”)
Can’t hear those songs now without creepy Blue Velvet associations.
Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
Alan Alda’s The Four Seasons
'Nuff said.
Wow. Candlemas already nailed mine, although I wasn’t so much hypnotized as nauseous.
The other one would be Louis Armstrong singing “What a Wonderful World” – now every time I hear it, I picture napalm burning the jungles, thanks to Good Morning, Vietnam.
Apocalyse now , not ruined to be exact but when ever i hear ride of the valkieries i think of the air cav comming in
also Louis armstrong -all the time in the world used in James Bond , makes me think of that too
something nasty though was gone in 60 seconds had music that was utterly wrongly placed and uneeded
Barbers adagio for strings actually makes me think of Homeworld too (PC game)and sometimes of Platoon when that sergent is running from the vietcong after being shot by his own CO
the Wizards aprentice makes me think of the alton towers advert and fantasia
Sleeping With The Enemy completely destroyed Van Morrison’s Brown Eyed Girl. I used to really enjoy that song. It made me think of all the great summers I had, making out with vibrant, freckle face girls and soft breezes and the smell of clover and popcorn at baseball games and then BAM! JULIA F**CKING ROBERTS trying on silly hats! ARRRRGH!
-Fosfero
Not wanting to be too obvious, but Bad to the Bone was at best a minorly annoying song (I happen to like other Thorogood, but not that one in particular) until pretty much every late-80’s or early-90’s movie seems to have used it to announce the entrance of our hero, ready for action. T2 is the most well-known, but I am pretty sure there are many others…I even remember it being used on Miami Vice
“Oh I would walk 500 miles,
And, I would walk 500 more,
Just to be the one who never has to hear this freaking song once more…”
I liked the Proclaimers when the album first came in in what, 1986? But, I’m tired of the song being played in almost every damn quirky love story. I can’t even hear the song now without thinking of a wigged out Mary Stuart Masterson trying to direct traffic with a ping pong paddle.
[sub]And, Hollywood, I used to like Allstar by Smashmouth too, but I’m tired of it being used and used and featured and played and etched into my brain. Can we pick a new theme song please?[/sub]
No doubt about it.
Eddie Murphy and Roxanne in 48 hrs.
I hear the song and I hear Eddie.
“Roxxxxxxxanne”
The Police??
seeing as how i hated moulin rouge, all the songs in that movie that they tried to be creative and mix up are now ruined…especially that “we could be heroes” one. grr.
also, it seems like whenever they need a creepy song in a movie, they use that “see the pyramids along the nile…you belong to me” one (is it called you belong to me?) i’m thinking of “girl, interrupted” in particular, although i know there’ve been more instances of that song’s overuse
Luckily, they only use the first two minutes. There’s still an hour and a half that never shows up in movies…
Kat, unfortunately, it’s the only good three minutes.
hijack, here, but I’d always liked the 9th, but after seeing Immortal Beloved several years ago, I became obsessed with it.
I HATE it when there’s a popular song in a movie or trailer, and the song has NOTHING to do with what’s going on in the picture. They just play it to show they are hip.
A song MUST represent something… be it a certain time the movie is taking place, or the lyrics go with the story line.
I know Allstar has been in at least 4 movies… I can’t think of one of them, but the others are Mystery Men, Rat Race, Shrek. It also seems to be used on TV a lot to. I used to like that song… Maybe it’s time Smash Mouth made another song they can bank on… Walking on the Sun was used a lot too… and that song, ‘Just the way that you talk, like it aint no thang’ is used… shit those guys must be ritch!
I don’t know what movie in particular it was used, but Holst’s “The Planets: Jupiter” has been used in all kinds of sci-fi stuff, and ripped off in general, that I can’t hear it without thinking “movie soundtrack”.
Also, it’s not from a movie, but Aaron Copland’s “Rodeo: Hoedown” is a fantastic piece of music that you can’t hear now without thinking, “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner.” Another piece of music ruined by overuse in commercials is “Rhapsody in Blue” that you hear a dozen times whenever you fly United.
We should be grateful for those directors and composers who at least make the attempt to match themes and moments in their films with the best music possible.
Now, not every director is a Stanley Kubrick, who would pore over his classical music collection for the best pieces to match his visions. Not every screen composer is a John Williams, who, I think, singlehandedly revived the idea of the leitmotif in his scores, and who always composes themes consonant and resonant with the characters.
No matter what you may say against these two men (and I use them as examples of a steadily dwindling corps of careful craftsmen who have the big picture in mind – I’ll even throw Spike Lee into this pot!), they are gods compared to the hollywood types who merely assemble six or eight of the latest rap hits into their scores – not because they are a good fit, but because they will make a best seller album with tie-in sales to the movie.
My favorite – I use this word against my better judgement – example of this is the re-release of Metropolis, with a score and sound track by Adam Ant!!!
Pardon me, I feel a session of projectile vomiting coming on.
The finale to the William Tell Overture and A Clockwork Orange.
Su-Sudio by Phil Collins from American Psycho.
Jim Carey singing ‘Somebody to Love’ in ‘The Cable Guy’.