Me too! To a lesser extent, “I ask to be or not to be…” when I hear Habanera. It lessened after I actually saw/studied Carmen, but not by a lot…
To a lot of people (myself included), hearing Donovan’s “Atlantis” automatically brings to mind the words “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shinebox!” and the subsequent vicious beating and murder of the person who said it.
Ludwig Von.
And I’m always looking for child molesters when I hear In the hall of the Mountain King by Grieg.
Having watched them in the reverse order, the theme playing while Steve McQueen is trying to speed away on his motorcycle in The Great Escape is, and will always be, the theme to Hogan’s Heroes. That scene just totally loses all gravitas when I’m all “I see NOTHINGK!”
The Liberty Bell march music by John Phillip Sousa used in Monty Python’s Flying Circus. No matter how somber the occasion nor how impressive the marching band, it will forever be associated with Monty Python!
No, no, it’s, “Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit!”
“Toreador-oh, don’t spit on the floor! Use the cuspidor; whaddya think it’s for?”
Guess what I immediatly think of when I hear The Car’s “Moving in Stereo?”
“Dueling Banjos” due to its use in the rape scene in Deliverance. I knew about the association long before I actually saw the movie.
For me, it’s a toss-up between the Gilligan’s Island version and a milk commercial from when I was a kid (“Palm Dairy products, goodness through and through…”).
Also, I can’t hear banjo music (like “Foggy Mountain Breakdown”) without thinking of an old-timey car chase, a la “Bonnie And Clyde”.
I can never listen to “Movin in Stereo” by the Cars without thinking of Phoebe Cates’ scene in “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” (what pubescent male even knew you could even remove a bikini from the front?)
Sorry, but you’re incorrect. Ludwig van Beethoven.
It makes me think of Hardware Wars. And now to a lesser extend Daniel Bryan.
As a general statement I can say that almost all the music in Quentin Tarantino’s movies (all of them) carries with it the strong connection to whatever scene it underscores. Most of the music was unfamiliar to me before hearing it in whatever movie of his, and thus I had little previous association with most of it. About the only major exception would have been Miserlou which I had heard before, but which immediately became the Pulp Fiction title theme.
Both Tarantino and David Chase (The Sopranos) have been outstanding at adapting music to their works, enough so to remove earlier associations. They’re not alone, by any means, just excellent at that part of their efforts.
Best topless scene ever!
No, no, Camper Van Beethoven. That said, yeah, it’s Ludwig Van Beethoven. I was going to comment earlier, but thought maybe I was missing some sort of joke.
Sorry, but YOU’re incorrect - in a Clockwork Orange Alex refers to Beethoven as Lovely Ludwig Von. With an O.
Ponch8 writes:
> “Dueling Banjos” due to its use in the rape scene in Deliverance. I knew about
> the association long before I actually saw the movie.
For what it’s worth, I think you’re mixing up two different scenes. “Dueling Banjos” was not used in the rape scene. It was only used in a scene about (yes, you guessed it) duelling banjos.
No, it’s “lovely, lovely Ludwig Van.” “Van” is pronounced with a short English “o” sound in German (if that makes any sense.) You can look for yourself in the script here. It’s “Ludwig van,” pronounced like “Ludwig Von” in English. (Although the “van” sounds more like “fahn” to me in most German accents in the name “Ludwig van Beethoven.”)