Excellent replies and links, everyone. Thank you!
No, he does not. You are 100% wrong.
That! Using Ludwig van like that! He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music!
He clearly says “van” not “von”. :44 into the clip.
I was attending a concert a while back, and they were playing “Barber of Seville”. I had to excuse myself and step out of the auditorium, for fear of laughing out loud.
Another one is the Unfinished. Can anyone hear it and not think, “This is the symphony that Schubert wrote and never finished”?
You can’t blame the guy. It’s Three Themes In Search of an Exit.
A Clockwork Orange has a bunch of these for me. Another not mentioned yet is The Thieving Magpie.
And I think Scorsese is better than Tarantino at using music this way - Goodfellas is loaded with them. Speedo, Jump Into The Fire, the end part of Layla, Sunshine Of Your Love, Atlantis (the “Hands across the ocean” song while they’re kicking Billy Batts)…
Nokia ruined a perfectly nice little Waltz by Francisco Tarrega in choosing 4 bars as their standard ringtone
“Brand New Key.” Can’t hear it without thinking of a naked Heather Graham mounting Mark Wahlberg in “Boogie Nights.”
That’s funny. I’ve always associated it with Catherine Deneuve and Susan Sarandon making out in The Hunger.
Last two posts? I’ll be in my bunk.
I also automatically associate Jackson Browne’s “Somebody’s Baby” with the same movie, during the scenes where Jennifer Jason Leigh gets naked. She was even hotter than Phoebe Cates in that movie, IMO.
You know what? I actually think of flying toasters. Hrm.
Wow, cool, I bet not many readers understand this one.
Sort of reverse situation, don’t read on if you like Robert Frost’s “Walking Through Woods on a Snowy Evening” : It can be sung to the tune of “Hernando’s Hideaway”… and once you’ve done that, it’s impossible to read that poem, ever again.
First, nobody except my mother likes that poem.
Second, WTTW once had an episode in which Frost and Frank Lloyd Wright competed to be the most pathetic old man. I was a little kid, but wanted to kill both of them.
Third, I got over that (ETA: sorta) when they both died long before I could kill them.
Fourth, and I know that this violates comedy’s Rule of Threes, Wright’s home/studio is across the street from a red, white, and blue, Victorian “painted lady.” If I were to win the lotto I would buy it, sort through its paint chips, and paint it some combination that would make the Baby Jesus cry while not violating a village ordinance.
FTR, had a chance to buy a Wright that was mass built. I put dibs on the porte cochere. Still regret that this was a (rare) time that I was serious.
I certainly don’t–can you explain it?
This http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOUsbtUrXHk
ought to readjust your expectations on that little bit of Strauss.
Certainly eliminates its pomposity.
Also, I think Carmina Burana for a host of movies, my earliest recollection of it was its use in Boorman’s Excalibur.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA8MeJFRh04
It can also be sung to the tune of “O Tannenbaum.”
I stand corrected.
Anytime I hear the Carpenter’s “We’ve only just begun” for the rest of my life, I’ll think of 1408.
A few songs from American Psycho, but mainly “Hip to be Square”.