# Music that you got turned on to through tv or movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2011, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923 "2011-08-08T09:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/21 "2011-08-10T08:38:09Z")
> [@Snooooopy](#): > > I continue to enjoy the theme song from _Terriers_ well after the demise of the show. Just a fun little number there. Me too! I got it on iTunes right after I started watching the show. How funny that several people have mentioned some of the exact same ones I have. I’m pissed they didn’t pick up the show. I thought it was really good. I love Donal Logue and I can’t remember the other guy’s name, but he’s great too. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/22 "2011-08-10T13:07:47Z")
Had it not been for Metallica, and the video to [One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM8bTdBs-cw&ob=av2n), I never would have been exposed to [Johnny Got His Gun](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/). ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/23 "2011-08-10T13:12:03Z")
I first heard [When You Find Me by Joshua Radin](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_fMYtzMBU4) in the movie [Adam](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185836/). Okay movie, great song. ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/24 "2011-08-10T13:19:34Z")
Found Elliot Smith from his songs being featured in “Good Will Hunting” ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/25 "2011-08-10T13:44:53Z")
Discovered Alexi Murdoch and White Denim from episodes of House. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/26 "2011-08-10T13:57:19Z")
One of the Tomb Raider movies introduced me to Basement Jaxx via [Where’s Your Head At.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4hFwJm41h4) Luckily I’ve come across tons of Basement Jaxx stuff to make me happy. Y Tu Mama Tambien’s [Afila El Colmillo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhPzjWBezYs) is another techno buried treasure. Unfortunately, this is the only song I’ve ever heard from Titan & La Mala Rodriguez. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/27 "2011-08-10T14:03:14Z")
I love “The Thieving Magpie” I first heard in A Clockwork Orange, too! To this day! The ONLY new music I come across is in the background of commercials or on TV shows. Grey’s Anatomy, House, and True Blood. I’m pretty much stuck in the 80’s and don’t really know how to search out new music to listen to unless I hear a bit and look it up. Find myself preferring opera, big band, and jazz more and more, after hearing it on TV, commercials, or movies. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/28 "2011-08-10T16:40:35Z")
I got turned on to Schubert’s String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D. 887 from its appearance in _Crimes and Misdemeanors_. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/29 "2011-08-10T18:17:10Z")
The song “Little Boxes” from Weeds. Yes, it’s kind of annoying and I still like it! ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/30 "2011-08-10T18:20:53Z")
I never heard of Green Day and “Good Riddance” until hearing the song at the end of the Seinfeld retrospective. And I never dreamed the group would be the basis of a successful Broadway jukebox musical. ETA: How many people knew And IIIIIIIIIII will always love YOOOOOOOOOOOU before The Bodyguard? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/31 "2011-08-10T18:41:07Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > ETA: How many people knew And IIIIIIIIIII will always love YOOOOOOOOOOOU before The Bodyguard? Me, me! And I think Dolly’s version (from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) is a kajillion times better than that other lady’s. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/32 "2011-08-10T18:50:26Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Me, me! And I think Dolly’s version (from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) is a kajillion times better than that other lady’s. The song actually goes back proir to the Whorehouse. First released in 1973, then redone in 1982 for the musical. [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Always_Love_You) ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/33 "2011-08-10T19:03:23Z")
There’s a 10 second clip of the song “Dry the Rain” by The Beta Band in the movie “High Fidelity.” I loved it immediately and went to the library the next day to get the soundtrack (I didn’t have a home computer in '02, so I couldn’t look it up). I replayed that song countless times in the car, and just went straight to a record store to buy the record “The 3 EPs.” I also got into Stereolab based off a song on the HF soundtrack. I already had good (in my mind, anyway) taste in music at that time, but The Beta Band and Stereolab really got me to start searching a whole lot more for music I liked. Actually, it also got me to start reading a whole lot more because I felt I had to read High Fidelity, then Fever Pitch, then About a Boy, and then… I just never read as a teen or my early college years except for texts and assigned reading. Not that I’m a reader of great literature these days, but that movie and especially that clip of the song started a lot for me. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/34 "2011-08-10T19:55:52Z")
_High Fidelity_ turned me on to [The Thirteenth Floor Elevators](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlOBMC1RLw0&feature=related). ---
**Author:** ![Bri2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/48db29/32.png) [@Bri2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bri2k)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/35 "2011-08-10T21:07:23Z")
I wasn’t into music at all until John Lennon got shot. The weekend after, [The Birth of the Beatles](http://www.ovguide.com/movies_tv/birth_of_the_beatles.htm) ran on ABC (maybe CBS, it was a long time ago). When they played She Loves You at the end, I was hooked. Hard to believe that was over 30 years ago. Bri2k P.S. My Beatles euphoria led me to read about them which led me to discovering other 60s icons such as the Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. It is indeed a slippery slope. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/36 "2011-08-10T21:23:09Z")
I got turned on to Classical music the first time I saw _Amadeus_. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/37 "2011-08-11T06:22:48Z")
I couldn’t even tell you. I probably get at least a third of my new music from TV shows, movies, guest spots on late night shows, and commercials. Maybe more now that I’ve got the Shazam app. Most often though, it’s random singles. Only occasionally do I get turned on to the artist’s full discography. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/38 "2011-08-11T13:21:43Z")
I also recently downloaded [“If I Had a Heart” by Fever Ray](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HvjK29Gpn0) after hearing it in a scene in Breaking Bad. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/39 "2011-08-11T18:48:21Z")
**The Black Cat** and \*\*Zardoz \*\*both turned me on to the 2nd movement of Beethoven’s 7th. ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923/40 "2011-08-11T19:21:51Z")
The Shield introduced me to The Magnetic Fields through using “All My Little Words” to end an episode. There was an FBI vs Mob show on ABC(?) about 7 years ago that was decent. They ended an episode with Gary Jules cover of “Mad World.” Made me fall in love with it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-you-got-turned-on-to-through-tv-or-movies/591923.md?page=3)