Nor can I recall a movie where it’s used. My sense of “overdone” stems from its use in sports situations. One notable example is how Virginia Tech football games (at home especialy) bring their team onto the field with ES going over the PA at 11 and the crowd screaming “Go! Hokies!” back and forth across the field at each other. Goose Bump Land. It’s as rousing and blood curdling as a Basque yelling spree.
The fact that other Grand Entrances, especially the ones meant to terrify the opposition, rely heavily on Enter Sandman for the blood curdling, is what made me want to add it to the list.
For some examples, start here and look around:
Unfortunately, the YouTube version(s) of some of the Metallica videos have been yanked because of copyright issues.
Oddly enough, I didn’t even know about Enter Sandman until a year or so ago when I heard on the radio how Va Tech was going to start their season after the massacre at the school by ramming Enter Sandman down the throats of their visiting team at their season opener. I had to find out for myself what the furor was about. I got hooked!
But now I’m a little jaded on it all.
Along the same lines, even though I’m a Tennesseean, and tend to support UT as long as they’re not playing Auburn or Vandy, I am dog tired of Rocky Top!!
According to agreements between SAG, the WGA, and several other top Hollywood concerns, either one of those two songs, or Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” is contractually obligated to appear in the soundtrack of any scene opening on, or promenantly featuring, a UH-1 “Huey” anywhere in Vietnam, provided “Ride of the Valkyries” isn’t already being used. (Repeated attempts to expand the criteria to “Anywhere in the Tropics” and counter-appeals from the Bell Textron and Rolling Stones lobbys have failed to make any headway in contract negotiations due to political deadlock)
It wasn’t until I was an adult that it occurred to me that this might actually be a free-standing piece of classical music and NOT made solely for use in movies.
