# songs forever spoiled or warped by a later movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106 "2009-03-11T19:22:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/1 "2009-03-11T19:22:46Z")
Hope the title is clear enough… Some examples to get us started… Inspired by listening to the song Anything Goes, and realizing ever since _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_ all I can think of is the song starting off in Chinese. And of course, if you’ve ever seen _Reservoir Dogs_, “Stuck in the Middle With You” just isn’t quite the same anymore. The Darlene Love version of Christmas is in the opening credits of Gremlins, so now that’s all I think of when I hear it. Yours? ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/2 "2009-03-11T21:26:38Z")
“If You Could Read My Mind” (Gordon Lightfoot - 1970) was ruined for me by the movie Wonderland (about porn star John Holmes and his connection to the Wonderland murders). Ick. And it’s in the rotation on the Muzak at work so I hear it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/3 "2009-03-11T21:28:24Z")
Let’s make this thread last all night! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/4 "2009-03-11T21:34:30Z")
Not so much a movie, but I can’t hear “Don’t Fear the Reaper” without picturing Will Ferrell playing the cowbell in a too small shirt. I 2nd the “Stuck in the Middle with You” mention too. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/5 "2009-03-11T21:54:26Z")
Stuck in the Middle with You leaps to mind as well, and also American Girl as seen in Silence of the Lambs. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/6 "2009-03-11T22:12:15Z")
Hell, I love “Stuck in the Middle Wid Youse” in _Reservoir Dogs_. For me, I’ll never see Gene Kelly dancing to _Singing in the Rain_ without thinking of Alex in _A Clockwork Orange_ ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/7 "2009-03-11T22:47:47Z")
After seeing _Girl, Interrupted_, “The End Of The World” by Skeeter Davis gained some…interesting connotations in my mind. In the movie, the song is playing as the protagonist walks into her friend’s room to see that she has cut her wrists and hung herself. “Time is on my Side” by the Rolling Stones was used to great effect in _Fallen_, but won’t ever be quite the same for me. And, “We’ve Only Just Begun” as used in _1408._ ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/8 "2009-03-12T00:07:07Z")
Did “Dueling Banjos” come out before _Deliverance_? ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/9 "2009-03-12T00:13:14Z")
_Stuck in the Middle With You_ is now associated with something Stealers Wheel never intended. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/10 "2009-03-12T00:18:38Z")
_I Got You, Babe_ is forever associated for me now with **Groundhog Day** (but that’s an improvement over when I associated it with Sonny and Cher). ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/11 "2009-03-12T00:46:06Z")
My brain associates the Sundays cover of _Wild Horses_ with Resse Witherspoon getting finger-fucked on a rollercoaster. Granted, as far as mental imagery goes, it beats the hell out of some guy getting his ear hacked off but I was happy enjoying the song on its own merits before [Fear](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116287/) came out. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/12 "2009-03-12T01:37:06Z")
**Bohemian Rhapsody** by **Queen** will always remind me of Waybe and Garth’s headbanging scene in the Mirthmobile in the movie **Wayne’s World** **The Power of Love** by **Huey Lewis** will remind me of **Back to the Future** ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/13 "2009-03-12T02:18:59Z")
Immediately thought of _Stuck In The Middle_, seems to be the winner so far. ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/14 "2009-03-12T04:54:11Z")
Seconding “Singing In The Rain” from _A Clockwork Orange._ BTW: One of my fave films. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/15 "2009-03-12T10:13:09Z")
I always think of [DIVA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva_(film)) whenever I hear the aria “Ebben?..Ne Andrò Lontana” from La Wally. “Born to be Wild” by _Steppenwolf_ involuntarily invokes images of [Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064276/) cruising around on their bikes. Not a song but … what music do you think about when you hear “I love the smell of napalm in the morning”? [So do I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx7XNb3Q9Ek). And, unfortunately, I can rarely listen to “Air” by _J.S. Bach_ without remembering glimpses of Se7en. Not on topic but “Maybe” by the _The Ink Spots_ and _Louis Armstrong_’s “A Kiss to build a Dream on” have an eerie quality since I heard them in the intros and outros of Fallout I and II. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/16 "2009-03-12T10:26:30Z")
_Don’t Stop Believing_ by Journey will NEVER be the same after The Sopranos. And I don’t know the name of that classical violin concerto piece from _There Will Be Blood_, that plays when they’re building the first oil derrick in the town, and then later at the very end of the movie during the credits - but if I ever hear it again in another context, I won’t be able to dissociate it from the film. ---
**Author:** ![wintertime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c68b51/32.png) [@wintertime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wintertime)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/17 "2009-03-12T11:20:34Z")
**Argent Towers** , it might not be classical in the “composed decades ago”-sense. Greenwood just “borrowed” heavily from classical composers like Brahms, Bartok and contemporary ones, including [Arvo Pärt](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_P%C3%A4rt). [Here](http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4461294,00.html) you can listen to pieces of the soundtrack - it might help you identify the one you have in mind. added: he also used music from his earlier “Popcorn Superhet Receiver” – which might be to your liking. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/18 "2009-03-12T11:57:32Z")
> [@jk1245](#): > > Not so much a movie, but I can’t hear “Don’t Fear the Reaper” without picturing Will Ferrell playing the cowbell in a too small shirt. I associate that song with the scary beginning of the miniseries The Stand. ---
**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:** [March 12, 2009, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/19 "2009-03-12T12:23:27Z")
The Bodyguard killed a very good Dolly Parton song. And IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love YYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUU ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/20 "2009-03-12T12:38:48Z")
I found that Ludwig van was spoiled for me due to all that aversion therapy. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=2)