# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/21 "2009-03-12T12:43:44Z")
Two songs, **“Blue Velvet”** by Bobby Vinton and **“In Dreams”** by Roy Orbison, were forever altered in my mind by their use in the movie [Blue Velvet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/22 "2009-03-12T12:46:30Z")
I can’t hear “Brazil” without thinking of lobotomies and soul crushing bureaucracy. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/23 "2009-03-12T12:47:05Z")
Weeee’ll (boom) meet again, Don’t know where (boom), Don’t know wheeeeen (boom), But I know we’ll meet again (boom) Some sunny daaaaaayyyy…(boom) Thank you, _Dr Strangelove._ ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/24 "2009-03-12T12:49:52Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I associate that song with the scary beginning of the miniseries The Stand. That was the most excellent harmonization of music & imagery in a TV movie ever. As with everyone else, Stuck in the Middle- it makes my ear hurt. Not a song spoiled but a song perfectly synced with what’s happening on screen- Bittersweet Symphony during the Ryan Phillipe funeral scene in “Cruel Intentions”. SMG is giving a maudlin eulogy, Reese & Selma Blair are distributing her journal & as people read it, they walk out on SMG. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/25 "2009-03-12T12:51:36Z")
The opening strains of “The Marriage of Figaro” will always bring to mind Lewis Winthorp III starting his day and arriving at the offices of Duke & Duke in “Trading Places.” I can’t hear “Bad Bad Leroy Brown” by Jim Croce without hearing it being badly karaoke’d in Japanese in “Sneakers.” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/26 "2009-03-12T12:55:36Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > That was the most excellent harmonization of music & imagery in a TV movie ever. It’s a pity most of the rest of it stank though. I liked the scene where they listened to “Don’t Dream It’s Over” too. ---
**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, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/27 "2009-03-12T12:57:53Z")
> [@](#): > > I can’t hear “Brazil” without thinking of lobotomies and soul crushing bureaucracy. – **Just Some Guy** Thank you so much for reminding me. “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” sung by _Nancy Sinatra_ doesn’t exist beyond “Kill Bill”. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/28 "2009-03-12T13:49:10Z")
Sort of a reversal of this - in the movie “As Good As It Gets,” Jack Nicholson’s character is always playing, on his piano, “Always Look at the Bright Side of Life” originally from the end of “Life of Brian.” Except he’s playing it as a straight, upbeat song, and I cannot ever hear that song without seeing the singers suspended from crosses, singing it ironically. “Life of Brian” and the song aren’t warped for me, but “As Good As It Gets” will always seem weird to me for the way I see the song. ---
**Author:** ![Umbriel2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/4af34b/32.png) [@Umbriel2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Umbriel2)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/29 "2009-03-12T13:51:35Z")
Mine’s also from TV rather than film, but Johnny Mathis’ “Wonderful, Wonderful” will always creep me out after seeing the [“Home” episode of _The X-Files_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_(The_X-Files)). ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/30 "2009-03-12T13:51:46Z")
Stanley Kubrick did this a lot. In addition to the “Singing in the Rain” sketch from _A Clockwork Orange_, there is also the final song in _Full Metal Jacket_.After all of the mayhem and carnage, the soldiers march off into the night singing the theme song from _The Mickey Mouse Club_. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/31 "2009-03-12T13:56:15Z")
> [@MacTech](#): > > **The Power of Love** by **Huey Lewis** will remind me of **Back to the Future** Given that the song was specifically written for that movie, that shouldn’t come as too big a surprise. ---
**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, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/32 "2009-03-12T14:09:34Z")
Whenever I hear \*Put on Your Sunday Clothes \*I think of **Wall-E**. But then again, the only time I actually HEAR that song is, well, watching **Wall-E**. never mind ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/33 "2009-03-12T15:09:17Z")
The Special Features DVD for _The Incredibles_ has a segment where all of the sound effects used for buttons, doors and explosions are stitched together – to the Anvil Chorus from _Il Trovatore_. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/34 "2009-03-12T15:20:10Z")
I imagine that John Philip Sousa’s “Liberty Bell March” has pretty much disappeared from the concert repertoire due to Monty Python’s Flying Circus… hard to take that piece seriously anymore. (I realize this is cheating a bit because it was really the TV series rather than the movie that was primarily responsible, but…) Oh yeah – and then there’s seeing the mental image of ape-men capering around a black slab every time I hear the opening theme of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” (not to mention revolving space stations every time I hear “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”). Here’s a reverse example: Wasn’t the musical theme in the “Marlboro Man” cigarette ad campaign actually the main theme of the film score from “How the West Was Won”? I love that theme and it pisses me off that I can’t hear it without thinking of cigarette ads. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/35 "2009-03-12T15:46:23Z")
> [@](#): > > from **Wikipedia** : > “Unchained Melody” is a popular song with music by Alex North and lyrics by Hy Zaret. It is one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, by some counts having spawned over 500 versions in hundreds of different languages. Yet it is now known to an entire generation only as “The Theme from _Ghost_” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/36 "2009-03-12T15:51:52Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > That was the most excellent harmonization of music & imagery in a TV movie ever. [re: Don’t Fear the Reaper] I dunno - “When the Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash as seen in Dawn of the Dead is pretty close. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/37 "2009-03-12T15:57:37Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > _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). Try listening to the David Bowie and Marianne Faithful version, clears that right up, beautiful song too. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/38 "2009-03-12T16:21:58Z")
I’m surprised I’m the first person who admits to wanting to yell “Hiho Silver” everytime I hear the William Tell Overture. Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World” hasn’t been the same since _12 Monkeys_. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/39 "2009-03-12T16:25:11Z")
Or even “Good Morning, Vietnam”. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/40 "2009-03-12T16:26:15Z")
Oh, and let’s not even start with songs that have been ruined by _commercials_, or we’ll never be done. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=3)