# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/61 "2009-03-12T20:34:36Z")
Everybody now… _There she was, just a-walkin’ down the street, singing Doo wah diddy, diddy dum, diddy doo…_ From _Stripes_, obviously, but also used to good effect in _L.A. Story_. > [@TWDuke](#): > > Pachelbel’s _Canon in D_ makes me think of **Ordinary People** (and GE soft white light bulbs, but that’s off topic). You’re lucky. It makes me think of wearing my finger down to a nub playing the viola. > [@Doody\_Pants](#): > > Inna Gadda Da Vida - Manhunter, as the killer goes after the blind woman in his house. I always think of _The Simpsons_. ---
**Author:** ![Musky\_Moon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90db22/32.png) [@Musky\_Moon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musky_Moon)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/62 "2009-03-12T20:42:59Z")
_Beyond the Sea_ will always be associated with Scully’s Dad. Whenever I hear _Don’t Fence Me In_ I imagine the Japanese karaoke scene in the beginning of **Rising Sun** _Sweet Emotion_ brings forth images of an orange Pontiac GTO cruising slo-mo through a highschool parking lot. _More Than This_ is now sung in the cracked voice of Bill Murray. And lastly, _How About You_ as sung by a hirsute mentally deranged homeless man ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/63 "2009-03-12T21:06:48Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > This one won’t be popular on this board, but I don’t think I’ll ever again be able to hear “All Along the Watchtower” without thinking of secret Cylons awakening. Agreed. I really like what they’ve done with the song, too. [More than you’ll ever need to knwo about their version](http://www.bearmccreary.com/blog/?p=1597). Ditto on _Bohemian Rhapsody_ in _Wayne’s World_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/64 "2009-03-12T22:53:46Z")
> [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](#): > > Try listening to the David Bowie and Marianne Faithful version, clears that right up, beautiful song too. [Video from Youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cn8-TjXNuU) which is oddly reminiscent of the Darren Nichols’ talking chess pieces _Romeo & Juliet_. The song Calendar Girl always brings up memories of _The January Man_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Superhero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Superhero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Superhero)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/65 "2009-03-13T04:51:04Z")
“I’ve Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates (You’ve Got a Brand New Key)” instantly calls up Heather Graham getting nekkid and climbing on Mark Wahlberg in “Boogie Nights.” They used the song in a Payless Shoes commercial a couple of years ago, which was a rather odd moment of cognitive dissonance every time the commercial came on. Say what you will about Woody Allen, but he created one of the few of these associations that are (in my opinion) not just personal, but cultural. His staggeringly beautiful cinematic love poem to Manhattan that opens, well, “Manhattan” indelibly transformed George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” into a song about New York City. Right up until those bastards at United Airlines got their hands on it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/66 "2009-03-13T06:56:34Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Billy Vera’s “At This Moment” is always identified with Alex & Ellen on “Family Ties,” and Green Day’s “Good Riddance” with Seinfeld. For me, “Good Riddance” is forever affiliated with ER, and Jeanie Boulet singing it at the Quaker funeral service for Scotty Anspaugh. ER has also grabbed a lasting association with “Sand and Water” by Beth Nielsen Chapman. [Let Me Clear My Throat](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lBsZj1mhw8) now brings to mind cheerleaders doing jazz hands, thanks to the movie Bring it On. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/67 "2009-03-13T07:05:19Z")
> [@The\_Superhero](#): > > Say what you will about Woody Allen, but he created one of the few of these associations that are (in my opinion) not just personal, but cultural. His staggeringly beautiful cinematic love poem to Manhattan that opens, well, “Manhattan” indelibly transformed George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” into a song about New York City. Right up until those bastards at United Airlines got their hands on it, anyway. It’s still New York to me. Have you seen _Fantasia 2000_? ---
**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 13, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/68 "2009-03-13T07:16:42Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > I dunno - “When the Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash as seen in Dawn of the Dead is pretty close. That is true. Oh, IF IT EVER HAPPENED that I would hear “Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary” ANYWHERE else, I would still think of Alex & his three droogs, Pete, Dim and Georgie, sitting in the Korova Milkbar making up their rassodocks what to do with the evening. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/69 "2009-03-13T12:08:41Z")
> [@Umbriel2](#): > > 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)). Same here. One of the best, and nastiest episode. [QUOTE=MacTech] The Power of Love by Huey Lewis will remind me of Back to the Future [/QUOTE] For me, it’s _Johnny B. Goode_. As far as I’m concerned, it’s a Michael J. Fox song :smack: _These Boots Were Made For Walking_ will forever remind me of the Viet-Namese hooker from Full Metal Jacket. The 1812 ouverture was grand enough in its own right, but after V for Vendetta, it’s just frickin’ epic. And in a different vein, but since we’re on the subject of Russian composers, I can never hear the opening bars of _Night On Bald Mountain_ without thinking of the Russian front (Combat Mission 2, a WW2 wargame, featured it as the main menu theme) Verdi’s requiem will never be \*quite \*the same after Battle Royale. ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/70 "2009-03-13T15:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by flodnak > 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. Am I misremembering? I thought the song at the end of Strangelove was Happy Trails. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/71 "2009-03-13T15:09:48Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > Am I misremembering? I thought the song at the end of Strangelove was Happy Trails. Definitely Vera Lynn singing “We’ll Meet Again.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/72 "2009-03-13T15:12:07Z")
> [@johnspartan](#): > > Am I misremembering? I thought the song at the end of Strangelove was Happy Trails. Better idea! You’re thinking of Roy Rogers, but I like the nuance. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/73 "2009-03-13T17:00:54Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Definitely Vera Lynn singing “We’ll Meet Again.” Dame Vera was reportedly pretty upset about it, too - until the royalty cheques started coming in. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/74 "2009-03-13T17:02:27Z")
> [@The\_Superhero](#): > > “Manhattan” indelibly transformed George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” into a song about New York City. It pretty much always had been thought of that way, hadn’t it? Even if Gershwin denies intending it. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/75 "2009-03-13T17:12:10Z")
Thanks to “Look Who’s Talking,” I eternally associate “I Get Around” with sperm. “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen is a song about killing zombies. ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/76 "2009-03-13T17:50:39Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > 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. It was from the **Magnificent Seven,** but whenever I hear Greensleeves I think of " A home in the meadow" from **How the west was won** ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/77 "2009-03-13T17:54:25Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Verdi’s requiem will never be \*quite \*the same after Battle Royale. Speaking of Verdi, it was quite a while before I found out that 'La Forza del Destino" was an earlier work, and not just the theme from _Jean de Florette_. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/78 "2009-03-13T17:58:53Z")
For me: “Atlantis” by Donovan = Billy Bats getting beaten to death in **Goodfellas**. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/79 "2009-03-13T18:03:45Z")
> [@NDP](#): > > For me: > > “Atlantis” by Donovan = Billy Bats getting beaten to death in **Goodfellas**. That reminds me, what’s playing when they’re all hanging around in the meat locker? I can almost hear the music but it’s not quite clicking. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/80 "2009-03-13T18:12:32Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > That reminds me, what’s playing when they’re all hanging around in the meat locker? I can almost hear the music but it’s not quite clicking. The piano part of Layla. I’ve been expecting someone to mention that one all thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=5)