# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/81 "2009-03-13T18:17:14Z")
Ditto _I got you babe_ and _Groundhog Day_, _O Fortuna (Camina Burana)_ and _Excalibur_, _Also Sprach Zarathustra_ and _2001: A Space Odyssey_ and _La Forza del Destino_ Overture and _Jean de Florette_ associations for me. Also: ‘O mio babbino caro’ (Gianni Schicchi) with _A Room with a View_ but that’s kind of apt in a way… And Frankie Valli: _Can’t Take My Eyes Off You_ always makes me think of Christopher Walken dancing around with a pool cue in _The Deerhunter_ and makes me feel kind of sad thinking about an innocent young guy not knowing what sort of mental horrors lay ahead. ☹ ---
**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, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/82 "2009-03-13T18:18:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > The piano part of Layla. I’ve been expecting someone to mention that one all thread. Thanks! A local car company has the front end of that on a loop of maybe the first four bars. Sacrilege! ---
**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, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/83 "2009-03-13T18:27:32Z")
> [@YoudNeverGuess](#): > > ‘O mio babbino caro’ (Gianni Schicchi) with _A Room with a View_ but that’s kind of apt in a way… The association for me is _She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown_. > [@](#): > > And Frankie Valli: _Can’t Take My Eyes Off You_ always makes me think of Christopher Walken dancing around with a pool cue in _The Deerhunter_ and makes me feel kind of sad thinking about an innocent young guy not knowing what sort of mental horrors lay ahead. ☹ Then try thinking of Tom Cruise singing it to Kelly McGillis in the bar in _Top Gun_. 😃 ---
**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 13, 2009, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/84 "2009-03-13T18:55:13Z")
> [@YoudNeverGuess](#): > > And Frankie Valli: _Can’t Take My Eyes Off You_ always makes me think of Christopher Walken dancing around with a pool cue in _The Deerhunter_ and makes me feel kind of sad thinking about an innocent young guy not knowing what sort of mental horrors lay ahead. ☹ I associate that song with Heath Ledger’s performance in Ten Things I Hate About You. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/85 "2009-03-13T19:31:16Z")
Every piece in _Fantasia_ is tied to that movie in my mind. Even the Nutcracker Suite, I don’t think Christmas, I think dancing mushrooms. **Ride of the Valkyries** is either Elmer Fudd (“kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit”) or Apocalypse Now. The opening bars of The Cars’ _Moving In Stereo_ will always be tied to Phoebe Cates emerging from the pool in slow motion and then… (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)… From the same movie, Led Zeppelin’s \*Kashmir \*, although I mainly associate it with the Led Zeppelin IV/Physical Graffiti error. ---
**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 13, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/86 "2009-03-13T23:16:50Z")
Two more, although I’ve only heard them 2 or 3 times outside the movies. “Jazz Suite, Waltz 2” from _Eyes Wide Shut_ “Down to the River to Pray” from _Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?_ ---
**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 13, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/87 "2009-03-13T23:24:44Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Two more, although I’ve only heard them 2 or 3 times outside the movies. > > “Jazz Suite, Waltz 2” from _Eyes Wide Shut_ > > “Down to the River to Pray” from _Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?_ I really meant the song “Didn’t Leave Nobody But the Baby” for \*Oh, Brother \*but hell, most songs from that movie make me think of it. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/88 "2009-03-14T00:08:57Z")
I was at an orchestra concert a while back, and nearly had to leave to keep from cracking up during the _Barber of Seville_. All I can think of is Bugs and Elmer chasing each other with increasingly large weapons. And don’t get me started on _Tannhouser_: \*“Oh Bwunhilda, you’re so wuvwy” “Yes, I know it I can’t help it…”\*And when the music gets to the part with Bugs galloping downhill on an obese horse… No, no, I can’t go on! ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2009, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106/89 "2009-03-14T05:10:49Z")
> [@YoudNeverGuess](#): > > And Frankie Valli: _Can’t Take My Eyes Off You_ always makes me think of Christopher Walken dancing around with a pool cue in _The Deerhunter_ and makes me feel kind of sad thinking about an innocent young guy not knowing what sort of mental horrors lay ahead. ☹ > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I associate that song with Heath Ledger’s performance in Ten Things I Hate About You. And for me, it’s Mel Gibson and the FBI agent in the SUV, watching Julia Roberts ride her horse, at the end of _Conspiracy Theory_. > [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Then try thinking of Tom Cruise singing it to Kelly McGillis in the bar in _Top Gun_. 😃 That wasn’t Frankie Valli, that was The Righteous Brothers. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” with dialogue to that effect beforehand. Maverick: I don’t know, I think she’s lost that lovin’ feelin’. Goose: She has? No she hasn’t. Has she? Maverick: Yeah, she has. Then he grabs a conveniently placed microphone and sings the first verse, and all the aviators in the bar sing along with the chorus, especially the do-dodo-dodo-dodododododo part. I haven’t seen that film in at least a decade but I remember that with weird vividness. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-forever-spoiled-or-warped-by-a-later-movie/489106.md?page=4)