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.
I can’t hear “Brazil” without thinking of lobotomies and soul crushing bureaucracy.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Thank you so much for reminding me.
“Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” sung by Nancy Sinatra doesn’t exist beyond “Kill Bill”.
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.
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.
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.
Given that the song was specifically written for that movie, that shouldn’t come as too big a surprise.
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
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.
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.
Yet it is now known to an entire generation only as “The Theme from Ghost” 
I dunno - “When the Man Comes Around” by Johnny Cash as seen in Dawn of the Dead is pretty close.
Try listening to the David Bowie and Marianne Faithful version, clears that right up, beautiful song too.
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.
Or even “Good Morning, Vietnam”.
Oh, and let’s not even start with songs that have been ruined by commercials, or we’ll never be done.