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.
You’re lucky. It makes me think of wearing my finger down to a nub playing the viola.
I always think of The Simpsons.
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
Agreed. I really like what they’ve done with the song, too.
More than you’ll ever need to knwo about their version.
Ditto on Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne’s World.
Video from Youtube 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.
“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.
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 now brings to mind cheerleaders doing jazz hands, thanks to the movie Bring it On.
It’s still New York to me. Have you seen Fantasia 2000?
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.
Same here. One of the best, and nastiest episode.
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.
Am I misremembering? I thought the song at the end of Strangelove was Happy Trails.
Definitely Vera Lynn singing “We’ll Meet Again.”
Better idea! You’re thinking of Roy Rogers, but I like the nuance.
Dame Vera was reportedly pretty upset about it, too - until the royalty cheques started coming in.
It pretty much always had been thought of that way, hadn’t it? Even if Gershwin denies intending it.
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.
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
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.
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.
The piano part of Layla. I’ve been expecting someone to mention that one all thread.