I’m admittedly one of MTV’s original target audience, but I really love it when songs are put into movies and stick in my mind later. I think Resevoir Dog’s use of Stuck in the Middle with You kind of ruined the song for me a little, lol, but I know there are people I work with, younger, who first heard the song there and now they like it, so it’s all good.
Anything tickle your funny bone or change how you felt about the song afterward?
And of course the newest Star Trek’s “Sabotage” ; Simply cannot hear the song now without, toward the end, saying out loud, “Is there a problem, officer?” :p:p
BTW, the Star Trek link has an additional couple of minutes of footage at the beginning that was NOT in the release that I saw, in US theaters. I wonder if, for worldwide release, the producers felt the need to explain the teenage angst a little further? Or if it was a time thing, hrm. Anyway, it’s nice; builds up to just WHY Kirk took off with the car.
That would apparantly be Huey Lewis’ “Hip To Be Square”. I’d link the scene from Youtube, but due to shiny axes and blood, you need to be over 18. Very findable, though; and great: never saw American Psycho and now I’m afraid the song is going to have a totally different meaning for me too, lol.
Being British, I didn’t get to see it until the 2000s, but I imagine that a lot of people walked out of A Clockwork Orange with a radically altered perception of “Singin’ in the Rain”.
I’d have to vote for the Pixies’ “Where is My Mind”, which was awesome anyway, but seemed to achieve a whole new layer of brilliance when it popped up at the end of Fight Club.
Actually, I have another question: I remember seeing Clockwork Orange for the first time in the…early 90’s? In college, anyway. Was it just never released in Britain? Too violent or something? I actually avoid violence in movies, but for some reason the stylization of it made it interesting.
After it was released in Britain Kubrick got death threats so he asked Warner Brothers to remove it from circulation in Britain and they did and it wasn’t available there again until his death
I have two: Closer by Nine Inch Nails (from the beginning of *Se7en)*and These Three Words by Stevie Wonder (heard in Jungle Fever). Both of these songs are excellent, emotional songs, but I heard each of them for the first time in those movies, and can’t hear them differently now.
Hopefully spoilers aren’t necessary for movies that old, but I literally hear fists hitting flesh when These Three Words plays. I have to immediately turn it off. I can listen to Closer now, though.
Runaround Sue and Brown-Eyed Girl have been forever ruined for me from the awful montage of Julia Roberts trying on adorable costume hats in Sleeping With the Enemy.
I’d heard Layla approximately a gabillion times before GoodFellas, but afterwards, I can’t hear that piano part at the end without thinking about dead gangsters popping up all over the place.
Well, in the movie, you never would have guessed it. The Droogs seemed like overly-spoiled Poor Little Rich Young Men Who Missed Their Grand Tour, with nothing better to do with their time than act out. There was a definite sense of entitlement; even the attitude toward sex was more in line with someone 19 than 15.
BUT…that’s the movie. AND…in American Psycho, Bale looks a lot younger than he probably does now.
Very findable, though; and great: never saw American Psycho and now I’m afraid the song is going to have a totally different meaning for me too, lol. 
