# Songs in movies that changed how you felt about the song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574 "2012-03-12T18:46:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/1 "2012-03-12T18:46:29Z")
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? Examples for me: [I Can See Clearly Now The Rain Is Gone](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-230v_ecAcM) I love this song anyway, but ever since Grosse Pointe Blank, I _really_ love it. 😛 And of course the newest [Star Trek’s “Sabotage”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0c54ALBvk8) ; 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. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/2 "2012-03-12T19:03:50Z")
What was the song that Christian Bale’s character was dancing around to in “American Psycho” while he hacked up his victim? ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/3 "2012-03-12T19:09:51Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > What was the song that Christian Bale’s character was dancing around to in “American Psycho” while he hacked up his victim? 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. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/4 "2012-03-12T19:10:07Z")
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_. Ah, _Fight Club_. That dates me. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/5 "2012-03-12T19:30:06Z")
> [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](#): > > 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”. After seeing the American Psycho clip, I can totally see a remake of Clockwork Orange with Bale in the lead. That would actually be pretty good! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/6 "2012-03-12T19:32:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/7 "2012-03-12T19:35:39Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/8 "2012-03-12T19:37:23Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > 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 Wow! I had no idea. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/9 "2012-03-12T19:41:14Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > After seeing the American Psycho clip, I can totally see a remake of Clockwork Orange with Bale in the lead. That would actually be pretty good! I’d rather see someone of a vaguely-appropriate age play the part. In the book, at least, Alex is only 15. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/10 "2012-03-12T20:07:28Z")
“Perfect Day”. Trainspotting. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/11 "2012-03-12T20:20:46Z")
Stuck in the Middle with You. ---
**Author:** ![BeeDubU2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BeeDubU2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeeDubU2)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/12 "2012-03-12T20:42:20Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/13 "2012-03-12T23:00:40Z")
_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_. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2012, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/14 "2012-03-12T23:34:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/15 "2012-03-13T04:01:49Z")
> [@Scupper](#): > > I’d rather see someone of a vaguely-appropriate age play the part. > > In the book, at least, Alex is only 15. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Renifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@Renifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renifer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/16 "2012-03-15T05:42:36Z")
I didn’t like “Hurdy Gurdy Man” (by Donovan) until I saw Zodiac. It turned out to be the perfect choice for the movie. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/17 "2012-03-15T07:41:36Z")
Just recently I was watching Cat’s Eye and there is a absolutely perfect use of Every Breath You Take, someone realized this was not a love song! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/18 "2012-03-15T08:07:32Z")
_Hot Stuff. Full Monty._ ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/19 "2012-03-15T20:19:09Z")
And IIIIIIIIIIIIIII will always love YYYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU. I got so sick of this wonderful Dolly Parton song after it was used in The Bodyguard. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574/20 "2012-03-15T20:26:05Z")
Two that stick out for me: Etta James’s “At Last” used in [Pleasantville](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vmX00U13Jk) and Roy Orbison’s “In Dreams” from [Blue Velvet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-DjluKLY14). [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-in-movies-that-changed-how-you-felt-about-the-song/615574.md?page=2)