# Songs indelibly linked to a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647 "2003-03-02T21:54:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/61 "2003-03-04T01:22:29Z")
it was mentioned earlier, kinda, but Ruby Tuesday & Hey Jude always make me think of **The Royal Tennebaums** Bowie’s Something in the Air and **Memento** Stefenwulf’s Magic Carpet Ride and **Go** BNL’s One Week and **American Pie** and of course, a bunch of other good ones that have already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/62 "2003-03-04T03:45:41Z")
The 72d’s Farewell to Gibraltar–Tunes of Glory, a wonderful dark Alix Guinness and John Mills movie about the ostracizing of a new battalion commander in the British Army Men of Harlech–Zulu, Michael Caine’s first big film, and of course [Tex Ritter Voice] “Dew nought forrrsake meee, Ho my darrr-lynnn” [end voice] from High Noon. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/63 "2003-03-04T05:17:39Z")
Unfortunately, _O Fortuna_ is the theme music for seemingly every Gothic horror movie trailer I see. ---
**Author:** ![The\_MacDairmuid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_MacDairmuid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_MacDairmuid)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/64 "2003-03-04T07:12:52Z")
Ravel’s **Bolero** always reminds me of Atouk trying to have sex with the sedated Lana in **Caveman**. And any song used in the movie **Heavy Metal** brings that movie to mind. Usually the scene as well. … I watched that movie way too much as a teenager. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/65 "2003-03-04T08:38:51Z")
“Tiny Dancer” and **Almost Famous** “Sister Christian” and **Boogie Nights** “Oobie Doobie” and **ST:First Contact** ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/66 "2003-03-04T15:48:53Z")
I had forgotten about “Bittersweet Symphony” in Cruel Intentions. I remember it in Midnight. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/67 "2003-03-04T23:55:35Z")
The Foundation’s “Build me up Buttercup”- _There’s Something About Mary_ ---
**Author:** ![foxfiregrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3da27b/32.png) [@foxfiregrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxfiregrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/68 "2003-03-05T02:53:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SolGrundy \* > > I heard “Funniculi, Funnicula” the other day and instantly thought of _Heavenly Creatures,_ which kind of surprised me, since I’d heard the song hundreds of times before seeing that movie. I have the same reaction with that song, and with “You’ll Never Walk Alone.” Any version, although the Mario Lanza version especially. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/69 "2003-03-05T03:30:38Z")
Karl, _Adagio for Strings_ was also the theme music for _The Elephant Man_. “Chain of Fools” – _The Committments_ “Moon River” – _Breakfast at Tiffany’s_ “Cavaleria Rusticana” – _Raging Bull_ “Put the Blame on Mame” – _Gilda_ ---
**Author:** ![Convict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Convict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Convict)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/70 "2003-03-05T03:37:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NoClueBoy \* > **Van Halen’s _Eruption_ from _Back To the Future_** Are you referring to the scene where Marty is in his father’s bedroom and plays the Van Halen clip through the headphones? If so, this is not _Eruption_. It was a clip that Eddie recorded specifically for the movie and never released on a Van Halen album. And now you’re probably going to ask for a cite and I don’t have one ☹ . ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/71 "2003-03-05T04:56:10Z")
Isn’t “Fanfare for the Common Man” from “The Natural”? I’ve got two other choices: “Damn it feels good to be a gangster” and “Office Space”, and “Summer in the city” and “Die Hard with a vengeance”. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/72 "2003-03-05T06:32:45Z")
“Moving in Stereo” by the Cars- _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/73 "2003-03-05T06:49:04Z")
_Johnny B. Goode_, from that movie where Michael J. Fox traveled to 1955, then back to the future. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/74 "2003-03-05T07:18:14Z")
“Stuck in the Middle with You” from _Reservoir Dogs_. I cannot hear that song without thinking of the ear, nor can anyone I know. Anyone I know that has seen the movie, that is. I also saw some garbage vampire film (The Forsaken, I think it was called) where one of the vampires starts singing “Enter Sandman”…now I can’t listen to it without thinking of a crappy film, so I think the film is linked to the song. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/75 "2003-03-05T12:05:57Z")
Unchained Melody…Ghost Suzy Q and Satisfaction… Apocolypse Now ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/76 "2003-03-09T11:35:29Z")
Surfin’ Bird: **Full Metal Jacket** ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/77 "2003-03-10T12:49:18Z")
Also forgot to mention that I cannot hear “Midnight Train to Georgia” without hearing Albert Brooks in my head: “I can sing while I read…I am sing-ing and read-ing both!” ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/78 "2003-03-10T16:38:22Z")
“Suicide is Painless” and _M_A_S_H\*. “(I Would Walk) 500 Miles” and _Benny and Joon_. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/79 "2003-03-10T16:49:25Z")
Should’ve included this one in my previous post: I always think of the opening scene in the first _Lethal Weapon_ movie whenever I hear “Jingle Bell Rock.” ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647/80 "2003-03-10T16:51:08Z")
I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Queen song, not sure what it’s called and _Highlander_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-indelibly-linked-to-a-movie/158647.md?page=5)