Songs that are forever linked to a specific movie/TV scene in your mind

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I almost mentioned this in the “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” thread, but I realized this could be its own thread.

I can never hear “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” without thinking of the scene in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, where Officer Dixon attacks the man he suspects of being the killer.

Likewise, every time I hear “How To Save a Life” by The Fray I picture this scene from the Scrubs episode “My Lunch”. Honestly my eyes always get a bit watery whenever I hear that song now because of that.

U2, “With or Without You” always makes me think of the series finale of The Americans.

What songs are forever linked to a movie or TV scene for you?

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Ghost and unchained melody.

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The “helicopter scene” from Goodfellas: Jump Into The Fire, Memo From Turner, and Magic Bus.

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Phil Collins’s “In the Air Tonight” with the opening episode of Miami Vice.

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Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was in) by The First Edition.

Come on, you know what movie I’m talking about. :slight_smile:

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Moving in Stereo
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Phoebe Cates in Fast times at Ridgemont High

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I can’t hear “Stuck in the Middle with You” without picturing Michael Madsen talking into a severed ear.

(Reservoir Dogs, in case anyone doesn’t get it)

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Joe Vs. The Volcano and Sixteen Tons performed by Eric Burdon

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“With or Without You” also in the movie Blown Away.

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Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries and Apocalypse Now

The English Beat’s Mirror in The Bathroom always makes me think of the fight in the school hallway in Grosse Pointe Blanc

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Also in Blown Away another U2 number: “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.”

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Try a Little Tenderness in both Bull Durham and The Commitments.

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The Beat, here, too, but March of the Swivel Heads and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off.

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Wait, what about the train scene in “Risky Business”?

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I believe that was Tangerine Dream.

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That was the first thing I thought of. Is that a commentary on us?

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“Men of Harlech” from “Zulu”.

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Mad World and Donnie Darko. Though it has to be that particular cover version by Gary Jules, as the original from Tears For Fears doesn’t sound as grim and ominous.

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“Don’t You Forget about Me” from The Breakfast Club.

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That’s a good one. Another is the Tiny Dancer scene from Almost Famous, which comes after the “I’m a golden god” scene. There’s tension among the members of the band, but one person on the tour bus starts to sing along to the song and then after a bit, everyone on the bus is, and the tension is broken, at least for the moment.

Of course that movie is full of great music moments.