# Songs that are forever linked to a specific movie/TV scene in your mind **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 25, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341 "2020-07-25T21:18:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/41 "2020-07-27T16:55:03Z")
> [@xanthous](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > the [Tiny Dancer scene from Almost Famous](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qW9wqUI4Lg) > > I never liked that song until I heard it in that movie. I got one of those - Bob Dylan, [The Man In Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04P3H9XRLy8) from The Big Lebowski. The Coens seem particularly good at using songs memorably. [Danny Boy in Miller’s Crossing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgz-CKRzs-4). j ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/42 "2020-07-27T17:04:30Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > 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. Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. What about the Creedence? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/43 "2020-07-27T17:10:48Z")
> [@GinoC](#): > > Wait, what about the train scene in “Risky Business”? Or the solo dance scene with Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock n Roll. [Oh yeah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjS-iCPeW8) from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the Ferrari scene). ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/44 "2020-07-27T17:19:19Z")
“All You Need is Love” [The Prisoner - All You Need is Love.wmv - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2MIvUx9uiQ) (“The Prisoner”) “Come a Little Bit Closer” [Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Yondu arrow killing scene [HD] - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXbFP2V_zSA) (Guardians of the Galaxy) ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/45 "2020-07-27T17:25:20Z")
I always think of a different scene from that movie and associated song: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4wuH9pSSRo) ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/46 "2020-07-27T17:29:56Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > [Oh yeah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSjS-iCPeW8) from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the Ferrari scene). I remember a [bit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S7AyiVfNdA) of the Star Wars orchestral theme playing as the two parking garage attendants drove around in the Ferrari. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/47 "2020-07-27T19:44:18Z")
**Goodfellas** Billy Bats “Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box!” _Atlantis_ by Donovan [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IeL8EYtbVw0/hqdefault.jpg "Now go home and get your shinebox") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeL8EYtbVw0) ---
**Author:** ![anny\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@anny\_m](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anny_m)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/48 "2020-07-27T20:58:16Z")
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and _The Big Chill_. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/49 "2020-07-27T21:16:26Z")
A couple others just came to mind. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Tequila by the Champs. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UVKsd8z6scw/hqdefault.jpg "Pee Wee Herman - Tequila") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKsd8z6scw) Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Apache (Jump On It) by the Sugarhill Gang. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yrE9n6tI9Rw/hqdefault.jpg "Fresh Prince Apache Dance") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrE9n6tI9Rw) ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/50 "2020-07-27T21:17:31Z")
I was unsurprising scooped on Thus Spake Zarathustra and Flight of the Valkyries. I’ll add Metisse - boom boom ba from several episodes of Dead Like Me. And to step outside the guidelines. Blue Danube will always take me back to the space station autodock sequence of the C-64 game Elite. I’ve probably heard that one a thousand times or more. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/51 "2020-07-27T23:19:27Z")
“All Along the Watchtower” in Battlestar Galactica. mmm ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/52 "2020-07-27T23:36:25Z")
Two very different interpretations of Enjoy Yourself (Its Later Than You Think) in House, MD: Serenaded by “Amber”: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/hVj-D3gPEYw/hqdefault.jpg "House 5x23 - Amber Sings") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVj-D3gPEYw) Series closing: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1z53jobhVpE/hqdefault.jpg ""Enjoy yourself" House MD Ending Season 8 Finale") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z53jobhVpE) Also from House, MD, On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 by Rickie Lee Jones: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/72Pfn8X4q6w/maxresdefault.jpg "Rickie Lee Jones On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 - Hugh Laurie Edited Ryan James Carson Tulsa OK") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72Pfn8X4q6w) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/53 "2020-07-27T23:41:51Z")
[I’ll never hear “The Final Countdown” without seeing Gob prancing around on stage while doing pathetic magic. It’s from Arrested Development.](https://youtu.be/5Nvxv2R01po?t=66) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/54 "2020-07-28T10:24:29Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “The Mickey Mouse Club” theme song in _Full Metal Jacket._ Me, too! ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/55 "2020-07-28T10:39:03Z")
“Where the Streets Have No Name” by U2 in the Peter Weir film **Fearless** (1993). Scene linked below. The song starts up at about 1:35. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/97lgNlpYQF4/maxresdefault.jpg "FEARLESS (1993). Max crashing his car.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97lgNlpYQF4) Twenty seven years later, and I still get goose-bumps thinking about this scene. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/56 "2020-07-28T13:43:14Z")
Carry on Wayward Son and **Supernatural**. It’s been used as the recap music for the season ender since the second season. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/57 "2020-07-29T05:41:20Z")
There was a British TV series called One Foot in the Grave about an old man named Victor who was, basically, cursed. The final episode takes place after Victor’s death, with many flashbacks to his last days; he describes lots of improbable situations he’s gotten himself into, like putting on sunscreen and then being covered in grass clippings, or getting his head stuck in a car’s sunroof. Back in the present, the show ends on an ambiguously dark note. And then there’s a montage of all of the various indignities that Victor had been describing, and the music is End of the Line by the Traveling Wilburys. It’s a brilliant episode, with a perfect song at the end. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/58 "2020-07-29T13:46:25Z")
Barber’s **Adagio for Strings** in _Platoon_. That movie was really difficult for me to watch, and hearing the music always hits me. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/59 "2020-07-29T14:03:25Z")
Blue Velvet. ---
**Author:** ![Jet\_Jaguar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jet_jaguar/32/3562_2.png) [@Jet\_Jaguar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jet_Jaguar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341/60 "2020-07-29T14:07:30Z")
“Sister Christian” always brings to mind _Boogie Nights_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cGp-4NP76MM/hqdefault.jpg "Boogie Nights Sister Christian Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGp-4NP76MM) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-forever-linked-to-a-specific-movie-tv-scene-in-your-mind/916341.md?page=4)