I got one of those - Bob Dylan, The Man In Me from The Big Lebowski.
The Coens seem particularly good at using songs memorably. Danny Boy in Miller’s Crossing.
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Yeah, well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. What about the Creedence?
Or the solo dance scene with Bob Seger’s Old Time Rock n Roll.
Oh yeah from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (the Ferrari scene).
“All You Need is Love” The Prisoner - All You Need is Love.wmv - YouTube (“The Prisoner”)
“Come a Little Bit Closer” Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 - Yondu arrow killing scene [HD] - YouTube (Guardians of the Galaxy)
I always think of a different scene from that movie and associated song:
I remember a bit of the Star Wars orchestral theme playing as the two parking garage attendants drove around in the Ferrari.
Goodfellas
Billy Bats
“Now go home and get your fuckin’ shine box!”
Atlantis by Donovan
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and The Big Chill.
A couple others just came to mind.
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Tequila by the Champs.
Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Apache (Jump On It) by the Sugarhill Gang.
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.
“All Along the Watchtower” in Battlestar Galactica.
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Two very different interpretations of Enjoy Yourself (Its Later Than You Think) in House, MD:
Serenaded by “Amber”:
Series closing:
Also from House, MD, On Saturday Afternoons In 1963 by Rickie Lee Jones:
Me, too!
“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.
Twenty seven years later, and I still get goose-bumps thinking about this scene.
Carry on Wayward Son and Supernatural. It’s been used as the recap music for the season ender since the second season.
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.
Barber’s Adagio for Strings in Platoon.
That movie was really difficult for me to watch, and hearing the music always hits me.
Blue Velvet.
“Sister Christian” always brings to mind Boogie Nights.
