Songs that are never the same again after their use in a movie.

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Recently I watched Zodiac again and realised that Donovan’s Hurdy Gurdy Man will forever now be a dark and threatening piece of music, unlike it’s previous cheerful persona.

A discussion about other pieces of music transformed by their use in a movie came up with very few.

Stuck in the Middle with You has never sounded the same since Reservoir Dogs.

Roy Orbison’s In Dreams is harder to listen to after David Lynch’s Blue Velvet…I wonder if that the ear at the start of it has anything to do with Reservoir Dogs…oops got all David Thomson there.

Well we ran out of ideas there.

Any other songs that have been transformed by their use in a movie?

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Did it exist before the movie or was it just a song written for the movie?

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The song was written in 1974 by Dolly Parton. The movie “The Bodyguard” came out in 1996.

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“The William Tell Overture” after A Clockwork Orange.

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I have tried my best to not let Pulp Fiction corrupt my love for both Al Green and Dusty Springfield. They are both better than the movie.

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I can’t hear Tom Petty’s “American Girl” without thinking of Silence of the Lambs, even though it was used in quite a brief scene with no huge dramatic impact.

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“Singin’ in the Rain” from the same film.

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“Good Morning Vietnam” ruined Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” for me.

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Don’t forget that awesome “Dueling Banjo” scene in Deliverance.

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The song was also used in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas in 1982.

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I can’t listen to Bohemian Rhapsody withour thinking of the head-banging in the car scene in Wayne’s World.

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Achibit A: Try listening to Scott Joplin without thinking of “The Sting”

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Exactly the song/movie I came in here to mention.

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Try listening to Richard Strauss’ tone poem Also Sprach Zarathustra without seeing apes throwing bones.

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Is it okay if listening to the Deodata version causes me to see Chance the gardener walking down the mean streets of D.C.?

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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy = slimy *Die Hard * Eurotrash.

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I also resent the way I can’t listen to the Allegretto from Beethoven’s Seventh without seeing Glenda Jackson peering out a rain-streaked window. :mad:

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No, no, no. “The William Tell Overture” after The Lone Ranger .

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**There’s Something About Mary ** has compromised my enjoyment of “Build Me Up Buttercup” by the Foundations.