# Songs that are never the same again after their use in a movie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2007, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574 "2007-10-13T11:54:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/61 "2007-10-15T12:28:39Z")
Two pages and NO mention of [Play Misty for Me](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Misty_for_Me). I mean, the song’s title is actually in the movie’s title, but the song was written long before the idea of stalking was even invented, and it is not a song about a stalker! ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/62 "2007-10-16T00:29:27Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] The Hallelujah Chorus has been ruined in a big way for me by Neon Genesis Evangelion. :eek: [/QUOTE] That’s nothing compared with how hard that show flogged “Fly Me to the Moon”(how many, ten, twelve different versions??). Oh, and **Polycarp**? _Malcolm_’s the moloko plus dude with something about Ludwig Van. Roddy’s the one who had monkey business with Chuck Heston. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/63 "2007-10-16T00:34:16Z")
Oh! Oh! Oh!! \*Carmina Burana \* in **Excalibur**. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/64 "2007-10-16T00:50:45Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Two pages and NO mention of [Play Misty for Me](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_Misty_for_Me). I mean, the song’s title is actually in the movie’s title, but the song was written long before the idea of stalking was even invented, and it is not a song about a stalker! [/QUOTE] This is the one I was coming in here to post about. I can’t believe it wasn’t one of the first mentioned. The other one for me was _American Girl_ by Tom Petty from _Silence of the Lambs_, but it’s been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/65 "2007-10-16T01:05:46Z")
**Goodfellas** has quite a few for me. **Jump Into the Fire** , **Speedo** , **Sunshine of your Love** , **Layla** , **Atlantis** , **Rags to Riches** , etc etc. Another one - **Can’t Find My Way Home** I’ll always associate with **Fandango**. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/66 "2007-10-16T01:32:10Z")
[QUOTE=JRDelirious] That’s nothing compared with how hard that show flogged “Fly Me to the Moon”(how many, ten, twelve different versions??). [/QUOTE] ISTR finding a soundtrack of the series at A-Kon… 12 or 13 I guess it would have been, that had something like 26 different versions of the song. That’s right, a different cover of “Fly Me To The Moon” for each episode. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/67 "2007-10-16T01:58:29Z")
“Moving in Stereo” by the Cars will forever evoke images of Phoebe Cates removing her bikini top in _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ ---
**Author:** ![ForumBot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee59a6/32.png) [@ForumBot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ForumBot)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/68 "2007-10-16T02:33:33Z")
“Needle in the Hay” by Elliot Smith was seriously ramped up by the suicide scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. Whoah. Also, some movie had “What if God Was One of Us”, and completely turned up the guitar part and did some extra mixing so you just melt into the song. I forget the movie, but I’d love to see it again. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/69 "2007-10-16T03:35:25Z")
[QUOTE=ForumBot] “Needle in the Hay” by Elliot Smith was seriously ramped up by the suicide scene in The Royal Tenenbaums. Whoah. Also, some movie had “What if God Was One of Us”, and completely turned up the guitar part and did some extra mixing so you just melt into the song. I forget the movie, but I’d love to see it again. [/QUOTE] Heh, Austin Powers has forever linked itself in my brain with “What if God Was One Of Us” and “When I Think About You I Touch Myself”. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/70 "2007-10-16T04:28:38Z")
[QUOTE=phungi] “Moving in Stereo” by the Cars will forever evoke images of Phoebe Cates removing her bikini top in _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ [/QUOTE] There was music during that scene? :eek: I gotta go with Jackson Browne’s Somebody’s Baby if we are talking _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/71 "2007-10-16T04:57:34Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] That’s interesting because I think most people now associate [Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin”] with the last episode of “The Sopranos”… [/QUOTE] I’ve never watched a single episode of _The Sopranos_ and even _I_ associate the song with it. Or rather, with all the discussion about it on TV and radio. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/72 "2007-10-16T07:24:39Z")
Barber’s \*Adagio for Strings, \*from _Platoon._ ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Fun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9adbd/32.png) [@Mike\_Fun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Fun)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/73 "2007-10-16T13:56:34Z")
Tarantino said in an interview that he almost used The Knack’s “My Sharona” for the scene in the basement of Zed’s pawn shop in _Pulp Fiction_. Specifically he said the bassline made good sodomy music. Although it was never used, I can’t help but think about pelvic thrusts when I hear that song now. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/74 "2007-10-16T14:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Speaking of cartoons, there are tons of classical pieces that make me and a lot of other people think of Bugs Bunny. [/QUOTE] Yeah. At the moment my brain is full of Elmer Fudd singing about his spear and magic helmet. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/75 "2007-10-16T15:01:32Z")
\*\*Unchained Melody \*\* by Righteous Brothers in **Ghost** This was the first and only one that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/76 "2007-10-16T18:35:45Z")
Do tv shows count? I imagine Six Feet Under made Sia’s _Breathe Me_ a lot more poignant than it would otherwise be. And I can’t disassociate the two. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/77 "2007-10-16T18:51:56Z")
Not a movie, but two SNL moments have stuck with me and forever altered songs. “Don’t Fear the Reaper” is now the “I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!!” song Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend” is the Swayze/Farley Chippendale’s dance off song and nothing else. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/78 "2007-10-16T19:41:54Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Oh hell yes! I heard _Tubular Bells_ at high noon while driving in my car and it scared the shit out of me. [/QUOTE] Heh. I have a bootleg of an interview with Mike where he says “It isn’t devil music, kids!” I’ve read that he didn’t see The Exorcist for years after it came out - and when he did he laughed his head off. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/79 "2007-10-16T19:45:23Z")
[QUOTE=The Sonoran Lizard King] William Tell didn’t write the piece for the radio show? Hunh. Who knew? 😛 [/QUOTE] Rossini didn’t do it either. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2007, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/80 "2007-10-16T20:15:09Z")
Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” always makes me think of Bill & Hillary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574.md?page=5)