# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/81 "2007-10-17T17:35:20Z")
[QUOTE=Mike Fun] 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. [/QUOTE] Tarantino, as well as Cameron Crowe, are great at picking great songs for their soundtracks. But the song that will never be the same is “American Woman” after the 2nd _Austin Powers_ movie. Lenny Kravitz didn’t change a word or a note, but it now looks and sounds like it pro-American girls instead of the insult Randy Bachman et al originally wrote. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/82 "2007-10-17T17:49:37Z")
Not a song, but I’ve cracked up a few times recently when I’ve noticed people in coffee shops drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes ala **Coffee and Cigarettes**. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/83 "2007-10-17T17:59:22Z")
[QUOTE=Voyager] 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. [/QUOTE] Or at least made it spin around a few times. ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/84 "2007-10-17T18:03:40Z")
[QUOTE=BMax] The Righteous Brothers’ _You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’_ seems to have survived Top gun. [/QUOTE] Yes, but G_host_ completely obliterated their “Unchained Melody” for any other purpose. Also, Bob Seger’s “Old Time Rock and Roll” is pretty much forever attached to the iconic Tom Criuse-dances-in-his-briefs scene from _Risky Business_. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/85 "2007-10-17T18:05:41Z")
[QUOTE=KGS] Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin” will forever be associated in my mind with the Theron/Ricci love scene from [Monster.](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0340855/) Not necessarily a bad thing, mind you. 🆒 [/QUOTE] It always makes me feel really tense and on edge after they used it in the last scene of “The Sopranos.” I love it, but I associate it with the ultimate cock-tease. ---
**Author:** ![frog\_princess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6bbea6/32.png) [@frog\_princess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/frog_princess)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/86 "2007-10-17T18:19:04Z")
I can not hear Dropkick Murphys “Shipping up to Boston” without picturing Leonardo DiCaprio in “The Departed”. Yummy. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/87 "2007-10-17T18:55:48Z")
[QUOTE=Frostillicus] Tricks are something a whore does for money. [/QUOTE] …or candy. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/88 "2007-10-17T19:41:30Z")
“Hip to be square” by Huey Lewis and the News from _American Psycho_. Made the song a bit better in a way. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/89 "2007-10-17T20:10:08Z")
[QUOTE=panache45] Barber’s \*Adagio for Strings, \*from _Platoon._ [/QUOTE] Damn you, **panache**! Exactly the one I was going to post. Oh, well. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/90 "2007-10-17T20:18:34Z")
Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” cannot be heard by me without pitcuring John Cusack standing outside in the rain holding a huge boombox over his head. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_J-lxK8uCY) ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/91 "2007-10-17T20:20:10Z")
I havn’t ever liked “The Old Main Drag” quite so much after having it forcefully merged with the shitty Keanu Reaves in the horrible,cloddy “My Own Private Idaho” ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/92 "2007-10-17T20:24:04Z")
It isn’t a Vietnam War movie without a slow motion helicopter sequence with Rolling Stones **Gimme Shelter** ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/93 "2007-10-17T20:24:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes” cannot be heard by me without pitcuring John Cusack standing outside in the rain holding a huge boombox over his head… [/QUOTE] …shouting “_Stella!!_ **Stel** -laaaaaaaa!!!” 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2007, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/94 "2007-10-17T20:46:15Z")
At the end of _Dr. Strangelove_, with all the bombs dropping and mushroom clouds billowing while Louis Armstrong sings “What a Wonderful World.” That gravelly, happy voice is now the voice of the Apocalypse. In an episode of _My Name is Earl_, they play ZZ Top’s “Legs” as Joy’s stomping out of the store that refuses to refund her $3000 for a wrecked entertainment system she stole in the first place. Even though she’s angry, she still struts like she owns the town. She passes an alleyway, is off camera for a couple of seconds, then pops her head back in and sees a store delivery truck. She’s got leeeeeegs. She knows how to use them. Mainly to keep her feet pressed to the accelerator pedal as she squeals the truck’s tires out of the alleyway. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/95 "2007-10-18T01:27:11Z")
[QUOTE=Sitnam] It isn’t a Vietnam War movie without a slow motion helicopter sequence with Rolling Stones **Gimme Shelter** [/QUOTE] Heh, that reminds me… _Flight of the Intruder_ has forever linked in my head Brad Johnson and Wilem Dafoe singing (horribly off-key) “Downtown” by Petula Clark ---
**Author:** ![lobstermobster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobstermobster/32/10033_2.png) [@lobstermobster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobstermobster)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/96 "2007-10-18T01:55:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] 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. [/QUOTE] This is the one I was going to say. Whenever I hear it I think “oh man someone is about to get their shit rocked” ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/97 "2007-10-18T02:11:46Z")
[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] I heard this song on the way home from work today and all I could think of was “Phoebe Cates topless”. It made me smile. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2007, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/98 "2007-10-18T04:09:17Z")
Does \*“The Concert for NYC” \* count as a movie? Sorry, but I can’t help bragging on **The Who** here. Without doubt, their set was the ultimate moment of the night. They took _everyone_ in The Garden away from everything else in the world, if only for a few minutes. Come to think of it, isn’t that what music is all about? ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/99 "2008-02-17T09:17:49Z")
“Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring” was ruined for me by the _menu screen_, of all things, of the End of Evangelion DVD. Soft lovely classical music plays while various horrible things from the movie are seen happening on the screen, and then all of a sudden, after about a minute and a half of this, with no warning, a close up on someone’s face as they **SCREAM** a blood-curdling scream, and then it starts over. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-are-never-the-same-again-after-their-use-in-a-movie/422574/100 "2008-02-17T09:25:07Z")
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