Two pages and NO mention of 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!
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.
Oh! Oh! Oh!!
*Carmina Burana * in Excalibur.
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.
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.
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.
“Moving in Stereo” by the Cars will forever evoke images of Phoebe Cates removing her bikini top in Fast Times at Ridgemont High
“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.
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”.
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.
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.
Barber’s *Adagio for Strings, *from Platoon.
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.
Yeah. At the moment my brain is full of Elmer Fudd singing about his spear and magic helmet.
**Unchained Melody ** by Righteous Brothers in Ghost
This was the first and only one that came to mind.
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.
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.
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.
Rossini didn’t do it either.
Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow” always makes me think of Bill & Hillary.