# Songs that could be made into movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 11, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569 "2010-01-11T22:17:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/1 "2010-01-11T22:17:46Z")
Right now there’s a thread about [songs about movies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=547197) ([and this one](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=238251)). Flipping that around, what songs do you think could be a good basis for a movie? I’d like to see a vampire movie based on “[Closer](http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/kings_of_leon_lyrics_1498/only_by_the_night_lyrics_85912/closer_lyrics_844852.html)” by Kings of Leon. I really like the mental image that being stranded in “a spooky town” gives. What else? ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/2 "2010-01-11T22:39:33Z")
Possum Kingdom by the Toadies would also be an awesome vampire movie! ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/3 "2010-01-11T23:08:17Z")
Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan Let Him Dangle - Elvis Costello Kinder Murder - Elvis Costello The Last Days of May - Blue Oyster Cult The Running Man - Al Stewart The Year of the Cat - Al Stewart Persephone - Wishbone Ash Haitian Divorce - Steely Dan The Royal Scam - Steely Dan I Hurt You - The Pretenders The Man Who Sold the World - David Bowie Radar Love - Golder Earring ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/4 "2010-01-11T23:21:46Z")
“Let Him Dangle” was already made into the movie “Let Him Have It”, although it’s more accurate to say they were based on the same source. Fastball’s “The Way” could make a good movie. It’s all mysterious and possibly allegorical and stuff. ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/5 "2010-01-11T23:42:49Z")
Not really the song itself, but after seeing the music video for Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” I thought it would make a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/6 "2010-01-12T00:00:41Z")
Take the Money and Run - Steve Miller Band. It would be like a 70’s era Bonnie and Clyde. The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks. Just add “: the \_\_\_\_ story” and it’s ready for Lifetime. Lying Eyes - The Eagles. This one probably wouldn’t be on Lifetime. Fairytale of New York - The Pogues. Part Feel-good holiday movie, part Syd and Nancy. ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/7 "2010-01-12T00:03:08Z")
The Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/8 "2010-01-12T00:16:36Z")
> [@magnusblitz](#): > > Muse’s “Knights of Cydonia” Yes. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/9 "2010-01-12T00:17:13Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Possum Kingdom by the Toadies would also be an awesome vampire movie! I’ve thought that since the first time I heard the song. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/10 "2010-01-12T02:13:47Z")
> [@MitzeKatze](#): > > The Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia This is already a [movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082816/). For me, I’d say that Tim Burton needs to do an imagining of “All Along the Watchtower.” ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/11 "2010-01-12T02:53:02Z")
Kevin Smith is planning to make a movie based on Warren Zevon’s “Hit Somebody.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/12 "2010-01-12T02:55:25Z")
Nearly every song by Coheed and Cambria and My Chemical Romance (yeah, even their pouty ones _could_ more easily be made into movies than most songs, even if they wouldn’t be _good_ movies :).) ---
**Author:** ![MitzeKatze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@MitzeKatze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MitzeKatze)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/13 "2010-01-12T02:59:45Z")
> [@MitzeKatze](#): > > The Night that the Lights Went Out in Georgia > [@faithfool](#): > > This is already a [movie](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082816/). Ha! Who knew… :o Of course I was just a little girl when it came out and obviously the movie never made it to be the classic that the song remains 😉 so that’s my excuse… Maybe they need to re-make the movie…yeah that’s the ticket… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/14 "2010-01-12T03:22:46Z")
> [@breezman](#): > > The Thunder Rolls - Garth Brooks. Just add “: the \_\_\_\_ story” and it’s ready for Lifetime. I almost suggested this one in my first post too 🙂 There was this long rambling song my dad played me once (think “hurricane” by Bob Dylan) about this guy, a girl, a convertable, the highway, and a murder. If I could recall what the hell that was, I bet it’d make an interesting movie too. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/15 "2010-01-12T03:31:31Z")
_Copperhead Road_–Disillusioned vet plants a little “stimulus”, defends same against terrorists. Action/adventure sorta like the “Gator McCluskey” movies Burt Reynolds made in the 70s. _The Devil Went Down to Georgia_–as a comedy, or swap “to” for “on” and make a porno. _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_–not gonna be a happy ending. ---
**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/16 "2010-01-12T04:42:03Z")
Whiter shade of pale - by I have no idea ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/17 "2010-01-12T07:03:08Z")
The Band-‘Long Black Veil’–a deep South Gothic drama, directed by Clint Eastwood Thom Yorke-‘The Eraser’–an Orwellian dystopia kind of thing Belly-‘Dusted’–a horror movie about an abused, murdered child’s ghost. But somehow not sucky, because it’s a really good song. Tom Waits-you could pick so many. I’d like to see the Coen Bros do something inspired by ‘Chocolate Jesus’ or maybe ‘Gun Street girl’ The Zombies-‘Care of Cell 44’–super-cute romcom directed by Cameron Crowe: boy meets girl, girl goes to prison, serves hard time, gets out, and… Velvet Underground-‘Murder Mystery’–dunno what the plot would be but I’d just put the director of ‘Pi’ in a room with a bottle of absinthe and that song on repeat. Mazzy Star-‘Taste of Blood’–a vamp movie for NON-teenagers. About a reaally old vampire on a cross country trip. Christopher Walken stars, naturally. Tori amos-any of her songs. She would write it, thereby being forced to explain what her lyrics actually mean. I say this fondly. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/18 "2010-01-12T09:16:53Z")
The Road Goes On Forever-- Robert Earl Keen ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/19 "2010-01-12T13:00:55Z")
Dylan’s _Tangled Up In Blue_. The snippets of the narrator’s on-and-off relationship with a fiery redhead in the song are fascinating, though it’d take a very deft touch to fill in the blanks enough to make a film of it. Springsteen’s _Darlington County_. I’m thinking rowdy buddy road picture. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/20 "2010-01-12T13:04:37Z")
> [@HelloNinja](#): > > Kevin Smith is planning to make a movie based on Warren Zevon’s “Hit Somebody.” Really? I’d like to see a movie made out of “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569.md?page=2)