# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/21 "2010-01-12T13:08:26Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Really? I’d like to see a movie made out of “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner!” You. _Just_. Beat me. To this. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/22 "2010-01-12T13:17:51Z")
Don’t know if it would make a good full-length movie, but I would enjoy seeing _Maxwell’s Silver Hammer_ get the Law and Order treatment. doink-doink! ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/23 "2010-01-12T13:19:42Z")
[The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858483897/) by The Mountain Goats would be my choice. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/24 "2010-01-12T20:20:28Z")
Harry The Hairy Ape (Ray Stevens) ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/25 "2010-01-12T20:33:20Z")
Wasn’t “Torn Between Two Lovers” made into a cheezy TV movie back in the 80s? ETA: Looked it up on IMDB. 1979; Lee Remick and George Peppard. Still cheezy after all these years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_In_Black)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/26 "2010-01-12T20:46:56Z")
I think “Highwayman”, by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson could be an amazing movie. ---
**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, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/27 "2010-01-12T20:51:05Z")
> [@Pandoranoid](#): > > The Band-‘Long Black Veil’–a deep South Gothic drama, directed by Clint Eastwood Hmm. This gives me an idea. How about “Country Death Song” by the Violent Femmes? ---
**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, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/28 "2010-01-12T21:53:32Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Hmm. This gives me an idea. How about “Country Death Song” by the Violent Femmes? If they want a happy ending, it could be the prequel to Alice in Wonderland ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/29 "2010-01-12T21:59:37Z")
Marionette, by Mott the Hoople Emma, by Hot Chocolate hh ---
**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:** [January 12, 2010, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/30 "2010-01-12T22:00:37Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Don’t know if it would make a good full-length movie, but I would enjoy seeing _Maxwell’s Silver Hammer_ get the Law and Order treatment. > > doink-doink! To make it long and complex enough for a feature film, combine it with “Eleanor Rigby” . . . like she was one of his victims. And a flashback to a young Eleanor, with “She’s Leaving Home.” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/31 "2010-01-12T22:07:45Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan I’ve heard that there’s been several screenplays written for this although none have made it off paper. It seems to beg for some sort of screen presence though, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/32 "2010-01-13T00:28:10Z")
_First of the gang to die_ by Morrissey. Not really sure why, except that it has a great moody feel to it. ---
**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 13, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/33 "2010-01-13T01:56:53Z")
I forgot to list the one I think this of every time I hear it: Five Years - David Bowie ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/34 "2010-01-13T02:00:58Z")
I’m surprsied no-one has said _Journey_ yet. There’s at least a crap porno in that. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/35 "2010-01-13T02:07:55Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > I forgot to list the one I think this of every time I hear it: Five Years - David Bowie Think you’d really need to do the whole _Ziggy Stardust_ album (and possibly large amounts of intoxicants), but I’d watch the result. _Space Oddity_ might work as a stand alone song/movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/36 "2010-01-13T02:15:50Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Whiter shade of pale - by I have no idea Procol Harum. I suggest Tweeter and the Monkeyman by the Traveling Wilbury’s. ---
**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 13, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/37 "2010-01-13T03:21:40Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > [QUOTE= Askance] > I forgot to list the one I think this of every time I hear it: Five Years - David Bowie Think you’d really need to do the whole _Ziggy Stardust_ album (and possibly large amounts of intoxicants), but I’d watch the result. [/quote] Yes, except that Five Years, the first track on that album, stands alone in not being part of the rock’n’roll life stories that make up the rest of the album. It’s a simple story of what happens among ordinary people when it is discovered that the earth will die in 5 years’ time, of unspecified causes. My movie idea based on it is that astronomers see an asteroid or similar that will hit earth in 5 years’ time, and this triggers an international race to build a spaceship so that at least some people will be able to get off the earth and start a colony elsewhere, the moon most likely, so they can later on come back and re-colonise earth once the destruction has finished. Of course with the magic of movies the ship is ready barely in time, there’s lot’s of drama based around who would go, etc … then with days to go the astronomers reveal that the whole thing was a co-ordinated hoax amongst themselves, in order to kick-start humanity into building a space ship and planning an extra-terrestrial colony, and also to drive them closer together by presenting an external threat. > [@](#): > > _Space Oddity_ might work as a stand alone song/movie. I can see that, but most of the action take’s place in Major Tom’s head, so perhaps you could say that the last reel of 2001 was that film already? ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/38 "2010-01-13T06:01:16Z")
“Westfall” by Okkervil River. And oh man would I love to see this!! ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/39 "2010-01-13T13:32:14Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > Whiter shade of pale - by I have no idea song by Procul Harum- movie by David Lynch ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/40 "2010-01-13T13:33:44Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > To make it long and complex enough for a feature film, combine it with “Eleanor Rigby” . . . like she was one of his victims. And a flashback to a young Eleanor, with “She’s Leaving Home.” That’s actually not bad at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569.md?page=3)