# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Quercus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7ab992/32.png) [@Quercus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/41 "2010-01-13T14:44:37Z")
I immediately thought of “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts”, too, but decided there wasn’t much point: the whole story is really right there in the song, and there’s not much to add. On the other hand, “Tangled Up in Blue” has just enough fragments to make something interesting, particularly as the last verse, with it’s reflections on a moment in time of “revolution in the air”, gets into more than just a boy-meets-girl-in-a-stripjoint story. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/42 "2010-01-13T14:55:08Z")
\*Monkey versus Robot \*by James Kolchalka Superstar. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/43 "2010-01-13T17:11:01Z")
Heard two in the car this morning on the way to work that I think could be interesting: Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) - The Hollies Gimme Three Steps - Lynard Skynard Either could probably work as porn, too. ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/44 "2010-01-13T17:19:31Z")
Big Tobacco (aka Joe Pernice): “Bum Leg”. Down-on-his luck guy looking for the emerald he hid somewhere a long time ago, so he can beat the rap he’s got for beating up another down-and-outer and go to Paradise–or at least Florida. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/45 "2010-01-13T17:20:35Z")
Off the top of my head, I think both “Wonderboy” and “The Best Song in the World” by Tenacious D could be made into movies. Come on JB and KG! The Pick of Destiny was a disappointment, give it another go! ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/46 "2010-01-13T17:21:05Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > \*Monkey versus Robot \*by James Kolchalka Superstar. They made an [entire TV series](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/) about that. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/47 "2010-01-13T18:11:23Z")
“Tangled Up in Blue”–Bob Dylan “Winona’s Big Brown Beaver”–Primus ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/48 "2010-01-13T18:17:52Z")
> [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > The Road Goes On Forever-- Robert Earl Keen Nah… That would be WAY too long. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/49 "2010-01-13T18:19:06Z")
“1952 Vincent Black Lightning” by Richard Thompson (AND the Del McCoury Band, whose version is much more popular and is awesome) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/YW-w0KgE-8s/hqdefault.jpg "1952 Vincent Black Lightning") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW-w0KgE-8s) ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/50 "2010-01-13T18:23:16Z")
How about “Halley Came to Jackson” by Mary Chapin Carpenter ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/51 "2010-01-13T18:30:14Z")
The Mariner’s Revenge Song - The Decemberists Already has the entire plot in the song, and the whole story last fifteen-some years so there’s plenty of room to add in some filler. You could also turn their entire Hazards of Love album into a movie too. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/52 "2010-01-13T18:46:08Z")
How about some more Bob Dylan - _Black Diamond Bay_? I picture Bogie and Bacall when I hear it. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/53 "2010-01-13T18:55:14Z")
Springsteen’s _Jungle Land_ has enoyed many screenings in my head. In fact, I’d nominate Springsteen’s entire library for this thread. Dylan’s too, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/54 "2010-01-13T19:10:57Z")
[Fire on the Mountain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2AJvhrAlRM) - Marshall Tucker Band [The Ballad of Curtis Loew](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NbTpssTGRI) - Lynyrd Skynyrd ---
**Author:** ![Rafe\_Hollister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@Rafe\_Hollister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rafe_Hollister)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/55 "2010-01-13T19:22:25Z")
> [@spoke-](#): > > [Fire on the Mountain](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2AJvhrAlRM) - Marshall Tucker Band X2 Also: “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hgI8bta-7aw/hqdefault.jpg "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw) ---
**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 15, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/56 "2010-01-15T01:33:13Z")
_Rio_, by Duran Duran OK, how about Hotel California by the Eagles? ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/57 "2010-01-15T01:47:26Z")
> [@The\_Man\_In\_Black](#): > > I think “Highwayman”, by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson could be an amazing movie. It would be an excellent movie - especially if you could keep that cast! ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/58 "2010-01-15T05:45:19Z")
this one would be a movie very loosely based on the briefest and sketchiest of lyrics–just a character-driven wisp of a plot, but fantastic nonetheless: amovie of John Cale’s (.Fear is a Man’s Best Friend). ---
**Author:** ![Pandoranoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Pandoranoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pandoranoid)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/59 "2010-01-15T05:47:18Z")
‘life and death/are things you just do when you’re bored’(-j.cale)—great tag line for the trailer ---
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2010, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569/60 "2010-01-15T12:53:33Z")
**Sympathy for the Devil** One of those prestige biopics that Oscar voters love so much. It’d be like \*\*Gandhi \*\*or **Nixon**. But, you know, like in between those two. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-could-be-made-into-movies/524569.md?page=4)