For me, a perfect example is Jackie Wilson’s “Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher and Higher.” I used to really like this song, but then it was played during the closing credits of Date Night, that horrible movie with Tina Fey and Steve Carrell. I had to sit through that piece-of-crap movie twice. Now I can’t listen to the song without being reminded of the movie.
I never loved Johnny Mathis’s Wonderful, Wonderful but I liked it and it was catchy. Until… it was used in an X Files episode called “Home” that was one of the most disturbing things ever on primetime network TV; the plot revolves around an extremely inbred and homicidal (and infanticidal) hillbilly fan and the song actually plays (not making this up) as one of the hillbillies gets out of a car trunk where he’s been having coitus with his amputee mother.
I used to like Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters until a really crappy cover version was played during an episode of Revenge a month or so back. Now I can’t even hear the original without thinking of that powerless, wimpy cover.
It’s not as bad as the time Motorhead covered Enter Sandman, but at least that one doesn’t pop into my head every time I hear the original. (And I’ve got nothing against Motorhead in general, just that particular cover.)
That made me like the song even more!
Song: Supermassive Black Hole by Muse.
Movie: Twilight.
That stinking crapfest of a movie used to play all day at work, and now when I hear SBH, I think of sparkly vampires playing baseball. Gah!
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms was just a song we sang in church until I saw Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter. I shiver a bit when I hear it now…
American Pie by Don McLean. Have never seen, and will never see, the series of movies (unless you go all A-Clockwork-Orange-reeducation-session on my ass), but I have been unable to avoid the ads. Now, every time I hear the opening strains, I wince. Why can’t titles be copyrighted?!?
Not me, but one episode of “The Gong Show” featured every act singing “Feelings.” When the show was over, my mother said, “I used to love that song.”
How Soon Is Now? was awesome until it was savaged to become the Charmed theme song. Now I can barely listen to it.
Along those same lines, though not TV/Movie related, I no longer like the Red Hot Chili Peppers because my coworkers play them all morning long and I don’t have time to fight over it. I asked them once to knock it off and that lasted a single morning. Again, apropos of nothing except that it demonstrates how easy it is to wear something out. That, and I didn’t feel like starting a new thread over it.
Pretty much anything from Forrest Gump. But that’s only because I hate Forrest Gump with the fire of a thousand supernovae.
It didn’t completely ruin the song for me, but when Goodfellas used the piano ending of “Layla”, I couldn’t hear the song for a while.
It’s used in a montage of gangland murders. Ick.
The movie is Paperback Hero…The song is If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot.
It is an obscure Canadian film from 1973 starring Keir Dullea and Elizabeth Ashley, but I saw it once (maybe twice) and I can’t stand the song now…
On the flip side, I fell in love with “We’ll Meet Again” after seeing Dr. Strangelove and “Burning Bridges” after seeing Kelly Heros.
Similarly, a friend of mine could NOT listen to Aerosmith anymore after he had a college roommate who played them virtually non-stop.
This SORTA fits in with the topic.
Honey by Bobby Goldsboro is a very sappy, tearjerker song.
On the variety show, The Smothers Brothers, they did a parody. They offered tours of “The Honey House,” and people could see the tree, the dog, even the bumper of the car she had wrecked. We laughed ourselves inside out.
And my grandmother was horribly insulted, that such a wonderful song could be “ruined” like that.
Even now, a hundred years later, I STILL cannot listen to that song without remembering “The Honey House.”
~VOW
I’d probably like Christina Perry’s current song if I didn’t realize every time there’s about 60 seconds before a middle-aged DJ starts to gush about Twilight.