# Songs you now, and forever will, associate with a movie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231 "2006-08-03T18:53:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/21 "2006-08-03T20:24:01Z")
[QUOTE=nevermore] …some Cyndi Lauper song that I want to call “Good Love” even if that’s not the name from _The Goonies_… [/QUOTE] You’re thinking of _Good Enough_ which was changed to _The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough_ for the soundtrack. At least I think so. It’s actually one of my favourite Cyndi Lauper songs. :o ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/22 "2006-08-03T20:26:19Z")
Whatever that damn music was they used for Kill Bill… “GoldFinger”… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/23 "2006-08-03T20:27:21Z")
“The Willaim Tell Overture” from _A Clockwork Orange_. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/24 "2006-08-03T20:28:14Z")
“Singing in the Rain” from _A Clockwork Orange_ “Try a Little Tenderness” from _Dr. Strangelove_ “The Blue Danube” from _2001, A Space Odyssey_ Kubrick knew how to implant music. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/25 "2006-08-03T20:30:31Z")
“Soul Man”, from _The Blues Brothers_. (Yes, the song predates the movie, being from the late '60s.) (For that matter, whenever I hear the theme to _Rawhide_ I think of the scene in that movie where they poach the gig from “The Good Ol’ Boys” band, and skip without paying their bar tab… Though in fairness to the OP, I never saw the TV show, so didn’t have an original context for it to begin with.) And I hate to admit it, but “God Gave Rock ‘n’ Roll To You”, the song by Argent and covered by Kiss (or was it the other way around?), is now linked in my mind to _Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey_. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/26 "2006-08-03T20:35:03Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] Kubrick knew how to implant music. [/QUOTE] We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when… ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/27 "2006-08-03T20:35:07Z")
_24_ by Jem makes me think of **Ultraviolet**. Unfortunately. _Close To You_ invokes a certain scene from **Mirrormask** and all of Abba’s songs put me in the mood to watch **Muriel’s Wedding**. ---
**Author:** ![Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@Rebecca\_DiMwitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebecca_DiMwitter)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/28 "2006-08-03T20:38:31Z")
I had never heard of the Divinyls “I Touch Myself” until I saw Mike Myers do his funky, fembot-destroying striptease to it in “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”. Now I always think of that scene when I hear the song, which, frankly, isn’t often enough. –Beck ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/29 "2006-08-03T20:38:40Z")
Louis Armstrong’s “Skokiaan” from the very end of **Slackers**. “Baby Please Don’t Go” by Them always reminds me of the scene of Harry Dean Stanton driving in the car late at night in **Wild At Heart**. The Kingsmen’s “Louie, Louie” and **Animal House**. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/30 "2006-08-03T20:42:21Z")
_You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling_ in **Top Gun** _One Tin Soldier_—Billy Jack (not sure of exact movie title) ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/31 "2006-08-03T20:54:07Z")
The Hunger - Bauhaus: Bela Lugosi’s Dead, playing during the entire beginning sequence of Catherine DeNeuve and David Bowie seducing a couple in a disco, taking them home and killing them. Something About Mary - don’t know the name: “Why do you build me up (build me up), buttercup baby just to let me down, and mess me around and then worst of all (worst of all), you never call baby when you say you will, but I love you still…” ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/32 "2006-08-03T20:54:09Z")
[QUOTE=teela brown] “The Blue Danube” from _2001, A Space Odyssey_ Kubrick knew how to implant music. [/QUOTE] On that note, \*“Also Sprach Zarathustra” \* from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s the first song I think of when someone mentions the movie, and I can’t hear the music without thinking of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/33 "2006-08-03T20:59:12Z")
[QUOTE=Ghanima] Something About Mary - don’t know the name: “Why do you build me up (build me up), buttercup baby just to let me down, and mess me around and then worst of all (worst of all), you never call baby when you say you will, but I love you still…” [/QUOTE] It’s called, oddly enough, \*\*Build Me Up, Buttercup \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/34 "2006-08-03T20:59:24Z")
_Wild Thing_ by The Troggs in **Major League** _In Dreams_\* by Roy Orbison in **Blue Velvet** ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/35 "2006-08-03T21:21:25Z")
_Where Is My Mind?_ by the Pixies from **Fight Club**. _Suzanne_ by Weezer from **Mallrats**. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/36 "2006-08-03T21:21:38Z")
And the first song in the first reply wins the thread. **American Girl** from SotL, all the way. What I was gonna mention. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/37 "2006-08-03T21:33:50Z")
[QUOTE=Dooku] Lots from just **Goodfellas**. Namely: … “Hands Across The Ocean” (Don’t know who sings it) - when they’re pummeling Billy Batts [/QUOTE] That was “Atlantis” by Donovan (and I also now associate that otherwise drippy song with that scene in the movie). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/38 "2006-08-03T21:40:13Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] That was “Atlantis” by Donovan (and I also now associate that otherwise drippy song with that scene in the movie). [/QUOTE] Ah, thank you. Another one: Blind Faith’s “Can’t Find My Way Home” from **Fandango**. ---
**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/39 "2006-08-03T22:29:33Z")
I have a few: “Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve”: Cruel Intentions “Just Because - Jane’s Addiction”: S.W.A.T “Gimme Some Loving - Spencer Davis Group”: Days of Thunder “Flower - Moby”: Gone in 60 Seconds “Sweet Emotions - Aerosmith” - Armageddon MtM ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/40 "2006-08-03T22:59:45Z")
No, “Time after Time” is from Strictly Ballroom - as is “Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231.md?page=3)