# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![footloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@footloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/footloose)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/41 "2006-08-03T23:40:39Z")
[QUOTE=nevermore] stupid “Take My Breath Away” for _Dirty Dancing_ (there’s another one too from that movie that I’m forgetting), [/QUOTE] Top Gun, not Dirty Dancing. “Good Night, Sweetheart” from Three Men and a Baby, even though I really don’t like that flick. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/42 "2006-08-03T23:45:24Z")
[QUOTE=Kid\_A] _Where Is My Mind?_ by the Pixies from **Fight Club**. _Suzanne_ by Weezer from **Mallrats**. [/QUOTE] Ditto and double ditto. ---
**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, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/43 "2006-08-03T23:50:48Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] 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. [/QUOTE] I can recall the scene from the movie if I make an effort to do so, but my normal association with that song is “Nature Boy” Ric Flair’s ring entrance… WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/44 "2006-08-04T00:39:31Z")
“Goodbye Horses”, Q. Lazarus – The Silence of the Lambs (and, recently, Clerks II) “Head over Heels”, Tears for Fears – Donnie Darko “The Killing Moon”, Echo & The Bunnymen – " " ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/45 "2006-08-04T00:45:09Z")
[QUOTE=simster] Whatever that damn music was they used for Kill Bill… [/QUOTE] Do you mean that “Woo-hoo” song they use in the Vonage ads? Yeah, that one is catchy. A good one for me is “Danger Zone” from Top Gun. Also, Land of a Thousand Dances (IIRC) from Ferngully. ---
**Author:** ![LeftFootRightFoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@LeftFootRightFoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeftFootRightFoot)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/46 "2006-08-04T00:46:08Z")
Not ONE ghostbusters mention? We all know the song sucked big time, but when somebody mentions the movie, you just have to think of “when there’s something strange…in the neighborhood” the song is too aweful to forget 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/47 "2006-08-04T01:15:40Z")
On a more classical note, Mozart’s **Grand Partita** is now indelibly linked with **Amadeus** , far moreso than any of the other large amount of Mozart music used in the film. On a less classical note, every time I hear the song **Are you ready for the sex, Girls?** , I think of **Revenge of the Nerds**. Of course, the only times in my life I’ve ever heard that song have been while watching that movie, so it’s kind of true by definition. ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/48 "2006-08-04T01:16:18Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] I can recall the scene from the movie if I make an effort to do so, but my normal association with that song is “Nature Boy” Ric Flair’s ring entrance… WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! [/QUOTE] Uh, okay. Wrestling? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/49 "2006-08-04T01:27:04Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] Uh, okay. Wrestling? [/QUOTE] Yup. Ya gotta walk that aisle, styling and profiling like only the Nature Boy can do… WOOOOOOOOOOO! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![audiobottle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@audiobottle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/audiobottle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/50 "2006-08-04T02:11:12Z")
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Tuesday’s Gone, during the scene in **Dazed and Confused** when the party is over and everybody’s going home. That was the perfect song for the perfect scene, and now they will be forever entwined in my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/51 "2006-08-04T03:23:19Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] On a less classical note, every time I hear the song **Are you ready for the sex, Girls?** , I think of **Revenge of the Nerds**. Of course, the only times in my life I’ve ever heard that song have been while watching that movie, so it’s kind of true by definition. [/QUOTE] Funny, I think of it from **Last American Virgin**! ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/52 "2006-08-04T03:49:39Z")
[QUOTE=PastAllReason] Uh, okay. Wrestling? [/QUOTE] [Hockey](http://www.nhl.com/cupcrazy/2006/serieso/flair061406.html) ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/53 "2006-08-04T03:57:58Z")
**The Journey of the Sorcerer** by the Eagles; The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy **Ride of the Valkyries** by Wagner; Apocalypse Now (also any Bugs Bunny cartoon with Elmer Fudd singing “Kill the waaa-bit, kill the waaaaa-bit!”) **Everybody Wants Some** by Van Halen; Better Off Dead the entire Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack 😉 ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/54 "2006-08-04T04:54:13Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Yup. Ya gotta walk that aisle, styling and profiling like only the Nature Boy can do… WOOOOOOOOOOO! 😃 [/QUOTE] Being a girly girl, I’ll claim justifiable ignorance then. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/55 "2006-08-04T12:14:10Z")
Stephen Foster’s _Beautiful dreamer_ always evokes **Mighty Joe Young**. i love it – romantic music makes me think of a giant Ape. Movies have warped me. And the _William Tell Overture_ is inextricably linked with **The Lone Ranger** and, in a different part, Warner Brothers cartoons. Because of **Fantasia** , Bach’s _Toccata and Fugue in D Minor_ is associated with surreal animated images. Several other musical pieces they used haven’t been affected in this way, but _The Sorceror’s Apprentice_ I’ve nly heard there, so it’s clearly linked to Mickey Mouse in my mind. And _Dance of the Hours_ gets linked to either dancing hippos or Alan Sherman’s letter from camp. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/56 "2006-08-04T12:58:03Z")
Whenever I hear "Inna-gadda-da-vida"by Iron Butterfly I imagine William Peterson jumping through a plate glass window. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/57 "2006-08-04T13:04:34Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] “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.) [/QUOTE] Whenever I hear the beginning of “Gimme Some Loving” by Spencer Davis Group, the first words out of my mouth are usually “That ain’t no Hank Williams song!” ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/58 "2006-08-04T13:15:16Z")
Whenever I heard the delicate, haunting first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 5, I would always think of _Picnic at Hanging Rock_ and the girls in their white dresses climbing up the rock to meet their mysterious fate. So, when I bought the DVD of this movie about a month ago and watched it again for the first time in years, I was confused… there were the girls going up the rock, but the music accompanying them to their mysterious fate was Zamfir’s pan flute, and not Beethoven at all. As it turns out, this piece is used later on in the movie, although not at the crucial girls’ disappearance scene. I was relieved to know that my musical associations were not completely out of whack after all. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Autumn\_Almanac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@Autumn\_Almanac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autumn_Almanac)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/59 "2006-08-04T13:44:19Z")
Since seeing just the ad campaign for _World Trade Center_, I think I will always associate Coldplay’s “Fix You” with September 11, 2001. ---
**Author:** ![Malienation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Malienation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malienation)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231/60 "2006-08-04T15:01:27Z")
“Killing Me Softly” by Roberta Flack was completely ruined for me by the singing of it by the kid in **About A Boy**. Damn, I usta like that song… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-you-now-and-forever-will-associate-with-a-movie/367231.md?page=4)