Everybody Wants To Rule the World by Tears For Fears from the closing credits of Real Genius and lots of popcorn.
I win.
Jingle Bell Rock - Lethal Weapon. I can’t hear it without seeing a girl plunge to her death.
StG
“Alice’s Restaurant” the song <-> Alice’s Restaurant the movie
“Yellow Submarine” the song <-> Yellow Submarine the movie
“The Last Waltz” the instrumental <-> The Last Waltz the movie
“Imagine” the song <-> Imagine the John Lennon documentary
(or are those cheating?)
Goodfellas was the first movie that came to my mind too. Also, “What Is Life” by George Harrison heard in Awakenings became indelibly associated with the movie because it was so unexpected to hear it suddenly resurrected, as though awakening from a long catatonia. That song came from All Things Must Pass, an album that may have been shunned and forgotten in the wake of the “My Sweet Lord” lawsuit. But “What Is Life” was one of George’s best songs ever.
My favorite music/movie tie-in is “Viens, Mallika/Dôme épais le jasmin” from Lakmé by Léo Délibes in that memorable scene between Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve in The Hunger.
Me too. That’s my favorite scene in the movie.
That one I associate with the image of eccentric rich people playing the organ.
Well, it’s not a movie, but GTA:Vice City has done that to me for quite a few 80’s hits.
As in whenever I hear “Africa” by Toto, I immediately get an image of riding a moped on a rainy night, throwing pizzas at people.
Yes, I know the thread is about movies. I just don’t watch many movies.
Oddly, “‘Unchained’ Melody” (the proper title) was the theme music from an otherwise eminently forgettable 1950s movie called “Unchained.” It was, I believe, an instrumental at first, with lyrics composed but not used (similarly to “Stranger on the Shore”) but the Righteous Brothers and others covering it as a song-with-lyrics have no popularized the words.
A TV show episode, but I can’t hear Wonderful, Wonderful by Johnny Mathis without picturing the Peacock Brother’s killing spree in the episode Home of Season IV of X-Files.
Thanks for the explanation, Poly, I’d never understood how a melody could be unchained, or for that matter chained in the first place. Sheila Chandra parodied the strange phrase with her song title “Unchanged Malady.”
Speaking of Kubrick, I’ve never heard the Overture to La Gazza Ladra by Rossini apart from the Clockwork Orange soundtrack, nor can I ever think of it apart from the movie now.
There have been any number of “theme song” things that never made it into the Top 40 charts, and therefore if you want to hear them you pretty much have to watch the movie. Some I like include:
The Long Hot Summer
Theme from A Streetcar Named Desire – even though it was used as theme music for the radio version of Mike Hammer
The Faraway Hills – theme from Shane
Theme from The High and the Mighty
I could go on, but these are oldies.
One that Robert Mitchum wrote for Thunder Road and one I’ve never heard elsewhere: Whippoorwill.
I always think of the movie, even when it’s played by some other band:
Laura
Picnic (and Moonglow)
Ruby
Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White (from Underwater)
Magnificent Seven (used for Marlboro weeds)
Delilah’s Theme (from Samson and Delilah)
Many others.
I can, since it was actually Bizet’s Carmen that was used as the Bad News Bears’ theme 
I like Nuke LaRoosh’s alternative lyrics - “She may get woolly, women do get woolly, because of all the stress.”
I also think of The Commitments with that song.
Just thought of another one.
The Summer Wind (Sinatra) always makes me think of The Pope of Greenwich Village and Eric Roberts with his thumb cut off.
Almost every musical I ever saw where the songs were presented there for the first time (Singin’ in the Rain, Pal Joey, West Side Story to name a few) will come to mind when I hear the songs.
One I’d love to mention because it’s a recent thing. We have a tape of Jazz Goes To The Movies with a nice combo doing moderate versions of stuff like Body Heat, Taxi Driver, Blade Runner (Memories of Green), and one called “I Am Calling You.” Until just recently I had never seen Bagdad Cafe and when that tune appeared, it was weird since the tape was my only exposure to it. I heartily recommend the movie. Really nice movie.
Got one…I was sitting in the laundrymat the other day and “Hot Stuff” came on. I immediately envisioned the guys hip-thrusting in the unemployment line in The Full Monty.
Yep!
And that’s number two.
Same episode: Cher’s cover of “Walking in Memphis”.
Others:
Elvis’ “A Little Less Conversation” as used in the Clooney Ocean’s 11 remake.
Bobby Darin’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light” in Swingers.
Boccherini’s “La Musica Notturna” will forever be tied in my mind to the last scene of Master and Commander.
The Beach Boys’ “All Summer Long” in American Graffiti.
:smack: As soon as read the title I thought of various versions of this on American Idol.
Oh, and “Don’t Worry Baby” by the Beach Boys invokes the end of “Never Been Kissed”.
And suddenly I thank Og that I don’t watch American Idol. 
(Which is not strictly true; I caught the last half of the Barrino season, but that was mostly because of the swing-singing red-haired boy. When he was booted off, I drifted away again.)
Adaptation: I don’t know the title, but you all know the song.
Imagine me and you, I do
I think about you day and night, it’s only right
blah blah blah
something something nobody but you,
For all my life
I won’t something something nobody but you…
So happy togetheeeeeer.
Whatever that song is in the Naked Gun movie where Leslie Nielsen and Priscilla Presley are walking on the beach together.
Bad Moon Rising by CCR in the film “An American Werewolf…”
Just about any Cat Stevens song used in “Harold and Maude.” I believe that all the songs were eventually released on various albums but no proper soundtrack was put out.