If The Night Chicago Died hasn’t already been used some crime thriller, it really needs to be. The siren sound in the beginning and the drum beat just scream to be the background music for a raid.
I’m not sure if it’s late 60s, or early 70s, but the Seekers “I’ll Never Find Another You” is just begging for a chic flick montage. They had a big hit with “Georgy Girl,” which was a movie theme song.
Ball of Confusion - Temptations.
As an aside, I always wished I could dance with the suave smooth cool that these guys did.
Warren Zevon’s due for a generational rediscovery, I think.
I thought you were going to link tothis video.
My vote: Muskrat Love. Good opening credits song.
No! Don’t stop! These are wahsome!
The OP missed ‘Ballroom Blitz’ used in the marketing for ‘Suicide Squad’, sadly.
It’s an interesting conundrum. The song needs to be somewhat obscure but not so much that no one will perk up when they here it. It’s got to pull nostalgia without being part of the usual canon. One can’t use ‘Walk this Way’ or ‘Born to Run’ in this sense.
One hit wonders are best. Someone has to figure out a use for ‘Run Joey Run’.
Thunder island - Jay Ferguson One of my old favorites.
Hold You Head Up - Argent Just heard in earlier today while shopping at the hardware store. Great tune.
The Five Stair Steps - Ooh Child Song always brings a happy tear to my eye. OOH CHILD The Five Stairsteps - YouTube ( another attempt at link before edit runs out)
Children of a Lesser God.
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Slight hijack: I would love to meet the marketing genius who decided to use, for Boogie Nights - a docudrama about the porn industry - “Mama Told Me Not to Come.”
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Referenced by Jack Black in High Fidelity
The last was used well in Guardians of the Galaxy. “Dance off, Bro!”
Best ever was an episode of Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me; after a story about someone at an airport security checkpoint putting their baby on the belt for the x-ray scanner they played a bit of……Carry On Wayward Son.
I did not hear that show, only read about it here.
This was actually the second resurrection of the song. The first one was when it was on the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack.
I personally want some fun and funky songs to get a boost. Sly and The Family Stone should get some love with Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin). I’d also like somebody to use Killer Queen in a cool way.
I nominate April Wine’s cover of “Bad Side of the Moon” for “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3”.
I’d like Killer Queen in a Black Mirror episode. Also good for Black Mirror (sorry, not a movie but these are now in my head): Hot Butter’s Popcorn, Anything by Kraftwerk. Trans Europe Express is a ‘deeper’ cut than Numbers, I think. Is Cerrone’s Supernature too obvious? I mean, the video could be a Black Mirror episode all by itself.
I apologize again. Next time it’ll be movies, I swear!
Children of a Lesser god came out it 1986. “I’ll Take You There” was only 14 years old then, which I guess technically made it an oldie, but you still hear Nirvana in bars.
A cover of “I’ll Take You There” made it to #1 on the R&B chart in 1991.
I would say it’s overdue.
And BTW, wow. Children of a Lesser god is 31 years old.
This was used quite effectively in Boys n’ the Hood. Not positive it was the original artist, but I think it was.
I remember O-o-h Child from Over the Edge, a movie sufficiently old that the song could be resurrected with no lingering effect.
Hard to think of a scene involving Chris Pratt that wouldn’t be better with The Gap Band’s You Dropped a Bomb on Me: The Gap Band - You Dropped A Bomb On Me (Official Music Video) - YouTube
I nominate It’s a Shame, by The Spinners, Sweet City Woman, by The Stampeders and Use Me, by Bill Withers.