Films that irrevocably changed a song for you...

08/05/2004 04:07:10 AM · #28

Jonny B Good - Back to the Future

Everytime I hear it I play like I'm Marty and start wailing on my air guitar.

DefyTime

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08/05/2004 04:08:15 AM · #29

Originally posted by parrothead:

We may have been from what I have gathered laurie! What was that song from Tommy boy??

It's the end of the world as we know it, by R.E.M. - this one was the biggest in my eyes from that movie

No yall are talking about the one where they go, "You can change it if you want...fine with me" then the next sec, "DON'T YOU REMEBER YOU TOLD ME YOU LOVED ME BABY...dadada...YOU SAID YOU'D BE COMING BACK THIS WAY AGAIN BABY...BABY BABY BABY BABY OOHHH BABY...I love you!" The the hood flies up, classic

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Anni

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08/05/2004 04:58:21 AM · #30

mine would have to be bohemian rap city..yeah yeah I know I spelled it all wrong..from wayne's world..can't hear that song without saying 'party on wayne'

siggi

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08/05/2004 05:43:43 AM · #31

The song "I feel good", I think the film name was Turner & Hooch

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Phileine

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08/05/2004 07:55:15 AM · #32

It's such a perfect day from lou reed in trainspotting. Beautiful irony.

wkmen

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08/05/2004 08:54:58 AM · #33

the Stones song "Time is on my Side" and the movie "Fallen" (Denzel Washington) - if I hear that song, I think of the villain who sang it through the whole movie.

pottersclay75

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08/05/2004 09:20:07 AM · #34

Originally posted by jenesis:

[quote=Pedro] Singin In The Rain from A Clockwork Orange.

Ooohhh, Good one!!

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I have to agree with this one. Singin In The Rain played such a surreal role in that movie. I love the song, and, because of the movie, I learned all the words to it!

pottersclay75

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08/05/2004 09:23:57 AM · #35

Originally posted by Gordon:

Originally posted by K-Rob:
Actually, while we're on this topic, can anyone help me figure out who plays a certaing song from the movie "La Bamba?" It's the last song in the movie and plays right before the credits. I originally thought it was a Ritchie Valens song but I've never been able to find it. It's an instrumental song played with a slide quitar. I love the song but have no idea where to find it. Anyone have any ideas?

//www.imdb.com/title/tt0093378/soundtrack

It is probably

"Sleepwalk"
Written by Santo Farina, John Farina and Ann Farina
Performed by Santo and Johnny

If that is the same song I am thinking of, it was also in Stephen King's movie "Sleepwalkers". Huh, go figure. Good song, crappy movie.

pottersclay75

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08/05/2004 09:25:05 AM · #36

What about "Moon River" in "Born on the Fourth of July".

K-Rob

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08/05/2004 10:55:48 AM · #37

Originally posted by Gordon:

//www.sleepwalk-instrumental.com/sleepwalk.mp3

Thanks for the link, but this version is a little modernized and is missing that special quality that made the original what it is. I'll have to search Kazaa for the original version.

jenesis

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08/05/2004 01:23:17 PM · #38

Silence of the Lambs - "American Girl" by Tom Petty

I have a strange impulse to sing it at the top of my lungs as I'm driving down the road if I hear it on the radio..... all along hoping some psycho doesn't decide to make a suit out of me. Is that weird? :-)

mirdonamy

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08/12/2004 06:24:12 PM · #39

Originally posted by airatic:

that is one freaky movie, mirdonamy. I saw half of it on tv, and they never tell you what movie it is, so I was like "What the heck is this anyway??" Now I have it on DVD. Creepy stuff, good music.

Isn't it a great movie! Glad you bought it on DVD. So did I! I LOVE that soundtrack. If I am flipping movie channels and it's on, I have to leave it on... I'm like a deer in the headlights with this movie!

mirdonamy

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08/12/2004 06:26:43 PM · #40

Originally posted by jenesis:

American Girl is an eerie song anyhow... I had a friend in college who lived in the building that girl (in the song) committed suicide from! Beaty Towers in Gainesville, FL.

kyebosh

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08/12/2004 06:55:51 PM · #41

Schindler's list, The theme from Schindler's list. Very moving piece indeed, altho very much more after seeing the movie.

bledford

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08/12/2004 07:11:59 PM · #42

Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone"

Film - Top Gun

...not that this song was made for anything but this movoe, but I've wanted to be a fighter pilot ever since and again everytime I hear it (which is usually only when I put the DVD in).

troylox

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08/12/2004 07:38:28 PM · #43

"Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield in "Boogie Nights". It's great to see how much someone who is higher than a kite enjoys singing along to this song, and how badly he butchers the lyrics.

08/12/2004 08:03:16 PM · #44

Originally posted by troylox:

"Jesse's Girl" by Rick Springfield in "Boogie Nights". It's great to see how much someone who is higher than a kite enjoys singing along to this song, and how badly he butchers the lyrics.

HA! I can't hear Sister Christian (a song I hate) without thinking of Alfred Molina saying something like, "Wait, the best part is coming up" and air-drumming. That is one hilarious, yet poignant movie.

08/12/2004 08:15:35 PM · #45

Originally posted by Nelzie:

For me?

That would be 'Resevior Dogs' - 'Stuck in the Middle with You'. I simply cannot listen to that song anymore without having a slightly creepy feeling...

Most definitely! That was a brilliant scene and I have the same reaction when I hear that song now. My husband kind of hates that it ruined the song for him.
I was never a fan of the song, When A Man Loves a Woman, but it is such a fitting opener for The Crying Game.
I think Wes Andersen has used music really well in his movies. I love the way he opened The Royal Tennenbaums with, if memory serves, an instrumental of Hey Jude Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I know it was a Beatles' song.

This is a tad off-topic because these songs come from the movies themselves, but I feel two movies that showed early on how well pop music can be integrated into the mood of a film are Harold and Maude with a soundtrack provided by (then-named) Cat Stevens and The Graduate with a soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkle.

Spanish_Grease

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08/12/2004 08:21:20 PM · #46

'Dry The Rain' by The Beta Band from High Fidelity. They do a really cool scene with this song, as the pan around the guys record store!

'Streets of Philadelphia" by Unknown(can't remember)from Philadelphia. One of my favourite movies, and this song is used so powerfully in this movie.

'Tiny Dancer' by Elton john from Almost Famous. Another of my favourite movies, I love the scene where they're all mad at eachother on the bus, and then all of a sudden the whole bus breaks out into a verse of 'Tiny Dancer' :-)

Those are my three, I've got loads more, but these are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

Lee

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08/12/2004 08:21:55 PM · #47

An example of a soundtrack album being more memorable than the movie is the B-52's Cosmic Thing which, if I recall correctly, comprised a great deal of the Earth Girls Are Easy soundtrack, although only one song made it to the actual soundtrack album.

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mrsamsa

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08/12/2004 08:24:27 PM · #48

movie, donnie darko song, Mad world by gary jules

08/12/2004 08:26:14 PM · #49

The Beta Band are great.
So far no one has mentioned Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World. That's a very memorable scene and it got a lot of air play for an old song, at least on MTV.

A song that initially only played on college radio but got a boost of air play after the fact is 500 Miles by The Proclaimers, an Edinborough duet. It was featured in Benny and June and experienced a bit of a revival a few years after the initial album release. I had bought the album when it was originally out and highly recommend it.