Name Music you have so attached to a movie that you will never be able to consider it on its own

[Mike 03]

merit.

Examples: Every bit of classical music Stanley Kubrick ever used in a movie, including Beethoven's Fifth ("Clockwork Orange"), every piece in "Barry Lyndon" and obviously Thus Spake Zarathustra in "2001".

A number of Mozart pieces that were directly used in "Amadeus" and which I was so young that was the first time I heard them.

[CreekDog]

1. "10,000 miles" by Mary Chapin Carpenter from Fly Away Home

The flute music that accompanied much of Rain Man.

The interesting instrumentals from Erin Brockovich that accompanied scenes where she drove in the Mojave Desert.

[begin_within]

2. Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A: D. 959 II: Andantino

is so tightly woven into Robert Bresson's "Au Hasard Balthazar" that it almost seems like it was written for it. I can't hear that without scenes from "Au Hasard Balthazar" popping into my mind.

[flvegan]

3. Office Space and "Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u84d7nY8pQ&feature=related

Edited to add unedited version. Cuz it's bettah.

[handmade34]

4. Superfreak

I was in a store this afternoon and the song came on... all I could think of was "Little Miss Sunshine"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75qXUfp4wtw

[Jade Fox]

60. good one!

[sandnsea]

61. The Best dance scene ever

I love that movie!

[Swede]

5. Extreme Ways - The Bourne Trilogy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U-7DJFgooU&feature=PlayList&p=5F7B85C4C9D3D488&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=53

Extreme ways are back again
Extreme places I didn't know
I broke everything new again
Everything that I'd owned
I threw it out the window came along
Extreme ways I know will part the colors of my sea
'Perfect color me'

Extreme ways they help me
They help me out late at night
Extreme places I had gone
That never seen any light
Dirty basements, dirty noise
Dirty places coming through
Extreme worlds alone
Did you ever like it planned?

I would stand in line for this
There's always room in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart

Extreme sounds that told me
They held me down every night
I didn't have much to say
I didn't give about the life
I closed my eyes and closed myself
And closed my world and never opened up to anything
That could get me at all

I had to close down everything
I had to close down my mind
Too many things caught me
Too much could make me blind
I've seen so much in so many places
So many heartaches, so many faces
So many dirty things
You couldn't even believe

I would stand in line for this
It's always good in life for this

Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart

Oh Baby, oh baby

Oh baby, oh baby

Then it fell apart, it fell apart Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does

[NightWatcher]

6. Dont Bogart Me from Easy Rider, Low Rider from Up In Smoke,

and the entire soundtrack from Dazed and Confused

[Mike 03]

8. Wow, that reminds of "The Weight" and how much I attach that to both "Big Chill" and (even more)

"Girl, Interrupted."

Great example.

[Aristus]

39. "The Weight" was used in the closing moments of one of the best, and saddest episodes

of the 1980's Vietnam War TV series "Tour Of Duty". I always think of that when I hear the song...

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. That was Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Clockwork Orange

[yellowdogintexas]

48. The Thieving Magpie ..also 'A Clockwork Orange" nt

[Ptah]

9. The song sinnerman by Nina Simone and the movie The Thomas Crown Affair

The ten minute version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn5tiuZU4JI

Thomas Crown Affair - Final Heist 6:40 scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2vA88rHj0

[Mike 03]

10. Jacques Offenbach, arranged by Raymond Leppard,

for a mostly-detested adaptation of the John Irving novel "The Hotel New Hampshire."

Recorded with the London Philharmonic.

I had no clue this was classical music until I saw the movie and had the thought: "Wow, that music is amazing."

[Initech]

11. Fight Club and the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?"

Yeah I know the Pixies have been around way longer than the movie but that song fit into the movie so fucking well that it's hard to listen to it without thinking of the movie.

[Inchworm]

12. I'll melt with you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOwxp9RRpok

Guess the movie ;)

:hi:

[AwakeAtLast]

26. Valley Girl!

Totally bitchin' song!

:hi:

[Inchworm]

30. Yup!

Hadn't heard in ages. I just added to Netflix hehe

:*

:hi:

[Graybeard]

13. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major.

The Swedish film, "Elvira Madigan" (1967), is seldom seen today but in it's time the movie and music were very popular. It's still sometimes referred to as The Theme From Elvira Madigan.

[abq e streeter]

14. Almost everything that was in Animal House and The Blues Brothers

[Mr. Ected]

15. Simple Minds and The Breakfast Club

Yep.

[GreenPartyVoter]

16. The Chariots of Fire theme. The Breakfast Club song.

[hellbound-liberal]

17. She Caught the Katy-Blues Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hB3eCv_FOk

So does this one from the same movie:

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTJeT2i9QU

[TheManInTheMac]

19. The overwhelming theme from The Blues Brothers, for me is...

"Did you get me my Cheez Wiz, boy?" That line has shaped my entire philosophy of life. Fuck Doug Adams, "Did you get me my Cheez Wiz, boy?" is the meaning of life, not 42. Elwood got him that Cheez Wiz. And that's all you need for a happy life.

[hellbound-liberal]

22. That movie had a ton of great themes, I never get tired of seeing it!

How about: ... it's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses ...Hit it!

[Mike 03]

21. Awesome example.

In fact, I would love the chords to that song, as it was played in the movie.

[Mike 03]

23. I'm ashamed to repeat myself, but this is a stupendous example.

That is one of those song I tried to find, for years, the chords for, but it never quite came out right.

And I had no clue it was a classic song.

[TheManInTheMac]

18. "American Girl," Silence of the Lambs. Duh. What's wrong with you people?

[TheManInTheMac]

20. The Ronettes, "Be my Baby" from *Mean Streets*

As Harvey Keitel's head is laying down, just at the dawning, the song comes on: "The night we met I knew I, I needed you so / And if I had the chance I'd, I'd never let you go." The screen switches to home movies. Scorsese simultaneously pwnd that song and sealed his fate as one of the pre-emanate filmmakers in America.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

45. I love how the title appears right on the first "Be my Baby" line.

[TheManInTheMac]

53. A movie fan! Yay!

[TheManInTheMac]

24. Holy shit! Is everyone drunk tonight, or just plain stupid?

I could flame this thread with just "Goodfella's" references. BTW, I am both drunk and just plain stupid.

[Xipe Totec]

29. I was just going to say...

:hide:

[Left Is Write]

38. I am neither drunk nor stupid...

but I have not yet seen Goodfellas.

:D

[TheManInTheMac]

52. Well, I'm sure you're neither drunk nor stupid,

but you've got some work to do. See *Goodfellas.* You won't be sorry.

[Hayabusa]

25. Wow, no mention of Reservoir Dogs

and Stuck in the Middle With You playing on the radio during the "Ear Scene"

[sammythecat]

37. Didn't see your post.

I gave it it's due down below with a link to a video of the scene.

[Hayabusa]

41. It's cool

Damn good scene, and so darkly funny.

[AllenVanAllen]

58. Little Green Bag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLZ5AVHfnCs

[AwakeAtLast]

27. "Unchained Melody" in Ghost

"What a Wonderful World" in Good Morning, Vietnam

[crim son]

28. Rachmaninov's Variation on a theme of Paganini

from "Somewhere in Time."

[hellbound-liberal]

31. Barber's Adagio for Strings from Platoon...haunting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxVkXj26qds

[mentalsolstice]

32. +1

It's a hopeless moment for the viewer. My husband was "in country" for 14 months, thankfully he was largely untouched. His biggest problem was coming home not knowing why he was there in the first place, and coming home to a gung-ho WWII vet of a father who thought all Vietnam vets were losers. My heart breaks for all veterans of that unnecessary war, whether they were scarred or not...just as my heart breaks for the vets coming home today.

[sammythecat]

33. "Stuck in the middle with you"

Steelers Wheel. I'll never be able to hear that again without immediately thinking of Michael Madsen doing that little dance before he starts to cut off that cop's ear in "Reservoir Dogs".

"Hold still. Hold still ya fuck".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgtPRcqKNBo

[InvisibleTouch]

34. "Danger Zone" : Top Gun n/t

[Left Is Write]

35. Even though I *can* consider these on their own merits...

I will always closely associate them with Dazed & Confused:

Sweet Emotion
Slow Ride
School's Out

[BulletproofLandshark]

36. CCR "Fortunate Son"

Playing when Forrest Gump first flies into Vietnam.

[Danger Mouse]

40. "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith from 'The Royal Tenenbaums'.

[jeff30997]

42. The vast majority of the music composed by John Williams.

:rofl:

[JANdad]

43. Gonna Fly Now, Bad to the Bone, Carmina Burana

To name a few...

[OwnedByFerrets]

44. .....

I`m Alright

I'm alright
Nobody worry 'bout me
Why you got to gimme a fight?
Can't you just let it be?



Cant hear it without thinking CADDYSHACK:evilgrin:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

46. "Layla (piano exit)" from "Goodfellas."

[AllenVanAllen]

57. good one!

this one too:

The Rolling Stones - Monkey Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeNYZ93ww_I

[rucky]

47. Flight of the Valkeryes = Apocolypse Now

[Bertha Venation]

49. American Girl by Tom Petty -- The Silence of the Lambs

was playing in the car, being driven by the victim in the well the night that Buffalo Bill abducted her

[Iggo]

65. I'd forgotten that song was in that movie.

With cable/satellite TV and their seven billion channels, I almost never see the beginning of a movie anymore unless it's on DVD. Well, my brother's girlfriend brought over her copy of Silence Of The Lambs a couple months ago and I got to totally rediscover that scene! I hadn't seen that part in years. Maybe since the theater!

[yellowdogintexas]

50. Dvorak's "New World Symphony' in "Soylent Green" & 'Blue Danube Waltz" in' 2001"

I can't hear either one of them without the mental image of the film popping into my head.

[sakabatou]

51. "Advent: One Winged Anegl"

"Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS9lVLzZChU

[Richard Steele]

54. "Lobby Fight Scene" from the MATRIX soundtrack, and "Ride of the Valkries"....

from "the Blues Brothers".

EDIT: "Boogie On the Beach" from the "Six-String Samurai" soundtrack.
They say you can kill over 200 men, and play a MEAN six-string at the same time...
is that really true?

[Duer 157099]

55. Can't Take My Eyes Off You

Deer Hunter

And all of Amadeus.

[AllenVanAllen]

56. Here's a few

The Big Lebowski- the man in me-Bob Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBYCb-Pgnw



from Donnie Darko:

Tears for fears - Head over heels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWJPa0bvWnM

and Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5QfFQA4Tgc

[Moondog]

59. "As Time Goes By" from "Casblanca".

[Iggo]

62. "Singin' In The Rain" from Clockwork Orange.

I'm singin' in the rain (mmff!)
Just singin' in the rain (mmff! mmff!)

[timtom]

63. The Simon and Garfunkel tracks from

"The Graduate"

[Patsy Stone]

64. Stuck in the Middle with You -- Reservoir Dogs

Everytime I hear it, I hold my ears firmly onto my head.

[UTUSN]

66. Not in a GOOD way: the theme from M.A.S.H. Downright ANNOYING.

There's not much call outside of the movie/series for lyrics like, "Suicide is painless."


The best, original movie music is ACCOMPANIMENT to the thing as a whole, nearly inconspicous. There is nothing worse than the John WILLIAMS crap that booms itself out, especially with the sound levels at the plexes.

Scads of classic movies have wonderful whaddayacallum, music-scripts (that's not the word), minimalist and silence, punctuation of mood and theme.

[Richardo]

67. "Ride of the Valkeries" from Apocalypse Now

[Bunny]

69. You and your :roflcopter:!!!

:hi: buddy!

[Richardo]

70. That will never be not funny to me.

But I mean it about the Wagner - that was brilliant.


:hi: buddy!

[Giant Robot]

68. This is not quite what you are looking for but...

Every time I hear the 20th Century Fox (or whatever they are these days) theme, I think Star wars. What can I say, Start wars was very influential to a 7 year old, and it still makes me hearken back to those days now.

[Stump]

71. I've got a few

Mad World - Donnie Darko

Danger Zone - Top Gun

Some song about the Cuyahoga River - Major Leugue

That's just a few that come to mind...

[likesmountains 52]

72. Duettino, Sull Aria..Sawshank Redemption. Even when I hear that song during the opera

(Marriage of Figaro) I think of the scene in the movie.

[Tikki]

73. "You Never Can Tell"..Chuck Berry...from Pulp Fiction...

This song has special meaning to The Tikkis...but, cool that it was featured
in that movie...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmAWUxw5PQE


The Tikkis

[hellbound-liberal]

74. Here's one that EVERYBODY can name in three notes! Close your eyes and click on the link

No spoilers please. Just say if you were able to do it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmIKcP7Nbc

[Doc_Technical]

75. "Out of time" in the beginning of the movie "Coming Home"

Also, Suo Gan from Empire of the Sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs_T8ssB_28&feature=PlayList&p=E2CBF207C499AF12&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=63

[Dr. Strange]

76. I've never seen the Exorcist...

but I think people tend to automatically associate Tubular Bells with it.

[Tabasco_Dave]

77. Surfin Bird from Pink Flamingos

If you've seen the movie you know what i'm talking about.
:yoiks:

[seaglass]

78. Ravel's Bolero in 10.

I can appreciate it on its own but it is true that whenever I hear it I think of the movie

[nuxvomica]

79. Whenever I hear "Boum!" I think of "Toto le héros"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7tlOer-P3k

Hey, all the popular ones were already covered.

[Brigid]

80. Anything from "The Blues Brothers."

One of the greatest comedies ever. I think maybe I'll put it on the DVD player later today. :)

[Lindsey]

81. Donnie Darko...

Mad World
The Killing Moon

[cemaphonic]

82. Yeah, Kubrick was brilliant at this

Scorsese was the same with pop music.

[cemaphonic]

83. 2000 Man in Bottle Rocket

Sister Christian in Boogie Nights.