Great songs from/featured in films
I'm going on my friend's radio show (which is about films but they play a few songs now and then) and need to think of a few of the best. So far:
- The Book of Right On - Joanna Newsom; put to fantastically creepy use in The Strangers.
- Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis & the News; soundtracked one of the funnier murders in the movie.
- Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood; apparently in Morvern Callar which I've never seen but I googled if this song was in a movie 'cause I need to play it out.
- Natural's Not in It - Gang of Four; anachronistically opens Marie Antoinette (which is shit apart from the opening).
- The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel.
- Strauss - Thus Spoke Zarathustra; 2001 has probably the best opening scene of all time mainly due to the use of this Strauss piece.
- In Dreams - Roy Orbison; put to surreal and terrifying use in Blue Velvet.
Which ones out of those should I play/suggest more...
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ceremony in marie antoinette
temptation in trainspotting
just like honey in lost in translation
AM 180 by Grandaddy
from the supermarket scene in 28 Days Later
Also in 28 Days Later...
East Hastings by Godspeed
Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay - (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs)
There is a special place in my heart for Tarantino Musical Queues
Every one of his movies has a great one - even Django Unchained.
Dick Dale - Misrilou (Pulp Fiction)
Nancy Sinatra - Bang Band (My Baby Shot Me Down) (Kill Bill)
All those fucking 5, 6, 7, 8's songs in Kill Bill
Bernard Hermann's Twisted Nerve, also from Kill Bill
Kill Bill had the best fucking music, and that's saying something, considering how flawless the Reservoir Dogs soundtrack is
Faith No More - Surpise! You're Dead! (Gremlins 2)
Slayer - Angel Of Death (Gremlins 2)
Screaming Trees - Nearly lost You (Singles)
Alice In Chains - Would (Singles)
Chris Cornell - Seasons (Singles)
Jane's Addiction - Three Days (Singles)
Soundgarden - Hands All Over (Pacific Heights)
Monster Magnet - Big God (Crow 2: Salvation)
Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity (The Girl Next Door)
VAST - Thrown Away (Higher Ground)
Nine Inch Nails - Dead Souls (The Crow)
Ministry - N.W.O. (Cool World)
I have a more high concept idea: songs featured on
what did i press? -__-
I have a more high concept idea: limit it to songs featured diegetically in films
small bump
I was watching The Jerk this morning, and I remembered how lovely this song is. <3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6UR4FSvJlI
Killing Moon in Donnie Darko
The Gypsy Kings' Hotel California in Big Lebowski
Lust for Life - Trainspotting
Head Over Heels from Donnie Darko too.
o lucky man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK3P97RfVaI
Too many to list but here are some:
Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)
Power of Love (Back to the Future)
Because (American Beauty)