Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
#1Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:16am
AVClub.com has listed the top "15 Songs Owned By Movie Scenes". I completely agree with 'Lust for Life' in Trainspotting and 'Tiny Dancer' in Almost Famous. I can't hear either song without thinking of the movie it's in.
Can anyone think of other songs famously linked to movie scenes?
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Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
Updated On: 2/16/07 at 02:16 AM
husk_charmer
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#2re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:29am"Over the Rainbow" - Wizard of Oz
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#2re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:30am
the one from Ghost...
"Here's To You Mrs. Robinson". does that count?
Updated On: 2/16/07 at 02:30 AM
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#3re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:33am
ABSOLUTELY AGREE-- this is my number 1 choice without question... 1. Stealers Wheel, "Stuck In The Middle With You," Reservoir Dogs. I nearly typed it out before I actually read the list *L*
But a few others that did not make the list:
Dancin' Queen -- Muriel's Wedding
I Say A Little Prayer -- My Best Friend's Wedding-- I literally starting screaming out loud in the theater when Rupert leaned over to Julia "The moment I wake up..."
My ex-husband ducked beneath his seat...in my defense...the movie was a little static until then....I expected more from PJ Hogan...
"I'm a one-eyed Mormon Democrat from conservative Arizona, and you can't have a higher handicap than that."
~The ever-great and fabulous Morris K. Udall.
Updated On: 2/16/07 at 02:33 AM
#4re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:39amI totally forgot about 'Mrs. Robinson' and 'I Say A Little Prayer'. I can't believe they didn't make the list. I can't see the commercial for My Best Friend's Wedding (every time they air it on TBS) without singing 'Say a Little Prayer' in my head.
Call the understudy / I can't go on tonight / I'm drinking with my buddy / I'm getting good and tight / Before they raise the curtain I'll be higher than a kite / So call the understudy
I can't go on tonight
#6re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:30am
How is "Eye of the Tiger" from Rocky not on that list?
Whenever I listen to Aquarius on my Hair CD I think of the end of 40 Year Old Virgin.
worrell4077
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/04
#7re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:40pm
"Partyman" and "Trust" from Batman
"Ghostbusters", "Cleanin Up The Town", "Magic", and "Savin The Day" from Ghostbusters
"Springtime For Hitler" and "Prisoners of Love" from The Producers
"Puttin On The Ritz" in Young Frankenstein
"Kiss From A Rose" from Batman Forever(kinda)
#8re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:55pm
I did'nt see the list, the link wouldn't connect so if these were mentioned please pardon:
Footloose
Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
and that whistle song from The Bridge Over the River Kwai. It was also used in Breakfast Club.
....but the world goes 'round
#9re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:55pm"Don't You Forget About Me" Breakfast Club
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#10re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 2:58pm
I don't consider "Mrs. Robinson" or "Over the Rainbow," as both were written specifically fo the films. Obviously. What ELSE would you think of?
Less so than some of the others mentioned, but whenever I hear Petula Clark's DOWNTOWN, I picture Wynona Ryder and Angelina Jolie from GIRL, INTERRUPTED.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#11re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:02pm
Agree about "Downtown".
Also, "And Then He Kissed Me" from ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING.
#12re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:03pm
WHEN I'M 64-World According to Garp
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY-Wayne's World
PEOPLE ARE STRANGE-The Lost Boys
MISIRLOU-Pulp Fiction
Any Tammy Wynette-Five Easy Pieces
#13re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:12pmRaindrops keep falling on my head - Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
"Smart! And into all those exotic mystiques -- The Kama Sutra and Chinese techniques. I hear she knows more than seventy-five. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive!"
#14re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:14pm"Mad World" sung by Gary Jules in Donnie Darko.
#15re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:16pm
In Your Eyes - Say Anything
Satisfaction - Apocolypse Now
Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Somewhere in Time
now these were all very popular songs/musical pieces but are definitely identified with the movies mentioned
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#16re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:19pm"Up Where We Belong" in Officer and a Gentleman. Who doesn't think of the movie when they hear the song?
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#17re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:21pm"You Can't Always Get What You Want" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" - The Big Chill
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#18re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:23pmSorry - when it comes to The Big Chill - I immediately think of "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" only
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men" - Willy Wonka
#19re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:27pm"As Time Goes By"-CASABLANCA
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#20re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:34pmMele Kelikimaka from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
BroadwayBoobs: I'll give all of you who weren't there a hint of who took the pictures ...it rhymes with shameless
SOMMS: I knew it was Tink!
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#21re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 3:38pmAMERICAN PSYCHO...Sussudio.
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
#22re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 4:18pm
"Let the River Run" - New York skyline and ferry in the opening or Joan Cusack jumping out of her chair for joy at the end of Working Girl. Gets me every time.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
Updated On: 2/16/07 at 04:18 PM
#23re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 4:30pm
American Girl--David Bowie---Silence of the Lambs
God Only Knows--The Beach Boys--Love Actually
Adagio for Strings--Samuel Barber--Platoon (I actually played part of this piece for a class of kindergarteners to demonstrate fast/slow and one of them said "turn it off....it's too sad!")
#24re: Songs Owned By Movie Scenes
Posted: 2/16/07 at 5:19pm
"Playmate"-REDS
"He's My Pal"-IRONWEED
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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