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Music in Movies

AmorRoark

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I hope this doesn't lead to some sort of embarassment (being an NEMD mod) but I think it's best suited here...

anyway,

What songs do you feel are the most memorable in film?
I'll start the proverbial ball rolling...

"Seems Like Old Times" - Diane Keaton in Annie Hall
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis
 
damn, i was going to start this exact thread a few months ago but forgot. there was some inspiration to start one but i've forgotten that right now too.

actually i think it had something to do with whether you prefer original scores or already released music.

i didn't like hearing the chemical brothers used in lost in translation. my thorough familiarity of the track took away from the mood of the film.
 
^^
I've never heard a chemical brothers song in a movie and though "wow, that really belongs there, and it sounds great"

Bill Murry Singing Whats so funny About Peace Love and Understanding, and More than This was great, though.
 
Not enough brain cells now to name individual songs, but

Underground by Emir Kusturica pretty much introduced me to the wonderful world of Balkan music. He uses Goran Bregovic and the No Smoking Orchestra in his films. Fucking awesome stuff.

He used a theme called Bubamara also throughout his movie Black Cat White Cat.

Ordinary Decent Criminal has a good soundtrack, but we can't find it anywhere.

atlas, the one Coen bros film that I dug the OST to was The Man Who Wasn't There.

And let me be completely and totally out of line and pelted by decomposing tomatoes, but that catchy little theme to Pride and Prejudice totally did it for me =D

Yow
 
atlas said:
^^
I've never heard a chemical brothers song in a movie and though "wow, that really belongs there, and it sounds great"
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You didn't like Where Do I Begin in Vanilla Sky?

more..

AIR - Playground Love in The Virgin Suicides
Devo - Gut Feeling in The Life Aquatic
Aimee Mann - Wise Up in Magnolia
 
L2R said:
damn, i was going to start this exact thread a few months ago but forgot. there was some inspiration to start one but i've forgotten that right now too.

actually i think it had something to do with whether you prefer original scores or already released music.

i didn't like hearing the chemical brothers used in lost in translation. my thorough familiarity of the track took away from the mood of the film.
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I disagree. I like both the score created for The Royal Tenenbaums and the music selected for it. They were both fitting and, I would argue, help make the film. The lovely bus scene with Richie and Margot just wouldn't have been what it was without Nico's These Days playing in the background. That was pre-released and I don't think Mark Mothersbaugh (the man who did the score for the film) could have made a more fitting song to go along with it.

Ultimately, I think what makes for a good soundtrack and a bad soundtrack rests with how high up the totem pole the music involved in a film is placed.
 
The Crow - Burn
Pulp Fiction - Bullwinkle part 2 (the heroin shooting scene)
 
that song in the Big Lebowski where the Dude is bangin on his roof, thats a good one. whenever I hear it on the radio when I'm in my car, I always do as the Dude would do.
 
music doesn't quite make or break films... but when the soundtrack hits it right it elevates the film to a new sensory level, it seems.

besides a few already mentioned, the only one i can think of with song name and everything is-
maggie may at the end of lordz of dogtown. it seems like everything just mellowed a bit and he just went back to being in the groove and shaping, forgetting about everything that had happened.

and pretty much everything in amiele was cute just like her
 
Thompson Twins ~"If you were Here" in Sixteen Candles
Flesh for Lulu ~ "I Go Crazy" in Some Kind of Wonderful
Fred Karlin ~"For All We Know" in Lovers and other Strangers
Sigur Ros ~ "The Nothing Song (Njosnavelin)" in Vanilla Sky
Air ~ "Playground Love" in Virgin Suicides
Ram Jam ~ "Black Betty" in Blow
Dire Straits ~ "Six Blade Knife" in Desperado

a lot more I am forgetting!
 
OMG and how could I forget......

"O Mio Babbino Caro" (Written by Giacomo Puccini)and performed by Kiri Te Kanawa in Room with a View?
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Everytime I hear this song I get goosebumps still!

Also......"A Waltz for a Night" by Julie Delpy at the ending of Before Sunset.
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So beautiful. :)
 
ah, my original inspirations have just dawned on me:

the score of eyes wide shut
it get paid out by cynical audiences, but it drew me right the hell in.

oh and who could forget 2001 a space odyssey.

the score to requiem for a dream wonderfully encaptured the melancholic tone of the film
 
David Bowie's "Cat People"

The film version is different from the version on "Let's Dance."

Seeee...these...eyes....SO GREEN....
 
I love the music in 28 Days/Weeks Later - Godspeed! You Black Emperor in the first one and similar music (but not by G!YBE I think).

Completely differently, there is a really nice use of the Stone Roses in There's Only One Jimmy Grimble (yeah, really. Don't ask why I was watching it....). Robert Carlyle is the harassed soccer-coaching teacher, the kids don't respect him, till the team plays another team coached by a well-known ex-player, who recognises Carlyle and confirms that he is actually an ex-pro himself....the next scene is a montage of Carlyle jumping around on the sideline, yelling instructions to his players, completely transformed, all set to 'Waterfall' by the Stone Roses. Which (given that the film is set in Manchester in the early 90s) is just undeniably perfect :)
 
I'd have to say without a doubt, the scene in The Big Lebowski where we first see "da Jesus" in action. The Spanish-flamenco version of The Eagles' Hotel California is playing, and the camera slowly pans across The Dude , Walter, and Donny. Priceless!!
 
AmorRoark said:
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - Judy Garland in Meet Me in St. Louis
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You knows it!!! :D

EDIT: Cuz my original choices were crap

"Sometimes" by My Bloody Valentine in Lost In Translation

"Jaan Pehechaan Ho" by Mohammed Rafi in Ghost World

"Cattle Call" by Eddy Arnold in My Own Private Idaho

"Hey You" Written by Roger Waters, Performed by Jesse Eisenberg in The Squid And The Whale

"You You You You You" by The 6ths in Pieces Of April

And also, the entire soundtrack to Dazed And Confused %)
 
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