Silence Of The Lambs - PLEASE put me out of my misery and tell me...

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...the name of the song playing when Buffalo Bill puts on the woman suit and dances around with his bits clenched between his thighs!

It's been pissing me off ever since I first saw the film, TEN friggin' years ago, and nobody's been able to help me.

It's kinda mid '80s, it's got a darkwave/synthpop beat, it sounds a little like Colourbox and a little like a weedier Killing Joke, it's really good and I want it so I can freak people out.

C'mon, ILM, you know you got it in you!

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

If I remember rightly, Ladytron have a track that sounds a bit like it on 604...can't remember which one it is tho...not much help really.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it might be "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazarus. There was a thread about it once here:

Q Lazarus "Goodbye Horses" - C or D?

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Colin Newman's Alone. That one kinda puts my bits betw thighs.

― briania, Tuesday, 5 November 2002 07:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Has Q. Laz done anything aside from this one song and the appearance in (again Demme's) Philadelphia?

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

yep, its Q. Lazarus.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

good luck trying to find it though. Its on the Married to the Mob soundtrack, and I also have it, shoot me an email and I'll send it to you.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I have an mp3 of it as well, but I found it originally on the MARRIED TO THE MOB soundtrack.....also very hard to find in itself.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Go here:

http://www.psyche-hq.de/goodbye-horses/

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I always understood it was the Virgin Prunes, though I don't know the title.

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't there some VP somewhere on the soundtrack, if only so I don't feel like a dolt?

― Lee G (Lee G), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Virgin Prunes on the soundtrack to "Silence of the Lambs"!??!?!?! Never!

Also, "Goodbye Horses" is much more melodic than the `Prunes would ever be able to muster, bless'em.

According to IMDB (internet movie database), here's the full list of songs in the film:

American Girl"
Performed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Written by T. Petty
Courtesy of Gone Gator Records

"Alone"
Performed by Colin Newman
Written by C. Newman, G. Lewis
Courtesy of Beggars Banquet Records Limited

"Sunny Day"
Performed by Book of Love
Written by T. Ottaviano
Courtesy of Sire Records
By arrangement with Warner Special Products

"Real Men"
Performed by Savage Republic
Written by B. Licher, M. Erskine, J. Long
Courtesy of Independent Project Records

"Goldberg Variations"
Performed by Jerry Zimmerman
Written by Johann Sebastian Bach

"Goodbye Horses"
Performed by Q. Lazzarus
Written by W. Garvey

"Hip Priest"
Performed by The Fall
Written by M.E. Smith, M. Riley, S. Hanley, C. Scanlon, P. Hanley
Courtesy of Situation Two / Beggars Banquet Records Limited

"Lanmo Nan Ziie A"
Performed and Written by Les Freses Parents

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Available on MCA Records,
Cassettes
and Compact Discs

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

...and I'll be *damned* if I can name the scene wherein "Hip Priest" by the Fall is playing. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

i listen out for HP every time i watch SotL and i've never definitively caught it: i *think* it begins playing when jody first goes down the cellar, but i am CERTAIN that mes doesn't start singing

the list of songs mentioned in the end-credits is surely longer than that, alex? (demme's movies used to be fun for the tremendous bulk of alt.rock he wz squirrelling into them.... )

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

mp3 at www.hannotations.com/music.html
peace

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

You're all lovely. Thankyou.

Of course, me not having any means of downloading and/or burning kinda stymies all your kind efforts, but at least I can sleep at night again...

Best start scouring secind hand shops for the MTTM soundtrack I guess! How come allmusic only lists the score? V odd.

Who is/are/was/were Q Lazzarus anyway? Name rings no bells whatsoever.

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, shoulda looked at Arthur's thread before asking that last question....

― Charlie (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 November 2002 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlie I can copy the soundtrack for you and put it in the mail. its no problem really. again, email me if you want.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 6 November 2002 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

If I remember rightly, Ladytron have a track that sounds a bit like it on 604...can't remember which one it is tho...not much help really.

Sorry to quote myself in a fit of onanistic narcissism, but I've had a monent of clarity about this, prompted by an email from one boogienights...

The track I'm thinking of isn't by Ladytron at all. It's by Electrelane, and it's called "Blue Straggler", and it sounds like this.

(in fact, search the Jagz Kooner remix of the above cos it's even more woozy)

― Charlie (Charlie), Sunday, 2 February 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty sure I heard Mark E's voice and "Hip Priest" in the Jodie creeps down to Bill's cellar scene (in fact, I checked the credits to reaffirm it, rather than the other way around). I love that they made it sound like Bill was playing the Fall rather than using it in a nondiagetic way, like theme music or something. Buffalo Bill was evidently quite alt.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 February 2003 23:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeh, i'll back anthony up, hip priest for certain plays in the cellar scene, where starling is looking around corners just before all the electricity goes out. I wonder how many if any kids got into the fall cos they saw their name in the end credits and hoped, "that's gotta be the band that does the dick-tucking music!"

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Sunday, 2 February 2003 23:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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