C90: I Love The Cinema

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I was racking my brains trying to come up with a fun theme for a tape that will eventually make it to a girl I know. I kept trying to think of what we have in common and it seems that film has been one of the main reasons we've stayed friends. I'm thinking more of songs about movies as opposed to songs from movies. Anything about a particular movie, going to movies, loving movies, movie themed, etc.
Damien Jurado - Matinee
Neil Young - Sad Movies
Hefner - The Hymn For The Cigarettes (Kind of a stretch but I love the line, "How can she love me if she doesn't even love the cinema that I love.")
Duran Duran - Girls on Film (Don't know if I like that enough for it to make the cut)

Ok, this was a lot harder than I thought. I'm getting pretty desparate here...any help?

― AlienBoy (AlienBoy), Friday, 15 August 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)

belle and sebastian - like dylan in the movies
comet gain - a film by kenneth anger

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 04:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ladytron - He Took Her to a Movie

― Moss Feaster, Friday, 15 August 2003 05:29 (twenty-two years ago)

jack - cinematic

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 15 August 2003 05:35 (twenty-two years ago)

The Go - "Meet Me at the Movies" - this song has mysterious power over certain women.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 15 August 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

All Girl Summer Fun Band - Jason Lee

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 15 August 2003 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bananarama - Robert de Niro's Waiting
David Bowie - Cracked Actor
Thin White Rope - Film Theme
Sloan - In the Movies

― willem (willem), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Silver screen, such a disgrace
I couldn't look her straight in the face
A blue addiction, I live in disgust
Degradation being eaten by lust

No bone movies!

Inspiration that's blue and uncut
Can't kick the habit, obsession of smut
Voyeur straining, in love with his hand
Poison passion, a pulsating gland

No bone movies!"

― dave q, Friday, 15 August 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Scott Walker - The 7th Seal

― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's

(on second thought... no.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

David Bowie - "Life On Mars"

I will now declare myself the winner.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Razorcuts: The Last Picture Show

― harveyw (harveyw), Friday, 15 August 2003 06:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Saturday Night At The Movies - The Drifters , dur.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Kenickie - Can I Take U 2 the Cinema

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Alien Ant Farm - 'Movies'

*duck*

― person#0 (person#0), Friday, 15 August 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric Burdon - Spill the Wine. "I dreamed that I was in a Hollywood Movie - and that I was the star of the movie. This really blew my mind - the fact that I - an overfed, long-haired ... leaping gnome -
should be in a Hollywood movie."

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 August 2003 10:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Supernova's "Chewbacca"?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"...what a WOOKIE!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

[i]Supernova's "Chewbacca"? [/i]

Beautiful. I was looking for a good crazy one to through in there.

― AlienBoy (AlienBoy), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:25 (twenty-two years ago)

St Etienne pale movie
Bowie - Drive In Saturday.

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking about Drive In Saturday but are the lyrics actually about cinema(s) at all?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"...when people looked into Jagger's eyes and scored, like the video films we saw..."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't understand it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"Movies" by Comet Gain
"Movies Movies" by Butchies

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Gorillaz "Clint Eastwood"...what the song actually as to do with film, I haven't the foggiest, but hey, Clint Eastwood, huh?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Van Dyke Parks - Palm Desert

("I came west unto Hollywood, never-never land"

"Dreams are still born in Hollywood")

And if just the title is enough, The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Or Lee Remick (possibly the only pop lyric to mention Screen Gems).

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Most obvious song not to get a mention yet: "Silver screen, shower scene"...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Other Go-Betweens' reference (miniscule)
"In a darkened Cinema, I'll give you pleasure in the stall."

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The popcorn trick!

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Fall - Popcorn Double Feature

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

If we're talking miniscule references then

"I was watching a movie with a friend / I fell in love with the actress / She was playing a part that I could understand" (Neil Young - A Man Needs A Maid

and

"You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life" (Pavement - Shady Lane)

are two of my favourites.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

She's In Parties by bauhaus?

― Jim Eaton-Terry (Jim E-T), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Boy, this is getting pretty swept up in minutia, but in "Day Drinkin'" by Tom T. Hall and Dave Dudley, they ramble on about a nearly naked woman in a recent Late Late Show movie. It's a pretty buried movie reference and about a movie on tv, so I'm not sure if it's at all what is being looked for, but it's a fun song.

Also, in "Going Out west" by Tom Waits, he mentions not only becoming a star (presumably a movie star, based on the context), but also that his mom used to date Tony Franciosa.

Pretty obscure references, but good mix tape songs.

― Moss Feaster, Friday, 15 August 2003 13:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everyone's Gone to the Movies" -- Steely Dan ('cept it's about how everyone else is at the movies, so it's not really a celebration of the movies per se)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hoo. Ray. For. HOLLYWOOD."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 15 August 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Throbbing Gristle "Persuasion"

― dave q, Friday, 15 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Celluloid Heroes" The Kinks

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"motion pictures" by neil young

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 15 August 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead, "Motion Picture Soundtrack"

― Adam Harrison-Friday, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Tom Courtenay" by Yo La Tengo is full of movie and actor references.

― Moss Feaster, Friday, 15 August 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

"Movies In My Head" - The Sixths
"Burn, Hollywood Burn" - Public Enemy (perhaps also "Open Up" by Leftfield?)

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Friday, 15 August 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Raybeats, "It's Only A Movie!"

― nestmanso (nestmanso), Friday, 15 August 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead -- "Exit Music (For a Film)"
King Missile -- "Martin Scorsese"

Um, maybe not the second one:

This one' called Martin Scorsese
He makes the best fucking films (x2)
If I ever meet him I'm gonna grab his fuckin' neck and just shake him
And say thank you thank you for makin' such excellent fuckin' movies
Then I'd twist his nose all the way the fuck around
And then rip off one of his ears and throw it
Like a like a like a fuckin' frisbee
I wanna chew his fuckin' lips off and grab his head and suck out one of his
eyes and chew on it and spit it out in his face
And thank you thank you for all of your fuckin' films
Then I'd pick him up by the hair swing him over my head a few times
And throw him across the room and kick all his fuckin' teeth in and then
stomp on his face 40 or 50 times
Cuz he makes the best fucking films he makes the best fucking films
I've ever seen in my life
I fuckin love him
I fuckin love him

― David A. (Davant), Friday, 15 August 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a Clash song that's kind of about Travis Bickle and a Lou Reed song that mentions characters from Mean Streets. Damn if I can't remember the titles of either right now. Urgh.

― Moss Feaster, Friday, 15 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, this is getting pretty obscure. Still good stuff, though. I kicked myself for not remembering the line from "Stereo." I keep imagining there was a Death Cab For Cutie song that would apply...and on closer examination:

Death Cab For Cutie - A Movie Script Ending
The Sixths - Just Like A Movie Star
Ides of Space - Movie Ending
Delbert & Glen - "B" Movie Boxcar Blues
Early Day Miners - Texas Cinema

I'll need to listen to all these. I pretty much just searched through my collection for anything with the word movie, film, or cinema.

― AlienBoy (AlienBoy), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of you will have been expecting me... A few that I have:
Barry Adamson - 007, A Fantasy Bond Theme
Apache Indian - Movie Over India
A-Sides - Jurassic Park
Atomic Dog - Natural Born Killers
Black Grape - Kelly's Heroes
Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming To Dinner
Dick Busch - Hollywood Party
Kate Bush - Hammer Horror
Cinerama - Film
George Clinton - Hollywood
Elvis Costello - B Movie
Desmond Dekker - 007 (Shanty Town)
Doors - Twentieth Century Fox
Drifters - Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies
Eminem - Say Goodbye Hollywood
Felix Da Housecat - Madam Hollywood (since the best one is taken already!)
Gamer 3 - Acid For Blood (Aliens samples)
Rex Garvin & the Mighty Cravers - Sock It To Them JB (not James Brown as you might think, but another James Bond one)
Nanci Griffith - Drive-In Movies And Dashboard Lights
Merle Haggard - It's All In The Movies
Kinks - Moving PicturesMadonna - Hollywood
MDC - John Wayne Was a Nazi
Mekons (who also had a Wayne song) - Watch The Film
Buck Owens - Act Naturally
Ian Pooley - Picture Palace
John Prine - Picture Show
Pulp - This Is Hardcore or TV Movie
Roots Radics - Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker
Runaways - Hollywood
Saint Etienne - Split Screen
Gil Scott-Heron - B Movie
Skyhooks - Horror Movie
Soft Cell - Kitchen Sink Drama
Stooges - She Creatures Of Hollywood Hills
Tekken - Monument Valley USA (a movie connection for all John Ford fans)
Armand Van Helden - Hood Movie Stars
Village People - In Hollywood (Everybody Is A Star)
Voodoo Queens - Indian Filmstar
Wedding Present - Swimming Pools and Movie Stars
Wire - French Film Blurred
Wreckless Eric - Let's Go To The Pictures

If I hadn't got bored with ones that shared a title, deliberately or not, with some film, I'd have been able to list 200+. If someone wants such things for a tape, just say and I'll knock them out.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 15 August 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Kraut - "Matinee (I'm Fuckin' My Girl at the...)"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 15 August 2003 23:26 (twenty-two years ago)

exploding budgies 'kenneth anger'

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 16 August 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Martin Skidmore, I'd love to get such a list. If you don't want to post it here, just e-mail it to me.

― AlienBoy (AlienBoy), Saturday, 16 August 2003 04:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, here are lots more:
Ape Quartet - Tarzan
Aphrodite - Stalker
David Arnold - Shaken And Stirred: The James Bond Project (album of Bond theme versions)
Arsonists - Backdraft
Atari Teenage Riot - Speed
Audio Technology - Face Off
Azzido Da Bass - Speed
Joey Beltram - The Omen
Black Grape - In the Name of the Father
Glen Campbell - The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
Canabisis - Topkapi
Johnny Cash - Highway Patrolman and The Sons Of Katie Elder
Malcolm Catto - Metropolis
Chemical Brothers - Life Is Sweet
Cinerama - Manhattan
Clash - The Magnificent Seven
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
Clovers - Blue Velvet
Coldcut - Angel Heart
Nat King Cole - Portrait of Jennie
Julian Cope - Mad Max or Soldier Blue
Core Foundation - Raise The Titanic
Elvis Costello - Shallow Grave
Carl Cox - The Player
Cramps - I Was A Teenage Werewolf
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Don't Look Now
Culture - Election
Nora Dean - Barbwire
DJ Dextrous - Top Gun
Dr Dre - Natural Born Killaz
Drumbago's Orchestra - Duck Soup
Evolution - Metropolis
Adam F - Dirty Harry's Revenge (with Beenie Man) and Metropolis
Funk D'Void - Magnolia
Fused - Great Escape
Ganja Kru - Pink Panther
Boris Gardiner - Scarface
Spoonie Gee - The Godfather
Macy Gray - Caligula
Al Green - Chariots Of Fire
Merle Haggard - Gone With the Wind
Isaac Hayes - Shaft
Stakker Humanoid - The Deep
Ice-T - Lethal Weapon
Intense - Dusk 'till Dawn
Prince Jammy - Dusk 'till Dawn
Tom Jones - Thunderball
Joy Division - The Sound Of Music
King Horror - Frankenstein
Frankie Knuckles - Godfather
Kruder & Dorfmeister - High Noon
Cyndi Lauper - A Night To Remember
Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story
Leadbelly - Easy Rider
Madonna - White Heat
Magazine - Goldfinger
Marauder & the Fury - Terminator
Tommy McCook - Doctor Zhivago
Mekons - Fantastic Voyage
anything from Jeff Mills' Metropoplis project
Garnet Mimms - Cry Baby
Motorhead - Metropolis
Ralph Myerz And The Jack Herren Band - Casino
New York Dolls - Frankenstein
Nextmen - Sex, Lies And Videotape
Nico (the drum & bass one) - Dark Star
Nirvana - Sliver
Omega Defcon 2 - Enter the Dragon
Only Ones - The Big Sleep and From Here to Eternity
Optical - The Shining
Orbital - The Saint
Kid Ory - High Society
Outkast - E.T. (Extraterrestrial)
Photek - The Seven Samurai and Solaris
Gene Pitney - The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
Pop Group - The Boys From Brazil
Iggy Pop - Easy Rider
Primal Scream - Trainspotting or Wise Blood
Primitives - Crash
Prince - And God Created Woman
Public Enemy - Crash
Pulp - Sunrise and Wickerman
DJ Red - Enta Da Dragon
Regular Fries - King Kong
A Reminiscent Drive - Life Is Beautiful
Ed Rush & Optical - Point Blank
Saint Etienne - Shock Corridor
Saints - On the Waterfront
Doc Scott - Last Action Hero
Sewer Zombies - Death Race 2000
MC Shan - Down By Law
TGG Sheriff - Deep End
Shut Up And Dance - Cape Fear
Simian - The Swarm
Frank Sinatra - Born Free
Sirius 23 - Back To The Future
Skatalites - Guns Of Navarone
Skynet - Logan's Run
Will Smith - Men In Black, Wild Wild West etc.
Soul II Soul - Heat Of The Night
Spring Heel Jack - Day Of The Dead
Stakka & K. Tee - Jagged Edge
Stiff Little Fingers - Straw Dogs
Streets - Who Dares Wins
Sugababes - Angels With Dirty Faces
Sulphurex - Point Break
Mampi Swift - Sunrise
Lyn Taitt & the Jets - To Sir With Love
DJ Tappitt - Dusk Till Dawn
Art Tatum - Gone With The Wind
Television - The Blow Up
Tellurian - The Navigator
Amon Tobin - Reanimator
Toots & the Maytals - Peeping Tom
Total Eclipse - Aliens and Black Hole
TTC - Subway
Upsetters - For A Few Dollars More
Utah Saints - Highlander
Armand Van Helden - Reservoir Dogs
Vinyl Groover - Phantasm
Wedding Present - All About Eve and Octopussy
Granville Williams - The Third Man
Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
Wire - Brazil
Wu-Tang Killa Bees - And Justice For All
Yello - Blazing Saddles
Neil Young - Pocahontas
DJ Zinc - Casino Royale
Zouk Presents Transcendental Experience - Vertigo

I think that's a bit short of 200 - I left out some that were just the original theme by no one terribly interesting, some duplications and some that were a bit too approximate.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a great vaudeville-style Blur song called 'Theme From An Imaginary Film'

― Alexis (Alexis), Saturday, 16 August 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't anyone say strange movies by the troggs, you have to listen to that, it's so so funny

― m.s (m .s), Sunday, 17 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Must have: "Science Fiction Double Feature" from the Rocky Horror soundtrack.

― weatheringdaleson (weatheringdaleson), Sunday, 17 August 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

The Passions "I'm In Love With A German Film Star"

― Amarga (Amarga), Monday, 18 August 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

(or the Linoleum version of same)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 18 August 2003 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

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