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what song would you like to see made into a film?

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what song would you like to see made into a film?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Nite and Fog by Mercury Rev

― Bombed Out and Depleted / Kate (papa november), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pretty Shoes" by Jens Lekman wherein Mr. Lekman brings ideas of social democracy to China. Possibly a tortuous nightmare segment with bound feet. But sunshine and parasols and houseboats and kites in the end.

― youn, Monday, 26 September 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

roland the headless thompson gunner, obv.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Monday, 26 September 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Robbie Williams, "Me and My Monkey," if it's a bizarro Fear and Loathing-type thing.

And Sly & the Family Stone, "Thank U (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

any king diamond

― huell howser (chaki), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tangled Up in Blue" would be interesting, with the changing POVs, but I'm not sure I can think of a director who's up to it.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

'lily, rosemary and the jack of hearts." obviously.

― figs, Monday, 26 September 2005 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"bob dylan's 115th dream"

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it okay if I keep harping about Disco Inferno? Well, I suppose it's too bad if not, because my suggestion would be "New Clothes for the New World". When nothing's as it appears, why should you be?

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Murder Mystery" or "The Gift"

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 26 September 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Or "The Ocean." Now that I think about it that would make a fucking wicked movie (the version with references to "Malcolm's curse" and "a stealer's night," not the outtake from "VU").

"The Best-Ever Death Metal Band from Denton" could make a good movie too, as directed by Gus van Sant, or, in times past, John Hughes.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Nick Cave was the first person I thought of - would have to second mercy seat, I recently heard another bad seeds song that would make a great film but the title has completely escaped me.

― Bn1 (Bn1), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rat Trap"

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah it was possibly 'O'Malley's Bar'

― Bn1 (Bn1), Monday, 26 September 2005 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

'da funk'

― N_RQ, Monday, 26 September 2005 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

23 Skidoo's "Coup"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Last of the Famous International Playboys"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 26 September 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

'california uber alles'

― N_RQ, Monday, 26 September 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

"Pancho and Lefty"

― b8a, Monday, 26 September 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Illinois Enema Bandit"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Public Enemy: Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos

Dylan: Isis

Springsteen: Atlantic City

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Hawkwind "Born to Go"

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

"Taking Retards to the Zoo"

― richard wood johnson, Monday, 26 September 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

XTC - Ten Feet Tall

― zeus (zeus), Monday, 26 September 2005 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

2 Live Crew "Dick Almighty"

― b8a, Monday, 26 September 2005 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Buenos Tardes Amigo" by Ween

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The Road Goes On Forever...

― someteenpartying, Monday, 26 September 2005 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

tripmaker OTM!

― petesmith (plsmith), Monday, 26 September 2005 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cronenberg doing Coil's Anal Staircase. HaHaHa.

― cs, Monday, 26 September 2005 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

human league's black hit of space

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

CJ Bolland - "Horsepower"

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Pussy Galore - "Pigsweat"

― Don King of the Mountain (noodle vague), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Bee Gees - "Love You Inside Out"

Just to see how they manage it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Alan Vega, Viet Vet

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Beefheart, "Orange Claw Hammer."

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

PiL, "Poptones"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

charlie rich's "memphis and arkansas bridge," where he gets into a fight with his woman, hitches a ride in memphis and winds up drunk and in jail in nashville. quite possibly his greatest song, and it would make a good movie too.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:44 (twenty-one years ago)

"Poptones" is a very good answer.

― youn, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

newOrder - Sub Culture, directed by Anton Corbin

― biz, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

dreaming i am - bob mould (probably a short film and could be animation).

― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Springsteen: Atlantic City

that one WAS made into a movie, a couple of years before springsteen recorded the song. it was called "atlantic city."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, it's high time someone makes a movie out of "Nebraska." I think someone like Malick could do something with that story.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"down in the tube station at midnight," with a script by the contributors to this thread.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

as for malick, he should make a movie out of the song "badlands," and he should call it "nebraska."

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...
"Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six" — in a Marx Brothers meets Gabriel Garcia Marquez vein, directed by Soderbergh.

― I do feel guilty for getting any perverse amusement out of it (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)


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