ok 70s rock fans, vote for your favorite song in "Dazed and Confused"!

ok I admit it I just created this poll to vote for Head East

Right now I'm partial to "Love Hurts" at the middle school/YMCA dance.

Rock & Roll All Nite is my overall favorite tbh, it's been too long since I've watched it (VCR broke, haven't got around to the DVD) to remember the contexts of each song in the film - what scene was Kiss in?

goddam it's hard to beat "sweet emotion" as that gto is easing into the parking lot. one of the best credit sequences of the last few decades. but i think i'll take "tuesday's gone" because it just exactly captures that party-fading-toward-morning moment.

Kiss plays when everybody is heading out to the moontower. "You better get your wood screws, cause I'm gonna blow your doors completely off!"

The Criterion edition is THA SHIT.

duly noted. lots of extras?

"Slow Ride," because of how it's used in the movie.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-CHERRY BOMB!

yeah sorry I didn't have total recall of which scene exactly fit each song so I decided not to write that in...so take it as either best song/moment in the film or just the tune on here that would make you most happy if it popped on your local classic rock station

one thing i love about the movie is how it puts all these songs back in context of how they sounded then, so they seem sexy and new instead of mossy.

"Tuesday's Gone" at the end of the kegger is just so beautiful

duly noted. lots of extras?

Oh yes, you get:

Audio commentary by Linklater
"Making Dazed," a 50-minute documentary by filmmaker Kahane Corn
Rare on-set interviews and behind-the-scenes footage
Footage from the ten-year anniversary celebration
Audition footage
Deleted Scenes

And the book is really nice too. Some essays, bits from the companion book, and a reprinted oral history from Texas Monthly. The extras disc has a option wherein you can watch all the bonus material in "Shuffle" mode.

I've gotta stop doing all this free plugging for Criterion.

"...take it easy..."

i might have to go with highway star. that's a nice list of songs though.

i would pick highway star over paranoid just cuzza the guitar solo. it's one of my top five solos ever.

the beat club version of highway star... solos are apeshit.

i picked "lord have mercy on my soul" cause it's killer.

I voted for the greatest phoneme in recorded music history: "F" from "F-Foxy."

"No More Mister NIce Guy" by the `Coop.

Ditto Tipsy Mothra. I almost went with Sweet Emotion which, prior to my having seen D&C, I had thought would be a great song with which to open a 70s movie, providing me with no small amount of wish fulfillment. Tuesday's Gone stole the show though.

free ride

Slow Ride

No More Mister Nice Guy as Mitch gets busted in slow motion is so ACE!

But I don't remember when Steve Miller is used in the movie. doo doo doo doo do do

I think Steve Miller pops up during the party. You don't hear much of it though.

tough choice. i went for cherry bomb, but it could just as easily have been sweet emotion.

this is basically choosing a favorite scene, which is almost impossible! Top contenders are "Sweet Emotion", "Slow Ride" and maybe "Right Place, Wrong Time".

Oooh, "Right Place, Wrong Time" works so well in it's scene.

Man, so much stuff to love there. (Even though the film itself wasn't so hot - can't match many scenes with the corresponding songs without seeing it again.) I'm inclined to choose "Low Rider" (most irresistable groove in history, plus it accompanied the mailbox scene, which was kinda funny and true-to-life in its idiocy), but I've praised that song far too often here and could've easily chosen Sweet or BOA or the Runaways - none of whom suffer from excessive airplay, thankfully.

I wonder how come "Dazed and Confused" itself was nowhere to be heard on the soundtrack?

I believe you are wrong about two things
The movie is indeed quite hot
Low Rider is playing as all the kids are cruising, not when they break the mailboxes later on.

I think Cherry Bomb is actually my favorite song on the soundtrack, but I voted for the usage of Tuesday's Gone though I might actually like the Free Ride usage better.

I wonder how come "Dazed and Confused" itself was nowhere to be heard on the soundtrack?

Led Zep songs are hard to license for films (unless you're Cameron Crowe), and even then they're really expensive.

ALL OF THEM

EXCEPT FRAMPTON WHICH IS A LITTLE GAY

one that's not listed is when they play the guitar intro to Frampton's "Show Me the Way" as Tony and pals drive up to the burger place -- I always love that, it's like the official start of the night

you know it's a good soundtrack when it makes you like songs you never did before

xpost to second the use of "Tuesday's Gone"

Yeah, Tuesday's Gone is used perfectly in that movie. Skynyrd's slow songs are always better than their boogie numbers.

Show me the Way is listed

there it is!

Although it is a terrible song, the context in which we hear "Summer Breeze" is so so good. The new freshman, making it with the older girl.. the night is winding down. He just seems so happy.

Tipsy Mothra OTM about "Sweet Emotion" and the credit sequence.

"School's out" is used excellently as well.

Tough call.

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get a little lower

no summer breeze not terrible! but that song doesn't need me to defend it. it is wonder and light.

I'm in the mood
the rhythm is right

low rider

Highway Star

Myonga check out the movie again, I think it's one of those films that gets better each time you see it

also where is the love for "Fox on the Run"? I'm such a sucker for hard rock with outsized synths

i don't even remember hearing that in the movie! but yeah, the version on the american album with ++ synthesizers kicks the crap out of the british album version.

That'd be Alice Cooper, even though his best stuff was all non-singles and not included in any movie.

i don't even remember hearing that in the movie!

It plays under the sequence w/Wooderson's line about High School Girls.

also where is the love for "Fox on the Run"? I'm such a sucker for hard rock with outsized synths

I loved on it in a big way, sweetie! Scroll up.

Top 6
1 Sweet Emotion
2 Schools out
3 Fox on the run
4 Cherry Bomb
5 Low Rider
6 Slow Ride

The soundtrack album I've got's missing half the songs on the list. I'd like to hear the rest.

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If I'd seen this poll, it would have been "Tuesday's Gone," for the reasons cited above and also because I unironically dig it. But it's a shame to see so little Head East love...

I wonder how come "Dazed and Confused" itself was nowhere to be heard on the soundtrack?

Led Zep songs are hard to license for films (unless you're Cameron Crowe), and even then they're really expensive

Maybe they should've asked Jake Holmes for permission!

the original poll got it right, tuesday's gone

oops, meant to post that on the new poll whatevs