Allusions to CULT FILMS in Rock

"I just ate a hotdog, it tasted real good/I just saw a film from Hollywood!"

"I could tighten my headband for an extra rush during Jerry's guitar solo, then I could go to a midnite show of 200 MOTELS!"

On the extended mix of "Beers Steers + Queers" by the Revolting Cocks, there's an extensive sampling of dialogue -- specifically the rape scene from "Deliverance." ("Now why don't you jus' drop them pants.....squeal like a pig!")

The Ramones' signature battle cry from "Pinhead," "Gabba Gabba Hey" comes from the classic disquieting black & white horror flick, "Freaks" ("Gabba Gabba One of Us One of Us!")

Case of reverse: The Indian Runner is actually inspired by a Bruce Springsteen song off of Nebraska. "Ode to Billy Joe" inspired a similar song to film transition.

Moloko - "A Clockwork Orange"

Heaven 17 - "A Clockwork Orange"

Turbo AC's - "The Warriors" (although in the film, it's the TURNBALL Ac's)

Nerf Herder - "Star Wars"

The Tyrell Corporation - "Blade Runner"

Duran Duran - "Barbarella"

Obviously The Pixies singing about 30's surrealist short films (has anyone actually seen it? The eyeball thing is foul).

Um... Alien Ant Farm wrote a song called Movies, but it's piss-awful and not actually about cult films.

Blur dressed as Droogs in The Universal, Campag Velocet's ENTIRE CAREER, Ash's interminable Star Wars thang, Roddy from Idlewild's interest in films and arthouse and movie-making in general...

The Ministry track "You Know What You Are" off LAND OF RAPE & HONEY takes both its title and a sample from Eli Wallach's doomed line before having his noose shot off in "The Good, The Bad & the Ugly."

Neneh Cherry's ode to sex education, the inexplicably-titled "Trout", cribs its guitar riff wholesale from Steppenwolf's "The Pusher" from "Easy Rider."

Punk Revivalists the Bouncing Souls have a tune rife with film allusions off their album, THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE ARGYLE dubbed, aptly enough, "These Are the Quotes From Our Favorite 80's Movies," featuring snippets and quotes from such films as "Better Off Dead," "Some Kinda Wonderful," "Say Anything," "Rambo" and "The Breakfast Club."

The Clash have a track called "Charlie Don't Surf" on SANDINISTA, the title taken from an immortal declaration by Col. Kilgore in "Apocalypse Now!"

Can't think of the track, but on one late-career Skinny Puppy album, I believe a line from David Lynch's "Eraserhead" is sampled, specifically the harrowing: "They're still not sure if it is a baby!"

Sorry, it seems like I'm doing a lot of posting of these answers m'self, but I'm working the night shift and am bored as all get-out.

"Attack Ships on Fire" by the Revolting Cocks (again!) is a line from the final rooftop sequence of "Bladerunner" wherein Rutger Haur (playing Roy Batty) is describing the things he's seen with robotic eyes..."Attack Ships on Fire off the Shoulder of Orion...all these memories will be lost in time like tears in the rain.....".....or something like that.

'Un Chien Andalou' is 1920s not 1930s.

"L.A." by the Fall contains the line "This is my happening and it freaks me out" which is a quote from "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls". Austin Powers has used that line in more recent times of course.

Primal Scream directly sampled Vanishing Point and Cleavon Little's DJ rap for "Kowalski," while oddly enough Guns 'n' Roses also borrowed that rap for a song on Use Your Illusion, but there it was Axl himself recreating the rap word for word. I have no idea why.

Skinny Puppy have a slew of other movie borrowings -- "Who's Laughing Now" makes merry fun with The Evil Dead...

PWEI, unsurprisingly, also got on the Blade Runner bandwagon thanks to the aptly titled "Wake Up! Time To Die," while Therapy? sampled that very line for the start of its first album.

The Chameleons have a semi-legendary sample that starts its Script of the Bridge album, but the problem was that nobody remembered where it came from; apparently Mark Burgess just got it randomly off the TV one night while recording. Someone finally identified it a few years back, but I don't have that info to hand...

And, if memory serves me right, the "Terry and Julie" reference in the Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" was a reference to some British film with Julie Christie.

The Beastie Boys probably have tons of 'em if you look. The #1 and best is their "Body Movin'" video, which has 'em capering about re- enacting scenes from the '60s Italian cult crime psychedelic go-go action flick "Diabolik" (also the last film ever shown on Mystery Science Theater 3000). I guess "High Plains Drifter" sort of counts, too.

Beck does a simultaneous tribute to "Midnight Cowboy" (albeit walking around with a boombox instead of a transistor radio) and "The 400 Blows" (the sudden quick zooms a'la the ending) for the "Devil's Haircut" video.

And let's not forget: the entire persona of the Wu-Tang Clan owes pretty heavily to obscure kung-fu flicks.

Did anyone mention the Clash's "Red Angel Dragnet" yet, with all the 'Taxi Driver' references? "Come in, Travis..."

Julian Cope has a track called "Robert Mitchum" on SKELLINGTON which references a scene in "Ryan's Daughter" (although I'm not sure I'd call that a 'cult film').

Not sure if it's intentional or merely just the way the song is particularly arranged, but Jeff Buckley's rendition of the standard, "Corpus Christi Carol" is a note-perfect twin of the version in "The Wicker Man," .....which is a bit odd, being that "The Wicker Man" is about paganism and all that. I suppose that's either irony or implied symbolism as they drag Edward Woodward into his wicker death chamber. Love that film.

Someone else rightly mentioned the Beastie Boys -- Adrock mentions "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" in "Sure Shot." Mike D mentions "Victor, the Cleaner" in "So What'cha Want" -- a reference to "La Femme Nikita."

The video for Faith No More's "Our Last Cup of Sorrow" is a direct homage to Hitchcock's "Vertigo," and the video of Garbage's "Push It" references the experimental avant-garde film, "Zorn's Lemma."

Motley Crue feature unmistakable Droogs lookalikes in their video for "Hooligan's Holiday."

Metallica featured snippets from "Johnny Got His Gun" in the video for "One."

The Ramones, I believe, have a song about Alex's car, the Durrango, in "A Clockwork Orange."

The Wedding Present recorded a cover of Julee Cruise's theme to "Twin Peaks."

Not sure if this counts, but there is sampled bits of dialogue from the Sally Fields schizophrenia movie, "Sybil" rife thoughout SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR by Tears for Fears.

Soundgarden covered "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap, although I'm sure others have followed suit.

George Michael throws in a snippet of "The Graduate" on "Too Funky" (Anne Bancroft asking Benjamin, "Would you like me to seduce you?")

The tail-end of "Eggman" off the Beastie Boys' PAUL'S BOUTIQUE features snippets of the themes from both "Jaws" and "Psycho."

Front Line Assembely featured a snippet of Michael Douglas's thankless jingoism from the Ridley Scott film "Black Rain" on the first track from their MILLENIUM album, "Vigillante," specifically "We're not the same! I'm an American....you're a sick asshole!"

I'm pretty sure the band recreated that, and it's not actually a sample from the movie. That album does, however, sample a clip from a little later in the movie of Jeffrey's crying while sitting on his bed after being beaten by Dennis Hopper. And they thank his character, Frank Booth, in their liner notes.

Some song by Malhavoc sampled Dennis Hopper freaking out in that movie, and dialogue from Heathers.

And the bassline is stolen wholesale from Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly", from the soundtrack to the film of the same name.

"Think What Your Doing" by the Bowling Green is based around a sample of music played at a party in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

"Do you want me to pour it?" "NO, I WANT YOU TO FUCK IT!"

"This beer's gonna get warm, one thing I can't stand is warm beer, it makes me fuckin' puke!"

.....from "Blue Velvet" are direct lifts/samples and not re-created on "Squeeze Me Macaroni." Let's both go listen again!

"Let's hit the fuckin' road" out of the same scene in "Blue Velvet" can be heard on Ministry's "Jesus Built My Hotrod," which also features a classic manifesto of life-with-a-car from the `79 film, "Wise Blood."

as for planet of the apes, i think there's a pj harvey song on is this desire? that samples a sound effect from that movie. or it could be some other science fiction film, i'm not much for fact- checking tonight.

"Late Night, Maudlin Street" by Morrissey refers to the street where the school was based in "Carry On Teacher".

Cornelius named himself after the character in "Planet Of The Apes".

I was intrigued to recently find out that the band Ike Yard took their name from A Clockwork Orange too. Or was it Absolute Beginners? Doh!

Running Man culty? Cos that's the main sample on the Messiah "Temple of Dreams" (it's time to start... RUNNING!). PWEI also did Blade Runner (Wake up! Time to die!)

I was watching Aguirre, the Wrath of God the other day and I could have sworn that Cannibal Ox sampled some of Popul Vuh's soundtrack to the film.

Suspiria too.

Taken from "Rebel Without a Cause"

"Michael Rennie was ill
The Day the Earth Stood Still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam
Then at a deadly pace
It Came From Outer Space
And this is how the message ran..."

Mike Skinner likens himself to ol'Scarface in "Too Much Brandy"; portuguese Hip-Hop pioneers Da Weasel also make a reference to feeling like "Pacino in the last scene of Scarface" on "Para A Noía". Who did that line about how one shouldn't rhyme about what one's seen in "Scarface" if one can't even spell uzi again? Oh, and "Incarcerated Scarfaces" by Raekwon, I guess.

"There'll be time for sex and drugs in Heaven/when our
pheromones are turned up to 11 "

Spinal Tap, right?

It's "America" from their first album. It rather freaked me out when I watched that movie the other day.

Pere Ubu also name drops "The Island of Dr. Moreau" in their song "Heart of Darkness." Interestingly enough, this probably isn't a coincidence. Ghoulardi and the old movies he hosted on local televsion was a huge influence on the 70's Ohio music scene. Another one of the musicians was Michael Weldon, who now publishes Psychtronic Video (he was the drummer for the Mirrors).

Also, Ubu's first single, "30 Seconds Over Tokyo," was named after a WWII movie (and "Heart of Darkness" was the b-side).

KIDDING

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also:

"Pull My Daisy", by Nectarine #9, samples The Wild Bunch ("they want Angel")

And the song gets its title from a cult film by Robert Frank.