Best Pop/Rock/Whatever SONG USAGE in a Film....

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Not a song composed *for* the film, mind you, but a song older than the film that the director felt best suited the needs of the narrative. For example, Iron Butterfly's "Inna Gadda da Vida" in the final pursuit sequence of "Manhunter" or the guitar coda of Derek & the Dominoes' "Layla" in "Goodfellas," or Iggy's "Lust for Life" in the opening sequence of "Trainspotting."

My vote goes to the usage of the Stranglers' "Peaces" during the opening sequence of "Sexy Beast."

And yours.....?

― Alex in NYC, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whoops, that should be, of course, "PeacHes".

― Alex iN NYC, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From recent years, the attempted suicide scene in the Royal Tenenbaums to the tune of "Needle In The Hay" by Elliot Smith. The best film of the year, the best scene of the year, and it managed to make me like Elliot Smith.

― Judd Nelson, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well, if we're gonna get into Wes Anderson here, who seems to be already carving out quite a niche with inspired soundtrack choices, you can't beat "Ooh La La" in the closing scene and credits of Rushmore. managed to make me like Rod Stewart, which i think is an even greater feat.

― al, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rod Stewart does not sing "Ooh La La."

― hstencil, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought the best placed song in "Sid & Nancy" was "Paranoid". And the best placed song in "I Shot Andy Warhol" was "Kick Out the Jams"

― Dave225, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I've mentioned the use of "Sister Christian" at the end of Boogie Nights before, but let me mention it again.

Does most of the entirety of Purple Rain count?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Jumping Jack Flash" when De Niro walks in the bar in Mean Streets. Between the Buttons in The Royal Tenenbaums.

― J Blount, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Marc Bolan singing I was dancing when I was twelve in Billy Elliot

― erik visser, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not something I'd want to watch more than once - but the use of "Singin' in the Rain" in A Clockwork Orange must surely stand as some sort of definitive perversity.

― o. nate, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Weird, as soon as I saw the question, I was going to say the use of "These Days" in Royal Tennenbaums, when Gwyneth Paltrow gets off the bus, all other sound drops out, the song starts, and suddenly everything shifts into super slow motion. Call me sentimental, but it gets me every time.

― pirateking, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The remainder of the movie was mostly silly, but I thought the opening credits in Velvet Goldmine was perfickt. Of course, anything that has any relation to Eno's "Needle in the Camel's Eye" is perfickt by association.

― J, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe boring choices but the Ronettes in "Mean Streets" and the "Then He Kissed Me" bit in Good Fellas have always done it for me. I wish Scorcese had scored "The Last Temptation of Christ" with Spector hits too.

― fritz, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The usage of Scott Walker's "On Your Own Again" in the Radiohead docu was heavenly. Doesn't really count though does it?

― shaun de carlo, Monday, 29 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Nick Drake's "River Man" in Dream with the Fishes

― Prude, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think, Stanley Kubrick (2001 with Stauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra" and Clockwork Orange with "I Want to Marry a Light House Keeper"), and Wes Anderson (Nico, Elliott Smith) are good at this. Also Vanilla Sky with Sigur Ros at the end and the Radiohead song at the beginning was good. And Roxy Music's "Mother of Pearl" at the end og SLC Punk, Strangler's "Golden Brown" in Snatch. Oh yeah, and in Blue Velvet, David Lynch with Roy Orbisons' "In Dreams" tops them all. (and is possibly one of my favorite movie moments of all time!)

― A Nairn, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree about closing scene of rushmore, and i also thought that 'nothing in this world can stop me worryin bout that girl' and 'a quick one while he's away' worked very well in the movie.

Dream With the Fishes - what a weird movie that was

― Ron, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Tell Me (You're Coming Back)"- The Rolling Stones (Mean Streets) "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"- Frankie Valley (The Deer Hunter) "In Dreams"- Roy Orbison (Blue Velvet) "Wasn't Born to Follow"- The Byrds (Easy Rider) "Stealin'"- Arlo Guthrie (Two-Lane Blacktop) "You Keep Me Hangin' On"- J.J. Cale (My Best Friend's Girl) "High School Confidential"- Rough Trade (The Adjuster)

― Joe, Wednesday, 1 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Propellorheads - Spybreak - The Matrix Bob Dylan - The Hurricane - Dazed and Confuzsed

All of Moulin Rouge.

― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pixies "Where is my Mind?" at the end of Fight Club and 69 Police by David Holmes in Ocean's Eleven.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

kind of cheesy but the use of "Northern Sky" at the end of Serendipity.

― Chris, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rip This Joint by the Stones in The Way Of The Gun... Music stops, Ryan Phillipe utters the immortal line "Shut that cunt's mouth before I come over there and fuck start her head." And then breaks said lady's nose. Class.

― Nick Southall, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i agree with Judd Nelson. yes yes yes. Tenenbaums - Needle in the hay.

― squea, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i reckon andersen is so good at soundtracking filsm because unlike most directors he doesn't just go "here are some pictures and some nice music that relate to it" but "here is some music that says a similar thing, or thrusts the narrative on as MUCH as the images" - he's very good at choosing an image and music that doesn't fit it, but helps move that image onto a higher plain (if that doesn't sound too poncey)

i remember rejoicing not exactly silently when i saw him use "everyone" from "moondance" cos i'd done a tape of the "rushmore" soundtrack and a side of songs i thought i would use if i did a similar film and i used it too. pettily chuffed was i...

"stranger than paradise" gets my vote for the neverending version of "i put a spell on you" - the mudanity and exoticism suits the tempo of the film...

― chris browning, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is Anderson rockist? Can there be a popist use of songs in film?

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked the use of different versions of "Blue Moon" in An American Werewolf in London -- rockabilly-style at the start, then melancholly as the dead guy decays and his friend gets more wolfy..

― nickn, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, the original version isn't used in the movie, but I'd say David Lynch's use of Roy Orbison's "Crying" in Mulholland Drive is absolutely fantastic.

― Simon, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

5. hotel california (spanish version)
4. ned's song from the breakfast club
3. rhapsody in blue
2. damn it feels good to be a gangsta
1. bohemian rhapsody

― Josh, Thursday, 2 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Wes Anderson's probably the best since Scorsese at properly using existing rock music in a movie (see Phil Dellio for reams of writing on this topic), at the same time his tastes are somewhat predictable; it'll be interesting to see what the soundtrack will sound like when he makes a movie that a departure from his established milieu. As it is I can guarantee that the Zombies will eventually pop up in a Wes Anderson and that he is nowhere near done exploring the Stones mid- Sixties catalogue. Tarantino's better at surprising me or reminding me of an odd/great song I'd forgotten. David Lynch is the master of literally building a scene around a pop song - the Orbison moments of Blue Velvet and Mullholland Drive being highlights.

― J Blount, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, let's see Anderson deal with obscure jungle tracks. Hmm...

4. ned's song from the breakfast club

SATAN.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't don't DON'T YOUUUUUUUUU FEEERRRRRRRRGEET ABOOOUT MEEEEE etc

― Josh, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am going to write all this off as insanity caused by grad school craziness.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There are quite a few heartbreaking 'In Dreams', 'These Days' type choices that I could name but I'll stick to a non-sad one that I've mentioned before: 'Rubber Biscuit' in the drunk scene in Mean Streets. An integral part of making the scene a perfect evocation of being totally out of it and surrounded by a buzz of people and noise.

Overplayed though they are, I have to hand it to Danny Boyle and Tarantino for sticking a firecracker up the ass of the audience with 'Lust for Life' and 'Little Green Bag'.

Oh, and on another obvious tip, the use of 'The Sound of Silence' in the Graduate is transcendentally great.

― N., Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

From 'Fearless':
a)U2
b)Gorecki

― dan, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Certainly not the best usage but Tiny Tears in the Sopranos made me nearly piss my pants. Only I wasn't wearing pants-ah.

― nathalie, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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mmmmmh, the other day I ate a cool water sandwich and a sunday-go-to-meeting bun doo doo bouuh cow cow lubba 'n a-blubba lubba hell ride ricky ticky hubba lubbav how low a wann' suppa dov hey ride sippin' and hubba lubbav hell ride a-hubbin' and wan' do hey ride a wanna an' recca recca ho' low a mail take lubba hubba hey down a wann' suppa dubba please ride a hubbin' gonn' do what you owe for nothin' rubber biscuit doo doo doo boooh cooow cooow oo-oooooouuuh

― Yves, Friday, 3 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

four weeks pass...

"Stuck In the Middle With You" by Stealer's Wheel in Reservoir Dogs.

Kinda sick and twisted, but what can I say?

― Joel, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anytime S.O.S. is used during Together.

Worst - it's difficult to top 'Moving' by Supergrass at the end of East Is East...

― Mr Swygart, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone know what the name of song that played in Serendipity when Jonathon was watching Sara's sister through the window??

Love that song. Just dont know what it is.

"Dancing in the September" at the END of Get Over It.

Lust for Life rocks!!!!!

-- Sarah

― Sarah in Canada, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

how about Yes' 'Heart of the Sunrise' in Buffalo66 ?

― chaki, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Girls Against Boys' "Kill the Sexplayer" accompanying the on-screen debut of Jay & Silent Bob in Clerks is pretty fun.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fight The Power in Do The Right Thing. BEST SONG USAGE EVAH!

― cuba libre (nathalie), Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

Heart's "Magic Man" in The Virgin Suicides

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 01:05 (twenty-two years ago)

jt money - who dat in the opening of bully

― trife (simon_tr), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

ooh milo that was a good one indeed

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I always thought the musical chapter breaks in Lars Von Trier's "Breaking The Waves" were very nice.

Also:

-"Goodbye Horses" in Silence Of The Lambs where it's intercutting between the girl in the pit and Buffalo Bill putting on make-up.
-The Supertramp song in Magnolia was cool
- "She Thinks I Still Care" by George Jones is in Swingers for a short while but it's very effective.
-"Love Is The Drug" in Casino

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

"In Your Eyes" in Say Anything?

That whole Motown revival The Big Chill started?

For my money, I'll take Eno's "An Ending (Ascent)" at the end of Traffic.

― turkey, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and the "Head Over Heels" montage in Donnie Darko!

― turkey, Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Aimee Mann sing-a-long in Magnolia still makes me wanna cry.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i love this thread! i don't how i missed it the first time.
i second the blue velvet/roy orbison scene, and from trainspotting i also like the use of lou reed's 'perfect day'. a perfect moment in the movie.

― joan vich (joan vich), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Aye, Blue Velvet + Orbison is magnificent. One of my fave film moments. Dean Stockwell rules.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:46 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't read the whole thread, but i liked the use of The Killing Moon by Echo & The Bunnymen in Donnie Darko - not just cos it fits the scene well, but also because of the reference to rabbits in the band's name which was also picked up on in Bill Drummond's book 45. Whether this was intentional or not is beyond me.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and the "Head Over Heels" montage in Donnie Darko!

Yay! This is unbelievably great. The bloke and piano version of mad world at the end is also pretty special

― adam b (adam b), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

That scene in Mullholland Drive with "Cryin" is one of those few moments in movies that was literally TOO MUCH for me to take. I think my soul like split into a billion tiny pieces during that.

The mariachi'd up "Hotel California" in The Big Lebowski during the Jesus Quintana intro scene was audio perfection. In fact, that movie had another great song-with-scene moment; after The Dude left the doctor and got in the car and was driving listening to Creedence's "Lookin Out My Back Door" was like way splendid.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Cameron Crowe should be ashamed of himself for what he did with Vanilla Sky. Those wonderful songs were used very poorly in his film. it's like he was just taking a few token spacey songs, more than a few of which were performed by flavor of the moment dad-rock bands (IE, radiohead, sigur ros, not that these guys are aiming for appeal with the middle-aged, but my dad loved both Kid A and agaetis byrjun) and just scattering them around the film willy nilly.
i long for the days of kubrick.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

turkey otm re: 'ascent'

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

-"Goodbye Horses" in Silence Of The Lambs where it's intercutting between the girl in the pit and Buffalo Bill putting on make-up.

Oh, you took the words *right* out of my mouth!

And and and Supertramp's "The Logical Song" in Magnolia is just...magnificent. In fact, all the Aimee Mann stuff on that film is lovely too, fitting perfectly with the melancholy air of sanguine resignation pervading every scene. Yes.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i know scores don't really count for this thread, since they were designed for the film, but the mention of eno harkens me to lynch's "dune," where eno's "prophecy theme" reigned alongside Toto's brilliant(no sarcasm here, it's a fucking great) score.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

"Alone Again Or" in Anderson's Bottle Rocket

"Kool Thing" in Hal Hartley's Simple Men--it takes over and they spontaneously create a little dance routine

second the Donnie Darko tunes

"Funky Kingston" in Last Days of Disco. Actually, the entire Last Days of Disco sdtk.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Dylan's "The Man in Me" in The Big Lebowski

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

yes!

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Also pretty much every moment of Oh Brother Where Art Thou? It's amazing the difference between the reactions to that movie I've seen from one person born & raised in Philadelphia in the 70s & 80s and another born and raised in rural-as-fuck Tennessee in the 20s & 30s (that is to say the latter - my great aunt - had all these connections to those songs and probably got WAY more out of the film than anyone else I know...well besides her sister/my grandma of course).

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"Wouldn't it Be Nice" in "Roger and Me"

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Sparks' "Angst in my Pants" and "Monster of Love" in Valley Girl. Most of the rest of the sdtk too.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and the Monks playing in the bowling alley in Big Lebowski. "I Hate You," I think it was

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"holiday in cambodia" in boy meets girl.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The traditional, Coralia, as played in the cabana sex scene in the film Henry & June.

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooh, a thread of mine revived, by gosh. How nice.

I have to say....the constant referencing to Whitesnake's "Here I Go Again" that runs rampant throughout "Old School" made me laugh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Lee and Nancy's "Some Velvet Morning" in Morvern Callar.
Aphex Twin's "Goon Gumpas" in Morvern Callar.
Holger Czukay's "Cool In The Pool" in Morvern Callar.

― bert (bert), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

from The Big Lebowski:

"All the Dude ever wanted was his rug back..."

Darkness washed over the Dude. Darker than a black steer's tucus on a moonless prairie night. There was no bottom.

[cue "I Just Dropped In to See What Condition My Condition Was In" by Kenny Rogers]

― Evan (Evan), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 01:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I like 'Sing's placement in Trainspotting during Renton's overdose.. the 'dropping into the carpet' view seems to fit the song.

And the other day I found myself cheering when Song 2 came on during a Charlie's Angels fight scene, but that's my superficial answer.

― Alexis (Alexis), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 03:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Haddaway's "What is love?" in the movie A Night at the Roxbury

Uh...just kidding

― Frank Booth (Frank Booth), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"highway to the danger zone"

Topgun

― james (james), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

oh and third the donnie darko "head over heels"

― james (james), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 08:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two months pass...

the old mobster dude in Ghost Dog rapping along w/ Wu Tang

― Will (will), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

judy garland singing "over the rainbow" during the big machine-gun battle in john woo's "face/off." it's a particularly startling usage of music since woo cuts out all the natural sound of the scene and you hear nothing but the song while the bullets fly.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 1 October 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Eric Clapton's version of "Knocking on Heaven's Door" during Mel Gibson's near death scene at the end of Lethal Weapon 2. I hardly cry, but a tear was near.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Five Stairsteps "Ooh Child" in Crooklyn and Boyz In The Hood

"Same Old Song" by The Four Tops in Blood Simple- incredible. Maybe my favorite use of a song in film.

"Mogwai Fear Satan" in All The Real Girls. It didn't really add anyhting to the film, it was just nice to hear it there.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm late to this thread, which is one of the greats. I came prepared to suggest the "Sister Christian"/"Jesse's Girl" mixtape scene in Boogie Nights, but it looks like Ned beat me to it.

Damn, the tension in that scene is unbearable; the tape running out is a relatively unique use of the absence of music to build tension.

I think PT Anderson uses music better than Wes Anderson. He puts it in the scene rather than floating it as soundtrack material.

― southern lights (southern lights), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The opening of 2001 is pretty much my favorite film moment of all time.

Which is kinda sad, considering there's no image.

Years ago I also thought the use of Rage Against The Machine in Natural Born Killers was totally[, like,] awesome.
Problem is that I hate RATM, and seeing the movie again years later made me realize that it's incredibly boring! Dammit!

For some reason I really want to see someone use Robert Wyatt's Sea Song in a movie. Mainly for that "we're not alone [mellotronattaxninjas]" bit.

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I just saw "Lost in Translation" this evening. Not wildly impressed, I'm afraid, though I did like the appearance of "Just Like Honey" (though I'll be damned if I can think of its significance in terms of the narrative of the film).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:08 (twenty-two years ago)

apparently on nu ilm bizarro world, public enemy = wu tang

― trife (simon_tr), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

omg somebody will be confusing mozart and mussorgsky next

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 2 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven months pass...

after The Dude left the doctor and got in the car and was driving listening to Creedence's "Lookin Out My Back Door" was like way splendid.

Ha, and you did catch what the doctor had just done to the Dude?

Too many good ones have been named on here already. I really didn't like the movie, but the "One" scene in The Rules of Attraction stuck with me for awhile, due to the music. And heh, "I Hear You Knockin'" from Christine. That's off the top of my lame head.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

kind of cheesy but the use of "Northern Sky" at the end of Serendipity.
-- Chris (theartistformerlyknownaspoopsmcge...), May 2nd, 2002.

yes but why not use darkthrone "a blaze in the northern sky" ? would make film much better.

― Vas Djifrens (latebloomer), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The "Colours" usage in Rules of Attraction was also well-done.

Favorite Wes Anderson is the "Ruby Tuesday" scene in Royal Tenenbaums.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just seen the indie French horror flick "Haute Tension", which uses "Newborn" by Muse in a quite suprisingly effective way.

(Great film as well, if a little predictable in places)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 6 September 2004 07:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Demonlover wasn't very good all in all, but Neu!'s "Hero" in the title sequence is amazing, whether it was Sonic Youth's doing or Olivier Assayas'; it turned me on to Neu! in a big way.

Wish to second: "Needle in the Hay," Royal Tenenbaums (this astounded me and made me seek out Elliott Smith, none of whose other work has affected me nearly as strongly); "Magic Man," Virgin Suicides; "Jumpin' Jack Flash," Mean Streets; and of course "Sister Christian," Boogie Nights.

― milaca, Monday, 6 September 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I love it when my old threads get exhumed.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The use of 'It Was a Very Good Year' at the start of season two of the Sopranos is stunning.

― Wooden (Wooden), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

This one's for you, Alex. "Is That All There Is?" in After Hours.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay!

Watched that again last night, actually (in a drunken blur after seeing Siouxsie). Don't forget "Pay to Cum" by the Bad Brains also therein.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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