Wrongest Song in a Film - Just a plain IT'S WRONG!

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head in Butch Cassidy......

Great song, great movie, but....

I'm VERY confused. You mean a song, good or bad, that doesn't work due to its placement in a film, right?

I gotta confess, then, that I don't get the two examples at all.

And what on earth does this mean:

Bonus points for avoiding the old 'irony' get-out, unless the 'i' was madly misplaced.

It reads beautifully but wha?

AC/DC's "If You Want Blood" and Dire Straits' "Romeo and Juliet" don't work in Empire Records since they galvanize alternia (or at least how the film represents alternia) through music that isn't alternative.

"Walking on Sunshine" in High Fidelity...

See, this was actually in the book, as is. By the time the film came out, that song had been over-used as to become ubiquitous. I'd have loved it if they'd used the "Rocker's Revenge" song instead, but hey.

half of the Heavy Metal soundtrack (Don Felder, Devo, Journey) doesn't fit...

Yeah, but the <i>Heavy Metal</i> soundtrack takes its name from the sci-fi mag, not the musical genre. I know, I know, splitting hairs....

"Such a Night" by Dr.John was used in "Colors," scoring a scene wherein Sean Penn makes the double-backed beast with Maria Conchita Alonso. Just seemed like the wrong, wrong, wrong song for the scene, let alone the movie.

"Black Eyed Dog" by Nick Drake -- a song about premonitions of one's own death -- is used all over the abortive "Serendipity" starring John Cussack and Kate Beckinsale -- a "romantic comedy" that is neither romantic nor comic.

See, this was actually in the book, as is. By the time the film came out, that song had been over-used as to become ubiquitous.

I'm a little confused here. Surely that song was already ubiquitous even before the book, right?

A bit.

But, about 6 months after the book had its "run", GMTV used a version for their "Get up and Give" charity marathon/drive, adverts suddenly used it, and so on. I know it was meant for the yin/yang two recshopassists to show their difference (one being 'the hedonist' and one being the 'statistician/collector'), and I guess the US filmmakers didn't get GMTV anyway...

I'm VERY confused. You mean a song, good or bad, that doesn't work due to its placement in a film, right?
I gotta confess, then, that I don't get the two examples at all.
Well, in Butch Cassidy anyway, "Raindrops" is playing while they're riding bikes on a beautiful sunny day. I never got that either.

"Raindrops keep not falling on my head"

I get it now!

is the ramones song playing during the credits of pet cemetery? ok, maybe a bit of levity to relax after the scary (though not really scary at all) film, but also just kind of wrong

i know ive noticed this before..have to think

oh, well theres basically the whole soundtrack to marie antoinette...not buying that gag at all

"Walking On Sunshine" got used in several ads in the US too.

Donovan's "Atlantis" in Goodfellas. So wrong it's right.

i love leonard cohen, but have always hated his songs in the context of McCabe and Mrs. Miller.

they seem both so right and so wrong there..the songs take on a slightly different light in that film. they may not quite fit, but hearing them in a different context did get me back into lc for the ist time in a while.

I have never been able to get past the fact that The Warriors ends with "In the City" by Joe Walsh.

I was unpleasantly surprised when the renegade hero of American Pop finally gets the DJ to play his song, and it turns out to be "Night Moves"...

I have never been able to get past the fact that The Warriors ends with "In the City" by Joe Walsh.

Agreed.

Also never understood why Max has the D.J put on the Faces' "Ooh La La" at the end of "Rushmore". It's not exactly a dance tune.

All that Freedy Johnston in the Farrelly Bros' Kingpin.

The Afghan Whigs in American Pie 2 (Something Hot = dance party music?) and She's All That (66 = artsy girl music to paint to?)

Also, there's a scene in "Valley Girl" wherein Nicolas Page -- who is ostensibly a "punk" -- is driving around Hollywood in his ragtop convertible. A tired cock rock tune by Pat Travers comes on the radio and he turns it up and says "I Love This song!" IT NO COMPUTE!!!!

Cage, not Page. Sorry.

"Black Eyed Dog" by Nick Drake -- a song about premonitions of one's own death -- is used all over the abortive "Serendipity" starring John Cussack and Kate Beckinsale -- a "romantic comedy" that is neither romantic nor comic.

OTM, though you've neglected to mention the use of "Northern Sky" in the climactic sequence at the ice rink. More appropriate lyrically, I guess, but the grotesque nature of the film meant that by the end, anything half-decent popping up felt horribly out of place.

MASK (the bogdanovich cher movie about a disfigured kid) has a bunch of classic 60's rock songs... and a few Springsteen songs that are way inferior and don't fit in at all.

also, all Bob Marley in I am Legend, which is made unbearable because of its import to the plot/"theme" of the piece.

b-but, he is Legend...

http://blog.stella-web.jp/blog/marvin/archives/marley.jpg

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

the use of UNFINISHED SYMPATHY in 'sliver' made me want to run screaming from the cinema.

RPJ's Ghostbusters totally doesn't fit the concept of the movie.