Best use of Popular Music in Film

[mattyq]

 

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44 minutes ago, General Dryness said:

Theres a case to be made for both so I think you're being a bit quick to dismiss Never Tear Us Apart. Saying that, I do prefer Killing Moon myself.

 

From the same film, Head Over Heels during the school sequence is amazing. 

Yep, it took me a while to find an album with Head Over Heels on and if I recall I eventually found it on one of their American greatest hits albums. I'm not sure if it's part of a studio album but if it was I couldn't find it.

[manwiththestick]

I came in here to post Free Bird for Devil's Rejects but beaten to it.

 

I suppose Lust for Life at the beginning of Trainspotting is a good one.

[General Dryness]

1 hour ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Yep, it took me a while to find an album with Head Over Heels on and if I recall I eventually found it on one of their American greatest hits albums. I'm not sure if it's part of a studio album but if it was I couldn't find it.

It was on Songs from the Big Chair, same album as Shout and Everybody Wants to Rule the World.

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'Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)' by Harry Belafonte, from Beetlejuice.

 

 

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[AngryOfTuebrook]

We'll Meet Again from Dr Strangelove.

 

Brilliant and fucking brutal.

 

 

[SammyAftershave]

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman tiptoes into my room and steals this particular fuckin biscuit. Winner!

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Goodfellas - again.

 

I love the incongruity of the silly, childish song as a soundtrack to a tense and angry scene.

 

 

[magicrat]

 

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Can you lot at least put a caption with your videos so that when the video links inevitably fail in a couple of months time, anyone viewing the thread will at least know what it was you posted.

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Jesus and Mary Chain at the end of Lost in Translation

 

Pixies at the end of Fight Club

 

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I Wanna Be Your Dog to reflect the devastation of the main character in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

 

Brilliantly done.

 

Are You Going to Be My Girl from Flushed Away.

 

Everybody's Talkin from Midnight Cowboy.

 

And Free Bird as Jenny looks to end it all in Forrest Gump:

 

 

 

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