So... what do you think is the best use of a song in a movie... other than "Don't Stop Me Now" in SOTD, which I think we will all agree is the greatest!!!!

In Dreams by Roy Orbison, creapily mimed by Dean Stockwell in Blue Velvet.

Love Me (or Love Me Tender) by Nic Cage in Wild At Heart

Or that Ami Mann song in Magnolia (can't remember the title)

Rockaway Beach by The Ramones in Royal Tennenbaums

Don't stop me now, just wants you to start whacking someone about with a pool cue doesn't it? I agree thats the best use of music in a scene.

But for my second place, I'd have to say Waynes World 2, Wayne is off to stop Cassandra from Marrying Christopher Walken and the tune in the car starts off Mrs Robinson (Simon and Garfunkel version) then he passes under a tunnel (where the music goes quite,as if on an AM radio) and when he comes out thew other head it's the Lemonheads version. Good scene IMO

-m0r

You're right... That's outstanding...

Or Wayne's World (original) and Bo Rap...

"Everybody be cool!! This is a robbery!!"
"Any of you fucking pricks move, and I'll execute every motherfucking last one of you!!!"

Bang!

Misirlou by Dick Dale and his Delltones.

Bloody hell we could do Tarantino all day

Across 110th Street - Jackie Brown

Battle Without Honour or Humanity - Kill Bill Vol 1

Pixie's 'Where is my mind' at the end of Fight Club.

well, although its not cool per say, i was excited and well more then a little surprised when i went to see Sky High (yes i got free tickets and thought why let them go to waste! ) and they had please please please let me get what i want by the smiths in it. A wonderful gorgeous and fantastic group in a kids movie...someone in the sound dept on that movie must have been a smiths fan, and well, i for one enjoyed it

Also used in Pretty In Pink and (albeit a cover version by Dream Academy) in Ferris Beuller. I think the Muse cover is in another film as well.

One of the best songs ever.

Good call...

Hell, most of that movie has amazing use of songs...

Although Reservior Dogs had the best use with "Stuck In the Middle With You"!

The steadicam shot with Tears for Fears in Donnie Darko is amazing.
or good use of song in crap film was the Millwall-West Ham scrap to Fascination Street by the Cure in Football Factory.

The instrumental part of "Layla" playing over the bodycount scenes in Goodfellas is burned into my memory

Interesting...

I also kinda liked "Keep On Running" at the beginning of Buster...

'Singin' in the Rain'- A Clockwork Orange. I don't about best use, but definitely one that sticks in your mind.

Mine too...! (i love that song too much for words..)

Spybreak! in the Matrix's lobby sequence.

'Choice


ED: Oh, and Perfect Circle's "Passive" in Constantine tends to set the mood...

Wise Up In Magnolia takes some beating, I also love the use of Perfect Day in Trainspotting and Jack Black's version of Let's Get It On in High Fidelity. Oh and as mentioned before elsewhere Live and Let Die In Grosse Pointe Blank!

Edited because I can't type.

Some sweet choices there guys - especially Goodfellas and Donnie Darko.

I must give special mention to 'Under Pressure' in Grosse Pointe Blank and 'Canned Heat' in Napoleon Dynamite.

The scene in The Crow when Eric Draven puts on his make-up and boots for a night on the town filled with killing people. He stands in the shattered window and lightning illuinates his ghoulish features to 'Burn' By The Cure. That looked pretty cool.

These have been popping in my head all lunchtime

MEAN STREETS Be My Baby - Ronettes
FACE/OFF Somewhere Over The Rainbow
DR STRANGELOVE We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn
HEAT God moving over the face of Water - Moby
PRETTY IN PINK Eligia - New Order
BIG LEBOWSKI Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) - Kenny Rogers And The First Edition

I was looking through this thread thinking about what I would post and you beat me to it.

Also from Mean Streets - Jumping Jack Flash (Stones) & Rubber Biscuit (The Chips)

The Royal Tenenbaums - Needle in the Hay (Elliott Smith)

Goodfellas - Atlantis (Donovan)

Do The Right Thing - Fight The Power (Public Enemy)

The Edith Piaf/hiphop mash up in La Haine

28 Days Later - East Hastings (GYBE)

Human Traffic - Belfast (Orbital)

Shallow Grave - Happy Heart (Andy Williams)

Good grief, how did I miss that one?

Lean on Me - Welcome to the Jungle

Oh goodness, yes!

One of my favorites, & one of my favorite parts of Run, Lola, Run is "What A Difference A Day Makes" as they are booking it out of the supermarket in slow-motion.

All the Reel Big Fish stuff in Baseketball - stroke of genius having them as the live band for the Beers' home games!

Empire ran a feature back in 2002 that I remember reading entitled 'The 45 Greatest Rock'n'Roll Moments in Movie History', here's the list in full with my favourites highlighted:

45. Huey Lewis And The News "Hip To Be Square" from American Psycho
44. Elvis Presley "Jailhouse Rock" from Jailhouse Rock
43. The Jam "A Town Called Malice" from Billy Elliot
42. Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes "The Time Of My Life" from Dirty Dancing
41. Terrance & Phillip "Uncle F**ka" from South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut
40. The Beatles "A Hard Day's Night" from A Hard Day's Night
39. Creedence Clearwater Rivival "Bad Moon Rising" from A American Werewolf In London
38. Guns 'N' Roses "Live And Let Die" from Grosse Pointe Blank
37. Kenny Loggins "Footloose" from Footloose
36. Harry Belafonte "Day O" from Beetlejuice
35. Bob Seger "Old Time Rock And Roll" from Risky Business
34. The Beatles "Twist And Shout" from Ferris Bueller's Day Off
33. The Blues Brothers "Everybody Needs Somebody To Love" from The Blues Brothers
32. Marvin Gaye "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" from The Big Chill
31. Isaac Hayes "Theme From Shaft" from Shaft
30. Booker T. & The MG's "Green Onions" from American Graffiti
29. Joe Cocker an Jennifer Warnes "Up Where We Belong" from An Officer And A Gentleman
28. Public Enemy "Fight The Power" from Do The Right Thing
27. B.J.Thomas "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" from Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
26. Kenny Rogers "Just Dropped In" from The Big Lebowski
25. The Who "A Quick One While He's Away" from Rushmore
24. Katrina And The Waves "Walking On Sunshine" from High Fidelity
23. Prince "Purple Rain" from Purple Rain
22. Irene Cara "Flashdance...What A Feeling" from Flashdance
21. Elton John "Tiny Dancer" from Almost Famous
20. Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel "Dueling Banjos" from Deliverance
19. Simple Minds "Don't You Forget About Me" from The Breakfast Club
18. Roy Orbison "In Dreams" from Blue Velvet
17. Survivor "Eye Of The Tiger" from Rocky III
16. The Bee Gees "You Should Be Dancing" from Saturday Night Fever
15. Tom Cruise, along with Tom Petty "Free Fallin'" from Jerry Maguire
14. Spinal Tap "Stonehenge" from This Is Spinal Tap
13. Queen "Bohemian Rhapsody" from Wayne's World
12. Derek And The Dominos "Layla" from GoodFellas
11. Marty McFly "Johnny B. Goode" from Back To The Future
10. Urge Overkill "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon" from Pulp Fiction
9. The Pixies "Where Is My Mind" from Fight Club
8. Lou Reed "Perfect Day" from Trainspotting
7. Richard Wagner "The Ride Of The Valkyries" from Apocalypse Now
6. Simon & Garfunkel "Mrs. Robinson" from The Graduate
5. Steppenwolf "Born To Be Wild" from Easy Rider
4. Stealers Wheel "Stuck In The Middle With You" from Reservoir Dogs
3. Aimee Mann "Wise Up" from Magnolia
2. The Ronettes "Be My Baby" from Mean Streets
1. Peter Gabriel "In Your Eyes" from Say Anything

Oh and SFA, 'Needle in the Hay' is a brilliant choice - it gets me every single time.

Oh you couldn't just remember a couple could ya?

Respec' to the Wagner in Apocalypse Now, though!

It's my aim to be definitive.

How couldn't they have "Hot Stuff" by Donna Summer from The Full Monty?

I'd forgotten about that, I love it!

"Is that a raincoat?"

"Yes it is Paul......."

genius.

How about the Mickey Mouse Club themetune at the end Of Full Metal. Then again, im probably only saying that because i watched it this morning.

Jumpin' Jack Flash at the end of Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas left me with a smile.

I'll throw my support behind the aforementioned "Layla" in Goodfellas, and "Ride of the Valkyries" in Apocalypse Now, and also prop up Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings," appearing to great effect in Oliver Stone's Platoon. Also, "Stand By Your Man" as performed in The Blues Brothers, at Bob's Country Bunker.

Nothing calms down those rednecks like Tammy Wynette.

I don't know if anyone here has seen the Indie comedy film "Shades of Gray" but the movie uses the song "Come on Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners twice to great comedic effect.

Not to forget good use of "Hallelujah" in Shrek. And no, I`m not being funny.

The large number at the end of Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi

Ooooo, and of course, the "Bad Medicine" section of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Shannon Elizabeth, mmmmmmm.

Primal Scream - Come Together. Comes in at the end of Human Traffic just a the right moment

how could I not say Substitute by The Who in School Of Rock. Also My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down by The Ramones is excellent with it too.

well all my faves have been mentioned - mainly scorcese and anderson ( wes ) - but one scene that i really liked was tom cruise on top of the skyscraper in vanilla sky, with sigur ros playing in the background. pity it was such a crap film.

How about Axel F in Beverley Hills Cop. Or does that not count cos its the theme tune.
If not, the Star Wars theme tune in Ferris Buellers day off.

'Nuff said.

hello darkness my old friend from old school

You mean "The Sound of Silence"?

And how could I forget "The Blue Danube Waltz" in 2001: A Space Odyssey (or any of the other Strauss used therein, for that matter)?

"cough"yeah thats what i meant

I don't know why, but I really love 'Tracks of my Tears' in Platoon.
'Red Right Hand' by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds sounds good in Scream aswell.

The X-Files did it first!

or Dumb & Dumber

Both in 1994, so we're going to have to get fairly anal about release dates in order to decide who actually used the song first.

Or we could not.