This has probably been mentioned before,


Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"
Written by Neil Diamond
Performed by Urge Overkill


Pulp Fiction overdose scene.

Steve Zissou meets Iggy & The Stooges


Steve Zissou meets Sigur Ros



Royal Tenenbaum meets Paul Simon


Margot Tenenbaum meets The Ramones

Something's Gotta Give = Learn to Fly/Paul Simon

Both Andersons are kings of music in film.

Punch Drunk Love

Da-da-da-da-da

One for Ade


I can only find a rubbish copy of it but I do like King Crimson's "Court of the Crimson King" in Children of Men.

A.M. 180/Grandaddys = 28 Days Later

Young Americans. Suprising end credits from Dogville.

Or Manderlay, if you prefer.

Police on My Back/The Clash = Knocked Up

(I love this song)

The Kinks - Strangers in The Darjeeling Limited.

CRANK - Trix Are For Kids.

We have all the time in the world - Louis Armstrong.

James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

Some from TV

ALIAS - Back In Black.
A million fanboys explode

Spike - My Way.


Angel - Mandy.

TV:

Life On Mars

Still gives me shivers.

(Obviously, it's super spoilerrific if you haven't already watched the series)

TV: Lemonjelly - The Staunton Lick.


Can't quite remember what show it's from!

Doomsday - Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Two Tribes"
Got to about 2:20. Or just enjoy the clip to get there.

Well it's one of my favourite songs ever so you can't go wrong. Best series ending since Blake's 7.

If we're doing tv...
From my favourite episode The Sopranos - Tiny Tears

Slightly spoilerific if you haven't seen series 1.

The final scenes of Six Feet Under (Breathe Me - Sia), I can't watch without crying.

The final scene of 'The Sopranos' (Don't stop Believing - Journey).

Major spoilers in the above.

No way.

Wow, haven't seen that since it was first aired, brilliant. Sopranos always had top notch accompanying music.

I've yet to see Sopranos beyond first series

It's not a comparative thing.

I found it depressing and a bit stupid; but then I was pretty much at the end of my tether with Sam by the end of series 2.

As soon as I saw what that was, I had to close the window - I can't cry at work!


Yes.


And yes.

Also from Life on Mars - Decision/Indecision by Atomic Rooster when Sam is in the pub deciding what to do in the last episode. I can't find it on YouTube, but it's the perfect song with the perfect title.

Yeah, that's waterworks material for me, right there.

The ending of the Futurama episode Jurassic Bark.

That's flat out heartbreaking.

I refuse to watch it.

Is that because the illogical human emotions it produces will cause your steely android heart to explode?

Oh dear. I have no soul, it would seem.

Stop making me cry at work!

I doubt this one's been mentioned, but it's always struck me as a gloriously out of place, yet perfect, piece of music. I Can't Stop Loving You performed by Ray Charles, during the finale of Metropolis as the ziggurat explodes and crashes to the ground. The whole jazz soundtrack is great, but this, combined with a complete lack of sound effects and the preceding few minutes of action, is very emotive.

On the Life on Mars theme that seems to be running through the thread, the scene in the Life Aquatic where Seu Jorge is playing it and you can barely hear it in the background and it kicks in to the Bowie version as Zissou walks down the boat.

In fact, the more I think about that film the more I realise how much the soundtrack adds to it.

Buffy - Full Of Grace/Wild Horses/and so many others. I do like the instrumentals from Buffy including those taken from the episodes Hush, The Gift and Restless

West Wing - Brothers In Arms

Is Hush the one where no-one can talk? That is a terrifying (and brilliant) piece of TV that is.

I'm also going to put forward the use of the theme song from St. Elmo's Fire in the same movie, not because it's ingenius or clever, simply because it's as fine an 80s power ballad as any I'v ever come across or heard.

I can see St. Elmo's Fire buuuuuuuuuuuuuuurnin' in the niiiiiiiight

I always thought that the bit in Scream where the camera tracks through the deserted town to Red Right Hand by Nick Cave was good as well.

One of the first instances of outstanding music choice I experienced was on TV during Homicide: Life On The Street, when The Pretenders' 'Stand By You' accompanied Pembleton's near-fatal stroke scene at the end of series two or three. I was stunned.

That is a good one.

This has just reminded me of the ending of Leela's Homeworld, which I think doesn't get the recognition it deserves as one of Futurama's more emotional moments.

I just wish it wasn't in rubbish slideshow form.

I have a couple of fine romantic examples.

It had to be you.

The perfect combination of song and sentiment.

I can't find a clip, but I adore Cher's similar epiphany in 'Clueless' to the soundtrack of 'All by Myself'. The fountain coming on is classic.

Johnny Cash's When the Man Comes Around over the top of the rather cool Dawn of the Dead (204) titles is a good example of a quirky musical choice that works incredibly well.

Fantastic choice! That blew me away in the cinema.

The 'Down with the Sickness' montage is great too.

Kool Thing

tran anh hung's 'cyclo' - maybe it over-eggs the pudding a little, but the use of radiohead's 'creep' works pretty well. although, maybe it isn't as effective, if you don't know what has already happened and you don't see follows, which is pretty harrowing.

still, you get to see tony leung smoking, which is always a good thing...

Thems the two which first came to my mind.

The Richard Cheese bit? That's a great bit of comic relief, especially when Steve's hitting the golf balls at the zombies.

Love that film. I'd say DoTD is my favourite remake.

Fantastic pre-credits, fantastic credits, and frankly fantastc film.



Now there's a forgotten classic


Oh dandan. Thought you would have mentioned Chungking Express by now. Featuring my two favourite pieces of music from the film

Man I love that film. One of the best cinema going experiences I've had as well.

Is it on the "Greatest List" or has it been vetoed?

hmm, i'd probably have gone through a couple of sequences from 'in the mood for love' or 'ashes of time', before i'd arrived at 'chunking express'.

one of my favourite opening themes...

oh, and i was looking for the scene where the camera moves through the korova milk bar, but stumbled upon this - christ i wish i had audio at work...

Fantastic piece of music and very well played by a very very strange pianist. Keep watching until the very end and read the last line of the description.

Ohhh, of courrrrse... said I.

aah, just like walter / wendy carlos...