All the Bowie songs in Life Aquatic worked well. But the best in it was "Search & Destroy" by Iggy & The Stooges

Can't believe I forgot this one...its one of my favourite movie scenes ever. "Danny Boy" - Miller's Crossing

Oh, how could I forget.......oh wait, I forgot.

What are your favourite moments in films where the visuals & music works so well together it creates a great scene. Not necessarily musical numbers, or credit sequences.

Off the top of my head

The Matador - A sleezy Pierce Brosnan, in speedos, boots and shades walks into a hotel swimming pool, drink in hand, to the sounds of "Garbageman" by The Cramps

Stranger Than Fiction - Will Ferrell's "Whole Wide World" serenade

Pretty In Pink - Duckie miming to Otis.

The Spy Who Loved Me - the pre-title sequence when Bond skis off the mountain and the Bond fanfare kicks in when the Union Jack parachute opens.

good thread...

linda, linda, linda - when the girls finally perform 'linda, linda'...

more later, i'm teaching a class and should be paying more attention...

Like this?

Most definitely.

What always comes to mind is 'Under Pressure' playing as Martin Blank shares a moment with a baby at his high school reunion.

Casino - Robert De Niro falls like a sap for Sharon Stone to Mickey & Sylvia's "Love Is Strange".

Pulp Fiction - John Travolta sampling a five dollar shake as Link Wray's "Rumble" kicks in.

Goodfellas - Henry Hill's last day as a wiseguy, paranoid and stressed and a sting of slide guitar from The Stones "Memo From Turner".

Once Upon A Time In The West - All of it.

Just like that. I thought the idea was familiar. (you couldn't merge them for me Zoe. Pretty please. I'm rubbish at merging. I'll give you a vintage Great Gatsby penguin book in return!)

Done! More than a fair deal.

It's an obvious one but the scene in Reservoir Dogs with the ear being cut off to Stuck in the Middle With You is classic.

Tarantino's great for this kind of thing, also the scene in Deathproof where Butterfly gives Stuntman Mike a lapdance to Down in Mexico by the Coasters is great.

You are excellent.

There are several scenes in The Truman Show that make good use of music, when he meets his Dad again, for example (and you see the staff on the show actually orchestrating the music), but the main one is when they are searching for Truman and decide to turn on the sun. There's some good music in that film.

Deathproof's best moments involved the music. The crash scene to Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch's "Hold Tight" and the final sequence when it kicks into "Chick Habit" by April March. Without those, Russell and the car chases Deathproof would have been the dullest film ever.

Crank - The Stath, in a smock, on a motorbike, with a boner, to the sounds of "Everybody's Talkin" by Harry Nilsson

Crank - what's the best song to get your adrenaline pumping. Why "Achy Breaky Heart" of course.

Does anyone know of a website that tells you which scenes songs from a soundtrack of a movie appear in? I've been trying to think all day of where a particular song from a soundtrack was in the film and I can't remember.

Not sure if there is one for exact scenes.

IMDB sometimes lists the songs on a film's soundtrack, but not always all of them.


What was the film/song?

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou- Everyone stuffed into the submarine and seeing the shark while Staralfur by Sigur Ros provides a little atmosphere.

The song is 'Spinal Scratch' which I really really like. The film is 'Irreversible' which I never want to watch again. If anyone can tell me where it appears in the film please tell me as it is bugging me now!

I only mentioned it in another thread the other day, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd at the end of The Devil's Rejects.

Philip Glass, isn't it?

Yes, I think it is (there's also some Chopin and Mozart as well).

Almost Famous - the redemptive 'Tiny Dancer' singalong on the tour bus.

The Royal Tenenbaums - Richie cutting his wrists to 'Needle in the Hay' by Elliot Smith/Mordecai returning to 'Hey Jude'/almost everything else.

Years ago I saw a forgotten Aussie film called Malcolm about an autistic mechanical genius whose talents are used to rob a bank. It used the music of the Penguin Cafe Orchestra really well (and introduced me to the band). It really fitted well with the "robots" Malcolm designed.

Yes. Brilliant.

In fact, lots of the music in GPB works well!


And seeing as we are reviving a thread from three years ago, I'm re-quoting this selection, still one of my favourite pieces of music in film, nay, ever, and a superb moment.

And on a Michael Mann tip, Paul Oakenfold's 'Ready Steady Go' during the club scene in 'Collateral' is great.

i'm a big fan of 'malcolm', but was already familiar with penguin cafe when i saw it. you're right though, it works very well within the film...

hmm, about time i watched that again...

Just want to echo the sentiments for Sigur Ros in The Life Aquatic which gives me goosebumps each time I watch it and even hear it now as well, and also, although there are many brilliant musical moments in almost famous, the use of Tiny Dancer is amazing.

Just like to echo these. I'd also agree about the use of Chick Habit in Death Proof, cos that was when it ended.

Having watched it a second time, I have to say that the use of songs in WALL-E is terrific. The ones from Hello Dolly! that are used as leitmotif work beautifully and the original score is beautiful, particularly the piece that plays as the title comes up, which is so incredibly forlorn and really gives a sense of WALL-E's loneliness.

Oh, yeah. I loved that. I also liked Seu Jorge's "Starman," and I thought "Queen Bitch" at the end was brilliant. "Needle in the Hay" from RT ... good choice.

Speaking of bitches ... I would add The Specials "Little Bitch" from Sixteen Candles (I have a special place in my heart for The Specials). I also liked from that movie "Whistle Down the Wind," by Nick Heyward. And "Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughn. "If You Were Here" by the Thompson Twins. This movie has a wholly underrated soundtrack.

And I have to add that "Walking on Sunshine" in High Fidelity is a great one! Jack Black plays the most hostile person on the planet, and this is his Monday morning get-up-and-go song!? I love it.

edited to fix my brain spasm.

I think you mean "If You Leave" by OMD. The Thompson Twins track is used during the last scene in 16 Candles.

Leavin On A Jet Plane - Armageddon

Johnny B Goode - Back To The Future

Stuck In The Middle With You - Reservoir Dogs

Sostie, I'm an idiot. I meant Sixteen Candles. Not Pretty in Pink. Sorry. All those songs are from Sixteen Candles. My brain's autopilot was malfunctioning.

And while on the subject of John Hughes films. Somekind Of Wonderful opening credits. A babe drumming! It's Mary Stuart Masterson! With short hair! And they're playing classic 80's German synth meisters Propaganda!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dHOg4-esw

The Matador - Brosnan+The Cramps

As mentioned by dandan earlier - Linda, Linda, Linda


Stranger Than Fiction - Whole Wide World

Miller's Crossing - Danny Boy

Pee Wee's Big Adventure - Tequila The final seconds of this clip still makes me giggle like a child

That's become one of my favourite romantic scenes of all time.

The Departed, skip to 8:20.

And, of course...

I have to say it's one of favourite scenes full stop.




Scorsese has never made a better music choice or chosen better visuals to go with one.

Any woman would do Ferrell after that.

I am such a romantic...

'Closer' has a fantastic opening, with a suprising ending.

Nice call back too, even if they're not so explicit as the play about what happens to Alice when she's crossing the road in NY. She should really learn to look both ways.

Wild At Heart. Nic Cage does Elvis. Don't be put off by the metal at the start


Blue Velvet - In Dreams.


Fun In Acapulco- Bossa Nova Baby. My favourite Elvis song

Also the 'We Are The Champions' by Queen and 'Most of the Time' by Bob Dylan.

God Only Knows, in 'Boogie Nights'.

Not Love Actually?

It was a close call...

Boogie Nights - Machine Gun

Because I watched this the other night, get ready to cry.

Speaking of crying.

Boogie Nights = Fooled Around and Fell in Love.

A League of Their Own = Flyin' Home.

Raindrops keep Falling on my Head

and...

Raindrops keep Falling on my Head

Jump for My Love = Love, Actually