Favourite song/piece of music from a film

[Cheesypoof]

Octopus by Syd Barrett is my favourite song. Its sexy, daft, and really unpredictable and exciting. the lyrics are mind-blowing.

Parade by Prince is my favourite album.

Other random music i love: LA Woman by the Doors, Up the Bracket by the Libertines, Bank Robber by The Clash, Superstitious by Stevie Wonder, anything by James Brown.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Are any of those pieces featured in films at all?

 

[Dubversion]

another cheesypoof classic

 

[Pieface]

I bet the Doors one features in the film, The Doors

 

[jugularvein]

mountains and sunsets - john barrie for James Bond

 

[Megaton]

Probably the bit from Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indy falls into the room with the model of the temple, he holds up that stick to catch the light, and it tells him where to dig to find the ark.

In fact, most John Williams scores are incredible.

 

[Dr. Furface]

The scene in Diva when they play that Erik Satie tune.

And the one in Subway when Rickie Lee Jones's Lucky Guy starts up.

 

[Augie March]

Also, Colours by Donovan used pretty much for it's full length in The Rules of Attraction.

An obvious one this, but hasn't been mentioned yet. Gary Jules version of Mad World in Donnie Darko.

And the sing-along scene on the bus to Tiny Dancer from Almost Famous.

 

[hammerntongues]

The Ry Cooder track that accompanies Harry Dean Stanton as he stumbles through the desert in Paris Texas , you can almost feel the heat coming out of the screen .

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Carl Orff, isn't it? also used in True Romance to point up the homage

Very good: now for all the money: who does the instrumental piece during the introduction of the wrestlers fighting in order to meet Ramses, in Nacho Libre?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Carl Orff, isn't it? also used in True Romance to point up the homage

Very good: now for all the money: who does the instrumental piece during the introduction of the wrestlers fighting in order to meet Ramses, in Nacho Libre?

p.s. I bow to your encylopedic knowledge of these things.

 

[lynne8]

And the sing-along scene on the bus to Tiny Dancer from Almost Famous.

love that scene..

 

[Leica]

Miguel Bosé and Un año de amor:

The italian original in an equally amazing performance by Mina:

Dean Stockwell and In Dreams:

 

[Biffo]

Dean Stockwell - In Dreams

Classic.

'Little green bag' in Resevoir Dogs.

 

[DotCommunist]

Leonard Cohen's 'Miracle' from the start of Natural Born Killers is a cracking tune

 

[Firky]

Kalpol Introl off Pi

 

[Firky]

Also, Colours by Donovan used pretty much for it's full length in The Rules of Attraction.

An obvious one this, but hasn't been mentioned yet. Gary Jules version of Mad World in Donnie Darko.

And the sing-along scene on the bus to Tiny Dancer from Almost Famous.

Augie March are a good band!

 

[hatz]

Carl Orff, isn't it? also used in True Romance to point up the homage

I love that music in True Romance. That's my joint favourite music in a film, with.....

David Bowie in Labryinth - Magic Dance. Pure cheese, pure genius.

 

[rekil]

Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight - This Is Spinal Tap

Ol Man River - Paul Robeson in Showboat

Bernard Hermann's score for Taxi Driver

The Fall's Hip Priest in Silence Of The Lambs

Pat Brown - The Vandals, Suburbia.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I watched three hours of Barry Lyndon last night waiting for the Second Movement of Mozart's Twenty-First Piano Concerto. Turns out I was wasting my time as it's actually used in Elvira Madigan.

 

[rekil]

I'm sure Clare De Lune has been used in countless films but I can't think of any,apart from Dog Soldiers.

 

[Utopia]

Anything by Danny Elfman.........well all his collaborations with Tim Burton anyways especially Beetlejuice.

Oh & anything by John Williams.....the score to E.T in particular!

 

[rekil]

Stool Boom and Nothing Ever Happens On Mars from Waiting For Guffman.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I'm sure Clare De Lune has been used in countless films but I can't think of any,apart from Dog Soldiers.

Bloodsport 3(apparently)
Castaway
Dog Soldiers
Frankie and Johnny
The Game
Ocean's Eleven
The Right Stuff
Seven Years in Tibet

 

[Orang Utan]

The whole of the soundtrack of The Thin Red Line

 

[Louloubelle]

This is a long clip, but I love everything about this film, this sequence starts off scary and then turns into a surreal lullaby

Just perfect in every way

 

[Augie March]

Augie March are a good band!

Aye, Moo You Bloody Choir is a great album and One Crowded Hour is one of the songs of last year.

Take it you have some kind of connection to the land down under to have heard of them Firky?

 

[Flanflinger]

The ending of 'Midnight Express' always gets to me.

 

[Ceej]

Pixies - 'Where is my mind' at the end of Fight Club

Michael Nyman band soundtrack throughout Peter Greenaway's 'The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover'

John and Vangelis- 'Chariots of Fire' - not my sort of stuff, but perfect

Closing music from 'Midnight Cowboy' - brings tears to my eyes now

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

Goran Bergovic - Kalasnjikov from the start of Underground by Emir Kustarica.