Best and worst use of music (not scores) in movies and tv

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Normie pick. "Where Is My Mind" in Fight Club is possibly the best ever. But maybe I'm biased because it's the first time I heard that beautiful band. That shit hit.
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Ello Sailor wrote:Normie pick. "Where Is My Mind" in Fight Club is possibly the best ever. But maybe I'm biased because it's the first time I heard that beautiful band. That shit hit.
yeah, that final scene was elevated with the song.
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daft twat wrote:With movies, my favorite lead-in to the credits is RATM’s “Wake Up” at the end of The Matrix
I was hopelessly in love with RATM when I saw this movie and it kicked a hole in my arse, ears and face. So fucking dope.
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warehouse wrote:i think Goodfellas and Forrest Gump have almost perfected this. Goodfellas was on tv the other night, shocker i know. "Layla" is the obvious example, but it's almost all perfect. Same thing with Forrest Gump, I can probably pick 4-5 songs off the top of my head from that movie that are perfect. i might add Dazed and Confused.

the murder scenes in American Psycho with Huey Lewis and Genesis are pretty great.

there was a scene in Stranger Things when they played "Psycho Killer". i wish this was the song that stuck instead of 'running up that hill'

anytime "The Man In Me" played during The Big Lewbowski

"Back to Life" at the beginning of Belly
Scorsese is definitely at the top of the hill on this particular art. When he drops that Roy Buchanan song at the end of The Departed while the camera pans to the rat on the balcony railing is pretty smart. The average viewer might not know the song, but finding out it's called "Sweet Dreams" is very nice delayed gratification.
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lvc wrote:The average viewer might not know.
So when is this cornball dickhead going to admit that he's Trag?
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Any of the Terry Reid songs in The Devil's Rejects. As well as all of the other songs that are used. "Midnight Rider" over the opening credits is :nice:
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Ello Sailor wrote:
lvc wrote:The average viewer might not know.
So when is this cornball dickhead going to admit that he's Trag?
Were you familiar enough with Roy Buchanan in 2006 to name the tune? I wasn't and I'm average at best.
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