Best Use of Modern Music in a Movie

[warehouse]

Led Zeppelin-What Is and Should Never Be: Silver Linings Playbook

[bada]

Every song in Almost Famous.

[Jorge]

"Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" at the top of The Master was genius.
"Innocent When You Dream" in Smoke.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" and "Fourth Time Around" in Vanilla Sky (the entire movie is great for music).
"Both Sides Now" in Love Actually (a really powerful moment in an otherwise lighthearted movie).
"Staralfur" in The Life Aquatic.
"Poison Cup" at the end of Wellness.
"Six Different Ways" in The Rules of Attraction (and, in a sick way, their use of Harry Nilsson's "Without You" too).
I know you specified "modern music", but I really love the use of Bach's Goldberg Variations in that scene in Silence of the Lambs when Lecter savages the prison guards.


And uhhhh "New Town" by Life Without Buildings in the film I'm shooting in December!

[@SkitchP]

Knights Tale

[Norah]

All of Vanilla Sky.

[Orpheus]

"Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" at the top of The Master was genius.

God, this whole movie. "Changing Partners" at the end was amazing too.

[TheDapperGent]

needele in the hay; royal tennenbaums.

[mastaflatch]

Looking Out My Backdoor (CCR) in The Big Lebowski
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Beck) in Eternal Sunshine (i know it's over the end credits but it fits perfectly, a nice thoughtful touch that's as important as anything within the actual movie)
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[LetMeSleep]

Moby - god moving over the face of the waters in Heat is pretty much top of the heap.

And also all of The Big Lebowski but especially The Man In Me - Dylan.

[Harry Lime]

"His hair was perfect."

[Mecca]

"Cat People" Inglorious Basterds

[Dr. Van Nostrand]

Knights Tale

i was gonna throw that one out there

[Farmer John]

All of The Devil's Rejects.

[mastaflatch]

[Mecca]

i've been in that bowling alley; It is nowhere near this cool.

[bada]

All of The Devil's Rejects.

good one

[mastaflatch]

[nyquillyn]

I'm a sucker for all those Rolling Stones tracking shots by Scorsese.

[psychobain]

Vanilla Sky

[BurtReynolds]

Drive