Best fitting song in a movie

You know what I'm talking about. That song that plays in the background that just matches so perfectly it makes you smile.

I'd have to say:
Y.M.C.A. towards the end of One Night at McCools.

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Just the Mortal Kombat theme, and it being peppered throughout the movie. Sure its the theme, but it sure works well in many scenes.

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and I say this just because it truly did fit, and not out of love for the song, but Bodies during the opening sequence of The One.

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ANY song played at ANY time during Almost Famous. The greatest soundtrack ever, songwise, and it just works so damn well throughout the movie. Especially the bus scene, where they all sing. Someone help me out here, what is that song?

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I don't remember the song from "The One." I do love the MK theme, though. I loved it so much I went out and bought the CD...the dude behind the counter had these dreadlocks, and I think he sorta winked at me. Go figure. Great theme...rest of the soundtrack was okay, but I really only bought it for the one song. My blood starts pumping whenever I hear it.

I hate to digress a bit, because even though it's not a SONG, the MUSIC playing when...

The One was Bodies, by Drowning Pool (not a very good song). But it fit so well, especially remixed. "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor".

I actually perfer the open arms sequence with the Orange man in Unbreakable. Very powerful, and very good score during that sequence in the train station. Perfectly shot I might also ad.

Yeah, the steady beat that gains strength while he's looking around in the train station? Great, great song...and you're right, it's wonderfully shot. Didn't even get NOMINATED for Best Cinematogrophy. Bullshizznat.

Ahh, I know the song you're talking about now. My brother and I crack up over that, because when I first heard it, I thought they were saying "Eat the bodies, sh*t the floor," which made him laugh pretty bad. I don't like the song, but it did fit pretty well. Perfect "bada**" music.

Now, not to start a conversation about the basterdised satan who was Stanley Kubrick -- but the choice to keep the "pactice" music of Strauss in 2001 over the more subtle score that was being written was genius.

The Ride of the Valkyries in Apocolypse Now.

All of the songs used in Almost Famous.

Le Tango de Roxanne in Moulin Rouge


I personally write all my screenplays with the music in mind, and in a way they are all sort of pop-operas, with always more than one sequence to music, and always songs playing on the radio [deliberate intention, everytime]. A few examples:

"Run Through The Jungle"
"Sun Set on the Island" Sequence
Bermuda Triangle

"No Aphrodisiac"
[Playing on radio] Opening sequence
The Boss Club

but my personal favorite

"Tea For Two"
"Thommo Torture" Sequence
The Boss Club

This beautiful, slow, music playing as two guys sand the elbows of a guy and drip lemon juice into them.

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Off-topic: if I ever make and old-fashoined gangster movie, I've gotta have the chorus of Whitetown's "Your Woman" playing during some shootout.

"Stuck In The Middle With You"

Reservoir Dogs


(How could I forget?!)

If ever a movie and a soundtrack went together perfectly, it would have to be "Run Lola Run." This is perhaps owed in part to the fact that the composer also wrote and directed this amazing film.

"Harold and Maude" and Cat Stevens are a nice combination, too. In Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing", Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" drives and embodies the entire movie.

Just some cents...

R

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the matrix techno, i thik its called the lobby mix. It was perfect, made the incredibly cool scene even cooler

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They use that on so many TV ads now.
Over here anyway.

The Soul Bossa Nova from the beginning title sequence of Austin Powers : The Spy Who Shagged Me

Here are 10 songs that feature in films and fit very well for me are: (In the no particular order)

GOODFELLAS- The Sex Pistols version of "MY WAY" at the films conclusion is perfection. Also Eric Clapton's LAYLA as the cops discover the dead bodies is a gifted choice.

AMERICAN GRAFITTI- Booker T and The Mg's "GREEN ONIONS" as the whole town turns up for the drag race showdown with Bob Falfa (Harrison Ford)

APOCALYPSE NOW- The Doors "THE END" as we see the full destructive power of Napalm and ofcourse the frenzied finale.

NATURAL BORN KILLERS- L7's "SHITLIST" playing on the jukebox as Mickey and Mallory decimate the diner at the start

AMERICAN PSYCHO- Huey Lewis and The News "HIP TO BE SQUARE" as messed up yuppie boy Patrick Bateman makes good use of a drop cloth, an shiny chrome axe and Jared Leto's skull.

THE BIG LEBOWSKI- "I JUST DROPPED IN TO SEE WHAT CONDITION MY CONDITION WAS IN" during the "Gutter Balls" dream sequence.

BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID- "RAINDROPS KEEP FALLIN ON MY HEAD", a serene scene that shows our heroes completly out of type....

OCEANS 11- Sammy Davis Jnr singin the title song at the end as the Rat Pack peel out of the funeral parlor.

BOOGIE NIGHTS- Ricky Springfield JESSIE's GIRL as it all turns to **** in crazy dealer mans pad, where firecrakers go off at random.

REPLACEMENT KILLERS- The Crystal Method tune that is playing in the club at the start as our pal Chow lets loose with his two hand cannons.

Tons more, but these are just a few that spring immediately to mind.....cool topic

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Two off the top of my head.

Danger Zone - Top Gun
Eye of the Tiger - Rocky III

Good call on that "Matrix" lobby song. That scene, and that music, epitomized coolness, so, naturally, every dang car commercial in the world ended up using it, with shots of their car turning quickly this way and that. Still an awesome song, though. Close second: the music playing during the Neo/Morpheus fight scene. Sometimes I forget to take note of how well the music is lined up with the action on the screen.

Anytime Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" is used in a movie.

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Yeah, GREAT call there, Spudman...it's usually better in movies, too, because of that beyond-awful 2 minute guitar solo right in the middle of the song. I hate that...it's usually cut out for the big screen, though, which leaves that awesome chorus for the background.

Yup Yup!!

I think two movies I recall it being in are Austin Powers 2, and Go

I suppose you're looking for music not written specifically for the movie but used perfectly by the filmmaker?

Scorsese is the master at this for me. Some of his best are...

• Mean Streets - "Be My Baby" by The Ronettes, the 'home movie' opening.
• Mean Streets - "Rubber Biscuit" by The Chips, heard during the "mook" poolhall brawl.
• After Hours - "Last Train to Clarksville" by the Monkees and Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning" up in Julie's (Teri Garr) weird apartment above the copy shop.
• After Hours - "Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee, just before Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) finally meets his savior (Verna Bloom) from this nightmare odyssey.
• The Color of Money - "Werewolves of London" by Warren Zevon, as the incredible flake Vincent (Cruise) struts like a peacock around the pool table, showing off his skills and ruining any chance of scoring in that town.
• New York Stories ("Life Lessons" segment) - "Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procal Harum, which is used throughout the short piece as Lionel Dobie's (Nick Nolte) theme.
• GoodFellas - "Atlantis" by Donovan, while Tommy (Pesci) and Jimmy (DeNiro) beat Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) nearly to death in the bar.
• GoodFellas - "Jump into the Fire" by Harry Nilsson, "The Magic Bus" by The Who, and George Harrison's "What Is Life" are all used during that whirlwind finale of heliocopters, drugs, guns and spaghetti sauce.
• Casino - "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones, as we see how Nicky Santuro (Pesci) and his crew are making a living now that he's banned from all the casinos in Vegas.
• Bringing Out the Dead - "T.B. Sheets" by Van Morrison, which serves as a recurring theme as the ambulance glides through the ghosts of the Street.

Some other non-Scorsese favorites...

• The Killing Fields - "Imagine" by John Lennon, which fits so perfectly in the closing moments of that movie.
• Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn, as the multitudinous A-Bombs destroy the planet.
• The Big Lebowski - "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)" by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, that fantastically elaborate Busby Berkeley meets pornography at the bowling alley dream sequence.
• Fast Tmes at Ridgemont High, "Moving In Stereo" by The Cars, as Phoebe Cates takes that glorious slow-motion walk out of the pool.
• Joe versus the Vocano - "Come Go with Me" by The Dell Vikings, Joe Banks' (Tom Hanks) impromptu dance atop the waves, before the heatstroke sets in.
• The Deer Hunter - "Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You" by Frankie Valli, good friends singing and playing pool in that cold Pennsylvania town, the calm before the storm.

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"Tiny Dancer" by Elton John. That's the song they sing along to in Almost Famous. Brilliant soundtrack.

Goodfellas is the epitomy of how to stick music to film. The film is like a greatest hits album from the 50s and 60s. My favourite song in that one was "It's my party and I'll cry if I want to", used during the famous tracking shot.

Gotta mention "Wise Up" by Aimee Mann in Magnolia. That was a pretty dangerous move by Anderson making all the actors sing like that. It could have started a giggling riot but by that stage the audience is so depressed that we can't help but be moved by it.

"As time goes by" in Casablanca. The song overshadows the entire movie. It's even gently encompassed into the score.

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I saw something on tv the other night about Almost Famous, and since we're talking about songs used in movies, here goes.

One of the deleted scenes(simply because they couldn't get the rights)was them playing Stairway to Heaven and just having a good time, well in the deleted scene of this, there is a countdown so those of you who own this song can go put it on and play yours with the movie. This is, of course, on the Bootleg Cut.

My boss told me once that there is an album that goes along with the Wizard of Oz, not sure which band it was, but if you know any help would be useful. Anyway, the whole album, if you start it at a certain point, plays through to the end and the music matches up with the movie.

The Foundations, Build Me Up Buttercup, from There's Something About Mary

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