the best use of a song for a movie scene

Come on folks

Highway to the Danger Zone- Top Gun

and

Your the Best Around- Karate Kid

 

my 2 favorite:
kingpin

can't find it but the opening scene of dazed and confused

 

top 77 songs in a movie

 

Two that popped into my mind were "Late for the Sky" from Taxi Driver and "Everybody's Talking" from Midnight Cowboy.

The previously mentioned "Wonderful World" also came to mind as I started reading this thread. These would make a great playlist. Now to read the 77 best in the above post.

 

I would have to add "The End" from Apocalypse Now and "Mad World" from Donnie Darko.

 

Good call on, "late for the sky." damn that's a great song.

Elizabethtown - "My Father's Gun" - Elton
Swingers- "Magic Man" - Heart

 

Jesus intro/Big Lebowski
The Link

 

I liked "Mad World" at the end of Donnie Darko and also the song at the end of Dallas 362 ("The Long Goodbye" by Audrey Moshier").

 

I didn't fully look over the thread, but "Stuck in the Middle with You" came into my head immediately.

 

Boogie Nights during the scene where they decide to try and rob the big time coke dealer at his own house. The little chinese kid is walking around just randomly setting off fire-crackers, and the coke dealer is showing them some of his favorite music. I cant remember the actual song, but it really made the scene that much more tense.

 

Boogie Nights = Sister Christian

 

'Lunatic Fringe' in Vision Quest

'Singin' in the Rain' in A Clockwork Orange

 

Bad Moon Rising ---An American Werewolf in London

Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Hey it was Marilyn

 

Phoebe Cates getting out of the pool in Fast Times at Ridgemont High... Hi Brad, you know how cute I always thought you were...

 

Have not seen it mentioned, and it needs to be:

A Clockwork Orange - Singing in the Rain

 

Born To Be Wild in Fandango (plane flying to Dallas)
O Fortuna in Excalibur (when Arthur rides out from Camelot)

 

Sull' Aria in Shawshank Redemption.

 

"Adaigio for Strings in D" in "Platoon".

 

Where is my Mind, the Pixies.....Fight Club.

 

The casino schene from Rain Man was the first thing I thought of.
The Link

 

Two more Jackson Browne songs:

The Pretender used in Mr Holland's Opus to show the passage of time from Johnson administration through to Reagan, with the montage of iconic moments in history.

Also Somebody's Baby in Fast Times at Ridgemont High - good catchy song.

 

The Imperial March when the Emperor arrives at the Death Star.

 

Dave Dudley - Hello Vietnam
Intro to Full Metal Jacket.

Happy belated birthday Marines and happy Veteran's Day.

Semper Fi.

 

Townes Van Zandt version of Dead Flowers at the end of Lebowski

 

Song: "Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head"
Movie: "Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid"
Scene: Butch and his chick on a bicycle.


.........oh, wait. I thought the category was "Completely unexplainable song in a scene in an otherwise bad *** movie"

 

Missed this thread somehow.

Many a great selection.

I was always struck by the use of John Cooper Clarke's 'Evidently Chickentown' at the end of the Soprano's episode where Phil Leotardo decides to go to war with Tony. I can't think of a better instance of music communicating a coming shitstorm.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LasONPHq_d8