Most surprising song you've heard in a movie

[flamingyouth]

Last night I was flying back to Seattle from Texas and they showed "Friday Night Lights" on the plane. I'm not a big football fan by any means, but I liked the movie, despite that I could only hear it through the left headphone, as it was being played in Spanish through the right one...

Anyway, as the second half of the big playoff game begins in the Astrodome, what better choice than to play The Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog." I actually started laughing out loud. Half of the plane was asleep; the other half was crabby. I just thought it was an interesting musical selection.

Anyone else have any out-of-place musical choices from films?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now" in Shaun of the Dead.

Made that particular scene all the better.

[flamingyouth]

2. I really need to see that film

It sounds great.

[ET Awful]

3. LOL

I laughed harder at that movie than I've laughed in a long, long time. :)

[RubyDuby in GA]

4. It is one of the best movies I've seen in the last year

Absolutely hilarious!

[realisticphish]

23. FUCKING LOVE that movie

best horror movie ever...

"...anyone want a peanut?"

:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Itascapark]

5. "Baker Street"

In Good Will Hunting...odd choice; still trying to figure the reason for that selection. Any thoughts?

[Fenris]

6. "Dust In The Wind" in "Old School"

I'm not sure I've ever laughed harder. Will Ferrel is a genius.

[flamingyouth]

8. Obviously he appreciates the genius of Kansas

Nothing equals the splendor!!!! :D

[Fenris]

10. Don't forget Whitesnake!

Only a genius can appreciate "Here I Go Again On My Own" performed by an orchestra!:D

[Hell in a Handbasket]

30. yeah, that was pretty perfect.

"You're my boy, Blue!"

[jpgray]

7. Hip Priest in Silence of the Lambs (nt)

[terrya]

9. Annie Lennox singing "Everytime We Say Goodbye" in "Edward II"

Derek Jarman's brilliant (and very homoerotic) film about Edward II of England has a scene where Annie Lennox sings this song...it's a very surprising...and lovely...moment in the film.

[CO Liberal]

11. "The Greatest American Hero" in "Fahrenheit 9-11"

Over the footage of Pretzelboy in his flight suit and codpiece landing on the aircraft carrier.

[flamingyouth]

12. ROFL - and what an earworm that is!

I laughed so hard when I heard that. Michael Moore picks great music for his films - like "Vacation" and the riff from "Cocaine" in F 9/11 and "Wouldn't It Be Nice" in "Roger and Me." :D

[CO Liberal]

13. When I Saw F-911 in the Theater....

...the whole theater broke into laughter at that scene when the strains of "The Greatest American Hero" came over the sound system. It was truly a pleasant surprise.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. "Three Times A Lady" at the funeral in Garden State was pretty amusing

Not necessarily surprising, but damn funny.

[Itascapark]

16. Speaking of funerals...

"All By Myself" in To Die For...both funny and surprising.

[The empressof all]

15. Raindrops keep falling on my head

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I thought that was an extremely incongruent choice.

[Richardo]

17. Yeah, that one is just kinda hot-glued in there.

A nice little bluegrass number for the bike-riding montage would have fit a lot better.

[Patiod]

27. It's the only thing that ruins that movie for me

Butch is one of my Top 5 favorite movies, but Raindrops is really irritating,

[MissMillie]

18. From "As Good as it Gets"

Shawn Colvin's "Climb On a Back That's Strong"


I like it when I hear stuff that I listen to in really good movies... makes me think that I'm in a league with people who have pretty good taste.

[yellowdogintexas]

19. practically any song used in "Moulin Rouge"

man the first time yousee that movie, the songs just jump out at you

I loved it

[pres2032]

20. the "Ave Maria" in 28 days later

just added to the greatness of that movie.

[NightTrain]

21. In BRINGING OUT THE DEAD, Martin Scorsese inexplicably...

...had one of his characters lip-synch to The Cellos' 1957 doo-wop novelty hit, "Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am The Japanese Sandman)." The experience was jarring, to say the least!

[JimmyJazz]

22. In the movie - 50 First Dates - the movie was scored with

reggae music (including Pressure Drop) but it took place in Hawaii - I thought the whole thing was a bit "off" as a result.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Actually, as I learned when I taught on the West Coast and had lots of

students from Hawaii, reggae is extremely popular in the Islands.

There are even local reggae bands whose music is referred to as "Jawaiian."

The reggae program on the radio station of one college I taught at was hosted by a student who had a thick Hawaiian pidgin accent and went by the name of "Brudda D."

[fishnfla]

24. I think it was in American Beauty

they played that Neil Young song After The Gold Rush

[7th_Sephiroth]

25. elle's whistleing in kill bill 1

And lenny Kravitz in the 2002 japaneese sci-fi movie Returner

[RubyDuby in GA]

26. In Reservoir Dogs

Steelers Wheel's Stuck in the Middle With You during THAT scene. I laughed my butt off at that one. I'm a little twisted, I know.

[Orsino]

28. Tom Waits' "Heart attack and Vine" in Hellboy

The mood was sort of appropriate to the scene, but lyrically it doesn't really have much to do with the movie.

It's a cool song, though, and I welcomed it.

[Hell in a Handbasket]

31. "Papa smurf can I lick your ass"

i forget the movie, but it took me by surprise.

[Bridget Burke]

32. "If I Needed You" in "StepMom"

Julia Roberts sang the Townes van Zandt tune to one of her stepchildren in this glossy "3-hanky" film. Even Susan Sarandon & Ed Harris couldn't make me love this depiction of how cancer makes everybody nicer. "Everybody" being people with plenty of money.... Hey, it was a dull Saturday.

Did Julia learn the tune from Lyle? He's a big Townes fan.

Another surprise: "When Doves Cry" in Baz Luhrman's version of Romeo & Juliet.

[DU GrovelBot]

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