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Interesting Song Choices for Movies

Started by ralfy, April 15, 2023, 02:25:42 AM

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Trevor

Katrina's Theme from the 1969 South African film Katrina

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06T9C0e3WgA

A romantic theme for what is essentially an anti-apartheid film.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

zombie no.one

by "interesting" I guess you mean incongruous?

in which case THE MUTILATOR

https://youtu.be/XmvJSm7ttFg

LilCerberus

The title song from Hardware (1990) is the title song from Order of Death (1983) (AKA Copkiller)
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

Trevor

Quote from: zombie no.one on April 15, 2023, 09:34:00 AM
by "interesting" I guess you mean incongruous?

in which case THE MUTILATOR

https://youtu.be/XmvJSm7ttFg

Dammit, now I have to watch that  :wink:
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Rev. Powell

Mondo Cane - "More". Huge Easy Listening hit from an exploitation movie

https://youtu.be/doE_lNRyMlA

Spider Baby - "Theme Song." Sung by Lon Chaney, Jr. Later covered by the Misfits.

https://youtu.be/A1O7u-1hNWU

Tales from the Quadead Zome - "Theme Song." Beware!

https://youtu.be/OLmBkQacJXs
I'll take you places the hand of man has not yet set foot...

LilCerberus

Don't Fear The Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult in the opening credits of The Stand
"Science Fiction & Nostalgia have become the same thing!" - T Bone Burnett
The world runs off money, even for those with a warped sense of what the world is.

RCMerchant

The truck that hit the baby in PET SEMATARY was blaring Blitzkrieg Bop by the Ramones on the radio.
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

Cult_Moody_Movies

Just Hanging Out - Damien Carter - Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcExOiUDd0g

A Million Ways to Love You or Shadows - Unknown - Squirm (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAnBpDx5eVo

Korn – "Blind" - Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)
Alice in Chains – "Them Bones"
Silverchair – "Israel's Son"
In the Nursery – "Hallucinations" (Dream World Mix)
Black/Note – "Evil Dancer"
KMFDM – "Ultra"
Smokin' Suckaz wit Logic – "Cuz I'm Like Dat"
Intermix – "Mantr

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyr9xkOz1VE

retrorussell

SKY HIGH- Jigsaw
In the film THE MAN FROM HONG KONG/THE DRAGON FLIES
The song doesn't really make me think of a kung fu film..
"O the legend they say, on a Valentine's Day, is a curse that'll live on and on.."

RCMerchant

I don't know the name of the song, but in NIGHT TRAIN TO TERROR (1985) their's some kind of upbeat song interlude that goes "Everybody's got something to do, everybody but you!", which best sums up watching that moronic film. (I liked it anyway, of course  :wink:)
Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

RCMerchant

Supernatural?...perhaps. Baloney?...Perhaps not!" Bela Lugosi-the BLACK CAT (1934)
Interviewer-"Does Dracula ever end for you?
Lugosi-"No. Dracula-never ends."
Slobber, Drool, Drip!
https://www.tumblr.com/ronmerchant

ER

Something I have never cared for is anachronistic music, where a show set in the past, like Peaky Blinders, or Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette movie, brings in music from our time. Somehow that invariably takes me out of the narrative.
What does not kill me makes me stranger.

Trevor

That awful ABBA like dong from the John Russo movie MIDNIGHT 😳😳
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

Trevor

Quote from: ER on April 15, 2023, 02:39:14 PM
Something I have never cared for is anachronistic music, where a show set in the past, like Peaky Blinders, or Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette movie, brings in music from our time. Somehow that invariably takes me out of the narrative.

The film A KNIGHTS TALE used David Bowie's song Golden Years in it.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.