Best use of songs in film II

by Geoff J

I was thinking about a post that Susan put up a year or two ago about the best use of a song in movies or TV. When I looked it up I realized that post was published more than four years ago. Anyhow, YouTube has more videos in 2009 than it had in 2005 (in fact there was no YouTube when Susan published that post…) so I figured we should try it again. But this time you should include a link to the scenes you want add to the list.

As my first entry I give you “Tiny Dancer” from Almost Famous. I doubt anyone will top this one but do your best:

NOTE: Just add links to YouTube or other videos. Only admins can embed videos.

106 Comments »

  1. I’m guessing musicals are disqualified?

    Comment by Dan — June 27, 2009 @ 8:01 pm

  2. Ok, let’s try this:

    Comment by John C. — June 27, 2009 @ 8:13 pm

  3. Also:

    Comment by John C. — June 27, 2009 @ 8:18 pm

  4. The Elephant Love Medley in Moulin Rouge:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaqYgWc8-vs

    Comment by Steven B — June 27, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

  5. Nice. We’re off to a good start. I hadn’t seen any of those three but I like them all.

    Comment by Geoff J — June 27, 2009 @ 9:10 pm

  6. Those are all great (except Dan’s which is weird), but my feeling is that the best is probably Almost Famous, and if not that particular scene, then it would be one in another Cameron Crowe movie. He has an amazing musical sense in every movie he has made.

    Comment by MCQ — June 27, 2009 @ 10:25 pm

  7. “In Your Eyes” by Peter Gabriel in Say Anything.

    “Just Like Honey” by Jesus & Mary Chain in Lost in Translation.

    “Mad World” by TFF/Gary Jules in Donnie Darko.

    “Mrs. Robinson” by Simon & Garfunkle in The Graduate.

    “Wish You Were Here” by Thompson Twins in Sixteen Candles.

    “The Tracks of My Tears” by Smokey Robinson in Platoon.

    “What a Wonderful World This Would Be” by Sam Cooke in Witness.

    “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong in Good Morning Viet Nam

    “Fire and Rain” by James Taylor in Running on Empty.

    “Wicked Game” by Chris Issak in Wild at Heart.

    “Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon” by Urge Overkill in Pulp Fiction.

    “Everybody Knows” by Leonard Cohen, either in Pump Up the Volume or Exotica.

    “Lust for Life” by Iggy Pop in Trainspotting.

    “Where is My Mind” by The Pixies in Fight Club.

    “Melt With You” by Modern English in Valley Girl.

    “Damn it Feels Good to be a Gangsta” by The Geto Boys in Office Space.

    Comment by Matt Thurston — June 27, 2009 @ 10:29 pm

  8. I really liked the Aimee Mann song in Magnolia.

    Another I would add in is T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer” in the opening scene of Billy Elliot.

    Comment by mike d. — June 27, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

  9. “Somebody’s Baby” by Jackson Browne in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

    “It Had To Be You” by Harry Connick Jr. in When Harry Met Sally.

    “Unchained Melody” from Ghost.

    “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus in The Hunger.

    “Layla” by Derek and the Dominos in Goodfellas.

    So so many. I like Tiny Dancer in Almost Famous too, but best ever? No way.

    Comment by Matt Thurston — June 27, 2009 @ 10:49 pm

  10. Another vote for Magnolia.

    Some of the Tom Waits songs in Down By Law are pretty great.

    Comment by Steve Evans — June 27, 2009 @ 10:53 pm

  11. How about this?

    my best friends girl. man comes around

    Comment by MCQ — June 27, 2009 @ 10:56 pm

  12. Oh, what the heck. Here’s another fun one from Moulin Rouge: Like a Virgin (very memorable sequence).

    Comment by Steven B — June 27, 2009 @ 11:00 pm

  13. Forgot one of the best…

    “Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield and “Sister Christian” by Night Ranger, back to back in Boogie Nights.

    Comment by Matt Thurston — June 27, 2009 @ 11:03 pm

  14. Sorry Matt — any suggestions without accompanying links are DQ’d in this discussion. The whole point here is to use the power of the interwebs to share the actual clips so we can all enjoy them right here and now…

    Comment by Geoff J — June 27, 2009 @ 11:07 pm

  15. And BTW, Matt, just listing every song from every movie you can think of is not helpful. The point is to nominate the good ones.

    I do agree with your office space nomination however.

    I also have to add that I hate Moulin Rouge with all my heart. It makes me physically ill.

    Comment by MCQ — June 27, 2009 @ 11:09 pm

  16. Here you go Matt — I’ll help you out with one of your suggestions:

    That’s what we are looking for in this thread. (And that is a good one BTW)

    Comment by Geoff J — June 27, 2009 @ 11:29 pm

  17. John Hughes was brilliant at this. This is my favorite: Please, please, please let me get what I want by the Smiths (I think this is actually the Dream Academy covering them) in Ferris Bueller’s Day off. There are a couple of other fun ones in that movie as well.

    Comment by Brock — June 27, 2009 @ 11:48 pm

  18. I can’t resist posting this one:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 12:36 am

  19. Not sure if counts since it was a trailer for the movie and not the actual film but MIA’s Paper Planes in the Pineapple Expres trailor was genius and it put a very deserving artist on the map.

    Comment by Rose Tyler — June 28, 2009 @ 12:39 am

  20. Here’s an Oscar winner:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 12:46 am

  21. I have one that might top Tiny Dancer, Moon River in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. If I only knew how to post videos from my phone. Darn you smart phones that keep me from using an actual computer!

    Comment by Rose Tyler — June 28, 2009 @ 12:51 am

  22. I don’t think that song was in Pineapple Express. But that brings up a whole other category: Great Songs in Movie Trailers that weren’t in the film. The best in that category is the Elbow song that was used in the Burn After Reading Trailer:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 12:56 am

  23. Here’s one from Crash I can’t embed:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl3hOnseZpg

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 1:16 am

  24. Wow, Rose. I forgot about that one. That’s hard to top. How can you beat Audrey Hepburn?

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 1:20 am

  25. Ok, here’s an awesome one:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 1:48 am

  26. How about this:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 2:43 am

  27. I don’t dare post it, but Brian Ferry’s “Slave to Love” in 9 1/2 Weeks is great too.

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 2:44 am

  28. Speaking of Notting Hill, I just love this scene, but the music is good, too.

    Comment by John C. — June 28, 2009 @ 7:04 am

  29. Finally, mediocre movie, but this internet trailer had a darn fine song:

    Comment by John C. — June 28, 2009 @ 7:07 am

  30. “And Then He Kissed Me” by The Crystals in Goodfellas. It doesn’t hurt that the accompanying shot is a technical and aesthetic marvel as well.

    Comment by Brian V — June 28, 2009 @ 7:37 am

  31. As for that Magnolia scene, I love the song but I hate the way it’s used in the movie. Way too clever and ultimately destructive to the cinematic experience since it completely pulls you out of the movie.

    Comment by Brian V — June 28, 2009 @ 7:59 am

  32. There’s a great scene in After Hours that features a Peggy Lee song called “Is That All There Is to a Fire” but it’s not on youtube.

    Comment by Susan M — June 28, 2009 @ 8:03 am

  33. Oh my gosh. This Woman’s Work. That clip can make me cry like nothing else.

    Comment by gabby — June 28, 2009 @ 8:39 am

  34. “Just Like Honey” by Jesus & Mary Chain in Lost in Translation.

    This is a good one, but from Lost In Translation, I would nominate Bill Murray’s karaoke rendition of “More Than This.” That was brilliant in context.

    Comment by BTD Greg — June 28, 2009 @ 9:26 am

  35. Good songs in good trailors for even better movies, Mr. Blue Sky in the trailor for Eternal Sunshine for the Spotless Mind.

    Comment by Rose Tyler — June 28, 2009 @ 9:42 am

  36. This isn’t a pop song but the use of music in this scene is great. Soundtrack by Peter Gabriel. One of my favorite movies, Birdy.

    Comment by Susan M — June 28, 2009 @ 9:45 am

  37. The Smashing Pumpkins song from the Watchmen trailer, “The beginning is the end is the beginning”:

    Comment by Supergenius — June 28, 2009 @ 9:46 am

  38. Here’s a great song that was actually in the movie:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 10:38 am

  39. It would be interesting to know which songs have been used the most. That song from the Crystals in the clip from Goodfellas is a song that I swear has been used a million times.

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 11:20 am

  40. Supergenius,

    I must say that the Smashing Pumpkins song is fantastic with that trailer. It seems sometimes that trailers have a better use of music than the movies do.

    But I have two that I want to share.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTs8YnKfSsU

    That’s from The Terminator, a song called “You’ve Got Me Running”….visceral man, just visceral.

    and from Kill Bill Vol 1. “Battle Without Honor” and the introduction of the Crazy 88s

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKLeCjySMi8

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 11:43 am

  41. from musicals,

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6wo2wpT2k

    “America” from West Side Story. Brilliant.

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 11:57 am

  42. MCQ

    #6,

    I actually didn’t put that in there. I merely asked the question. Someone with higher powers than I placed it in. Ironic, actually, because I did sing that at a karaoke party we had once… :)

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 12:00 pm

  43. Brian,

    #30,

    A while back, Andrew Sullivan linked to single-track shots like that one from Good Fellas. Fantastic stuff. I don’t know if you’ve seen Children of Men, but it has probably the best single-track shot ever made. Sorry, slight tangent there.

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 12:10 pm

  44. I like this from “High Noon”:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKLvKZ6nIiA&feature=related

    The link shows the opening only — but the song is used as a recurring theme throughout the movie.

    Comment by Jack — June 28, 2009 @ 12:51 pm

  45. Um, could someone release the vids on my last two posts. Thanks.

    Comment by John C. — June 28, 2009 @ 1:19 pm

  46. Also, I much prefer the use of “save me” at the end of Magnolia, but I couldn’t find the clip at Youtube.

    Comment by John C. — June 28, 2009 @ 1:21 pm

  47. Brace yourselves….(for good and bad)….

    Comment by Brooke — June 28, 2009 @ 1:23 pm

  48. not sure what the embed didn’t work….here is the link…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiS8YokFzeY

    Comment by Brooke — June 28, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

  49. Ok, it may be gauche now, but when I saw that movie as a teenager, I cried my eyes out!

    Comment by Tracy M — June 28, 2009 @ 1:53 pm

  50. John C,

    There are no links to release in your comments. You need to just link to the YouTube page rather than try to embed it. You can only embed videos in the admin page (MCQ or someone has been doing that in this thread on the back end I think).

    Comment by Geoff J — June 28, 2009 @ 2:24 pm

  51. I guess “songs” means that Blue Danube Waltz and Thus Spake Zarathustra from 2001 don’t count, right?

    Comment by BTD Greg — June 28, 2009 @ 4:18 pm

  52. Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder at the end of Into the Wild (@ 4.00).


    Into The Wild O.S.T - Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun - Music Video
    Uploaded by no_none. - Check out other Film & TV videos.

    Comment by The Brit — June 28, 2009 @ 4:37 pm

  53. Stupid embedding!

    Comment by The Brit — June 28, 2009 @ 4:38 pm

  54. Just use the URL and it will fine

    Comment by Geoff J — June 28, 2009 @ 4:51 pm

  55. Ok, if we’re going to get sappy, then here’s one that’s better than Beaches:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 5:16 pm

  56. You’re going to love this one:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 5:24 pm

  57. Spitfire Grill – “There Is A Balm in Gilead”

    Starts at 4:13.

    Comment by Susan M — June 28, 2009 @ 5:35 pm

  58. Here’s another great one from the 80s:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 5:52 pm

  59. Chava Sequence from Fiddler on the Roof – makes me tear each time.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juuhx884ylM&feature=PlayList&p=64C5F7093FE6AE81&index=7

    and of course, the bottle dance at the wedding

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sH3mjOsZY0

    fantastic stuff

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 6:09 pm

  60. The Good The Bad and The Ugly, final stand off

    The music is palpable.

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 6:20 pm

  61. Anybody remember this?

    Comment by Susan M — June 28, 2009 @ 7:01 pm

  62. Fine, then I’ll do it

    Notting Hill – Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers

    Elizabethtown trailer – My Father’s Gun – Elton John

    Comment by John C. — June 28, 2009 @ 7:15 pm

  63. Hey, Broadway Dan, you finally came up with a good one!

    John, those last two are awesome. Elizabethtown is another Cameron Crowe movie that had great music.

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 7:48 pm

  64. This is a full scene, so it’s rather long, but worth it! The song is “If There Is Something” by Roxy Music.

    Comment by Anonymous — June 28, 2009 @ 7:49 pm

  65. Um, where Anonymous?

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 7:51 pm

  66. Sorry…I thought I embedded it. Here is the link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTlDCfCWog

    Comment by Anonymous — June 28, 2009 @ 8:00 pm

  67. I haven’t read all the comments yet. But here are a few of my faves.

    Bill Paxton’s Frailty has this great use of Johnny Cash. I couldn’t find a clip but here’s the trailer for the movie

    Here’s the song that plays

    Fantastic little scene.

    Let’s also not forget Twin Peaks

    I could list a slew of David Lynch ones. All his films are fantastic in terms of music. One of my favorites is the music in The Straight Story.

    Probably one of the most influential is 2001.

    I know most of you won’t like it but I love the composer Ligeti whose work was used in 2001 and inspired lots of film score music for work like Alien. I like his early chromatism from the 60′s and early 70′s more than his latter stuff. If you like 2001 pick up some good CDs of his stuff.

    The soundtrack to Raiders of the Lost Ark was great as well for involving you into the action.

    Comment by Clark — June 28, 2009 @ 8:13 pm

  68. Sheryl Crow’s “Real Gone” from Cars

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwVbM-S2dbo

    Well done.

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 8:20 pm

  69. MCQ,

    All of Dan’s Broadway picks are excellent — though I’m not sure that’s what Geoff was looking for on this thread.

    Comment by Jack — June 28, 2009 @ 8:20 pm

  70. Alias intro

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5eOvC81cpY

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

  71. I love that movie The Straight Story, Clark. I’d forgotten about it. I’ll have to pick it up on DVD.

    Comment by Susan M — June 28, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

  72. Jack,

    That’s why I asked in my first comment if musicals were off the list. Then someone inserted “I Feel Pretty” into my comment.

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 8:23 pm

  73. If you include music, Pushing Daisies had some incredible music sequences (almost invariably featuring Kristin Chenowith.

    Comment by BTD Greg — June 28, 2009 @ 8:24 pm

  74. Comments on the comments.

    “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” by Bauhaus in The Hunger is a great pick. I don’t like the movie but the song was great. (I was ironically just listening to it)

    So is “Lust for Life” to which I’d add Lou Reed’s Perfect Day.

    Some more obscure ones I like. Red Rider (Tom Cochrane)
    did Lunatic Fringe from the film Vision Quest. (Everyone unfortunately remembers a Madonna track from that soundtrack)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp9852hq0W0&feature=PlayList&p=533C1DD73DCE66BD&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=28

    Someone already put in the Eddie Vedder tracks I was thinking of.

    The Good the Bad and the Ugly was great, but for music I’m convinced Once Upon a Time in the West is even better.

    And let’s not forget my favorite Seven Samurai remake: the Magnificent Seven.

    But the all time best soundtrack is Buckaroo Banzai:

    (It’s in about 45 seconds)

    Comment by Clark — June 28, 2009 @ 8:30 pm

  75. dang, I can’t find the video of the first instance of the Imperial March from Empire Strikes Back, but that has to have at least an honorable mention on this list.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7KkFcyOklg

    Comment by Dan — June 28, 2009 @ 8:33 pm

  76. Lots of great ones from O Brother Where Art Thou. Even though it’s a musical, most of the music was borrowed. This one’s a particular favorite:

    Comment by BTD Greg — June 28, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

  77. Jack, don’t encourage Broadway Dan’s obsession. First thing you know we’ll be hip deep in Carousel and Oklahoma videos. Just don’t do it.

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 8:35 pm

  78. Greg, would you really call O Brother a musical? It had great music, but I don’t think it crossed the line into the musical category.

    Here’s my favorite scene:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 8:39 pm

  79. For me personally, the use of the Beatle’s cover of “Twist and Shout” in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” was a huge influence on my music tastes. It led me to purchase a Beatles album – which in turn led me to purchase every Beatles album.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa14UmiCMVw

    More recently, I really enjoyed the way music was used in the movie Last Holiday that featured Queen Latifah and LL Cool Jay. There was all kinds of great music in that movie and I had some fun tracking down a number of the songs. It opens with a church choir (including Latifah) rehearsing a song called “Every Time I Feel the Spirit” – in the movie it is interrupted – but I’d like to get a full recording of that one (haven’t found it yet). Another one of my favorites was “Don’t Wait Too Long” by Madeleine Peyroux.

    Comment by danithew — June 28, 2009 @ 8:42 pm

  80. Whoops, I think it’s just supposed to be LL Cool J – not Jay. Oh well.

    Comment by danithew — June 28, 2009 @ 8:43 pm

  81. Oh an other I can’t forget. The is from

    I loved that show. In a way, while dated, it’s still better than Burn Notice (even though I like Burn Notice a lot) The soundtrack (which I own and I heartily recommend picking up) was by Stewart Copeland. Fantasic album. (He also did a lot of other soundtracks including Rumblefish, although the Equalizer’s my favorite)

    I really don’t like Prince but even I have to admit this was an awesome song in a movie.

    http://www.vh1classic.com/view/artist/14481/58775/Prince/Let_s_Go_Crazy/index.jhtml

    I couldn’t find a video for it, but BT’s Believer from the soundtrack for Go is great as well.

    A great film for use of music was Blade. It’s too bad the director got so screwed over by the system. The opening scene was amazing and let you know that this wasn’t like movies you’d seen before. (Even if the ending is a bit of a mess)

    While it was a pale shadow of the first film this scene in Blade II using Crystal Method I really liked.

    Finally, while I know the two sequels left a bad taste in everyones mouth, who can forget this?

    http://www.myvideo.de/watch/3326001/Rob_Zombie_Dragula

    (Yeah, an other one hard to find online)

    Comment by Clark — June 28, 2009 @ 8:50 pm

  82. I think this needs to be mentioned:

    Comment by MCQ — June 28, 2009 @ 9:19 pm

  83. If we’re going to discuss movie scores then Clint Eastwod’s scores are not to be ignored. Both Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino have excellent scores. Even more impressive is that he composes them himself. Could the man be any more talented?

    Comment by Rose Tyler — June 28, 2009 @ 10:01 pm

  84. I like all three musical selections in this one…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ijc-P5nhc

    *language warning*

    Comment by Tracy M — June 28, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

  85. That should say- “all THE musical selections in this one.”

    Comment by Tracy M — June 28, 2009 @ 10:50 pm

  86. Eastwood is a pretty talented jazz pianist and plays in a few of his movies. (He is found playing in a jazz bar in In The Line of Fire for instance) I love the opening little thing in Unforgiven and then the piece he does for Bridges of Madison County is quite nice. (Which, regardless of how you feel about the film, has a killer soundtrack)

    http://www.simgolo.com/video/unforgiven-soundtrack/tr/303918279714/show-video.aspx

    Comment by clark — June 28, 2009 @ 11:01 pm

  87. Oh Geeze. Chariots of Fire makes me realize I forgot what can’t be forgotten.

    Comment by clark — June 28, 2009 @ 11:05 pm

  88. Oh don’t think musicals really apply to what I had in mind. I was more thinking about popular songs that were employed effectively in the movie or show. Musical scores are sort of a different category too.

    Having said that I think Susan’s Miami Vice clip is a killer use of a song in the context of a show. You can’t go wrong with Ain’t No Sunshine so the Notting Hill was really effective I thought. And John Travolta strutting down the street to the beat of Stayin’ Alive is great stuff.

    Comment by Geoff J — June 29, 2009 @ 12:19 am

  89. 4 solid minutes of U2 at the end of Reality Bites.

    Comment by Jacob J — June 29, 2009 @ 1:46 am

  90. For me, Martin Scorsese wrote the book on using pop music to score films, so every example I come up with is one of his. Here are a couple more favorites:

    Jackson Browne’s “Late for the Sky” in Taxi Driver:

    A virtuoso 10-minute sequence near the end of Goodfellas that has a bunch of songs. Jump Into the Fire by Harry Nilsson is a sort of refrain, but he also uses What Is Life by George Harrison, Monkey Man by Rolling Stones, Magic Bus by the Who, and some others I can’t recall (there’s some bad language in here, so don’t watch/listen at work):

    I also really like his use of Donovan’s Atlantis in Goodfellas and Please Mr. Postman by the Marvelettes in Mean Streets but I haven’t included them because they’re pretty violent.

    Comment by Brian V — June 29, 2009 @ 4:38 am

  91. MCQ

    #77

    Please, I have better tastes than that. You won’t see any Oklahoma or Carousel or Hello Dolly or any others than the ones I shared.

    Here’s one

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y84LTsolFX0&feature=related

    The rise of Don Corleone from Godfather Part II

    Comment by Dan — June 29, 2009 @ 5:21 am

  92. This Women’s Work was also used to great effect in the Extras finale.

    Comment by Wm Morris — June 29, 2009 @ 7:41 am

  93. I present Tainted Love, as rendered by Kevin Bacon, with some environmental help, in the movie Pyrates:

    Tainted Love

    Comment by FHL — June 30, 2009 @ 5:33 pm

  94. Brian V rules *almost* as much as Jackson Browne.

    Comment by Susan M — June 30, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

  95. I thought that the closing credits of WALL-E were incredibly moving along with the Peter Gabriel song. In fact, they were the best part of an amazing movie.

    Comment by a random John — July 1, 2009 @ 12:11 pm

  96. Little Shop of Horrors. (A quasi-musical I suppose)

    Comment by Clark — July 1, 2009 @ 12:13 pm

  97. Clark, Little Shop of Horrors is a musical. Nothing quasi about it.

    Comment by MCQ — July 1, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

  98. True dat MCQ. (I generally hate musicals BTW)

    Comment by Geoff J — July 1, 2009 @ 1:34 pm

  99. I couldn’t tell Geoff… ;)

    Comment by Dan — July 1, 2009 @ 1:48 pm

  100. Geoff, have you seen Spamalot? It might be the one to change your mind.

    Comment by MCQ — July 1, 2009 @ 2:22 pm

  101. I usually like live musicals. I just hate the movies about them.

    Comment by Geoff J — July 1, 2009 @ 5:00 pm

  102. MCQ: “And BTW, Matt, just listing every song from every movie you can think of is not helpful. The point is to nominate the good ones.”

    You’re a real swell guy, MCQ. I actually spent a good 15-20 minutes coming up with my list. Which one was not “a good one”?

    Comment by Matt Thurston — July 1, 2009 @ 11:50 pm

  103. Don’t get sensitive on me Matt, I was just saying that it’s an awfully long list.

    Comment by MCQ — July 2, 2009 @ 2:39 am

  104. I can’t find it on Youtube, but the use of CCR’s “Run Through the Jungle” in The Big Lebowski is pretty amazing.

    Comment by Brian V — July 2, 2009 @ 4:34 am

  105. The Big Lebowski is such a great movie.

    Comment by Rose Tyler — July 2, 2009 @ 11:06 pm

  106. Iris Dement’s “My Life” at the end of Mister Lonely, when all the eggs are singing. Classic!

    Comment by Tyler — July 12, 2009 @ 9:53 am

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