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erikalbany
Great use of TP artists' songs in movies
May 12, 2008 05:43PM
I love the use of the Pixies in "Fight Club" (where is my mind), but this one stands out even more for me: [youtube.com]

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ira
Re: Great use of TP artists' songs in movies
May 12, 2008 08:51PM
Peaches in Sexy Beast
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Delvin
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May 12, 2008 09:26PM
Personally, I still love the Clueless soundtrack. Every artist on it has a review on this web site.
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breno
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May 13, 2008 07:53AM
Don't Counting Crows do a version of "The Ghost in You" on the Clueless soundtrack? It's the one Counting Crows song that doesn't make me run screaming for the hills.
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rebelwithoutaclue
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May 13, 2008 07:09PM
sounds lame but i first heard the song shake some action on the clueless soundtrack and then later became a flamin groovies fan
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jothoma
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May 14, 2008 03:41PM
Any Love out there for "Until the End of the World". Listening to XM Fred the other night the Talking Heads' "Sax and Violins" came on and reminded me how much I enjoyed that soundtrack. U2, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Depeche Mode, REM. Pretty much summed up early 90's alternative.

Also, the Batman Forever soundtrack had great tunes by PJ Harvey, Offspring, U2 and a great solo track by INXS' Michael Hutchence (whose name I probably misspelled). I even enjoyed the song by Brandy.
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Michael Toland
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May 15, 2008 07:54AM
We had this soundtrack in heavy rotation at the record store I worked at in the early 90s. It was one of the few play copies that everybody who worked there liked, and customers never complained, either.

The title song is probably the last U2 cut I truly loved.
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erikalbany
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May 15, 2008 09:27AM
I bought that very soundtrack (Until the End of the World) after seeing the film in the early '90s...It's one I always mention as a great soundtrack. I always seem to like the music in Wim Wenders' films and not the actual film.
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breno
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May 15, 2008 09:34AM
I enjoyed the first six hours of Until the End of the World but it started to drag during its last three weeks.

Or at least that's how long the movie seemed. But it did start out well, if I remember correctly.
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erikalbany
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May 15, 2008 09:45AM
you should have hung with it, breno: it really picked up during its final eon.
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Heff
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May 15, 2008 10:29AM
How about when songs are used in the movie but one can barely hear it? In "Fletch", the Fixx's "A Letter to Both Sides" was on the soundtrack but it is used in a scene where Chevy Chase is driving a car and one can just make it out playing on the car radio.

Or, when a song is in the movie but not on the soundtrack? In the beginning of "Kindergarten Cop", Manitoba's Wild Kingdom's "The Party Starts Now" was blaring at the sleazy bar Arnie is at and he shoots speaker, I kept waiting for him to say something on the line of "No it doesn't".

Finally, what about song switches? "Blood Simple" when it played in the theaters had some song (I can't remember which one) playing on the jukebox but when it was released, the song had become a cover of "I'm a Believer"
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Delvin
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May 13, 2008 08:06AM
Yep, the Crows proffer a pretty decent unplugged version of the Psych Furs chestnut. The soundtrack also includes a great Kim Wilde cover, a really good cover of Bowie/Mott, and an okay cover of the Flamin' Groovies.

Kids in America - The Muffs
Shake Some Action - Cracker
The Ghost in You - Counting Crows
Here - Luscious Jackson
All the Young Dudes - World Party
Fake Plastic Trees (acoustic version) - Radiohead
Change - The Lightning Seeds
Need You Around - Smoking Popes
Mullet Head - Beastie Boys
Where'd You Go? - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Rollin' with My Homies - Coolio
Alright - Supergrass
My Forgotten Favorite - Velocity Girl
Supermodel - Jill Sobule

All in all, a terrific soundtrack ... and considering how many secondhand and remaindered copies I find, it's a bargain to boot.

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Heff
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May 13, 2008 10:23AM
Couldn't stand "Grosse Pointe Blank" and "Donnie Darko" but both have great soundtracks.

Loved the use of "Gut Feeling" in "The Life Aquatic" but of course Mark Mothersbaugh did the music.
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ratboy
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May 16, 2008 07:03AM
Grosse Pointe Blank gave me the uneasy feeling that they were using the soundtrack to market directly to my nostalgia. It was way too self-conscious to be enjoyable.
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Delvin
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May 13, 2008 11:54AM
Ahh yes, The Life Aquatic. Loved the unplugged Bowie songs, sung in Portuguese.

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Heff
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May 14, 2008 10:52AM
Delvin wrote:

> Ahh yes, The Life Aquatic. Loved the unplugged Bowie
> songs, sung in Portuguese.
>

Actually, I didn't think that was that great. Felt like kind of a gimmick. I preferred the Bowie songs used in the movie. Especially with "Queen Bitch" at the end which was a knock off of the ending to "Buckaroo Banzai".
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Delvin
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May 14, 2008 08:33AM
That doesn't sound lame at all, Rebel.
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Justj0hn
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May 15, 2008 12:16AM
Wave Of Mutilation(slow version)[The Pixies]-Pump Up The Volume
face to face[siouxsie and the banshees]-Batman Returns
From Her To Eternity[Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds(on stage in the movie)-Wings Of Desire
Pissing In A River[Patti Smith]-Times Square
If You Were Here[Thompson Twins]-Sixteen Candles
Alone[Colin Newman]-Silence Of The Lambs
Time Baby II[Medicine(on stage in movie)-The Crow(remixed version on soundtrack titled Time Baby III)
Surfin' Dead[The Cramps]-Return Of The Living Dead
most recently(and surprisingly)....Cherry Colored-Funk[Cocteau Twins]-27 Dresses
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breno
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May 15, 2008 07:57AM
I remember being shocked by the use of the great but obscure Cocteau Twins b-side "Sighs Smell of Farewell" on BAYWATCH.
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R. Totale
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May 15, 2008 11:16AM
What's the movie that's really "Silence of the Lambs" but came out before - "Manhunter", maybe? Anyway, there's some kind of spooky scene that's backed by The Fall's "Hip Priest", and I about fell off my chair.
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Justj0hn
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May 16, 2008 01:51AM
I very nearly listed Manhunter but for featuring Shriekback's "This Big Hush". I totally forgot the Fall was there as well.
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breno
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May 16, 2008 01:11PM
To be precise, Manhunter was really Red Dragon, which was the first book to feature Hannibal Lechter in a fairly minor role. Silence of the the Lambs was always Silence of the the Lambs.

But who does the song in Silence of the the Lambs that plays as Buffalo Bill is dressing up and dancing? I've never known that.
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madisdadi
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May 16, 2008 05:31PM
always liked "Repo Man"
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zwirnm
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May 16, 2008 06:16PM
<i>Until the End of the World</i> is one of the greatest soundtracks of its kind, in terms of presenting fairly prominent artists doing what were, generally, first-rate songs contributed solely for the film. Even U2 wrote the song for the movie and the Elvis Costello Kinks cover is very poignant.

You may hate Trent Reznor but his soundtrack compilation for <i>Natural Born Killers</i> is brilliantly assembled/edited.
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pitchforktellsmewhattolisten2
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May 17, 2008 01:49AM
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But who does the song in Silence of the the Lambs that plays as Buffalo Bill is dressing up and dancing? I've never known that.

The song's Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus, and the sequence is parodied in Clerks 2 by Jay and Silent Bob

Probably been said before but Wreckless Eric's "(I'd Go The) Whole Wide World" is the best thing about Stranger Than Fiction
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