Hmm, it seems people are just naming songs from films now.
I mean, to name but one, Absolute Beginners was literally the name of the film it was written for!
Not often we're on the same page but we are on this!
I disqualified myself from chucking in On Days Like This from The Italian Job after Googling and finding out it was written for the film. Would never have assumed that.
I'm glad I did because I know now it was a Quincy Jones/Don Black song produced by George Martin too.
Hmm, it seems people are just naming songs from films now.
I mean, to name but one, Absolute Beginners was literally the name of the film it was written for!
Not often we're on the same page but we are on this!
I disqualified myself from chucking in On Days Like This from The Italian Job after Googling and finding out it was written for the film. Would never have assumed that.
I'm glad I did because I know now it was a Quincy Jones/Don Black song produced by George Martin too.
like the film 'Philadelphia' where there is two brilliant songs on the soundtrack. both written for the film, pretty obvious when they both have Philadelphia in their titles. 'Streets of Philadelphia' by Bruce Springsteen and 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young.
Of course you could go with the opera tune 'La Mama Morta' which is played in that stirring scene between Hanks and Washington.
another opera piece would be 'Marriage of Figaro' in the 'Shawshank Redemption'.
and a classical piece would be Bachs 'St Johns Passion' in the film 'The Mirror'. Haunting.
Not a film exactly but. Don’t stop Believin’…..Journey. Played during the dramatic last moments of the final scene of The Sopranos.
Reading this, I remember the closing scene of Six Feet Under which is also dramatic but probably not in the same way - I haven't watched The Sopranos. The song is Sia's Breathe Me. Whenever I listen to it I think about the scene in Six Feet Under which I consider one of the all-time best endings of a series.
I have always believed that Hotel California is a song about becoming addicted to Heroin. Despite what the songwriters might claim. I mean Peter Green might deny that ‘Rattle Snake Shake’ is about masturbation, but it is.
Danke Shoen - Ferries Bueller. Stand By Me - Stand By Me. It Was A Very Good Year - The Sopranos. Love (Christmas) Is All Around - Love Actually. The City Never Sleeps - Nine And A Half Weeks.
Not a film exactly but. Don’t stop Believin’…..Journey. Played during the dramatic last moments of the final scene of The Sopranos.
Reading this, I remember the closing scene of Six Feet Under which is also dramatic but probably not in the same way - I haven't watched The Sopranos. The song is Sia's Breathe Me. Whenever I listen to it I think about the scene in Six Feet Under which I consider one of the all-time best endings of a series.
Do yourself a huge favour and watch The Sopranos Jessie. Make sure you watch it in series and episode order to get the full on pleasure. I have done so twice (about 18 months apart) and the second time around you’d be amazed how many things that didn’t quite click initially begin to make sense. Lot’s of little subtle stuff, that I didn’t notice first time round.
Not a film exactly but. Don’t stop Believin’…..Journey. Played during the dramatic last moments of the final scene of The Sopranos.
Reading this, I remember the closing scene of Six Feet Under which is also dramatic but probably not in the same way - I haven't watched The Sopranos. The song is Sia's Breathe Me. Whenever I listen to it I think about the scene in Six Feet Under which I consider one of the all-time best endings of a series.
Do yourself a huge favour and watch The Sopranos Jessie. Make sure you watch it in series and episode order to get the full on pleasure. I have done so twice (about 18 months apart) and the second time around you’d be amazed how many things that didn’t quite click initially begin to make sense. Lot’s of little subtle stuff, that I didn’t notice first time round.
"I Can See Clearly Now" by Johnny Nash - Grosse Pointe Blank.
Also the Guns'n'Roses version of "Live and Let Die" for the same film, although I tend to conflate the scene it's actually in with another slightly later one.
Danke Shoen - Ferries Bueller. Stand By Me - Stand By Me. It Was A Very Good Year - The Sopranos. Love (Christmas) Is All Around - Love Actually. The City Never Sleeps - Nine And A Half Weeks.
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I disqualified myself from chucking in On Days Like This from The Italian Job after Googling and finding out it was written for the film. Would never have assumed that.
I'm glad I did because I know now it was a Quincy Jones/Don Black song produced by George Martin too.
'Streets of Philadelphia' by Bruce Springsteen and 'Philadelphia' by Neil Young.
Of course you could go with the opera tune 'La Mama Morta' which is played in that stirring scene between Hanks and Washington.
another opera piece would be 'Marriage of Figaro' in the 'Shawshank Redemption'.
and a classical piece would be Bachs 'St Johns Passion' in the film 'The Mirror'. Haunting.
Don’t stop Believin’…..Journey.
Played during the dramatic last moments of the final scene of The Sopranos.
Paired with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac. Forrest Gump.
Better?
Despite what the songwriters might claim.
I mean Peter Green might deny that ‘Rattle Snake Shake’ is about masturbation, but it is.
Stand By Me - Stand By Me.
It Was A Very Good Year - The Sopranos.
Love (Christmas) Is All Around - Love Actually.
The City Never Sleeps - Nine And A Half Weeks.
Make sure you watch it in series and episode order to get the full on pleasure. I have done so twice (about 18 months apart) and the second time around you’d be amazed how many things that didn’t quite click initially begin to make sense.
Lot’s of little subtle stuff, that I didn’t notice first time round.
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin' -"Midnight Cowboy"
Edit - and who can forget the "The Jolly Boys' Outing"