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Old 04-04-17, 01:21 PM
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Do you associate certain songs with a movie/tv show?

Have you ever heard a song in a movie or TV show? And then everytime you hear that song you ALWAYS think of that movie or tv show?

-Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight' : Risky Business,
Spoiler:
Tom Cruise and Rebecca Demornay on the train.


-Journey 'Don't Stop Believin' : The Sopranos,
Spoiler:
the final scene of the series, and let's say I still hate how David Chase ended it.


-Styx 'Come Sail Away' : Freaks & Geeks,
Spoiler:
the pilot and the dance at the end. I actually like the song more now after seeing that scene for some reason.


-Derek and the Domino's 'Layla' : Goodfellas,
Spoiler:
the part where the Feds find all of the bodies of the mobsters that Jimmy Conway took out after the heist. It is the only the ending solo, but it's a powerful scene.

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Whenever I heard "In The City" I think of The Warriors.
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For Freaks And Geeks, I always think of "Lady" by Styx.
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Re: Do you associate certain songs with a movie/tv show?

Originally Posted by mcnabb
-Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight' : Risky Business,
Spoiler:
Tom Cruise and Rebecca Demornay on the train.


-Styx 'Come Sail Away' : Freaks & Geeks,
Spoiler:
the pilot and the dance at the end. I actually like the song more now after seeing that scene for some reason.
It's this topic pretty obvious if a song is on the soundtrack for that movie/TV show?

But anyway, "In The Air Tonight" and "I Don't Care Anymore" make me think of those key scenes in Miami Vice.

For "Come Sail Away" It's now always going to be Cartman singing it on South Park.
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I can't listen to Led Zeppelin IV without thinking of Fast Times.
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Originally Posted by hdnmickey
I can't listen to Led Zeppelin IV without thinking of Fast Times.
Cheep Tricks Surrender always brings me back to this movie.

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Re: Do you associate certain songs with a movie/tv show?

Off the top of my head

Movies
Bananarama 'Cruel Summer' - The Karate Kid
Jackson Browne 'Somebody's Baby' & Go-Go's 'We Got the Beat' - Fast Times
Berlin 'Take My Breath Away' - Top Gun
Aerosmith 'Sweet Emotion' - Dazed and Confused
Survivor 'Eye of the Tiger' - Rocky III
Stealers Wheel 'Stuck in the Middle With You' - Reservoir Dogs
The Doors 'The End' - Apocalypse Now
CCR 'Bad Moon Rising' - An American Werewolf in London
Huey Lewis 'Power of Love' - BTTF
The Eagles 'In the City' - The Warriors

TV
Phil Collins 'In the Air Tonight' - Miami Vice
Fleetwood Mac 'Tusk' - The Americans
Journey 'Don't Stop Belevin' and The Kinks 'Living on a Thin Line' - The Sopranos
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Roy Orbison-'Ooby Dooby' : Star Trek First Contact
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Where is My Mind?
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Re: Do you associate certain songs with a movie/tv show?

Originally Posted by rw2516
Roy Orbison-'Ooby Dooby' : Star Trek First Contact
Same move - Magic Carpet Ride

Also always think of this scene when this song comes on:

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Also Sprach Zarathustra - 2001: A Space Odyssey
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana - Excalibur
William Tell Overture - The Lone Ranger TV series
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I'll always picture Wayne's World when I hear Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Any song from Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Re: Do you associate certain songs with a movie/tv show?

Originally Posted by Nick Danger
O Fortuna from Carmina Burana - Excalibur
I find Siegfried's Funeral Music much more anamnestic of Excalibur. What a majestic soundtrack!
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I hear any song from Hootie and the Blowfish and I think of Friends.
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Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive I always think of the shootout with Crockett and Tubbs and Willie Nelson and Steve Buscemi in "El Viejo" a episode from Miami Vice.

Depeche Mode - Fly on the Windscreen the same episode
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Sister Christian - Boogie Nights
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John Cafferty & the Beaver Brown Band from Eddie and the Cruisers

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The Fixx, Deeper and Deeper from the end of Streets of Fire

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The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel



If you want to Sing out - Cat Stevens

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