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'Perfect Day' in Trainspotting.. the scene when the taxi driver flings Renton out the cab and leaves him on the road outside the hosppital...

The song's inclusion at that point is presumably ironic, and yet, clever as that is, everytime I watch the scene I instincitively feel they chose the wrong song.

I believe in you by talk talk would have been so much more moving and appropriate ( being a song about heroin).

Be brave Bryan, imagine the scene, now play the talk talk track.It's really moving.

reagdrez youse

henri

Apocalypse Now

I can't get no satisfaction ~ t. Rolling ÌýStones.
Willard (Martin Sheen) watches young Mr. Clean (Lawrence Fishburne, who was only 14 at the time of filming) dancing to the music and the absurdity of the situation then screams out to him... only to be overshadowed seconds later by the image of Lance, the surfer, water-skiing behind the PBR Ìýwho is jovially waiving to theÌýVietnameseÌýon the shoreline!

TUESDAY


'All for the Love of Sunshine' -


It was the Battle Anthem of Sherman tank Commander Oddball (Donald Sutherland) in the movie

#2


CHARLIE DON'T SURF!


>8-D

Spaghetti Westerns - a guilty pleasure. There were none finer than the Sergio Leone variety.

Clint Eastwood, Charles Bronson & Henry Fonda were unforgettable in "Once Upon A Time In The West". All mean, moody men of few words - though Fonda's character was far worse than mean and moody.
I first watched this film as a very impressionable youngster and was mesmerised by everything. The epic scenery and soundtrack more than make up for the exaggerated uber-macho drama that the adult me now realises a lot of it was.

So - the scene that particularly sticks in my mind is where the young boy grown up finally confronts his brother's slayer. Yes, it was no doubt all very calculated, but that doesn't diminish the effect. An incredibly moving scene augmented by a lushly sweeping and oh so haunting song:
Once Upon A Time In The West Ennio Morricone Harmonica Man

Stunning.

#1 Henri the song Perfect Day is a song about Heroin Addiction. Not as obvious as the VU track Heroin I grant you....

#6

It is?


Jeezo.......

Do you think the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ realised that when they commissioned it? Or was it the same person who decided there was nothing at all dodgy in the lyrics of 'Walk on the Wild Side' ?

Olive (Abigail Breslin) in Little Miss Sunshine... joyfully performs the dance routine that her Grandpa (Alan Arkin) had secretly choreographed for her!

Super Freak ~ Rick James

'Little Bitty Pretty One' - Thurston Harris...in the scene in Matilda where she gets to grip with her telekinetic powers...mutch watched by The Daughter and me over ther years!

#8 I doubt they realised SG

#11 I'll bet only SG realised. ;o)
Jeezo.

#12

Mary-Doll,

I'm shocked and stunned!
























innocent git

Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations

can't say for sure it was this film that planted the seed for a school reunion, but it certainly made me think about the friends I hadn't seen for 30 years. We did have a get-together and it was just the best - never stopped gabbing all weekend and realised how strong the bonds of a shared island upbringing were. A wedding and a novel have followed and friendships renewed and maintained thanks to the internet.

and call me a cliche, but I can't not list

Love is Strange - Mickey and Sylvia

aaaahhhhhhhh......................

I went for this last time we did this theme but what the heck.....

Happy Heart - Andy Williams

it's Ewen MacGregor again, sorry Henri, but this time in the guise of "Alex" from the film "Shallow Grave". The track only comes thru at the last scene as the final twist in the saga is revealed......a grin spreads over Alex's face as he lies wounded but victorious and the song adds a piece of black comedy genius to the whole ending.

Paul from Ayr

Bob and Charlotte at long last exchange a kiss, Bob leans in to Charlotte and whispers something to her and they part....Bob walks away backwards and

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

kicks in.

And from Jerry Maguire - the you had me at hello bit


Bruce Springsteen - Secret Garden

#6

Thanks Norrie. I think I might have known that at some point in '72 - but if I did, I had forgotten. It must be about having an endless supply to make the day perfect.

I shared a room with a heroin addict when I was working up north for a few months, in a hotel in Deeside, when I was student.

My room mate didnt have all that many perfect days, I have to say. I remember my folks coming to visit me - my Dad was really worried about me when he found the room with needles lying about - I assured him it was okay, "for Christ sake, don't let your mother see that", so we kept her out.

One day my roomate overdosed on methodone substitute and went into the hotel kitchen and started flinging eggs at everyone. You had to duck serving the breakfast to the coachloads of Wallace Arnold tourists. The management, who didn't know about his addicton, fired him there and then.

I felt terrible for him, it was the worst thing that could have happened.Such little stability as he had amassed was gone.

I went back to Glasgow at the end of the season, but when I was next in Braemar, I heard he'd died.Lovely guy. Great company.A complete waste.

Although contemporaneous, I find it hard to associate 'Perfect Day' in the context of my roommate, or the scene in Transpotting - which is why I still think it ironic. The Talk Talk track, although not contemporaneous with my own experience of it up close, nevertheless takes me back to the summer of 72.

Bryan, if you play 'Perfect Day' can you dedicate it to Bob, the Kitchen Porter, Fife Arms Hotel, Summer, 1972.

reagrdez youse

henri

Canzonetta Sull'aria from The Marriage of Figaro.

It might not sound as good on the tranny as it did in a prison exercise yard when you've not heard music for years.

Stunning scene from Shawshank.

I enjoyed the show last night. Good music and a good laugh! LOL!


Nobody can listen to this and fail to smile -

- Harry Connick Jr. ~ When Harry Met Sally

:o)

scrub Ain't Too Proud to Beg - forgot we'd had it last week.

No doubt a klaxon call for Risky Business, but like the books I read the movies I watch become a blur within a day or two and only a few stand-out scenes remain - this is one

- Bob Seger

even checked my lovefilm rented list and it's mostly old films like Shenandoah, The Searchers and Goodbye Mr Chips. Love 'em.

There's always the Real McKenzies in Stone of Destiny, but to be honest I can't recall the scene at all.

I guess Arlo Guthrie in Woodstock singing Walking Down the Line after declaring "
New York State throughway is closed, man" doesn't count

previously - fingers crossed for you, madmac

#21 - Gaie - It was played a week past on Friday.

Madmac - The last time Breedge flew to Canada the insurance cost more than the flight! Total rip-off! Keep well.

:o)

the film...........american graffiti....the scene.....at the hop 50's style......the song.... 'at the hop'.......flash cadillac and the continental kids.

the film......in my father's den....understated new zealand effort of family secrets...the scene.....frenzied anger as secrets unfolding......the song....'free money'....patti smith

the film......brighton rock (2011 version)..........after the cool scenes of mod scooters on brighton front and scary drama on beachy head it was a nice surprise to have this song accompany the credits and the audience leaving the auditorium (i sat right to the last chord in the now empty screen number 6)....the song......'there's a storm coming'......richard hawley.

cheers frae the dale.

A thread called 'Same Old Scene' about songs in scenes in movies hhmmm now let me think:

Roxy Music's The Same Old Scene opening the movie Times Square:




J.O'B.

For my money, there was never a better marriage of music and film than Simon & Garfunkels 'Sound Of Silence' leading immediately into 'April Come She Will' from Mike Nichols 'The Graduate'. The choreography of the sequence inspired a generation of movies to come.

It begins with Ben (Dustan Hoffman) floating on the lilo in his parents pool and the sequence cuts seemlessly between shots of Ben and Mrs Robinson (Anne Bankcroft) conducting their affair such that that the viewer is never sure of how much time is passing, and ends in a moment of movie magic with Ben lunging onto the lilo in the pool and simultaneously collapsing on top of Mrs Robinsonin their hotel room.

Treat yourself to a youtube peek:




Oh... and just in case anyone was interested...

Unique acquaintance – does not have the skills claimed
(The Only One I Know – The Charlatans)

Four Tops singer wept – boasted William
Levi Stibbs Tears – Billy Bragg)

A male body of water –steals a male duck
River Man – Nick Drake)

Constantly wet weather? – asks main character from Paris, Texas
(Why Does It Always rain On Me? – Travis)

a song which at the beginning of one of the finest films is all hope and anticipation.... by the end of the film it plays out the saddest most heartbreaking scene ever.........................

the film.....midnight cowboy.......'everytbody's talking'

cheers frae the dale

Thanks Gaie, Neurology looms.

Cheers Senga.

#19,Paolo,glad you chose Mozart as I was thinking of his Piano Concerto 21, an excerpt which was used in arthouse hit movie "Elvira Madigan"and actually became a top twenty hit at the time(1967).Another great and much used little piece is Carl Orff's "Gassenhauer" which you will all know.It was used to great effect inTerrence Mallick's "Badlands"and Lynne Ramsay's wonderful film "Ratcatcher".Speaking of Mallick, went to see the much hyped "Tree of Life".No denying the lyrical beauty of it all but too much religious subterfuge for a faithless sinner like me.Tarkovsky is the master of that particular movie genre for me .Cheers,Willie Bartke

a blast from the past.

a wonderful film of its era.................frank sinatra is looking at a wee ant on a plant going about its industrious business and burts into................

'high hopes'..................from the film............'hole in the head'

great!!

cheers frae the dale

#22 aweel then, 3rd time lucky, I'll just go for Rachmananov's 2nd piano concerto. You've been a long way away.
Yes.
Thank you for coming back to me.

#27 ****.

#5,No need to feel guilty about Leone's classic,M.D.and Morricone's score is sheer genius.Check out "The Battle of Algiers"great film and stunning music score by Morricone.Oh I suppose I'd better ask for the best moment,musical or otherwise in Chick flick"Love,Actually"when Emma Thompson's character discovers the gift meant for someone else to the strains of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now".Beautifully acted without a word spoken.,Cheers Willie Bartke

Living in America - James Brown from Rocky 4.

Sums up the early 80s.

#5

No need to see Spaghetti Westerns as a guilty pleasure, MD. I love them.

Morricone is a genius. I have an album called Yo Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone - it's utterly brilliant.

Would be goode to hear anything form that perhaps "The Mission" or "Cinema Paradiso" - but we won't.

Okay, big 2nd for anything Morricone - even the ubiquitous "The Goode The Bad & The Ugly"

regardez youse

henri

* Ewan McGregor & José Feliciano - El Tango Del Roxanne
from the Moulin Rouge OST

The original track was dark enough, but this takes it to a whole new level of impotent jealous rage.

It wouldn't be right without a track from a (if you will) Rockumentary, so let's avoid the Klaxon-worthy Tap, and go for
* Jimmy Nail - from Still Crazy.
It was written for the band's original (gone mad, presumed dead, very Syd Barrett-like) singer by the bass player (Nail) who always resented the replacement (Bill Nighy).

This is both for the tearjerking introduction in the movie, and the reprise in the finale, filled with forgiveness all round, and the great surprising ending.

The well known actors are all pretty convincing playing their instruments too.

I doubt we'll get any instrumentals (well, perhaps Mike Oldfield's work on The Killing Fields?) but can I give a big shout out to Clint Mansell's brilliant work on Moon?

#35

Death Rides a White Horse, with a Brucie Bonus for having been in Kill Bill?

This is pandering to Bryan's musical tastes of the highest order, but
* Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch - Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby is just brilliant, transforming a lullaby into steamy southern lust in O Brother Where Art Thou?

Although the imminent hanging scene with
* The Fairfield Four - Lonesome Valley
and the imminent lynching scene with
* Ralph Stanley - O Death
both make a stronger impact.

Such a cheery film!

You wait ages for a Ramius and 3 come along at once!

#37

Of course, then you're lead towards
* Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down
whose quiet restraint goes so well with the opening silent footage of Kill Bill

#39

Been in Le Belle France en vacances, as I may have previously mentioned.

Harumph. Didn't get any played (although The Lotus Eaters are on my eyePod Summer playlist).

#21

Gaie, this is my favourite Tom Cruise routine:



Think the song is Get Back by Ludacris from the film Tropic Thunder.

The perfect fit

Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones
and
Austin Powers




Yeah baby!

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang My Baby Shot Me Down (Kill Bill) - a couple of years ago we spent a couple of weeks dog-sitting for my brother and using his car while he was away. We ended up listening to his CDs - the dog would be sleeping in the back and as soon we played the soundtrack to Kill Bill, would always start to howl along.

Other Meek family favourites:
Ray Charles singing "shake a tail feather" in the Blues Brothers. Though we could have picked any of the tracks from the Blues Brothers.

Or from Singing in the Rain: "Good Morning" - Gene Kelly/Debbie Reynolds/Donald O'Connor, or of course "Singin' In the Rain" - Gene Kelly (which is almost impossible to watch without thinking of the Morcambe and Wise sketch where Ernie gets a soaking).

#42

Adam - that's mad!! How dare Tom Cruise look like that?!! I've never seen the film - watched Vanilla Sky at the weekend. It's a bit bonkers too. But enjoyable.

#44

Evening Meeks! Welcome back.

With one more look at you from a Star is Born Ester Hoffman Howard is on stage after her hubby died and you could hear a pin drop with all the lighters swaying in the back ground oh I could greet the noo Cx

Or from my very favourite movie Somethings got to give. Get it on Marvin Gaye Jack Nicolson is trying to get it on with his young girl friend and her mum Diane Keaton and Aunt are heehaw and laughing in the kitchen then he has a heart attack hysterical xx

The climax of RED DRAGON is IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA by IRON BUTTERFLY but Bryan doesn't know it so it can't be on the list.