Ten most memorable songs from movies that I have watched in my life-time:
1) Do You Love Me by the Contours
From the movie Dirty Dancing. Baby walks into the American Boomer revolution as we see a ridiculous mix of whites, hispanics and blacks crotch rocking in the backrooms of the sixties. It is all she can do to hold on to the melons.
2) Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon
From the movie Pulp Fiction. Mia invites Vincent home and turns on the tape deck for some slutty music. Meanwhiles Vincent explains the morality of the situation to his reflection in the mirror - "Now I'm gonna have one drink, say good night to her, go home, jerk off, and go to bed"
3) As Time Goes by
From the movie Casablanca. " Of all the gin-joints in the world" Ilsa walks into Rick's and asks Sam to "Play it, for old time's sake". Rick makes a beeline for the piano and a whole slew of classic lines are birthed.
4) You've Lost That Loving Feeling
From the movie Top Gun. Maverick and Goose pull a really lame number to hit on a chick in the bar. If the rest of the bar stopped singing, we will quickly realise that Tom Cruise should never cut an album. Note: Attempt this only if you are able to pull a 4G inverted dive in a Tom Cat, otherwise, stick to developing Spidey powers.
5) Take My Breath Away by Berlin
From the movie Top Gun. Maverick chases Charlotte on his Harley after a tiff. Catches up at her house where she tells him she loves him and they make sweet love under the glare of the setting sun to the music of Berlin. The make up make out rocks!
6) All Star by Smash Mouth
From the movie Shrek 1. The opening sequence where shrek performs his morning ablutions. You gotta love that underwater fart thing.
7) You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry
From the movie Pulp Fiction - The famous Jack Rabbits Slim Twist competition where Vincent and Mia takes off their shoes and pulls lopsided 'vees' across their eyes.
8) Hungry Eyes by Eric Carmen
From the movie Dirty Dancing - The movie plays to every mainstream sexual cliche without any frontal nudity. The studio scene with Baby sandwiched between Johnny Castle and his partner is the mandatory menage troi allusion. The song is totally unrelated to the scene and plot development, but, yeah, what a sight for sore [teenage] eyes.
9) Johnny Be Good by Chuck Berry
From the movie Back To The Future Part 1 - Michael J 'Mcfly' Fox crashes his parent's prom, plays Chuck Berry's signature song and really gets the party going. Apparently Rock and Roll can save your [future] soul, never mind the fact that such temporal paradoxes can never exist within an Einstienian cosmos.
10) Hit The Road Jack by Ray Charles
From the movie Ray - While in a smoky hotel room, Jamie Fox quarrels with his mistress and writes a great piece of music. Uh... sure
So what's your favourite movie song?
Oooh. Tough one. The Pulp Fiction Mia&Vincent sonic-frisson moments are great.
I also like the scene in Jackie Brown where blaxploitation mama Pam Grier lip-synchs in the car to Otis Redding's R&B anthem-to-the-disenfranchised Across 110th Street. (At least I think she was in the car...)
Posted by: orangeclouds | February 21, 2006 at 12:48 PM
Oh oh okay, this is not a movie but there's this scene in one of the earlier seasons of Will&Grace where Will and Kevin Bacon dance to the song Footloose, in homage to the movie. The other cool teen-dancing movie of the 1980s (gosh it was that long ago) apart from Dirty Dancing.
And speaking of dancing movies, how could we forget the original Grease???!
Posted by: orangeclouds | February 21, 2006 at 12:52 PM
AHHHH one more: that scene in Harold & Kumar where Harold and Kumar hijack the truck of some skinheads who have been harrassing them throughout the movie - only to find that what's inside the tape deck is wussy Wilson Philip's Hold On. And so Harold & Kumar end up singing along to the song! Hilarious.
Posted by: orangeclouds | February 21, 2006 at 12:56 PM
Wilson Philips in Harold and Kumar! Excellent choice of a memorable movie music moment! How could I forget. LOL.
Posted by: Themarxx | February 24, 2006 at 03:51 PM
The scene in dirty dancing was ridiculous because it was the 60's and you just didn't have whites dancing with blacks dancing with hispanics, no matter what the size of the back room. Just one of those political correctness at the expense of factual accuracy thing
Posted by: Themarxx | February 24, 2006 at 03:54 PM