What songs would YOU use?

[PeruvianSkies]

So, here is a fun question that I ask myself now and again...

If you were in charge of putting together a killer soundtrack to a movie, what songs would you use? Of course it will all depend on the type of movie that is being made, so please include several songs that you think would make for a great soundtrack and how you would use the song in the film.

Here are a few that I have always wanted to utilize:

1. Jamaican Jerk-Off - Elton John
Not sure how to use this exactly, it's a fun upbeat tune that would perhaps go well in a lighthearted comedy or parody.

2. Hold On - John Lennon
Love this tune, maybe it's the strange way the word "Cookie" is spoken about a minute into the tune, but it's a beautiful tune that would work well in a romantic film, even if it's an overused montage.

3. All Day Sucker - Stevie Wonder
Who knows...maybe as a funky opening credits jam....

4. Gold to Me - Ben Harper
Also a good opening to a movie with credits.

5. Ol' 55 - Tom Waits
Maybe during a road trip portion of a drama...such a great song that could be used in various ways, even non auto related.

6. Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie
Pretty much any movie dealing with drugs.

7. Home - Paloalto
A futuristic/sci-fi movie in space where the main character is thinking back or reminiscing about Earth.

8. Song in the Air - Elliott
Some sort of tragic death scene, slow motion.

[bobsticks]

Wow...this is an interesting a complex question...and one that may not get a lot of responses simpl because of that. That said, here's some random thougths from my Sticksean bizzaro-world:

~ Amidst the folliage and forestry of Appalachicola, Ned Beatty and Jon Voight torment idiot savant brothers Jeremy Sisto and Justin Long in a man-versus-redneck-versus-nature black comedy ne Deliverance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vpAn15-vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipO9...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys7Q...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0

~ Criminal elements from Brixton and the L.A. Crips consort to bypass the London underworld, the U.S. DEA and the U.K.'s Mi6 in a Snatch-meets-The Kray Twins-meets-Friday. Sean Patrick Thomas, Artel Great, Ron Eldard, Kim Coates, P. Diddy, T.I. and Bill Sage star with Zeljko Ivanek as the London boss and Kevin Connolly as the hapless DEA agent. Sienna Guillory is the love interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBR5JkdlHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOF8yXuS90

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivWJ3FDe6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTYPL-yG8o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4kb2kQels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUZlzd37sI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVrtnLYQCGY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ebT7N1MHM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9VWsSZYP0

~ Colin Farrell, Chloë Sevigny, and Brian Van Holt star as an international gun runners with club feet in what must clearly be a Michael Mann production...Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the verklempt antagonist...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vpAn15-vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWvOH...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys7Q...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBDuS...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iujOwWz9iY

~ Modern day Manhattan evokes the feeling of fortunes lost in The Badder Madhoff Gang Mathew Del Negro, Jaret Leto, Vince Green, Julia Stiles, Jessica Beil, and Justin Theroux as a gang of beleaguered traders exiled from the St. Regis and The Angel's Share to Rudy's Bar & Grill. A heavy hearted bad comedy of errors ensues in typical St. Elmo's rehash...Hugh Grant, Hugh Dancy, Ewen Bremner, and Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson cameo as Rupert Murdoch's bloodthirsty discovery team. The action culminates in Irish pub sing along with a Pogues-meets-St. Elmo's Fire tepid jaunt of hairspray arson

http://www.last.fm/music/Willie+Nile...hington+Square

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Willie+Nile...04141:m5791327

http://forums.audioreview.com/newrep...ote=1&p=336331

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3x-...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUuWv36OCzM&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Cv8P4xvnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7J4PgrRsY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1MTRfiXMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Xav5OsTYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY

What festival would be complete without a low-level documentary so I'm hiring Luiz Guzman to follow around my girlfriend with an old Kodak betamax camera with B&W film...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHnY...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_8c4...eature=related



Okay, so I did this, or at least started this in jest...a lark as it were...but as chitty as films have been for the last half decade or so I'm pretty sure at least one of these could work. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffin' glue...

[PeruvianSkies]

Bobsticks,

I don't know how long that took you to come up with, but WOW....

clever, funny, witty, and well-worth all the clicks.

[dean_martin]

Our protagonist in leather jacket (James Dean-type) with his crew including slutty female, overweight sloppily dressed white guy, skinny redneck with scruffy beard and dirty ball cap, and nerdy African-American with glasses walk down sidewalk in dilapidated downtown area of small to medium size town in deep south. As they walk we see the pawnshop/bail bond storefront, Doc's taxi stand with "closed" sign and bench out front and a vacant Western Auto store on block. Of course we use slo-mo like in Reservoir Dogs while "Fire Ball" by the Fire Balls plays. Then, something catches the eye of our protagonist on the other side of the street. It's the dwarf from his dreams walking in the opposite direction. Their eyes meet.

http://www.fireballs-original.com/ (Do not click "enter site", let music play)

dream sequence - our protagonist walks down misty hallway of campus classroom building with late afternoon sun shining through glass doors behind him. He hears voices in the science lab. He knocks and opens as voices continue but do not repond to him. He sticks his head inside and sees the young lady who has been tormenting him standing on lab table and smartly dressed small orchestral/ensemble in corner that begins to play "Sentimental Journey".

ending - sadly, our protagonist takes one last hit of smack, stumbles outside the family's once grand plantation-style home (but now in disrepair) to a large tree near the edge of a field and plops down. Camera pans skyward to a hawk gliding above. Appalachian/blue grass version of "I'll Fly Away" plays as shot fades and credits roll.

[bobsticks]

Bobsticks,

I don't know how long that took you to come up with, but WOW....

clever, funny, witty, and well-worth all the clicks.

Actually, it only took a few minutes. I embarrassed to admit that I had those links already bookmarked for one reason or the other and the creativity may have been feuled by some Sammy Smith Taddy Porters.

Deano, that was awesome...you'd been thinkin' of that one for a hot minute, eh?

[dean_martin]

Actually, it only took a few minutes. I embarrassed to admit that I had those links already bookmarked for one reason or the other and the creativity may have been feuled by some Sammy Smith Taddy Porters.

Deano, that was awesome...you'd been thinkin' of that one for a hot minute, eh?

Doesn't everyone have a 13 years old unfinished movie script?

I'm going to dig into yours a little deeper when I get home.

[Troy]

You guys are too much.

How can anyone say:

1. Jamaican Jerk-Off - Elton John
Not sure how to use this exactly, it's a fun upbeat tune that would perhaps go well in a lighthearted comedy or parody.

With a straight face?

[bobsticks]

Who indeed?

[Smokey]

6. Memory of a Free Festival - David Bowie
Pretty much any movie dealing with drugs.

Also in a drug movie, I think the song Flower On The Wall by Statler Brothers would be good for a scene where the drug is used for recreation. With the lyrics such as....

Counting flowers on the wall
That don't bother me at all
Playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of 51
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo
Now don't tell me I've nothing to do

....you know the guy is just chilling.



....

[Kam]

As long as we have this hypothetical budget, I'd pick up the phone and call Hans Zimmer. Tell him to call in Lisa Gerard. Done and done.

[GMichael]

I would use all the songs in the “Songs that make you want to rip your ears out” thread and make a musical with Queen Latifah as the star.

[GMichael]

Wow...this is an interesting a complex question...and one that may not get a lot of responses simpl because of that. That said, here's some random thougths from my Sticksean bizzaro-world:

~ Amidst the folliage and forestry of Appalachicola, Ned Beatty and Jon Voight torment idiot savant brothers Jeremy Sisto and Justin Long in a man-versus-redneck-versus-nature black comedy ne Deliverance...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vpAn15-vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iipO9...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5kHx1itU8c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys7Q...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ra0DsbiNs0

~ Criminal elements from Brixton and the L.A. Crips consort to bypass the London underworld, the U.S. DEA and the U.K.'s Mi6 in a Snatch-meets-The Kray Twins-meets-Friday. Sean Patrick Thomas, Artel Great, Ron Eldard, Kim Coates, P. Diddy, T.I. and Bill Sage star with Zeljko Ivanek as the London boss and Kevin Connolly as the hapless DEA agent. Sienna Guillory is the love interest.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBR5JkdlHw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXOF8yXuS90

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pivWJ3FDe6w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRTYPL-yG8o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV4kb2kQels

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIUZlzd37sI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVrtnLYQCGY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6ebT7N1MHM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px9VWsSZYP0

~ Colin Farrell, Chloë Sevigny, and Brian Van Holt star as an international gun runners with club feet in what must clearly be a Michael Mann production...Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is the verklempt antagonist...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-vpAn15-vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWvOH...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hys7Q...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBDuS...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iujOwWz9iY

~ Modern day Manhattan evokes the feeling of fortunes lost in The Badder Madhoff Gang Mathew Del Negro, Jaret Leto, Vince Green, Julia Stiles, Jessica Beil, and Justin Theroux as a gang of beleaguered traders exiled from the St. Regis and The Angel's Share to Rudy's Bar & Grill. A heavy hearted bad comedy of errors ensues in typical St. Elmo's rehash...Hugh Grant, Hugh Dancy, Ewen Bremner, and Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson cameo as Rupert Murdoch's bloodthirsty discovery team. The action culminates in Irish pub sing along with a Pogues-meets-St. Elmo's Fire tepid jaunt of hairspray arson

http://www.last.fm/music/Willie+Nile...hington+Square

http://s0.ilike.com/play#Willie+Nile...04141:m5791327

http://forums.audioreview.com/newrep...ote=1&p=336331

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-3x-...eature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUuWv36OCzM&feature=fvst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Cv8P4xvnE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7J4PgrRsY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq1MTRfiXMU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-Xav5OsTYo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY

What festival would be complete without a low-level documentary so I'm hiring Luiz Guzman to follow around my girlfriend with an old Kodak betamax camera with B&W film...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHnY...eature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_8c4...eature=related



Okay, so I did this, or at least started this in jest...a lark as it were...but as chitty as films have been for the last half decade or so I'm pretty sure at least one of these could work. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffin' glue...

You are a very sick man my friend. Seek help.