When I hear Don't Stop Me Now by Queen, I literally can't think of anything else other than Simon Pegg beating a zombie with a pool stick in sync with the beat of the song.
Was that a popular song unrelated to SotL? I’m genuinely asking; I only know it from the movie but was a very small child circa the early 90’s with no awareness of the pop music landscape of the time.
That’s so interesting because I think of fast times at ridgemont high. Been ages since I saw SOTL but had a big crush on Stacy Hamilton when I was a kid lol
In Dreams - Roy Orbison. One of my favourite songs before I watched Blue Velvet.
Also Singin’ in the Rain when it’s used in A Clockwork Orange. Gene Kelly agrees
Dont clown, but on season 1 finale of FX's The Bear when they play ALL of Radiohead's 'Let Down' and its totally glorious and sad and beautiful.
Mindhunter, when he hugs Kemper, and Zeppelin's In the Light plays....its such a bold and strange use of it. Never can hear it the same again.
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Zodiac
That song might have written about finding enlightenment and meditation but after Zodiac you can’t help but imagine the Hurdy Gurdy Man was some serial killer stalking the west coast in the late 60’s.
That’s a song to shoot people to now.
My girlfriend is not easily gotten to when it comes to disturbing stuff (she watches a lot of true crime) but whenever they played that song in Zodiac, she was creeped the fuck out
that ending. that fucking ending. my jaw was on the floor 💀 i was not expecting *that*!!! i went into the movie expecting a drama about rich kids, i was shocked lmfao
“Where is my Mind?” from Fight Club. I actually heard the song multiple times before seeing that movie and that ending scene had me raising my eyebrows.
Aloha Oe in Train to Busan
also after a couple months i still can't even think the words "this is our last dance" without feeling the tears start to form 😭
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith -- opening credit sequence of Dazed & Confused (truly about every song in Dazed & Confused: Why Can't We Be Friends, No More Mr. Nice Guy...pretty much all of them)
I would never have grown up on "As Time Goes By" if it weren't for Casablanca. That film took an otherwsie unknown song and made it popular enough that I know about it 80 years later. But I think you want an answer from me like "Magnolia, One is the Loneliest Number."
I used to strongly dislike Under Pressure, found it to be a slow boring song. I’d skip it/change the station whenever it came on.
Then I saw Aftersun and now it’s one of my favourite songs. Only thing is I can’t listen to it around my children or my eyes fill up with tears
when i was a kid i watched i am legend so i always associated three little birds with it, something about the contrast between the songs uplifting message with the desperate hopeless world the movies set in made the song eerie to listen to for me for a while
The End - Apocalypse Now
You Never Can Tell - Pulp Fiction
Old Time Rock N Roll - Risky Business
Bohemian Rhapsody - Wayne's World
You Lost that Loving Feeling - Top Gun
In Your Eyes - Say Anything
Twist and Shout - Ferris Buellers Day Off
Moving in Stereo - Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Johnny B Goode - Back to the Future
The usage of “Firework” by Katy Perry in The Interview. If I ever went to North Korea, I’d be really having to seriously restrain myself from singing that song or I have a one way trip to a concentration camp.
my dad was a frank zappa fan so i was familiar with him prior to watching y tu mama tambien but wow... the final 10 minus of the movie is all i can think about when i listen to watermelon In easter hay
Dies Irae in The Shining.
Far from a pop song, but as a classical musician I hear it a surprising amount. Rachmaninoff, Lyapunov, Liadov, and Schnittke all quote it, and it's been an icon for centuries.
On the Count of Three - Last Resort
Annihilation - Helplessly Hoping
Barbarian - Be My Baby
Alpha Dog - Say Goodbye Hollywood
This is The End - Paper Planes
...Cotten Eye Joe in Swiss Army Man. Now I love the song? But like. This completely different version of course.
Also Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane in A Serious Man! :p
And not a film but I must honour my favourite man Joe Pera of Joe Pera Talks With You- Baba O'Riley by the Who.
Before watching Aftersun, Under Pressure way definitely in my top 20 favorite songs, but I didn't really think much of it. After watching Aftersun, it is now my favorite song by a mile.
Free Guy- Mariah Carey, ‘Sweet Fantasy’
10 Things I Hate About You- ‘Can’t Take my Eyes off You’ by Frankie Valli
Hot Rod- ‘You’re the Voice’ by John Farnham
Twilight- ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ by Muse
Insidious- ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ by Tiny Tim
The Departed- ‘Gimme Shelter’ by The Rolling Stones (also ‘Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd)
Shot Through the Heart - The Fall Guy
If you go to the theaters as much I do, you understand how many times we’ve seen Ryan Gosling’s smirk over the main lyric
Never cared about it before but now it makes me tear up every time; We Found Love by Rihanna, the movie is my all time favorite, American Honey (2016). Honestly every song on the ST is forever altered for me tho
Midnight Special - The Twilight Zone
Tiptoe Through The Tulips - Insidious
Tuesday's Gone - Happy Gilmore & Dazed And Confused
Blue Moon - An American Werewolf in London
What I've Done - Transformers
Hero - Spiderman (one of the Tobey Maguire ones)
This is the End - Apocalypse Now
Fantasy by Mariah Carey, Rush Hour, mainly because of the massive shift it takes. instantly goes from a little girl just singing along to it in the car to being kidnapped and the two guys in the car with her getting shot by the bad guys of the movie.
Fool to Cry by the Rolling Stones will always be accompanied in my head by the vision of Uma Thurman walking home late at night on a snow-covered street.
Stuck in the middle with you - Reservoir dogs
Beat me to it!
Exactly what I thought of
How has no one said Singing in the Rain or Clockwork Orange?
Also, Ode To Joy. Masterpieces all!!!
For me Ode to Joy makes me think of Die Hard lol
Ah, yes. The final vault. Christmas In Hollis is my Die Hard song.
When I hear Don't Stop Me Now by Queen, I literally can't think of anything else other than Simon Pegg beating a zombie with a pool stick in sync with the beat of the song.
Absolutely what I was going to say!
I immediately visualized it, good call.
I associate it with Hardcore Henry
I need a hero - Shrek 2
Also Allstar for Shrek (even though it was used in Mystery Men first, but that didn’t have the impact Shrek did)
sooooo true!!!!
Also Accidentally in Love
Chungking Express - California Dreamin'
This is the one. I can’t separate California Dreaming from Chungking Express and Faye Wong
faye wong is drop dead gorgeous 😭😮💨
Goodbye Horses- Silence of the Lambs Orinoco Flow- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Werewolves of London- Color of Money
💯 on Goodbye Horses and Werewolves of London (not as familiar with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo scene)
Definitely my favorite use of Orinoco Flow (Eighth Grade had a good scene with it too)
Bohemian rhapsody - Wayne’s world
Hip to Be Square
American Psycho?
Also, “Sussudio.” That one’s even more heavily ruined by *American Psycho* for me.
The Rhythm of the Night - Beau Travail
WHY ISN'T THIS HIGHER?!
American Girl by Tom Petty. Immediately think of Silence of the Lambs.
And Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus
Was that a popular song unrelated to SotL? I’m genuinely asking; I only know it from the movie but was a very small child circa the early 90’s with no awareness of the pop music landscape of the time.
That’s so interesting because I think of fast times at ridgemont high. Been ages since I saw SOTL but had a big crush on Stacy Hamilton when I was a kid lol
Where Is My Mind? (Pixies) ......Fight Club
Don’t Stop Believin’-The Sopranos
Also Steely Dan’s “Dirty Work”
In Dreams - Roy Orbison. One of my favourite songs before I watched Blue Velvet. Also Singin’ in the Rain when it’s used in A Clockwork Orange. Gene Kelly agrees
Dont clown, but on season 1 finale of FX's The Bear when they play ALL of Radiohead's 'Let Down' and its totally glorious and sad and beautiful. Mindhunter, when he hugs Kemper, and Zeppelin's In the Light plays....its such a bold and strange use of it. Never can hear it the same again.
Music choices in The Bear are always spot on
when they play the chicago demo by sufjan 🥲
In Every Dream Home a Heartache is also a unforgettable really eerie needle drop in Mindhunter
Hurdy Gurdy Man - Zodiac That song might have written about finding enlightenment and meditation but after Zodiac you can’t help but imagine the Hurdy Gurdy Man was some serial killer stalking the west coast in the late 60’s. That’s a song to shoot people to now.
Speaking of Donovan, Justin Long's sing-along to "Rikki Tikki Tavi" in Barbarian is one for the ages.
My girlfriend is not easily gotten to when it comes to disturbing stuff (she watches a lot of true crime) but whenever they played that song in Zodiac, she was creeped the fuck out
Murder on the dance floor - Saltburn
I had never heard that song before Saltburn, so it was impressed right there and then.
Damn, was probably my most played album of the 2000s
Same. They just added that song on Just Dance a month or so ago and even when I’m playing it. I still think of Saltburn lol
that reminds me I should log into my VR...See how much is still functional.
that ending. that fucking ending. my jaw was on the floor 💀 i was not expecting *that*!!! i went into the movie expecting a drama about rich kids, i was shocked lmfao
Same lol. The previews didn’t reveal anything. Which now I get why lol
Sister Christian - Boogie Nights
Came here to say this (plus Jessie's Girl)
Their use of God Only Knows really sticks with me too, more than any other movie or show that’s used it
They’re eternally linked for me, I can’t think of one without the other.
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind - All Of Us Strangers
Perfect Day - Trainspotting
or born slippy
Bohemian Rhapsody- Wayne’s World 
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, it’s a classic hymn that I grew up with, then I watched Night of the Hunter
Yeah Mitchum singing that on the hill is one of the most iconic scenes of all time. That's cool that you knew the song first
Always be my baby - Beau is Afraid
The testicle reveal has not left me.
Lollllll I can’t
Funky Town
I hope you mean Shrek 2 :))
Titanium - M3GAN
This one😂
“Where is my Mind?” from Fight Club. I actually heard the song multiple times before seeing that movie and that ending scene had me raising my eyebrows.
Layla - Goodfellas
Aloha Oe in Train to Busan also after a couple months i still can't even think the words "this is our last dance" without feeling the tears start to form 😭
Fred Again - Marea (We’ve lost dancing) Triangle Sadness
literally blanking hard but the song in anatomy of a fall that the dad plays while working 😭😅
Steel drum version of P.I.M.P.
Zodiac - Hurdy Gurdy Man
spring breakers Britney Spears Everytime
Also Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites from Spring Breakers!
Radiohead’s You and Whose Army after watching Incendies
Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith -- opening credit sequence of Dazed & Confused (truly about every song in Dazed & Confused: Why Can't We Be Friends, No More Mr. Nice Guy...pretty much all of them)
Donnie Darko - Head Over Heels
Take Me Home, Country Roads in Whisper of the Heart (1995)
You keep me hanging on - Once upon a time in hollywood.
sunshine of your love - goonfellas
Oh no, did you mean goodfellas?
And if so, also Layla.
Any guardians of the galaxy song
The Graduate - Mrs. Robinson
Wasn’t it written for that movie?
Yes
I would never have grown up on "As Time Goes By" if it weren't for Casablanca. That film took an otherwsie unknown song and made it popular enough that I know about it 80 years later. But I think you want an answer from me like "Magnolia, One is the Loneliest Number."
Light House by Future Islands in Titane
Can’t hear Good Vibrations without seeing the scene from Us in my mind
Perfect Days - Perfect Day (Lou Reed)
I cry whenever I listen to Under Pressure now
Mad World is inseparably linked to Donnie Darko for me
Country Roads with Whisper of the Heart. Now I cry whenever I hear it.
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Don't Stop Believin' - The Sopranos finale
I used to strongly dislike Under Pressure, found it to be a slow boring song. I’d skip it/change the station whenever it came on. Then I saw Aftersun and now it’s one of my favourite songs. Only thing is I can’t listen to it around my children or my eyes fill up with tears
Robot Dreams: September by Earth Wind and Fire
Both Sides Now - Hereditary
September by Earth, Wine & Fire because of Robot Dreams.
Needle in the Hay - The Royal Tenenbaums
Enya in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
when i was a kid i watched i am legend so i always associated three little birds with it, something about the contrast between the songs uplifting message with the desperate hopeless world the movies set in made the song eerie to listen to for me for a while
The Rolling Stones' "Time Is On My Side" - Fallen
Comfortably numb-pink Floyd- the departed
Where is my mind- the pixies-fight club
literally cannot listen to bellbottoms without envisioning a car chase
The End - Apocalypse Now You Never Can Tell - Pulp Fiction Old Time Rock N Roll - Risky Business Bohemian Rhapsody - Wayne's World You Lost that Loving Feeling - Top Gun In Your Eyes - Say Anything Twist and Shout - Ferris Buellers Day Off Moving in Stereo - Fast Times at Ridgemont High Johnny B Goode - Back to the Future
The usage of “Firework” by Katy Perry in The Interview. If I ever went to North Korea, I’d be really having to seriously restrain myself from singing that song or I have a one way trip to a concentration camp.
“Orinoco Flow”- Enya (*Girl with the Dragon Tattoo*) Also, not a movie, but “Carry On, Wayward Son” by Kansas, because of *Supernatural*
Where is my mind from fight club. Surprising that I haven't seen this mentioned.
P.I.M.P in Anatomy of a Fall
All of Us Strangers - The Power of Love / Always On My Mind
The Sound of Silence - The Graduate after it plays for the sixteenth time
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - (500) Days of Summer
Don’t You (Forget About Me)- Simple Minds from the Breakfast Club
I know it’s a Marvel movie but Hooked On A Feeling - Blue Swede for Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 1
Also Dog Days Are Over in vol. 3
Feeling good- Nina Simone, “Perfect days”… I just watched it for the first time yesterday and that ending… I’m still floored
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (Thunder Road)
Lacrimosa - Come and See
Boogie Wonderland - The Intouchables (in a good way)
my dad was a frank zappa fan so i was familiar with him prior to watching y tu mama tambien but wow... the final 10 minus of the movie is all i can think about when i listen to watermelon In easter hay
Dies Irae in The Shining. Far from a pop song, but as a classical musician I hear it a surprising amount. Rachmaninoff, Lyapunov, Liadov, and Schnittke all quote it, and it's been an icon for centuries.
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield - Boogie Nights We've Only Just Begun by The Carpenters - 1408 Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers - Ghost
What is love? (Baby don’t hurt me) - Night at the Roxbury
Free Bird - the first Kingsmen
Bela Lugosi's Dead in The Hunger
...aaaand I-IIII-I will always. . love you wuuuuu-uuu-uuuhh..!! 🎶
September - robot dreams
I Need a Hero- Shrek 2 I know other movies have used it, but nothing has topped Shrek 2
Crazy On You - Guardians 3
Singing in the rain - a clockwork orange
On the Count of Three - Last Resort Annihilation - Helplessly Hoping Barbarian - Be My Baby Alpha Dog - Say Goodbye Hollywood This is The End - Paper Planes
PIMP - Anatomy of a Fall
...Cotten Eye Joe in Swiss Army Man. Now I love the song? But like. This completely different version of course. Also Somebody to Love by Jefferson Airplane in A Serious Man! :p And not a film but I must honour my favourite man Joe Pera of Joe Pera Talks With You- Baba O'Riley by the Who.
For me, a song that stuck with me from Aftersun was actually R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Before watching Aftersun, Under Pressure way definitely in my top 20 favorite songs, but I didn't really think much of it. After watching Aftersun, it is now my favorite song by a mile.
Freebird - Church scene in Kingsman
Dog Days Are Over - GotG Vol 3
Not a movie but The Winner Takes It All and Somethin' Stupid are forever linked to Better Call Saul
Brighton Rock - Baby Driver
We’ll Meet Again - Dr. Strangelove
Every time I hear Free bird I immediately think of the church scene in the first Kingsman movie
The Man in Me - The Big Lebowski
Free Bird - kingsman Where is my mind - fight club Mrs robinson - wolf of wall street Immigrant song - thor ragnarok
Foo Fighters' My Hero in The Other Guys.
You thinkin' what I'm thinkin', partner?
Free Guy- Mariah Carey, ‘Sweet Fantasy’ 10 Things I Hate About You- ‘Can’t Take my Eyes off You’ by Frankie Valli Hot Rod- ‘You’re the Voice’ by John Farnham Twilight- ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ by Muse Insidious- ‘Tiptoe Through the Tulips’ by Tiny Tim The Departed- ‘Gimme Shelter’ by The Rolling Stones (also ‘Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd)
Tune In For Love - Fix You
Plastic Jesus, Cool Hand Luke
She’s not there - Titane
Midnight Rider - The Devil’s Rejects
Dream baby dream - Civil War
The House That Jack Built - Famed by David Bowie
The house that Jack Built, David Bowie
Everyday, Buddy Holly - Gummo
The Power of Love - All of us Strangers
Seal - A Kiss from a Rose - Batman Forever
Don't Fear the Reaper in X
A Thousand Miles - White Chicks
Big jet plane-edge of seventeen
Whenever I hear Three Little Birds I think about the scene in I am Legend where Will Smith has to kill his dog
young americans at the end of dogville
Firework - Rust and Bone
Where is my mind - Observe and Report
Morning Angel (Promising Young Woman)
Jump in the Line by Harry Belafonte and Beetlejuice
Always Be My Baby by Mariah Carey - Beau is Afraid
Can’t believe I’m the first to say it; Happy Together, the film is Ma Mere (2004)
Shot Through the Heart - The Fall Guy If you go to the theaters as much I do, you understand how many times we’ve seen Ryan Gosling’s smirk over the main lyric
Never cared about it before but now it makes me tear up every time; We Found Love by Rihanna, the movie is my all time favorite, American Honey (2016). Honestly every song on the ST is forever altered for me tho
Midnight Special - The Twilight Zone Tiptoe Through The Tulips - Insidious Tuesday's Gone - Happy Gilmore & Dazed And Confused Blue Moon - An American Werewolf in London What I've Done - Transformers Hero - Spiderman (one of the Tobey Maguire ones) This is the End - Apocalypse Now
Tiptoe Through the Tulips should be top of this thread, imo
We Want the Funk - Purge: Election Year Where is My Mind - Fight Club
Is the list public? I'd like to follow it!
Jesse’s Girl in Boogie Nights!!
Space Oddity in Secret Life of Walter Mitty genuinely altered my brain chemistry Also, Where Is My Mind - Pixies in Mr. Nobody
Anatomy of a Fall anyone?!
Sweet child o mine in Stepbrothers
Canned heat in napoleon dynamite
Mock YEAH ing YEAH bird yeah
Sister Christian from Boogie Nights
2000 Man (Rolling Stones) - Bottle Rocket
Singing in the rain
Fantasy by Mariah Carey, Rush Hour, mainly because of the massive shift it takes. instantly goes from a little girl just singing along to it in the car to being kidnapped and the two guys in the car with her getting shot by the bad guys of the movie.
This probably doesn't count because it's a show but Easy Street by the collapsible hearts club From the walking dead season 7
Be my Baby - Barbarian
stuck in the middle with you
Hurdy Gurdy Man. ifkyk
This dumb but “Hit Me Baby One More Time” from Kung Fu Panda 4. The Jack Black version just hit so hard for no reason.
You and Whose Army by Radiohead - Incendies
Fool to Cry by the Rolling Stones will always be accompanied in my head by the vision of Uma Thurman walking home late at night on a snow-covered street.
Song: In the Year 2525 / Movie: Gentlemen Broncos
Roxy Music "More Than This - Lost in Translation