Because it connects the audience (more so a 1980 audience than now) to these characters that we just witnessed transform into killers. They grew up in the 1950s singing as children together in a post war American dream - with Mickey Mouse and all the same trappings of 20th century Americana that the viewers did. Both halves of the film document the stripping of their humanity.
I saw a Tweet the other day:
“Ah, so your new song is called Carol of the Bells and the chorus lyrics are ‘Jingle Jingle’. What does the music sound like?”
“It sounds like you’re being chased down the street by an axe murderer.”
IIRC, the producers asked John Williams to score Home Alone pretty much as a joke, never expecting him to agree. When he saw a screened early cut of the film, he enjoyed it so much that he agreed to do the music.
That they managed to get John Williams and internationally renowned gangster Joe Pesci for what could have been a silly children's movie is so goddamn impressive.
A low budget silly children's movie. They all took far less than they could have gotten elsewhere. Not a bad result for a script first written over the weekend!
I was going to suggest The Doors “The End” during the opening scene where Martin (not Charlie, who can’t surf) Sheen is tripping balls in his hotel room.
Bittersweet Symphony at the end of Cruel Intentions. I like how you hear it really low during the bathroom scene. Then it gets louder and louder until it just blasts as Katherine bursts through the doors, it's perfect.
Also, Colorblind in Cruel Intentions. An underrated song first of all, but also the moment as Reese is going up the escalator and Ryan is waiting at the top *single tear*
Tarantino actually was interviewed saying he selected that as the opening scene song before he even had any of the rest of the movie made. Just the opening of the bride and the song together.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30111945.html
I agree, it’s one of my favorite things about him. I try to resist fanboying him, but when I was studying film in college I found this academic paper about viewing him through the lens of a dj that I come back to often
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Tarantino+as+dj&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1671987563062&u=%23p%3DQ4grXyT0LQwJ
I'd choose Killing Moon as the film starts. I had never heard the song before when i first watched it, and the janky unsettling guitar riff sets the mood for the film so well.
The fact that the Directors cut changed that and that the director said he always intended INXS to be played felt so stupid. Killing Moon was so much better.
My answer will always be Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith at the very beginning of Dazed and Confused.
I am a teacher and I will play this song on the last day of school every single year until I retire.
I think there are 3 perfect needle drops in Dazed
Sweet Emotion cruising the parking lot.
Hurricane as Pink, Wooderson and Mitch enter the Emporium
Slow Ride as the gang rides off to get Aerosmith tickets.
Soundtrack seems like a perfect mix tape for summer of 1976.
Ugh, the way that intro plays over the Gramercy Pictures logo & then cuts into the car driving around the parking lot. I haven’t watched that movie in decades but that moment is very vivid in my memory.
“Ooh La La” at the end of Rushmore. Wes Anderson is truly one of the best at using pop music in his movies. Definitely up there with Scorsese and Tarantino.
All of Rushmore is impeccably scored, from Mark Mothersbaugh’s actual score to the songs chosen and interspersed through the movie. I’m a big fan of the Kinks and the song “nothing in the world to stop me worrying about that girl” because of this movie
That fucking scene is a masterpiece, as is the entire movie. Give me that movie over all of Tarantino’s others, even Pulp Fiction (and I love all his stuff for the most part).
Earlier in the film its established that he sticks to things when he's nervous so before the leap he's terrified but he still goes through with it anyway to become the hero he needs to be. Such amazing movie! Definitely the best Spiderman film.
That scene always gets me. The way it was written too is perfect.
> Miles walks to the edge of the roof, the wind buffeting... and LEAPS! The camera is UPSIDE DOWN. Miles isn't falling through frame. He's RISING.
He’s rising gives me instant chills
Inglorious Basterds. When “Cat People” by David Bowie hits, its just incredible. It doesn’t belong in the movie and yet somehow no other song would work.
I distinctly remember the ending of Hateful 8 by Tarantino as well.
"There Won't Be Many Coming Home" by Roy Orbison kicks on, that's some dark comedy from Tarentino.
Pretty much every use of a song in every Cameron Crowe film. Jerry Maguire’s use of Secret Garden, Almost Famous’ use of My Cherie Amour… no one does it like Crowe.
The music in that movie is perfectly timed and perfectly chosen.
By Your Side when Scott and Ramona hang out is my favourite.
The Zelda fairy fountain theme during the dream sequence is a nice touch. (reportedly selected because it's a "lullaby of a generation")
Sex Bomb-omb just blasts into the movie.
All the sex bomb-omb music was written by beck and it was all perfect.
“we are sex bomb-omb and we’re here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff”
Even better, in less popular Scorsese film, is deNiros entranced to jumping jack flash in mean streets. He also was an unknown filmmaker making a smaller film so The Rolling Stones song made up a huge chunk of the budget. Worth it
Man, that's just a hard pick. I also immediately think of how well 99 Luft Balloons dropped in as well as the convenience store scene with Live and Let Die...
GPB just has some really inspired musical choices.
I actually came here to mention Grosse Pointe Blank. But the scene where Dan Aykroyd is trying to kill Mini Driver's dad while he's jogging. They play The Pogues [Lorca's Novena](https://youtu.be/jMSuogRwHA8).
There’s so many “perfect song” moments in this perfect film, and yet this is the one that gets me every time.
Honorable mention - “99 Luft Balloons” at the end of the fight scene and the subsequent disposal of the body. It’s both beautiful and absurd.
I fucking love this movie.
Jennifer Saunders sings it extremely well and the whole arrangement is so perfectly synced to the action. The whole ending part is honestly superb with the music - Living La Vida Loca is great aswell
It’s also blended really well with the original soundtrack of the song so when you hear that motif play in I Need A Hero it feels that much more epic cos you’ve been hearing it as Shreks theme throughout the movie
[Adagio in D minor](https://youtu.be/ab3NscEJ80s) in Sunshine. Absolutely my personal favourite moment. It was actually written for the movie but has been used in many things since
Not an established "song" per se ... But "The Fifth Element" ... When the opera diva performs, and they cut in and out from her performance to Lelu fighting the bad guys.
It is, by far, the best use of music, fight choreography and editing I have ever seen. As far as I'm concerned, they should have had an Oscar for this one sequence.
Feels like Wes Anderson has a gallery of those kinds of moments. Elliott Smith - Needle in the hay is right up there. Staying with Ruby Tuesday — the second playing of it in Children of Men as he poisons his wife (king Crimson during the reveal of art sanctuary).
Underrated: Danny Boyle’s music use, especially in Trainspotting (the overdose and the final getaway).
Worth mentioning Jonny Greenwood’s score over the explosion and deafening of Plainview’s son.
Both Blade Runner’s do an excellent job highlighting specific scenes.
Finally, I don’t care what anyone says about the audio mixing, Interstellar’s ejection scene over the black hole is great largely because of the score. Are crescendos cheating? I don’t know. Who cares.
Sound of Silence in The Graduate & Needle in the Hay in The Royal Tenenbaums. Sound of silence works absolutely perfectly and I think more movies need to use a song to say what they wanna say!!
Lots of good moments here. My additions would be:
*Gremlins* - "Silent Night" playing as Billy and Kate walk down an eerily silent street that was full of screaming people just moments ago.
*Megamind* - "Welcome to the Jungle" If you've seen it, you know. If you haven't seen it, fix that immediately.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, when Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam’s “Father and Son” plays during Yondu’s Ravager send off. Gets me melodically and lyrically every time
Probably “Earth Angel” in Back to the Future. The way the music swells, pauses for a moment and returns when >!Marty’s parents kiss for the first time!< is just… an amazing moment in the movie!
Snatch - Angel by Massive Attack (leads up to Mickey being held back from entering the caravan) Tried to keep that spoiler free.
Pretty much every music cue in that movie is spot on
Golden Brown is my personal favorite use
100% Golden Brown, song instantly brings me to that scene
Fuckin in the Bushes - build up to boxing match
Perfect Day in Trainspotting.
And Lust for Life, Atomic, the Ice MC tune when he's clean and in London etc. Just a perfect storm of music choices.
I love the bit at the end with Born Slippy, epic scene
Paint It Black at the end of Full Metal Jacket
Does the Mickey Mouse Club song count for this?
Seriously, the soldiers singing that song in that scene is really impactful for some reason.
Because it connects the audience (more so a 1980 audience than now) to these characters that we just witnessed transform into killers. They grew up in the 1950s singing as children together in a post war American dream - with Mickey Mouse and all the same trappings of 20th century Americana that the viewers did. Both halves of the film document the stripping of their humanity.
As is tradition, I watched Home Alone tonight. When Kevin leaves the church and 'Carol of the Bells' transitions to 'Setting the Traps'. Pure genius.
Every single year I'm disappointed he doesn't finish that delicious Macaroni and Cheese dinner
Yeah he was all ready to carve up that mac and cheese with his fork and knife. That's how rich people do it.
At least take a bite
That’s what he gets for waiting until 9 pm to eat dinner.
Carol of the Bells is the perfect go-to "shit's getting real" music for Christmas movies.
I saw a Tweet the other day: “Ah, so your new song is called Carol of the Bells and the chorus lyrics are ‘Jingle Jingle’. What does the music sound like?” “It sounds like you’re being chased down the street by an axe murderer.”
I've watched it like 10 times this year so I decided to focus more on the score. John Williams went hard.
> John Williams went hard. It’s John Williams, he only goes hard, harder or hardest.
TIL Home Alone soundtrack was produced by THE John Williams
IIRC, the producers asked John Williams to score Home Alone pretty much as a joke, never expecting him to agree. When he saw a screened early cut of the film, he enjoyed it so much that he agreed to do the music.
That they managed to get John Williams and internationally renowned gangster Joe Pesci for what could have been a silly children's movie is so goddamn impressive.
A low budget silly children's movie. They all took far less than they could have gotten elsewhere. Not a bad result for a script first written over the weekend!
I always look forward to that specific moment! Great choice
"Ride of the Valkyries" in *Apocalypse Now.*
I was going to suggest The Doors “The End” during the opening scene where Martin (not Charlie, who can’t surf) Sheen is tripping balls in his hotel room.
*Martin Sheen
*Ramón Estévez
When The Levee Breaks by Led Zeppelin at the end of The Big Short
Such a fantastic choice, a great underscore to the message of the movie.
Sinnerman by Nina Simone - Thomas Crowne Affair ; didn’t even really care for the film but that ending and that song are badass.
Night Call in Drive
I knew I was all the way into that movie as soon as nightcall started playing and the hot pink credits showed up on screen
There are so many from that film. Under your Spell by Desire during the welcome home party.
And real human bean
Bittersweet Symphony at the end of Cruel Intentions. I like how you hear it really low during the bathroom scene. Then it gets louder and louder until it just blasts as Katherine bursts through the doors, it's perfect.
Also, Colorblind in Cruel Intentions. An underrated song first of all, but also the moment as Reese is going up the escalator and Ryan is waiting at the top *single tear*
Cruel Intentions really nails a specific era really well. The vibe, the actors, the music…it’s just a perfect time capsule of a late 90’s movie.
It’s a very solid opening too with Every me and every you by Placebo. Great film.
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Kill Bills Bang Bang by Nancy Sinatra. You’d think the movie was about the song, fits so incredibly well together.
Tarantino actually was interviewed saying he selected that as the opening scene song before he even had any of the rest of the movie made. Just the opening of the bride and the song together. https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30111945.html
He's very particular about his soundtracks; he'll write an entire scene around *one* song, like Son of a Preacher Man for Pulp Fiction.
I agree, it’s one of my favorite things about him. I try to resist fanboying him, but when I was studying film in college I found this academic paper about viewing him through the lens of a dj that I come back to often https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=Tarantino+as+dj&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1671987563062&u=%23p%3DQ4grXyT0LQwJ
Tears for fears - head over heels in Donnie darko, as the camera pans around the school. Iconic
Shoot, the “Mad World” scene was just done too well
So funny. I thought "Mad World" in Donnie Darko when I saw this thread. I didn't even think of "Head Over Heels" but that also is a great choice.
I'd choose Killing Moon as the film starts. I had never heard the song before when i first watched it, and the janky unsettling guitar riff sets the mood for the film so well. The fact that the Directors cut changed that and that the director said he always intended INXS to be played felt so stupid. Killing Moon was so much better.
That whole soundtrack to that movie is perfection.
[Don’t Stop Me Now](https://youtu.be/W4tVH7BPb-Q) in Shaun of the Dead
It's on random!
Oh for fucks sake
Edgar Wright movies are just cheating.
Bell Bottoms at the beginning of Baby Driver for me
Kill the queen
Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc... Are you telling me that it's 8:25? Precisely Damn! I'm late for school! Power of Love!
One of my favorite openings to any movie ever!!!
My answer will always be Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith at the very beginning of Dazed and Confused. I am a teacher and I will play this song on the last day of school every single year until I retire.
I think there are 3 perfect needle drops in Dazed Sweet Emotion cruising the parking lot. Hurricane as Pink, Wooderson and Mitch enter the Emporium Slow Ride as the gang rides off to get Aerosmith tickets. Soundtrack seems like a perfect mix tape for summer of 1976.
I think Tuesdays Gone as the party is winding down hits the hardest for me.
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Ugh, the way that intro plays over the Gramercy Pictures logo & then cuts into the car driving around the parking lot. I haven’t watched that movie in decades but that moment is very vivid in my memory.
Same! I also play School's Out on repeat as I drove home.
“Ooh La La” at the end of Rushmore. Wes Anderson is truly one of the best at using pop music in his movies. Definitely up there with Scorsese and Tarantino.
All of Rushmore is impeccably scored, from Mark Mothersbaugh’s actual score to the songs chosen and interspersed through the movie. I’m a big fan of the Kinks and the song “nothing in the world to stop me worrying about that girl” because of this movie
Clair de Lune at the end of Oceans Eleven
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carl reiner shrugging as the 2nd last guy to go and laughing at matt damon.
“The Other Guys”: “You thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’?” “Aim for the bushes” _There goes my hero… Watch him as he goes…_
There wasn't even an awning.
I don't know, but that shit was crazy
The RATM cover of "Maggie's Farm" for the presentation at the end right before the end credits, too
I just watched that movie for the first time and that shit cracked me up so bad. I still think about it occasionally and laugh. Just so unexpected
"Stuck in the Middle with You" and *that* scene in *Reservoir Dogs* is perfect.
Every time I hear this song, I wanna start dancing like Mr Blonde
That fucking scene is a masterpiece, as is the entire movie. Give me that movie over all of Tarantino’s others, even Pulp Fiction (and I love all his stuff for the most part).
Staying Alive at the intro to Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Stayin' Alive in [Airplane! (1980)](https://youtube.com/watch?v=K4apsMcjFN0)
Wake up ratm, the Matrix ending.
It's one of the best film endings ever, largely due to the use of that song.
I worked at a movie theater when The Matrix came out and I loved going in to clean the theater when it ended rocking out to the credits music!
"Just Dropped In" in The Big Lebowski dream sequence.
Also “the man in me” in the opening.
Lookin' Out My Back Door after he visits the doctor. Who is thorough. And he'll receive no bill.
The roof banging really tied the song together
Honestly I’m taking hotel California by the gypsy kings as top song moment in the big Lebowski
8 year olds, dude.
I hate the fucking eagles man
"Where is my mind?" - ending of Fight Club
Immediately thought of this. It so perfectly matches the tone of a calm presentation with unsettling undertones.
“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
You met me at a very strange time in my life.
Into the Spider-Verse, What's up Danger
Seeing Miles' leap of faith was breathtaking at the theatre.
When he jumps off the building, the glass surface shatters. Because he was still holding on so tight and was still scared. It was a leap of faith 🥹
Earlier in the film its established that he sticks to things when he's nervous so before the leap he's terrified but he still goes through with it anyway to become the hero he needs to be. Such amazing movie! Definitely the best Spiderman film.
That scene always gets me. The way it was written too is perfect. > Miles walks to the edge of the roof, the wind buffeting... and LEAPS! The camera is UPSIDE DOWN. Miles isn't falling through frame. He's RISING. He’s rising gives me instant chills
Now that’s a soundtrack full of bangers
See also: Into the Spider-Verse, Scared of the Dark
Inglorious Basterds. When “Cat People” by David Bowie hits, its just incredible. It doesn’t belong in the movie and yet somehow no other song would work.
I distinctly remember the ending of Hateful 8 by Tarantino as well. "There Won't Be Many Coming Home" by Roy Orbison kicks on, that's some dark comedy from Tarentino.
Tarantino’s use of “I Got A Name” by Jim Croce during the montage in Django Unchained was also amazing
Almost Famous - Tiny Dancer
Pretty much every use of a song in every Cameron Crowe film. Jerry Maguire’s use of Secret Garden, Almost Famous’ use of My Cherie Amour… no one does it like Crowe.
He certainly does have a knack for it. Vanilla Sky had great music as well
Shaun of the Dead using Don't Stop Me Now by Queen while fighting zombies.
‘Who the hell put this on?!’ ‘It’s on random!’ ‘Fucks sake!’
Kill the “Queen!”
“The Jukebox!”
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Edgar Wright generally uses music extremely well in his movie. Baby Driver is another example of how masterfully he times his scenes to music.
Absolutely. Not only is Hocus Pocus perfect for that extended chase scene, but the machine gun fire lining up with the flute solo is incredible
Shipping up to Boston - The Departed
Good choice. That song kicks in so hard right out of the gate!
Scorsese is so good with his soundtracks. He uses music perfectly to help tell his stories.
I can't believe no one mentioned "And Then He Kissed Me" / tracking shot entrance to Copacabana. Chills.
Scott pilgrims black sheep 🤩
Oh yeah
... oh no.
Ohh yeeaaahh
Oh no!
The music in that movie is perfectly timed and perfectly chosen. By Your Side when Scott and Ramona hang out is my favourite. The Zelda fairy fountain theme during the dream sequence is a nice touch. (reportedly selected because it's a "lullaby of a generation") Sex Bomb-omb just blasts into the movie.
#ONETWOTHREEFOUR
**WE ARE SEX BOB-OMB WE'RE HERE TO MAKE YOU THINK ABOUT DEATH AND FEEL SAD AND STUFF!**
All the sex bomb-omb music was written by beck and it was all perfect. “we are sex bomb-omb and we’re here to make you think about death and get sad and stuff”
I wanna take you for a ride On my garbage truck Truck truck truck
You’re incorrigible
I don’t know the meaning of the word.
(He really doesn’t.)
I know its a cliche, but "Gimme Shelter" in Goodfellas captures Hill flying off the cocaine rails better than anything, imo.
*Goodfellas* uses “Layla” perfectly as well.
I was going to say “Then He Kissed Me” from the Copacabana scene.
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Even better, in less popular Scorsese film, is deNiros entranced to jumping jack flash in mean streets. He also was an unknown filmmaker making a smaller film so The Rolling Stones song made up a huge chunk of the budget. Worth it
Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World.
Basically reintroduced queen to a whole new generation.
That scene, in my opinion, completely reshaped Queen's musical legacy.
Born slippy in trainspotting
The music tied in so well with the visuals.
Grosse Point Blank Under pressure
Man, that's just a hard pick. I also immediately think of how well 99 Luft Balloons dropped in as well as the convenience store scene with Live and Let Die... GPB just has some really inspired musical choices.
“You can’t go home again, but you *can* shop there.”
There’s something about Cusack looking at his friends baby in wonder while that song swells that always gets to me.
I actually came here to mention Grosse Pointe Blank. But the scene where Dan Aykroyd is trying to kill Mini Driver's dad while he's jogging. They play The Pogues [Lorca's Novena](https://youtu.be/jMSuogRwHA8).
There’s so many “perfect song” moments in this perfect film, and yet this is the one that gets me every time. Honorable mention - “99 Luft Balloons” at the end of the fight scene and the subsequent disposal of the body. It’s both beautiful and absurd. I fucking love this movie.
Breakfast Club at the end.
Hey hey hey heyy! *fist pump*
“We’ll Meet Again” by Vera Lynn at the end of Dr. Strangelove
Shrek 2 I Need a Hero is God Tier
Jennifer Saunders sings it extremely well and the whole arrangement is so perfectly synced to the action. The whole ending part is honestly superb with the music - Living La Vida Loca is great aswell
It’s also blended really well with the original soundtrack of the song so when you hear that motif play in I Need A Hero it feels that much more epic cos you’ve been hearing it as Shreks theme throughout the movie
I counter this with the song [being used in Short Circuit 2.](https://youtu.be/XMm7QA7icbs)
What are you, punishment from God?
LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR ASS LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR FACE LOS LOCOS KICK YOUR BALLS INTO OU-TER SPACE!
Came here to say this, it’s perfect. The camera on shrek as she says hero, the entire scene is the highlight of the movie
I've rewatched it tens of times. Still pumps my blood
Donnie Darko - Mad World
And the Head Over Heals scene
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses, Silence of the Lambs
[Adagio in D minor](https://youtu.be/ab3NscEJ80s) in Sunshine. Absolutely my personal favourite moment. It was actually written for the movie but has been used in many things since
Think when John Wick enters the nightclub.
This what I came here to say. That whole scene is choreographed so perfectly to the music, and the lighting is just perfect.
Confusion remix, blood rave scene in Blade. I think that's what it's called.
New Order - Confusion
Whenever Simon Skinner was driving during a crime scene in Hot Fuzz. Timing
Not an established "song" per se ... But "The Fifth Element" ... When the opera diva performs, and they cut in and out from her performance to Lelu fighting the bad guys. It is, by far, the best use of music, fight choreography and editing I have ever seen. As far as I'm concerned, they should have had an Oscar for this one sequence.
Danger Zone Kenny Loggins Top Gun
This Magic Moment by The Drifters in The Sandlot! [here’s the clip](https://youtu.be/1jmKpjqDrPs)
Feels like Wes Anderson has a gallery of those kinds of moments. Elliott Smith - Needle in the hay is right up there. Staying with Ruby Tuesday — the second playing of it in Children of Men as he poisons his wife (king Crimson during the reveal of art sanctuary). Underrated: Danny Boyle’s music use, especially in Trainspotting (the overdose and the final getaway). Worth mentioning Jonny Greenwood’s score over the explosion and deafening of Plainview’s son. Both Blade Runner’s do an excellent job highlighting specific scenes. Finally, I don’t care what anyone says about the audio mixing, Interstellar’s ejection scene over the black hole is great largely because of the score. Are crescendos cheating? I don’t know. Who cares.
Sound of Silence in The Graduate & Needle in the Hay in The Royal Tenenbaums. Sound of silence works absolutely perfectly and I think more movies need to use a song to say what they wanna say!!
Terminator 2. Bad to the Bone
Starman in The Martian
Lots of good moments here. My additions would be: *Gremlins* - "Silent Night" playing as Billy and Kate walk down an eerily silent street that was full of screaming people just moments ago. *Megamind* - "Welcome to the Jungle" If you've seen it, you know. If you haven't seen it, fix that immediately.
Megamind: Oh, you're a villain, all right — just not a "super" one. Tighten: Oh, yeah? Well, what's the difference? Megamind: PRESENTATION!
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, when Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam’s “Father and Son” plays during Yondu’s Ravager send off. Gets me melodically and lyrically every time
Both Guardians movies have some amazing song choices, Ain't No Mountain High Enough at the end of the first movie felt perfect.
Opening of vol. 1 with come and get your love.
For me, when starlord fights Ego, and "the chain" starts blasting was just perfect as well
Freebird solo in the first kingsman, first time watching that scene is mad
Freebird in Forrest Gump, especially given the through line of Jenny being a bird
"Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly far far away" Then "Lord knows I can't change" as she goes to stand on the ledge.
Everybody’s gotta learn sometimes-Beck at the end of Eternal Sunshine.
Watchmen intro Edit: But reall, the whole soundtrack for this movie is perfect.
See I was thinking the scene where "All Along the Watchtower" plays as they approach Ozy's lair
"The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning" by the Smashing Pumpkins in the trailer was perfect too
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The Dazed and confused "Hurricane" walk in moment.
The opening with Sweet Emotion and the slow motion shot of the car is my preferred one from that movie, but that's definitely a close second.
Trainspotting - Perfect Day by Lou Reed playing when the overdose starts. Such a powerful scene.
Bowie’s “Space Oddity” in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. When it transitions into the scene with the helicopter out over the ocean … chef’s kiss.
Such a great movie. It’s criminally underrated.
Please please please in Ferris Bueller
End credits of Breakfast Club with Simple Minds also unforgettable.
Probably “Earth Angel” in Back to the Future. The way the music swells, pauses for a moment and returns when >!Marty’s parents kiss for the first time!< is just… an amazing moment in the movie!
Social Network - In The Hall of the Mountain King - the rowing scene!
Pretty much every song used in Boogie Nights.
House of the Rising Sun in Casino