What's your favorite use of music in a TV show and or movie?

[MrScorpio]

He's my list:

La Ritournelle in "Ugly Betty"

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

Sia's Breathe Me in "Six Feet Under"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRocF39tpQ

Fifth Element Taxi Chase with music by Cheb Khaled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhlD6q71YA

Plus the Diva Dance from the same movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MR6D7tL38U

And last but not least "Nyah" from Mission: Impossible 2

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



Enjoy

[HopeHoops]

1. ANY Charlie Chaplain movie.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I always thought that "Due South" had interesting music.

[csziggy]

16. Yes, I always liked their music!

[Glorfindel]

3. "Twin Peaks" intro - wonderfully haunting & sad

and perfect for the story being told:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oDuGN6K3VQ&feature=related

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. There's Morricone's "Il Triello" in the 3-way shoot out of The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.

Doesn't get better than that.

There's the mood setting pan flutes in Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of God."

RZA's scoring in "Kill Bill," particularly the revenge close ups. You know the one I mean.

There must be a million of them that I life but I can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. My favorite score in G,B,U was when Eli Wallach

was running through the cemetery looking for the grave with the gold in it.

[Doc_Technical]

20. "The Ecstasy of Gold"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PwpOmjAu1M&feature=related

[RFKHumphreyObama]

5. No one's mentioned the West Wing?

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

20 Hours in America
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQWxgnFc1fk&feature=related

[charlie and algernon]

9. the brothers in arms scene was the one I was going to say

incredibly powerful scene

[KamaAina]

6. All the Louisiana artists in "Frank's Place".

Of course, that's also why it's never been rerun, because it would be a royal PITA to go back and re-license them all.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

7. Tiny Dancer

from Almost Famous and I'm not an Elton John fan, but this gets to me everytime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU

[jobycom]

34. Great scene. Great scene. nt

[Mojambo]

8. Nip/Tuck always used music particularly well. n/t

[azmouse]

10. Sleepless in Seattle uses music well.

[denbot]

11. Venture Brother's theme song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgxzZHLg0MQ

[Captain Hilts]

12. Rock Around the Clock/Blackboard Jungle. These Boots Are Made for Walkin'/full Metal Jacket...

On Broadway/All That Jazz.
Can't Buy Me Love/A Hard Day's Night

[AngryAmish]

13. 5-0

[Kat45]

15. "Layla" in "Goodfellas"

Scorsese has always made great use of music, particularly rock, in his movies, but I especially love his use of "Layla" in "Goodfellas."

[mitchum]

44. I have never cared for the song,and Goodfellas is far from my favorite Scorsese...

movie, but that is a brilliant combination.

[swag]

17. Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into the Fire" in Goodfellas

where Ray Liotta is still in the throes of cocaine psychosis, helicopters are chasing him, he has a billion things to do and a ton of deceits and felonies to cover. The pulse of the song hits it all perfectly.

Funny this post coming after kat45's naming of "Layla" from the same film put to good use.

Here's a question: in how many Martin Scorsese films has the Rolling Stones' song "Gimme Shelter" been heard. I'd bet at least four. And I'm sick of hearing it in his films. It must be some fucking joke by him now.

[mitchum]

43. That scene in The Departed did seem like obvious self parody...

shots of da' neighborhood while "Gimme Shelter" is playing...again.

Scorsese ain't the young genius Marty he used to be, but he can't be that far gone. It has to be a joke.

[Forkboy]

18. Anything by Morricone. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis soundtrack for The Proposition.

[DevonRex]

19. The Deathwish II soundtrack. By Mr. Jimmy Page, of course. It's also

the Deathwish III soundtrack, redone from the master.

[Initech]

21. The Eagles' "Witchy Woman" in Seinfeld, Stuck In The Middle With You in Reservior Dogs

[ThoughtCriminal]

22. Blue Danube - 2001: A Space Odyssey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oHmVhviO8

The Future Ain't What it Used To Be - Yogi Bera

[kentauros]

23. The end of "Sleeping in Light", last episode of Babylon 5

gets me every time :cry:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znNciln7qwY


2001: A Space Odyssey - The Blue Danube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3oHmVhviO8

2001: A Space Odyssey - Ligeti’s "Atmosphères"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCb0IU8jBGI

Forbidden Planet - inside the "big machine" (at 2:06)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIuc1_Qg4A8

[ThoughtCriminal]

24. I felt the same way

I should not be surprised to mourn the death of space station...

-- In Memory of Skylab and Mir. --

Edit: also from B5 - Londo describes the Earth- Mimbari War. Music pick up around 1:30

[Broken_Hero]

25. Episode 1 of season 2 of Smallville,

the bank robbing scene, Clark is robbing the bank while Metallica is playing in the background.

[lib_n_proud7650]

26. feuer frei in XXX

[nytemare]

27. Barber's Adagio and the score to "Amelie"

Adagio was wonderfully used in "The Elephant Man", "Platoon", and, ironically, Amelie.

Elephant Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GajDw1NSFuw

Amelie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8ACZ6IyyqM

[Skittles]

28. Midnight Cowboy theme

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

[Richard Steele]

29. Most recently, the use of classic trunes in the film "Watchmen" grabbed my attention.

I agree with your opinion of the "Fifth Element" soundtrack,
and I would very respectfuly ask for your views upon the
composition titled "Lobby Fight Scene" from 'The Matrix".

[Jade Fox]

30. "Never Loved a Man (the way that I love you)" playing in....

a scene in a Lesbian bar in the movie "Bound".

[dysfunctional press]

31. hooverphonic tunes- 'inhaler' & 'jackie cane' in csi..

i usually like the way music is used in csi- but i LOVED it when they use hooverphonic.
these are the tunes- but i couldn't find the csi cuts...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JN--wg-gxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPBIN-8CEQg


also- true blood and the sopranos both have/had great theme tunes...

[Metric System]

32. Aimee Mann's music in Magnolia, particularly Wise Up.

[pepperbear]

33. "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes while the bodies are being found in "Goodfellas".n/t

[jobycom]

35. Amadeus, of course.

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5BpzmTIZMU&feature=related

[Frank Cannon]

36. Manhunter (1986)

The whole freaking movie, from the inclusion of Shriekback to the final bloody showdown to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.

[mitchum]

45. Absolutely...I especially loved the use of an "uncool song" like In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

[GoCubsGo]

37. Toy Story/Monk

I love Randy Newman's work.

[peekaloo]

38. wide variety of instruments used on '30 Rock'.

:-)

[canoeist52]

39. "Dexter" Theme song- anyone else like it?

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

[cbayer]

40. Pat Metheney's soundtrack in "The Falcon and the Snowman"

:hi:

[Lindsey]

41. Everything about Dexter is awesome beyond words. I think

the theme song is perfect.

[Gabi Hayes]

42. walter/wendy carlos: adaptation of purcell in first scene of clockwork orange

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVnB3ojrrY&feature=related

[Gabi Hayes]

46. I like the tempo on this better than the one in the movie:

jazz waltz from Last Tango in Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uQNkFmgyzI&feature=related

original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbzjeJCoAn4

after listening to both, guess I like the latter better, captures the mood of the movie, as well as Gato from that period

[Gabi Hayes]

47. forgot about this...hard to choose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTzpl6gbxGg&feature=related