r/movies • u/Own_Conversation3511 • 12h ago
Discussion What movie forever changed (good or bad) a pre-existing song for you?
I think the most famous would be "Stuck In The Middle With You" from Reservoir Dogs.
It took me years to be able to separate "Goodbye Horses" from Silence of the Lambs (no thanks to Jay & Silent Bob).
I am interested in songs that existed independently before the film. Nothing that was written specifically for the movie.
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u/RebelGirl1323 11h ago
Fight Club, Where Is My Mind? by The Pixies
Can’t hear it without thinking of that ending.
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u/basket_case_case 5h ago
There’s a reason Mr. Robot used a piano cover of it for the season one finale. They knew, how many of us tie it to the ending of Fight Club.
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u/PippyHooligan 7h ago
Me too and I hate it. Fight Club is a great film, but I already loved that song so damned much. Now it's difficult to separate the two.
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u/iateyourdinner 27m ago edited 21m ago
It’s interesting because that song playing in the ending is what actually drew me into listening to the Pixies in the first place. :-)
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u/WollyGog 4h ago
This is one of the most iconic ones. Any time a thread is made about a song in a movie in any sort of context, this will be one of the most appropriate answers.
But it is oh so good.
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u/ClickWaiter 12h ago
Time is On My Side in Fallen. Still creeps me out
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u/Own_Conversation3511 12h ago
"Oh, you forgot something, didn't you? Back at the start, I said I was going to tell you about the time I almost died. Be seeing you."
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u/KneeHighMischief 12h ago
I haven't seen it for years but I definitely remember the ending. Pretty solid twist.
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u/Kind_Of_A_Dick 1h ago
John Goodman’s rendition was the biggest deal for me. He just belted it out with no regard to cadence or anything, just playing with the song. Made me realize that Azazel thought the whole thing was a joke, a game to be played.
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u/capeasypants 2h ago
I didn't know that song before the movie. I love that song, probably thanks to that movie
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u/ChrisMartins001 12h ago
"Stuck in the middle with you" went from "one of the first songs I learned on guitar" to "the Reservoir Dogs song" to me.
"Do you ever listen to K Billy's super sounds of the 70's?"
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u/Salarian_American 11h ago
Don't Stop Me Now was already my favorite Queen song, but since 2004 I haven't been able to separate it in my mind from that scene in Shaun of the Dead.
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u/Blingblaowburrr 7h ago
“Kill the Queen!”
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u/bangout123 2h ago
"It's on random!” instantly entered my vocabulary as an excuse for a choice someone didn't like lol
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u/DMurBOOBS-I-Dare-You 10h ago
"Sympathy For The Devil" in the outro for "Interview With The Vampire"
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u/Themo77 10h ago
Layla- GOODFELLAS. Made me a Clapton fan.
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u/GUSHandGO 6h ago
He's a garbage human but an amazing musician.
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u/MomusSinclair 5h ago
Why, because the covid vaccine screwed him up physically and he spoke out against it?
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u/ColdCruise 35m ago
It didn't. That's the point. He probably caused a lot of people to not get vaccinations because of lies and that directly resulted in the deaths of others.
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u/civonakle 9h ago
Groundhog Day - I got you babe
Every time that bloody alarm clock goes off!
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u/Answerologist 3h ago
Ok campers! Rise and shine! And don’t forget your booties cause’ it’s cold out there!
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u/This_Fkn_Guy_ 10h ago
Ain't no mountain guardians of the galexy
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u/dollabilllz 9h ago
Brandy from Guardians 2 for me. Loved how the song was integrated into the plot
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u/efox02 8h ago
The soundtrack of the first movie is fire.
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u/WollyGog 4h ago
It was on constant rotation for my wife and I that summer it came out. But the CD fucked up the order of the tracklisting from the movie which was annoying.
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u/capeasypants 2h ago
Spotify can often be your best friend in these cases, search for the soundtrack in movie order
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u/civonakle 9h ago
The opening to Die hard 3. Summer in the City.
"Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city All around, people lookin' half dead Walkin' on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head..."
MASSIVE EXPLOSION
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u/infinitemonkeytyping 9h ago
The Departed did it to two songs - Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones for the opening, and Shipping Up To Boston by The Dropkick Murphys.
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u/cowboyforce 8h ago
Scorsese’s go-to. He used Gimme Shelter in Goodfellas and Casino.
Every time I hear the piano outro to Layla I always think of dude in the freezer.
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u/Trike117 11h ago
“Immigrant Song” by Led Zeppelin is one that I’ve always disliked but Thor: Ragnarok completely changed that for me. It helps that the lyrics are perfect for the character but the needle drop is expertly done twice in that film, with the second one managing to be a counterpoint payoff to the first. “Are you ‘Thor, the god of hammers’?”
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u/JustGoodSense 11h ago
I loved it in School of Rock blasting out of Dewey's shitty van, and the rathergood.com Flash animation of the Viking kittens.
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u/infinitemonkeytyping 9h ago
There's a really good cover by Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Karen O on Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
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u/CallejaFairey 9h ago
Honestly, Viking Kittens is the first thing that pops into my head whenever I hear this song. Hard to believe that was more than 20 years ago.
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u/AliceMae18 8h ago
Mr. Blue Sky due to Guardians of the Galaxy Part 2. Thank you, Groot!!
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u/Rosebunse 8h ago
Dog Days for Part 3. It was never my favorite Florence and the Machine song but it was too perfect in that movie
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u/Earlvx129 10h ago
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" - Zodiac. Used unforgettably in that opening attack sequence, and again at the end when Jimi Simpson identifies the killer. Love that movie!
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u/Mametaro 8h ago
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u/gogojack 5h ago
When I was a DJ at a club in the late 80's, that was always the last song of the night. So whenever I hear it I think it's time to go home.
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u/Own_Conversation3511 9h ago
I guess I also can't hear "Rapper's Delight" without thinking of Ellen Dow from "The Wedding Singer"
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u/JustGoodSense 11h ago
I enjoyed "All Star" when it was used in Mystery Men, but Shrek kinda ruined it for me. And us all, I believe.
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u/Finchypoo 11h ago
Not movies, but TV. Common Side Effects and Derry Girls rocketed Caribbean Blue to the top of my favorite Enya tracks.
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u/erak3xfish 9h ago
California Dreamin’ by the Mamas and the Papas. All I think about is the noodle stand in Chungking Express when I hear it now.
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u/PippyHooligan 7h ago
Yes! That and Dreams by The Cranberries (the intro to that song always puts a smile on my face)
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u/smashed2gether 8h ago
I will never hear Do You Really Want to Hurt Me without thinking of The Wedding Singer.
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u/AnguryLittleMan 9h ago
Biggest change for me was from a tv show. Hates the cheesy hair metal until I saw it through the lens of Supernatural. Now, I love it.
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u/IanRastall 12h ago
It took me a really long time to get into Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield. It's an amazing album, first off. The caveman grunt solo is fantastic. But I still can't really hear the opening the way it was meant to be heard, as a kind of beautiful counterpoint. I just see Reagen's mom pushing her hands into her pockets and heading up a windy sidewalk.
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u/Own_Conversation3511 12h ago
I kind of feel a similar way about "Music Box" by Philip Glass. Even though I knw he wrote it for "Candyman"' "Music Box" is so beautiful, separate of the film.
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u/28DLdiditbetter 10h ago
It is literally impossible for me to listen to "Under Pressure" by Queen+Bowie and not think of Robin Williams and/or that scene in World's Greatest Dad. RIP Robin. Miss you
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u/EasilyDelighted 8h ago
Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams.
I'd only heard the original version by Eurythmics. Then I watched the trailer to Gamer (2009)
My mind was blown. Fell in love with the much darker take on the song.
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u/DaisBloom 12h ago
The Sound of Silence from The Graduate, and later Watchmen made it even more haunting These songs become part of the film’s soul — no longer just music on their own.
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u/HighStandards73 11h ago
The Pure Moods commercial invited listeners to “set adrift with the timeless pleasures of Tubular Bells.”
Needless to say, I heard that piece of music quite differently once I watched The Exorcist.
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u/Palloc 9h ago
In the 1997 release they tossed in a remix of the X-Files theme too! Nothing says soothing like alien abductions!
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u/HighStandards73 6h ago
Yep, I have it! In the commercial, that clip immediately follows Tubular Bells. “Or take a trip into the unknown with the X-Files theme.”
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u/plannedobsoletion 6h ago
Wayne’s World, Garth lip syncing Foxy Lady with his air quotes… never took the song too seriously before that, but now I can’t at all😆
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u/DMurBOOBS-I-Dare-You 10h ago edited 10h ago
"Blue Moon" (Sam Cooke) will forever be associated with David's werewolf transformation. I'm good with this!
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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 11h ago
As a 90s R&B fan, I can't listen to Mariah Carey's Always Be My Baby the same way after Beau Is Afraid
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u/fox_in_scarves 10h ago
Annihilation and Helplessly Hoping.
I want to describe the song as melancholy and haunting -- but I'm not sure it is without the influence of the film, now inseparable in my mind.
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u/nobelphoenix 7h ago
The finale of Sabrina the Teenage Witch introduced me to Running by No Doubt, so now whenever it plays on my playlist I keep remembering the finale.
Also I can't really listen to Who's That Girl by Eve without remembering She-Hulk or Happy Nation by Ace of Base without X-Men'97 now.
Edit: Everything I've listed are tv series and not movies, sorry about that OP. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/thenachobro 6h ago
Wasn't a movie but a movie trailer song. "Just Like You Imagined" by NIN for the 300 movie trailer. Honestly, even to this day that music hits hard and when I went to see the movie and the song wasn't in there (understandable) the movie just wasn't the same.
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u/HWY6SIX6 5h ago
Sister Christian - Night Ranger: Boogie Nights
Don’t Be Shy - Car Stevens. Harold And Maude
You are my sunshine - O Brother where art thou
L’ appuntomento - Ornella Vanoni : Ocean’s 12
Hooked On A Feeling - Reservoir Dogs
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u/AbstractAtlantean 5h ago
I’ll never listen to Fight the Power by Public Enemy without thinking of Do The Right Thing now
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u/jasonology09 4h ago
Silence of the Lambs. "Goodbye Horses" went from being just a kinda quirky synth-pop tune, to being a super creepy murder anthem.
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u/Jonaskin83 4h ago
Wake me up Before you Go Go will never not remind me of freak gasoline fight accidents since Zoolander.
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u/Answerologist 2h ago
The Reflex by Duran Duran in the American Wedding Dance Off
🍓Letter 23 by Brothers Johnson in Jackie Brown
Canned Heat by Jamiroquai in Center Stage
King of the Road in Generation Kill
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u/Reasonable-HB678 2h ago
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, will forever be associated with an explosion during a gas station fight.
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u/capeasypants 2h ago
Someone needs to make a Spotify playlist of this whole thread. So many great songs!
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u/Venotron 54m ago
Not a movie, but Kansas, Carry On Wayward Son and Supernatural.
That show and song mean so very much to me.
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u/fergudar 8h ago
Something in the way in the beginning of the Batman. How it was used in conjunction with the monologue was awesome.
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u/Own_Conversation3511 12h ago
David Bowie's "Heroes" hits me harder now after seeing JoJo Rabbit. In German or English.