Get these pictures out of my brain!!!!
Isn't it funny, sometimes. An artist releases a song, it gets popular, people play it on the radio, buy the music, listen to it over and over again.
And then the movies get to it. Once they play it on a soundtrack, that song will be forever embedded in your head with something associated with that movie.
Case in point.
I cannot think of "We Are Family" without picturing Gene Hackman in drag. I just can't. And it's scary.
"I Will Survive" comes on the radio, and I get visions of Keanu Reeves and Orlando Jones doing the Electric Slide behind bars.
"An American Girl" brings on memories of Silence of the Lambs.
And the list goes on and on.
Now it's your turn. Are there any songs that you can't hear without thinking of some stupid scene from a movie?
And then the movies get to it. Once they play it on a soundtrack, that song will be forever embedded in your head with something associated with that movie.
Case in point.
I cannot think of "We Are Family" without picturing Gene Hackman in drag. I just can't. And it's scary.
"I Will Survive" comes on the radio, and I get visions of Keanu Reeves and Orlando Jones doing the Electric Slide behind bars.
"An American Girl" brings on memories of Silence of the Lambs.
And the list goes on and on.
Now it's your turn. Are there any songs that you can't hear without thinking of some stupid scene from a movie?
posted by Callie | 10/08/2006 05:35:00 PM
9 Comments:
The SONG: Shout! The Movie ANIMAL HOUSE.
Who can forget the boombox serenade from Say Anything?
I have two more:
"Oh Yeah" from Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
"Jumpin Jack Flash" from the same named movie. Every time I hear that, I just think of Whoopie Goldberg pounding on the boom box, pleading, "Mick! Mick! Speak ENGLISH!"
Two, from the same movie:
"There she goes" (by the Boo Radleys) and "saturday night" (by the Bay City Rollers) from "So I married an Axe murderer"
"Fortunate Son" by CCR makes me think of every Vietnam movie ever made.
"Johnny B Good" reminds me of "Back to the Future".
"Son of a Preacher man" reminds me of "Pulp Fiction".
"You've Lost That Lovin Feeling" Top Gun
"Video Killed The Radio Star" Empire Records
Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World when they are driving around in the little Gremlin.
"everybody wants to rule the world" always reminds me of the final scene of real genius.
and "jumpin jack flash" does that to me, too. i love that movie. which reminds me- how about "can't hurry love"? for some reason, it always reminds me of the scene where whoopi's dress gets caught in the paper shredder.
and, kal, it's been awhile since i last saw the movie, but the ned's atomic dustbin covers "saturday night" on the so i married an axe murderer soundtrack.
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