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Best application of a track in a movie
I say "I can't Stop Loving You," by Ray Charles in "Metropolis" (2001).

What do you guys think?
I'll just get the "In your eyes" from "Say Anything" out of the way too, but it's torched by the above.

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Eye of The Tiger - Rocky III

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As I said in TBG's Doors thread, "The End" in Apocalypse Now

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Disco Science in Snatch (scene where the dogs are chasing the rabbit).

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"Low Rider" in "Up In Smoke"

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Phhh. "Black Betty" in Blow. (Remember, he's struttin thru the airport in his white suit, about to deliver some cocaine.)

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Didn't this thread get done a couple weeks ago?

I'm sure "Where is my Mind?" in Fight Club was mentioned there.

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Cameron Crowe uses music tracks really well in his movies. I don't know if any one of them would qualify as the best ever, but he is the best at using them right now IMO.

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"Also Sprach Zarathustra," 2001

"My Way" (Sid Vicious), Goodfellas

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Ride of the Valkyries in Apocalypse Now


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Phhh. "Black Betty" in Blow. (Remember, he's struttin thru the airport in his white suit, about to deliver some cocaine.)

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I also liked "Blinded by the Light", or whatever it's called by whoever sings that thing... the James Gang or whoever. Everytime I hear this song now I think of Blow.

I think of the scene where Johnny Depp is standing in his driveway puffing away while admiring his fleet of cars while his dad nods his head in approval/disapproval.

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This is gonna sound lame, but I always thought the use of 'unchained melody' in Ghost was a pretty damn fine use of a track.

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This is gonna sound lame, but I always thought the use of 'unchained melody' in Ghost was a pretty damn fine use of a track.

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You're awefully womanly today. What gives?

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This is gonna sound lame, but I always thought the use of 'unchained melody' in Ghost was a pretty damn fine use of a track.

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You're awefully womanly today. What gives?

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Time of the month.

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Phhh. "Black Betty" in Blow. (Remember, he's struttin thru the airport in his white suit, about to deliver some cocaine.)

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I also liked "Blinded by the Light", or whatever it's called by whoever sings that thing... the James Gang or whoever. Everytime I hear this song now I think of Blow.

I think of the scene where Johnny Depp is standing in his driveway puffing away while admiring his fleet of cars while his dad nods his head in approval/disapproval.

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It's by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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No it's not.

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Phhh. "Black Betty" in Blow. (Remember, he's struttin thru the airport in his white suit, about to deliver some cocaine.)

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I also liked "Blinded by the Light", or whatever it's called by whoever sings that thing... the James Gang or whoever. Everytime I hear this song now I think of Blow.

I think of the scene where Johnny Depp is standing in his driveway puffing away while admiring his fleet of cars while his dad nods his head in approval/disapproval.

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It's by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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Manfred Mann's Earthband

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springsteen wrote it...

my submission is, "stuck in the middle with you" and the ear lopping scene in Resevoir Dogs.

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One of my favorite movie scenes is when Tuco Ramirez is running around the cemetery to "The Ecstasy of Gold".

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Let a N**** Know, Queens Boulevard

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Phhh. "Black Betty" in Blow. (Remember, he's struttin thru the airport in his white suit, about to deliver some cocaine.)

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I also liked "Blinded by the Light", or whatever it's called by whoever sings that thing... the James Gang or whoever. Everytime I hear this song now I think of Blow.

I think of the scene where Johnny Depp is standing in his driveway puffing away while admiring his fleet of cars while his dad nods his head in approval/disapproval.

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It's by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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Manfred Mann's Earthband

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"Blinded by the light, held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night..."

Sorry, couldn't resist. Vague reference to a mid-90's Comedy Central Show (The Vacant Lot) Skit about a bunch of guys arguing over "Blinded by the Light".

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"My Way" (Sid Vicious), Goodfellas

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This and Eye of the Tiger, whichw as mentioned earlier, are great answers.

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"Sunshine of Your Love" in Goodfellas.

"Everybody Wants Some" in Better Off Dead.

And if he can mention "Ghost", then Celine Dion in "Titanic" warrants a mention.

"Looney Tunes Theme" in Blazing Saddles.

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Eye of The Tiger - Rocky III

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*I like Stand By Me in "Stand By Me"
*And I also like Bette Midler in Beaches...."Wind Beneath My Wings"

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and "Pretty Woman" in "Pretty Woman"

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sound of silence - The Graduate

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Run through the Jungle - CCR: In the Big Lebowski when The Dude and Walter are going to hand off the money. Awesome movie.

Also, Saturday Night Live/Ace Ventura when "Stayin Alive" is playing in the opening scene...

Also, in "Crash" at the end, when the song "In the Deep" is playing...

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"Somewhere up there"
in American Tale

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"Jesse's Girl"

Boogie Nights entire song while its on Walhbergs face and you know hes freakin

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One of my favorite movie scenes is when Tuco Ramirez is running around the cemetery to "The Ecstasy of Gold".

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That's one of my favorite scenes in the movies too. The music definitely is great there.

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"Wise Up" by Aimee Mann - Magnolia
"What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong - Good Morning, Vietnam
"Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd - Forrest Gump

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if we're accepting Ecstacy of Gold, then...

"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber - Platoon
"Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy - Ocean's 11
Whatever that music was playing when the Bride fights O-Ren Ishii in Kill Bill, Vol. 1

And...

"Full of Grace" by Sarah McLachlan - episode entitled "Becoming" on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
"Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley - episode entitled "Posse Commitatus" on The West Wing

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I was the first one to point out the correct answer in the last thread, that being "Where is My Mind?" in Fight Club. Someone has beaten me this time.

I really like Wes Anderson's use of music.

"Hey Jude" in the opening scene of Royal Tenenbaums, as well as the Elliot Smith song during the suicide scene.

"Staralfur" - Sigur Ros near the end of "The Life Aquatic."

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Elliott Smith - Needle In The Hay

The suicide scene from Royal Tenenbaums.

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Eye of The Tiger - Rocky III

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*I like Stand By Me in "Stand By Me"

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and "Pretty Woman" in "Pretty Woman"

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What about 'Pretty Woman' in 'Dumb & Dumber'?
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Are we talking a previously released/recorded song, or do original soundtracks count? If soundtracks count, some great ones-

Jaws
Superman
Raiders of The Lost Ark
Rocky I

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In Terminator II, when he aquires his biker clothing and steps out of the bar. "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood.

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"I'm a believer" in "Bullet in the Head"

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Forever Young - Napolean Dynamite.

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Donnie Darko has a lot of good ones.