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Post by kerr9000 on Oct 3, 2022 15:27:06 GMT
I was recently watching the Netflix Dahmar Show and they use KC and the Sunshine Band's Please Dont Go, a fair bit in it... Now I find a song I always found sweet a little bit sinister... has anyone else found a new modern use of a song be it a film or advert changed how they see or feel about a song?
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Post by mattb on Oct 3, 2022 23:29:34 GMT
The classic example would have to be the use of Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs, not that that's particularly modern anymore.
I'd also nominate the entire soundtrack to American Psycho.
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Post by RetroBob on Oct 4, 2022 9:37:52 GMT
A good one is Things Can Only Get Better, I cannot separate that from Tony Blair.
There's also a song (probably several) that was used in an advert which has now ruined the song.
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Post by kerr9000 on Oct 4, 2022 13:35:54 GMT
The classic example would have to be the use of Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs, not that that's particularly modern anymore. I'd also nominate the entire soundtrack to American Psycho. Thats a very good example, I remember watching that film and kind of bopping along to the song and then going wowsers he is cutting his ear off that escalated quickly lol
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Post by Antiriad2097 on Oct 4, 2022 16:00:24 GMT
Sticking with dogs as a theme, the soundtrack for An American Werewolf in London absolutely changed my view of those songs for the better.
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Post by learnedrobb on Oct 5, 2022 16:17:03 GMT
Hearing "Enola Gay" being used to sell Gousto has weirded me out a bit.
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Post by AlexH on Oct 12, 2022 20:52:26 GMT
I'd never massively got into Led Zeppelin but like Immigrant Song in Thor: Ragnarok (although it was overused - 3 times if I remember rightly?). While I liked the song a lot already, I didn't realise what Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) was about until it was used in Stranger Things, and knowing that made a great song even better. Hearing "Enola Gay" being used to sell Gousto has weirded me out a bit. It is strange. Surely someone at a big company knows what the song's about, and it's not like a couple using Every Breath You Take at a wedding. I like it when upbeat songs are about dark topics - Miss Li is one of my favourites at doing that. I like the Nouvelle Vague cover of Enola Gay though, which gives it appropriate darkness musically.
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Post by mattb on Oct 12, 2022 22:44:24 GMT
There was that Mercedes Benz commercial where they used Janis Joplin's song of the same name.
I dare say that your average Merc driver is very consumerist and proud of it, but the sheer levels of irony in repurposing a song like that was something to behold.
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Post by learnedrobb on Oct 16, 2022 18:40:04 GMT
There was that Mercedes Benz commercial where they used Janis Joplin's song of the same name. I dare say that your average Merc driver is very consumerist and proud of it, but the sheer levels of irony in repurposing a song like that was something to behold. I remember that one. Did seem more than a tad incongruous at the time.
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Post by icemann on Oct 20, 2022 15:43:38 GMT
The way "Hip to be Square" was used in "American Psycho" changed my view of that song forever.
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Post by mattb on Oct 20, 2022 22:37:32 GMT
The way "Hip to be Square" was used in "American Psycho" changed my view of that song forever. This seems as good an opportunity to introduce the work of Bill McClintock.
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Post by icemann on Oct 22, 2022 3:53:03 GMT
Love those . My favourite 2 from him was: and:
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