On That Note: Screen Gems

[cyclones500]

Welcome back to On That Note, the weekly music exploration by the power trio @MeanDean, @CycloneRulzzz and cyclones500. (This concludes the shameless plug ).

For this segment, our focus is songs inspired by a movie or that contain references to a movie. It can involve a direct mention of a film title, or indirectly through storyline or theme. (Title of move does not have to appear in title or lyrics)

A key rule: This isn’t intended to include music from a movie or soundtrack. . (We’re likely to tackle a related theme at some point anyway).

Be sure to mention the movie reference along w/ each song clip. … Some may be obvious, others not so much.

I’ll follow with a few shortly. Join the party any time.

Last week’s OTN: I Like Angela, Pamela, Sandra and Rita

 

[cyclones500]

A couple to get us goin’ …

“Sensory Deprivation,” Sloan
Movie reference: “Altered States”
A few lyrics to make the reference more clear: “Don’t take it from me/But “Altered States” scared me/Should have realized it/It’s when he tore apart the lab with the monkey on his back …
---> I’ve posted this song in other music threads, because it rocks.




In before the Metalheads Sorry to steal anyone’s thunder (or Ride the Lightning).
“One,” Metallica
Movie reference: “Johnny Got His Gun” (based on novel by Dalton Trumbo, who also directed the film).

 

[Cydar]

The 1942 Humphrey Bogart movie Casablanca produced a huge hit with "As Time Goes By," but "Year of the Cat" is the most popular song that is based on the film itself:

"On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back time
You go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime"

 

[Cydar]

 

[cyclones500]

I assumed Godzilla would be among the earliest posts. Good choice!

 

[Cydar]

 

[cyclones500]

“Bad Moon Rising," CCR
Movie reference: “The Devil and Daniel Webster”




“6ix,” The Lemonheads
Movie reference: “Se7en”
“Here comes Gwyneth’s head in a box.”

Note: Other than the clever wordplay in the song title, song is only a fringe reference to the movie. Lyrics also mention Soupy Sales and Skip Stephenson.

 

[MeanDean]

The song title is the same as the movie title but it was NOT in the movie. I think back in the day there was a more distinct line between fluff/rock and roll movies versus 'real' serious movies. And so there was a degree of separation most filmmakers wouldn't cross. It finally relaxed about the time of The Graduate, where slowly it was alright to include R&R music in serious movies

 

[MeanDean]

Another where the song was obviously inspired by the popular movie of the time
And like @cyclones500 I've also posted this one several times. And not necessarily because I really like it so much. But at the time it was out I liked it so always remember it.

 

[MeanDean]

One more piece of low-hanging fruit

 

[MeanDean]

I'm sure some people know that this John Wayne quote from The Searchers, inspired the Crickets' song. I'm also pretty sure some people don't, so here you go.

 

[SCyclone]

Not sure if the song was inspired by the movie, but there's definitely a connection.......

 

[MeanDean]

Stretching it here a bit. No actual movies are mentioned, but the song is fully defined by the movies/stars of the past.

And I won't pass an opportunity to showcase Ray Davies and the Kinks!

 

[cyhiphopp]

I'll go with the low hanging fruit. Not surprisingly, both Will Smith songs and movies. Wild Wild West, and Men In Black

 

[cyhiphopp]

I remember finding out this song was referencing a movie, sort of by accident. I wanted to know what the heck they were talking about with, "slicing up eyeballs" and, "un chien andalusia"

Per wikipedia: Turns out this one is about a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un Chien Andalou. The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor.

Killer tune though and my first foray into Pixies. Oddly enough I first heard the song on the video game NCAA Football 06 which was I think the only NCAA game with non-fight song music.

 

[SCyclone]

I remember finding out this song was referencing a movie, sort of by accident. I wanted to know what the heck they were talking about with, "slicing up eyeballs" and, "un chien andalusia"

Per wikipedia: Turns out this one is about a surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un Chien Andalou. The film includes a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor.

Killer tune though and my first foray into Pixies. Oddly enough I first heard the song on the video game NCAA Football 06 which was I think the only NCAA game with non-fight song music.

The scene you are referencing is a landmark in French New Wave cinema. It was original and startling at the time, and the years passing have not dulled its impact. The film itself is not for everyone, but if you are a devotee of cinema you owe it to yourself to see it.

Fine work, @cyhiphopp. You have outdone yourself here!

 

[cyclones500]

The scene you are referencing is a landmark in French New Wave cinema. It was original and startling at the time, and the years passing have not dulled its impact.

Just thinking about the moon/eyeball slice is unsettling.

 

[cyhiphopp]

Just thinking about the moon/eyeball slice is unsettling.

I think about it every time I hear the song, and I love the song. That's devotion to a song I guess.

 

[cyclones500]

One more piece of low-hanging fruit

That'd be one to add to "Hits Time Forgot." Seemed like for about a month it was played once every hour on the radio.

 

[cyclones500]

“A Girl Like You,” The Smithereens
Movie reference: “Say Anything”
Cheating the rules a little on this one. Apparently the song was intended for inclusion in the movie, but producers thought it revealed too much of the plot, and it was dropped.



Gotta post this!
“Gump,” “Weird Al” Yankovic (parody of “Lump” by The Presidents of the United States of America)
Movie reference: “Forrest Gump” — Capt. Obvious!