On That Note: Screen Gems

[cyclones500]

This is a bit tangential but there's talk that if you play Pink Floyd's "The Wall" with the video to "The Wizard of Oz", it syncs together in a way that couldn't be random with songs and scenes changing simultaneously on the respective mediums. I know that Pink Floyd claims The Wall has something to do with The Sound of Music but it's evidently eerie how well The Wall and Wizard of Oz sync together.

I hold a hard line that it was complete coincidence (partly because the album ends midway through the movie -- why didn't they just do a double album and complete the concept?)

But yes, if you sync the beginning of the movie and album properly, it's a fun experience.

 

[cyclones500]

Also regarding Floyd/Oz -- My favorite sequence is "Great Gig in the Sky" followed by the start of "Money." It's perfect.

 

[jcyclonee]

Also regarding Floyd/Oz -- My favorite sequence is "Great Gig in the Sky" followed by the start of "Money." It's perfect.

That's what I hear, that Money starts right when Wizard of Oz turns to color. Also, I guess it's actually Dark Side of the Moon.

 

[jcyclonee]

A song and video with a completely different feel than the movie it references.

 

[MeanDean]

Mentions Kink Kong

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

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.

I also was introduced to this via ncaa football. Can't remember the year that featured this on the soundtrack, but it one of several solid songs.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Blink 182 – I Miss You

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) | The iconic line from the soundtrack of our teenage years “We can live like Jack and Sally and have Halloween on Christmas if we want.”

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Space Oddity David Bowie


Besides its title, which alludes to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the introduction to the song is a barely audible instrumental build-up that is analogous to the deep bass tone in Also sprach Zarathustra that is prominently used in the film.

 

[MeanDean]

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Neil Diamond Heartlight

Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Turn on your heartlight
Let it shine wherever you go
Let it make a happy glow

Gonna take a ride across the moon
You and me

 

[MeanDean]

 

[Cydar]

List of songs based on a film

 

[matclone]

This one was certainly inspired by the movies--lyrical references, Bela Lugosi-style narrative and all:

 

[CyCloned]

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[CloneFan65]

Midnight Cowboy: "This guy decides to quit his job and move to New York City. This cowboy's been running from himself."

 

[cyclones500]

Neil Diamond Heartlight

Film
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

I barely remember that song, for some reason. I'm not sure I ever knew it was ET-inspired, ether.

 

[cyclones500]

A song and video with a completely different feel than the movie it references.

This is the "clean" version, I take it?

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

I barely remember that song, for some reason. I'm not sure I ever knew it was ET-inspired, ether.

I know of it due to a classic Casey Kasem Top 40 show from the 80's I caught recently on his classic iheart station. His shows were great because you got music and great music history and stories.

 

[cyclones500]

I know of it due to a classic Casey Kasem Top 40 show from the 80's I caught recently on his classic iheart station. His shows were great because you got music and great music history and stories.

Kasem was awesome. Even segments that seemed borderline cheesy, like "Long-Distance Dedication," were classic. He was so effective at conveying those stories, that's why it worked.

 

[CyCloned]

Dust in the Wind is a 1986 film by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien. It is based on co-screenwriter Wu Nien-jen's own experiences, and is the final part of Hou's coming-of-age trilogy, with the others being A Summer at Grandpa's (1984) and The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985).

Dust in the Wind was commercially unsuccessful, but is critically acclaimed.