Completely forgot about Una Palabra! Thank you for reminding me. Such a beautiful song.

Selah by Lauryn Hill. I found this one in Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood :P It's now one of my top favourite songs of all time. So insanely beautiful.

Blue Foundation - "Eyes on Fire"

When I watched "Twilight," one song in the soundtrack (besides Supermassive Black Hole!) stuck in my mind, haunting me a little. The movie only uses the beginning portion of this song, which is my favorite part. It features a grungy-sounding guitar and the singer's ethereal "aahing." That portion made me curious enough about the rest of the song to track it down by reading about the Twilight (2008) soundtrack.

I learned that Blue Foundation is a Danish band that once included Kirstine Stubbe Teglbjærg, who I assume is the singer in the official song video (below). The video for "Eyes on Fire" is interesting to me because it shows a classically trained ballet dancer using a fraction of her skills to do dancing in a club in depressing-looking Chelyabinsk, a city I'd never heard about before:

The video reminds me of drab East German apartment buildings I've been in. When I watch the video, I recall all the times I walked up dim, dirty stairs in pre-war buildings where the marred, tan stucco walls appear unchanged from years ago. Those old buildings always fascinated me because of their aura of decay and history.

The beginning of the song, the part I like, makes me feel as if it is about repressed emotions and something longed for, such that the situation as it is isn't quite right. I like this non-verbal part best. After reading the lyrics for the song, I realize the song is about chilly and aggressive self-protection, which causes the video to make more sense to me:



Now I plan to look up the dancer, Masha Greif ...

... All I learned is that "Masha Greif is one of the best dancers in Russia and winner of The Golden Mask dance prize 2007 in Moscow." Golden Mask {About}

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Lindsey Buckingham - "Holiday Road"

I was thinking of how amusing Chevy Chase is in those "Vacation" movies like "European Vacation," when I remembered that I always liked the happy theme song, which cheers me up when I hear it.

So I looked up the song and learned it is by Lindsey Buckingham. And when I looked up Lindsey Buckingham (Lindsey Buckingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia), I learned he "is an American guitarist, singer, composer and producer, most notable for being the guitarist and male lead singer of the musical group Fleetwood Mac."

I had no idea that the song I liked from the Vacation movies was by someone who was an important part of Fleetwood Mac! This song makes me curious about others by him.


Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road (1983) - YouTube

^^check out Go Insane (album) if you dig him, it's great

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Nasty Habits - DV8
from Tommy Chong's 'Far Out Man (1990)'



Wish I could find this tune with just the music and not the movie dialog.

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I discovered Mulatu Astatke whilst watching Broken Flowers. Great film and great musician, victory all round.

I couldn't find this particular DV8 band's "Nasty Habits" song by itself either, when I just checked. I did find *another* song called "Nasty Habits," but it was by a jazzy group that appears to call itself DV8, and the song was entirely different than the one used at the beginning of the movie "Far Out Man." :(

Thanks for the suggestion!

While listening through a few songs by Lindsey Buckingham to find some off the album "Go Insane," I stumbled on the following song by him, "Time Precious Time." The song struck me with its rapid acoustic guitar playing. The speed of the acoustic guitar creates the sense of time rushing by and serves almost as a foil for the meaning of the song, which encourages listeners to take all the time they want.

Lindsey Buckingham - "Time Precious Time"

Found some great songs from the movie Return of the Living Dead


"Partytime" by 45 Grave
"Burn the Flames" by Rocky Erikson

"I'm Still Here" by Johnny Rzeznik. It's from the movie Treasure Planet. It's a feel good song, and you've probably heard it before.

I discovered George Harrison`s What Is Life from watching Goodfellas. I`d heard it before but I never really listened to it until then.

Two Princes by Spin Doctors. Heard it in the Mike Myers film 'So I Married An Axe Murderer'.

^^gawd! is that an irritating song or is that an irritating song?

Ahaha, I love it! It's on my relax playlist :ar_15s:

But then my taste in music is...complicated. R.E.M, Foo Fighters, Elton John, Nirvana, Toto. I like most things. Apart from screamo. Never screamo.

I discovered Imogen Heap from watching Garden State.

America - Simon & Garfunkel from Almost famous, I love the music Cameron Crowe chooses for his films.

talking about Cameron Crowe, I discovered Alice in Chains, and Paul Westerberg, and later The Replacements from Singles

The only ones that really comes to mind are Jungle Boogie from Pulp Fiction and Also Sprach Zarathustra from 2001. Both great songs indeed.

i don't think you can classify "Also Sprach Zarathrustra" as a "song"

it's a "piece"

The Dust Brothers did a great job with Fight Club.

Must you be so literal Duce? In the catagory of pieces this is what I discovered, and Zarathustra is a masterpiece at that.

Remember Me- Josh Groban, Troy

Pretty Woman, from Pretty Woman
Ain't no Sunshine from Notting Hill

you don't get out much, do you?

It must have been love from Pretty Woman

I Amy or may not, but I am absolutely in love with these songs, even today:) t

"The Devil's Right Hand" (1986)
Written by Steve Earle and performed by Waylon Jennings

...an upbeat yet sad Country song I first heard in one of my favorite movies, "Betrayed" (1988), with Debra Winger and Tom Beringer.


Waylon Jennings "The Devil's Right Hand" - YouTube

I love how this song is used at the end of the movie when it is paired with a final scene of hope: a little girl refuses to take her grandma's hand and, instead of doing so, waves her free right hand back at Kathy (Debra) because of their bond of love, a love that hopefully will save the little girl from following the path her devilish family members took.

The song's use at the end of the movie is cleverly ironic, because the little girl's right hand is the opposite of the devil's right hand. It's also a very good anti-gun song, so I bet gun supporters would hate it...yet another reason I like it. :D

As for the song itself, I love the rhythm guitar, the full sound, and the clever way the lyrics tell the story of a man's demise due to his trigger-happy affection for guns:

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anything Philip Glass...."Solo Piano" is amazing...not sure if that ones in a moviee though....

...or Max Richter...he is one of the BEST ever!!

Willie Nelson's "The time of the Preacher" from Edge of Darkness (The BBC one not the Mel Gibson)
Depeche Mode "Death's Door" and Jane Siberry "Calling all Angels" from Until the End of the World (just about my favourite all time soundtrack).
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Just Like Honey" from Lost in Translation.
Aimee Mann "Wise Up" from Magnolia.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Carny in Wings of Desire.

Basement Jaxx- Do Your Thing (Barnyard)
Moby- Honey (Holes)
Mary Chapin Carpenter- 10,000 Miles (Fly Away Home)
Al Green- How Can You Mend A Broken Heart (The Book of Eli)

Took my young siblings to go see Madagascar 3 today. That was a mistake.

Because THIS DAMN SONG played in the middle, and at the end. And it has not left my head since. It's was playing after. It was playing at lunch. It was playing all night at work. And now I am sitting here listening to jazz and it IS STILL PLAYING IN MY HEAD. I need some death metal to get rid of this, I think.

I think I posted this elsewhere, If I did apologies. From the magnificent Drive soundtrack:

i'm really a sucker for traditional Gaelic music, so she gave me this song and i'm hers:-



from "Brave"

Not a specific song but…
 

Into the Wild has a great soundtrack!

Passive from Constantine.

A bit lol.

I liked these two depressing songs, especially the first, that I noticed while watching the vampire love saga, "New Moon":

Grizzly Bear with Victoria Legrand - "Slow Life"
(I mentioned this song in another post, but I like it enough to mention twice)


Grizzly Bear - Slow Life - 2009 (Ft. Victoria Legrand) - YouTube

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"Possibility" by Lykke Li
Lykke Li's voice half-annoys me, but the line, "There's a possibility that all I had was all I gon get," is a great one, because eventually this isn't just a possibility...it is the hard truth, and one we all have to face sooner or later.

I mean, hey, even immortal vampires can die when they get their heads and arms ripped off, transforming them into broken statues. :( Oh cruel, cruel vampire world!!!


Possibility - Lykke Li (lyrics) - YouTube

^ This reminds me that a couple days ago I was discussing with my child what would happen if one were an immortal human and unable to be injured or need food to survive.

We concluded that after the Sun expands, consuming the earth and eventually turning into a dead star, we'd end up just floating around in space for eternity, if we didn't move anywhere. We decided that we'd spend that time slowly puffing out thin space "air" to propel ourselves to the nearest inhabited planet. It would be boring, a trillion years of puffing through space like that, but we'd have all the time we'd need.

This is one reason that it is better to die than to be immortal. :p:

Latika's Theme -- from Slumdog Millionaire

A relaxing piece from a compelling movie.

The song's humming reminds me of the way we often hum absentmindedly while daydreaming and doing some activity like washing dishes or taking a walk.


latika's theme - YouTube

Yea True Blood scene music is mostly rockabilly blues. Not anything too great but can understand how it appeals to the audience.

I like the show either way.