Songs you discovered while watching a movie.
 

In the last few movies I've seen, I have found myself listening to a song that catches my attention during a scene. I end up looking it up and adding it to my music collection. I love discovering music that way!

So, what are some songs you've found yourself getting from hearing it in a movie?

Here's a few of my recent song finds from movies:

La Via En Rose- Lois Armstrong(WALL-E)

Down In Mexico - The Coasters(Death Proof)

The Host Of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance(Baraka)

Bach Cello Prelude in G Major - Unknown(The Soloist)

Lullaby - Javier Navarette(Pans Labyrinth)

Thief - Belly(Tank Girl)

Life On Mars - Seu Jorge(The Life Aquatic)

The Donkey Serenade - Mario Lanza(Heavenly Creatures)

i think that track was recorded by Dario Marianelli, if not than jamie foxx

Sir Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back

thanks to

Charlie's Angels (2000)



(seriously)

The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter

from Adventures in Babysitting.

Roads - Portishead

Okay movie (I liked the comic a lot more), great soundtrack.

Panoramic by Atticus Ross from the movie The Book of Eli; it's the main theme in the movie.

Lulu - To Sir with Love
(from the movie of the same name...)

John Murphy - In The House In A Heartbeat

(From the 28 days movies)

I think that's the only song I ever actually went out to try and find. I love it.

The Electrician - The Walker Brothers

From "Bronson"

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence (Watchmen)

Kill The Sex Player by Girls Against Boys
from the movie Clerks

KIRSTY MacCOLL
"As Long As You Hold Me"

Discovered while watching the film "MAD LOVE" [Chris O'Donnell/Drew Barrymore]... it's a great ballad and appears at the end as the credits roll...

Pixies- Where is My Mind?(Fight Club)

I was blown away after being lown away by the movie.

I guess a lot of people have discovered songs while watching a Tarantino's movie. Many sounds and scenes come to mind. Just to mention one of them, I remember, for instance, when I was watching Kill Bill and heard those Japanese girls ...

^Ditto.

Sweet Thing by Van Morrison during the end credits of Moonlight Mile. It's a beauty.

From the indie movie Kissed which is about Necrophilia! but it is about much more than that and is a very subtle and tasteful movie as much as it can be considering the subject matter. This track fitted the ending perfectly.

Fooking love this track. Such a great groove.

The actual footage from the remarkable documentary Dark Days about the homeless living in N.Y's underground. The only time DJ Shadow has allowed his music to be used on film (I think).

Aimee Mann--"One" --White Oleander

City of God has a great soundtrack that introduced me to a lot of Brazilian musicians:

Seu Jorge
Tim Maia
Raul Seixas
Cartola

Chungking express introduced me to Dennis Brown, in particular one of my favorite songs of all time "Things in Life".

I discovered Mulatu Astatkè's Yekermo Sew
YouTube - Mulatu Astatke - Yekermo Sew
While watching the movie "Broken Flowers".
Bought two of his records the next day :)

Wow, these are all great! Keep 'em coming. I have a couple more now that I had such good inspiration from all of you.

The Last Emperor Soundtrack - Mainly composed by Riyoitchi Sakamoto and David Byrne

Smokin' Aces - First Warning/Prodigy

Showdown-ELO (Kingpin)

Golden Brown- The Stranglers(Lock Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels)

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

Waynes World (1992)

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight

Death Proof (2007)

That's such a crazy documentary. I think about it every time I take the train into New York.

Pixies - Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)

The Cure - Close To Me, Pixies - U-Mass, Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything (Accepted)

Deftones - Minerva, Interpol - Roland, Von Bondies - Not That Sociable (House of Wax)

Placebo - Every You Every Me, Skunk Anansie - Secretly, Kristen Barry - Ordinary Life (Cruel Intentions)

Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon, Elliott Smith - Angeles (The Girl Next Door)

Hole - Violet (Jennifers Body)

Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl, The Smashing Pumpkins - Never Let Me Down Again (Not Another Teen Movie)

Foo Fighters - Breakout (Me, Myself and Irene)

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (Stuck On You, Say It Isn't So)

The Breeders - Cannonball (Whip It)

Groove Armada Feat. Richie Havens - Hands Of Time (Collateral)

The Shins - New Slang (Garden State)

The Finalist - "Leave The Broken Hearts Behind (Hills have Eyes)
The Vincent Black Shadow - Metro (Feast)

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2

I used to love this song! You Crush Me and Rain are good as well, not listened to them in ages.

I'm sad that they didn't get a chance to release an album....I would have definitely jumped all over that one

Another song of theirs that I liked was "here with me"

Lauren Bacall sings "and her tears flowed like wine" in Humphrey Bogart's The Big Sleep,Ive heard it is a jazz standard and her version is my favourite she is standing round a grand piano with these suited up dudes singing away at some mansion house party.

Another favourite is The Joker singing Prince's Party Man in the first Batman film, trashing an at museum with his henchman.

I can think of a bunch of songs, but first and foremost is what I'll still call my favourite song of all time without the slightest hesitation, which I heard when I was watching Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence.

Namely;



^ It just never gets old for me. I love every second of it.

Morris Day And The (mother****ing) Time - Jungle Love. From Jay and Silent Bob.

On a similar note, I first heard Bell Biv Devoe's 'Poison' when it was on Scrubs.

I always thought the best part about the movie "Closer" was Damien Rice and Morrissey!

I'd never heard this awesome track before seeing "Natural Born Killers"....

Danny Elfman who normally does orchestral sound track stuff created this for the movie "Wanted"

I liked the movie despite my normal preferences.... and this particular song is pretty good for some reason...

A seriously flawed movie but it is a definite cult movie full of classic scenes, cameos and music. Released in the early 90's, I was transfixed by this song and how well it fitted into the imagery.

from Pretty in Pink

d'oh

checked out their Greatest Hits - not exactly overwhelming

That was awesome. Could have easily been a music video.