I'm sure I can think of a lot better ones later, but this one struck me as funny and polarizing.

TV:
Best: Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley), OC Season 1 Finale
Worst: Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley), The West Wing Season 3 Finale


The OC one was about as sad as that show has ever been, while The West Wing one drowned out the diolague as some important events transpired, and in a show that never used background music, it came at a very strange time.


Add you favorites and hateds.

Best: The Pixies, "Where is my Mind?" - The final scene in Fight Club. Something about the song makes it work perfect for that scene.

If soundtrack-y songs count, too, the song "Meltdown" on the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack is spectacular.

best - beck - "everybody's gotta learn sometime" in eternal sunshine. i don't think i would have liked the movie half as much without it.

worst - yellow ledbetter on friends. you can just fuck right off. didn't the rembrandts have a tune they could use instead?

best - the use of the geto boys in office space

Okay, I'm lame for not knowing the song title, but..

a good ones:
that surf song that's playing when vincent vega is driving in his convertible after doing heroin.

the jaws theme (such a classic)

mediocre but funny: scotty doesn't know from eurotrip and uncle fucker from south park (the first time you hear them anyway)

One out of those three belong in this thread.


I'll echo the Geto Boys usage in Office Space.

Good calls on both Office Space (getto boys) and Fight Club (pixies).


My vote:

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody from Wayne's World.

The Best


i forget what season it was, but from ER:

battleflag - when lucy gets killed and carter stabbed

For the first few episodes of "Third Watch" it seemed the soundtrack was done exclusively by fatboy slim. It was awesome ('specially since singing the missing lyrics to 'fatboy slim is fucking in heaven' pissed my mom off), but it kinda faded out through the first season.
Along with my interest. Connection? Maybe. Hmmmm.

cool:

- singing in the rain - a clockwork orange
- the kill bill vol. 1 soundtrack (practically any soundtrack for a tarantino movie will do)
- all along the watchtower and american woman- american beauty, in one of the scenes where kevin spacey is working out, and a scene where he's driving, respectively
- tiny dancer - almost famous

not so cool:

free fallin - jerry maguire, kinda seems forced to me. i don't like it much.

I liked Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away during the titty bar scene in Lost in Translation.

That was awesome! I don't think I would have thought of that one straight away. Good call!



Not lame, I only know this title because I have the soundtrack: The Centurions doing "Bullwinkle Pt. II."

I don't know exactly what my favorite is, but what came to mind right away was "Stuck in the Middle With You" by Steelers Wheel from Reservoir Dogs. Michael Madson was great in that scene, and it was memorable!

Rafe, another good call with "Singin' in the Rain"! That's one that came right to mind too, from both Singin' in the Rain and A Clockwork Orange.

Also, the use of The Mamas and the Papas' "California Dreamin'" - over and over again - from Chungking Express.

Hmmm, I'll think of better ones later.

Best: Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" in Say Anything

Worst: The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" in Cruel Intentions

Oh, one more I remembered that's a favorite!

Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" in The Graduate.

Apocolypse Now - The End

Goodfellas - My Way

Magnolia - One

Hip To Be Square, Sussudio - American Psycho

Worst - My heart will go on (Céline Dion) in Titanic... although this movie is horrible anyway, that song just takes it to another level.

wasn't it in Shrek as well?

"Hide Your Love Away" is perfect in "I Am Sam."