![]() Roger & Me/Bowling for Columbine (Michael Moore – 1989/2002) ![]() ![]() As the lyrics “we don’t need no thought control…” are sung the obviously alien infested football team lays brutal hits to their enemies as the crowd cheers holding signs of “Kill Kill Kill!” The song is both atmospheric and ironic, sending a not-so-subtle message about humans pack mentality.ġ8. When only a motley crew of classmates are left they go to hunt down the “Queen” and where else to find her but at the football game on a Friday night.Īs they pull up, Pink Floyd’s classic dystopian anthem begins to blare out (updated by a group of late-90s rockers). In Robert Rodriguez’s underpraised sci-fi horror flick, aliens have taken over a small town Ohio high school and in the tradition of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, we quickly are trying to figure out who’s human and who’s alien. Song – “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” by Class of 99 (Layne Staley, Tom Morello, Stephen Perkins, Martin Le Nobl and Matt Serlectic) Bring on the booze, reefer, and crazy initiation traditions!ġ9. Hard to pick just one song from a movie with such an impressive soundtrack that they needed to release a Part 2, but we settle on the iconic song by Alice Cooper.Īfter all, in a film based on the wild night of the last day of school in a small Texas town, what better tune to come blaring through the screen when the bell rings? Kids come rushing out their respective schools, and it’s “no more teachers, no more books” for everyone. Dazed & Confused (Richard Linklater – 1993) ![]() For this list we tried to keep it to lyrical songs and not scored music or themes.Ģ0. It is often the music or the songs that turn good scenes into classics. This leaves a permanent mark on the film goer and could turn a normal theatre experience into an extremely memorable one. More important than the songs on the soundtrack is the placement of the song in the film. Plus we need to run out and buy (or in today’s case download) the soundtrack. We leave the theatres humming the tunes and they stay with us for years after.īut if a movie uses the right songs in it, it’s doubly effective as we sing the lyrics and always think of those movies and those scenes the songs were played during. Would anyone consider Psycho a classic if not for the music during the infamous shower scene? Imagine Halloween without John Carpenter’s creepy tune. Think about a film like Jaws, or for that matter any film scored by John Williams.
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