Interactive Poll: Music Goes to the Movies

I'll go with these two (I like the contrast):

Nancy Sinatra - "Bang Bang" (written by Sonny Bono) from Nancy Sinatra's 1966 album How Does That Grab You?, which was used in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.



And Bauhaus - "Bela Lugosi's Dead" (off 1979's Bela Lugosi's Dead / Boys), for which a re-recorded version was used for Tony Scott's very stylish vampire movie with Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon, The Hunger.

I will nominate Bob Dylan - Hurricane.

^ I can make a playlist if you like of the nominees. I'm eager to listen through the nominations in a playlist form.

suitkees wrote: Had a first listen to the suggestion put up so far and I quite like all of it. From the rocking tracks, of course Van Halen - wonderful band, but also Girls Against Boys (didn't know them - great bass riff!) and Extreme (great fun; don't know if I heard this song before, but I'm sure I haven't seen the film). The Veils deliver a great energetic track too, nice build-up (and a great film indeed). I've always found Nancy Sinatra's version of Bang Bang very very moving, with that bare melancholic watery guitar... I don't tend to get back much to the Disney animation films, but they generally have a good and efficient use of music. Didn't remember this Dukas piece, but hearing it in full, with it's narrative quality, it is no surprise it is used in cinema. The Nanni Moretti selection is quite diverse, from the reference piece that is Jarret's Köln concert (but I never really related that much to it, somehow...), the - for me too - syrupy pop song by to the classy mambo by Yma Sumac, but from this selection I probably prefer Brian Eno's subdued By This River. Keep them coming, if you wish. Anyway, I will be off on a trip until Thursday and probably not much online. We'll see what's been up at the end of next week to get eventually to the nominations. I'll have one or two more suggestions myself...

I had missed this before, thanks. While I wish I were better at writing such things, so I tend not to, these are the kinds of post that I particularly appreciate reading. I agree about Bang Bang, and I find this fragility about it. I know my choices might be seen as on the too known side -- I had a lot in mind, but mine were the two worked for me best right now.

As for your Yann Tiersen choice, I love that. He is such a treasure.   Off-topic and not the highest audio quality, but I have enjoyed watching this very much. Yann Tiersen - Live 2009 (Post Rock -Full Set- Live Performance I'd like to have an album of that (of professional studio sound quality).

Edited by Logan - June 12 2023 at 10:31

Though also well known, my second will be Van Halen - Everybody Wants Some!! from Better Off Dead.

^ Will start on that now, not that it will take long, and add Lorenzo's when I can.

Here is the playlist, Lorenzo's still to add.



https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4L2fjTTZ6xeAvIjKGywcl74

Two notes:

1. Scott: Extreme - Play With Me (used in the film Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure). I used the video that Scott posted; however, I wondered if it would be better to present the music as in albums forum rather than an excerpt from the film. Up to you guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDWjWfLU2kQ

2. Jean: Piano Concerto in A Minor" by Robert Schumann (used in the film Song of Love). Jean did not post a video, and Kees posted Hepburn playing music from it. This I had thought should be about the music taken from an album release (there are of course many for that famous work). I used that video, the piano concerto is too long for this in full, but I had wondered if I should use another. I could use this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUkj6GQMgR8

I guess you set this series up with rather more flexibility than I would have. If you want any changes to the videos, please let me know. I have stuck with the provided videos (with Lorenzo's first, Keith Jarrett, it again is from the film and the title for it is the film title, but then it seem the film titles will be in the poll)

EDIT: And adding both of Lorenzo's to the playlist. Unlike what some animals would say in Animal Farm in a different context, two is good.

Edited by Logan - June 12 2023 at 12:02

suitkees wrote: @Mila: Strange as it may seem, for someone working in the film world, I'm not that much fan of soundtracks isolated from the film (I may have just about 20 soundtracks myself) - they rarely have the same impact for me as stand-alone works as within the film. There are of course - many - exceptions, though.

Edited by Mila-13 - June 13 2023 at 04:05

The first one I thought of was "Trouble" by Cat Stevens from Harold and Maude (1971), and before that it was on his album Mona Bone Jakon (1970) -- that said, that was used in an Interactive soundtrack music poll before and in a way it was too integral to the film (and Cat Stevens was too integral to the soundtrack) for the way I approached this. That song was integrated so beautifully in the film and various Cat Stevens songs were used to great affect. I would liken it to The Graduate with Simon and Garfunkel music -- those films are great showcases for Cat Stevens and S&G music.

For the way I approached and preferred to interpret this "Music Goes to the Movies (terrific title), I thought about individual songs that not only were not written for the movies originally but were not as central to the film as something like Purple Rain, or Tommy, The Wall, Quadrophenia (and nor would be the artists/bands as integral in the way to approach this that made the most sense to me -- the original post is quite flexible in terms of the expectations). To me that is a very different exercise. Those films exist because of the music, and I would sooner call that "Movies Go to the Music" than "Music Goes to the Movies".

Anyway, we are already past the nomination (and related discussion) stage and into the voting stage, and it's a bit late for regrets or sadness unless the not having nominated something yourself or chiming on earlier is regretted, or others who may be regretting their choices. It does help to get in early on these polls to express any concerns you have with how things are being conducted (important to carefully consider the original post). Might be fun if you hosted one of these Interactive Polls, Pedro. I'd be very interested to see your approach.

Edited by Logan - June 13 2023 at 05:53