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This has probably been done hasn't it? Fuck it. Inspired by the films of Wes Anderson, which have made such excellent use of pop music on the soundtrack, my friends and I began to assemble lists of tunes that we would work into films somehow, not for novelty value but for the fact that these songs had that visual power, the sense that you're watching a scene from a film every time you listen to it.

Right now I'm listening to the OST for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind" and it's so-so, really, a nice collection of tunes but nothing that jumps out and makes me think of a particular scene - like the 5th Element/Leon The Professional OST (ooh, Luc Besson! another good one), or the way I can never forget Gwyneth's eyes when I hear Nico sing, for example.

Your soundtrack compilations plz, with brief descriptions of the film (scene by scene not necessary)

― Millar (Millar), Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Wes Anderson's wallpapering of his films with tres hip music is the #1 factor that makes me numb to his films.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Thursday, 26 June 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow Girolamo that's exactly what I started this thread for, now fuck off

Mine of course is set in outer space, with a gang of smugglers who have to take a locked cargo containing the McGuffin from one place to another, and wackiness involving at least three other parties ensues, two of which are rival governments with large defense budgets

1. Captain Sensible, Wot!
2. Elvis, In The Ghetto
3. Duran Duran, Hungry Like The Wolf
4. Jonzun Crew, Ground Control
5. Deee-Lite, Vote Baby Vote
6. Denki Groove, Dareda!
7. Enon, For The Sum Of It
8. Cursor Miner, U Want To Want
9. Madness, House Of Fun
10. Yellow Magic Orchestra, Light In Darkness
12. Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue
13. Mogwai, Fear Satan (surgeon remix)
14. Siouxsie & The Banshees, Cities In Dust
15. Big Country, In A Big Country (as the credits roll)

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

also keep in mind it has to fit within about 74 minutes unless you're making Forrest Gump

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

fckin hell millar, i like the idea...but do you have way too much time on your hands?

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't been given homework in years, man!

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

when does my OST have to be in? i might need an extension...

― gaz (gaz), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

(This is tough - it's making me realize how much music I was exposed to through movies - "oh, I can't use it was in ... damn."

Sleepy Southern/Southwestern coming-of-age thing - Richard Linklater-meets-David Gordon Green

1. Cat Power - "Names"
2. Pavement - "Circa 1762"
3. Old 97's - "Big Brown Eyes"
4. Liz Phair - "Girls Girls Girls"
5. Neko Case - "Pretty Girls"
6. T. Rex - "Jeepster"
7. X - "We're Desperate"
8. Whiskeytown - "Lo-Fi Tennessee Mountain Angel"
9. Social Distortion - "Another State of Mind"
10. Big Star - "Femme Fatale"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

(Also hard to avoid the stereotypes - Portishead, Calexico, etc.)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah geez people like why don't you take up a hobby like climbing rocks or needlepoint? Listening to music is one thing -- but thinking about it and using your imagination?

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have realized that this is a fantastic way to come up with mix ideas - milo, when I get a machine with a burner shall we trade?

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

(Of course I'm being hypersarcastic/hyperdefensive 'cause I've done this sort of thing several times over. And I have never climbed a rock.)

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Sure, I'm up for a trade. I need to tweak it and add on a bit.

I may use this idea if I can get into my uni's screenwriting class in spring. Work backwards - come up with music and then write to work with it.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Mine is a girly mafia movie set in Europe, where they take in the new chick and break her in. Plus there is surfing!

** Belle and Sebastian, Legal Man (over opening credits)
1. Records,Starry Eyes
2. Delta 5, You
3. Auteurs, Showgirl
4. Singapore Sling, Summer Garden
5. Raincoats, Lola
6. New York Dolls, Trash
7. Soloman Burke,If you Need Me
8. Jonathan Richman, Hospital
9. Unitard, Year to Be Hated
10. Morrisey, Moon River
11. Runaways, Dead End Justice
12. Serge Gainsbourg, Comic Strip
13. Creation,Biff Bang Pow
14. Mission of Burma, Fame and Fortune
15. Roky Erikson, Starry Eyes (over closing credits)

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I just realized my movie is the new Point Break.

― Carey (Carey), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

These are all the best comps ever! Also the movies would be terrific

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 00:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Semi-autobiographical teenage romantic-comedy set on Graduation Night, mid-to-late '90s. Truffaut-esque, but American, suburan and, uh, so not as good as 400 Blows.

This is so... saccharine.

Dandy Warhols - "Everyday Should Be A Holiday"
Ben Folds Five - "Battle of Who Could Care Less"
Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Pixies - "No. 13 Baby"
Elastica - "Car Song"
Boss Hog - "I Dig You"
Buzzcocks - "Promises"
Cibo Matto - "Beef Jerky"
Descendents - "Ride The Wild"
Modern Lovers - "I'm Straight"
Green Day - "80"
PJ Harvey - "Sheela Na Gig"
Sleater-Kinney - "I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone"
REM - "Lotus"

(This is the least-challenging set of music I've ever seen, and I'm going to immediately burn it for driving music tomorrow. My teeth might rot from exposure)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 01:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Tune in Tonight... 2:00AM Cinebox (43)
Xanavudu (2002) *1/2
This straight-to-video cross between 2001's Glitter and 1980's Xanadu traces the career of an unlikely disco singer (Con Air's Steve Buscemi) who gets tangled with a coffee shop/roller disco employee (Nowhere's Mena Suvari). A bumpy ride through unexpected fame and a traumatic downfall ensues. John C. Reilly (Days of Thunder) cameos as a bumbling bookie; Richard Edson (Howard the Duck) plays a cruel boss. Directed by Allan Moyle (Times Square, Empire Records, Pump Up the Volume). Rated R for coarse language, adult situations, violence.

Photek - Aura
Bows - Ali 4 Onassis
Spacek - How Do I Move
4hero - Golden Solitude
As One - Music Is an Open Sky
Luomo - Tessio
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Super_Collider - Dam (Cold Way O Lovin')
Urban Tribe - D-2000
M. Mayer - Amanda
Dabrye - Hot Mating Ritual
Basement Jaxx - All I Know

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 27 June 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Andy that is such a festival blockbuster. You'll be the talk of the town.

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 02:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Carey, your movie sounds incredible! Well, everybody's movies sound incredible, but that one really struck a chord.

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I 2nd millar.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This movie is about a duck who goes to college and gets caught in with the wrong crowd and falls into decadence. When his twin sister re-acquaints him with his old high school sweetheart, he tries to hide his new life from her, and, when he's found out, is forced to give it up.

1. Seeed - Release
2. Lumidee - I'll Never Leave You
3. Manu Chao - Merry Blues
4. Audio Bullys - The Snow
5. Nivea & R. Kelly - Laundromat
6. Beach Boys - God Only Knows
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
8. Avril - Complicated
9. Rita Lee - In My Life
10. Lyle Lovett - If I Had A Boat
11. Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
12. Randy Newman - Sail Away
13. Madonna - Like A Prayer
14. Caetano Veloso - Maria Bethania

During the scene featuring "The Snow", our friend the duck snorts coke off a sorority sister's breasts.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a farce, see!
http://tubes.ominix.com/art/a/critters/duck-white-right-rear.png

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

My second one should be based on Waiting for Godot.

"We are waiting for the alcohol man."

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 27 June 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Something artsyfartsy happens -- I don't know exactly what though. I suppose the lyrics could provide some indication.

This Fear of Gods - Simple Minds
Houses in Motion - Talking Heads
24 Track Loop - This Heat
Heart and Soul - Joy Division
The Affectionate Punch - Associates
The Misunderstanding - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Almost Medieval - The Human League
Tracers - Desmond Simmons
Ghosts - Japan
Pictures - The Comsat Angels
Raindance - The Past Seven Days
I Can't Escape Myself - The Sound
Rounder - Pere Ubu
The Light Pours Out of Me [Version] - Magazine

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 27 June 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Since Supertramp are tres hip now, I must dig out my copy of Breakfast in America.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Friday, 27 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My movie is about a naive indie rock-type who graduates college and moves to a declining midsized industrial city to start a nondescript office job. he takes the cheapest housing he can find, in a large, squalid house with three junkies and a stripper with a heart of gold. starring jake gylenhaal as the student, christina ricci as the stripper, and adrien brody, bijou phillips, and busta rhymes as the junkies. featuring a cameo from ben stiller as a police officer.

1. le tigre - decepatacon (opening credits)
2. lungfish - friend to friend in the endtime (opening/graduation scene)
3. bone crusher - never scared (moving-to-the-city scene)
4. devendra banhart - lend me your teeth (moving-into-house scene)
5. nine inch nails - ruiner (internal crisis scene)
6. some baltimore club music guy - watch out for the big girl (party scene)
7. black eyes - deformative (mugging/beatdown scene)
8. primal scream - movin on up (sex scene)
9. talib kweli feat. mos def, jay-z, kanye west, busta rhymes - get by remix (touching denoument)
10. dismemberment plan - back and forth (touching goodbye scene)
11. r. kelly - ignition (closing credits)

i made this list without even realizing busta is both in the cast and on the sountrack! synergy! lion's gate needs to pay me lots of money right now.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Friday, 27 June 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

gee I wonder which declining midsized industrial city you are talking about, Tom

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom B wins

― Andy K (Andy K), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:06 (twenty-two years ago)

My film would be a short, disquietingly violent tale of urban upheval, featuring "Bread & Butter" by the Newbeats, a chirpy, silly love song from the 1960's involving foodstuffs incongruously scoring an opening sequence of intense, bloody gunplay and a splattery knife fight between leather clad, gasmasked guerillas in an abandoned building.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

With no music.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

This activity should be called "Cameron Crowe-ing."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always for some reason imagine giant robots blowing each other up with relentless enfilades of missiles and machinegun fire to the tune of "Raindrops Falling On My Head"

― Millar (Millar), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

No, the Polyphonic Spree! They were made to be played behind scenes of unbelievable violence, I'm convinced.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

We need to start up a collection to get Tom B's movie made.

I've got $100 and a Sony mini-DV camcorder.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 28 June 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

We need to reverse this. Someone comes up with a track list, other people describe the movie.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 28 June 2003 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

"6. some baltimore club music guy - watch out for the big girl (party scene)"

watch out for the big girl!!!!! i love that track.

hmm...i have some ideas but i need to work on it. all i know right now is that Ken Stringfellow's "Here's To The Future" will come up about 5 minutes before the credits roll. such a perfect wistful moment that would make.

― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 28 June 2003 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

** Belle and Sebastian, Legal Man (over opening credits)
1. Records,Starry Eyes
2. Delta 5, You
3. Auteurs, Showgirl
4. Singapore Sling, Summer Garden
5. Raincoats, Lola
6. New York Dolls, Trash
7. Soloman Burke,If you Need Me
8. Jonathan Richman, Hospital
9. Unitard, Year to Be Hated
10. Morrisey, Moon River
11. Runaways, Dead End Justice
12. Serge Gainsbourg, Comic Strip
13. Creation,Biff Bang Pow
14. Mission of Burma, Fame and Fortune
15. Roky Erikson, Starry Eyes (over closing credits)

WOW!

― scott m (mcd), Saturday, 28 June 2003 01:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have to admit that while I've thought of this kind of thing from time to time I'd prefer to comission new songs for a film -- and not in the 'slather a bunch of random songs on top of the soundtrack' sense. To me the challenge is less in imagining what could soundtrack a scene than to see if somebody you really liked could create music that complemented the scene while standing on its own. So maybe I'd have think of who I'd want to comission to contribute a song apiece, say...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 29 June 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)

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