OT: Soundtracks

[nwhoopfan]

Top Secret. It has one of the funniest opening scenes with a brilliant Beach Boys takeoff:

Good call. That movie is hilarious. From the early days of spoof movies before the genre was beaten to death. Straighten the Rug is classic too, channeling Elvis I think. "This is not Mel Torme!"

 

[Bigboote]

Good call. That movie is hilarious. From the early days of spoof movies before the genre was beaten to death. Straighten the Rug is classic too, channeling Elvis I think. "This is not Mel Torme!"

Fathers' Day is coming up, when I get to subject the family to whatever movie I want to see. I was thinking Buckaroo Banzai, but now I'm thinking Top Secret. (It will be the first time in a few years that it's not the Jennifer Ehle/Colin Firth Pride and Prejudice, which isn't a hard sell for the wife and daughter, but gawd I love it.)

 

[Bigboote]

2001 had a great soundtrack. Everyone remembers Thus Spake Zarathustra and the Blue Danube, but I love the Kachaturian (Requiem for soprano) piece with the monolith scene.

 

[Cedar]

“This Is Not America,” by David Bowie (RIP), Pat Metheny, and Lyle Mays, is a great song from the movie “The Falcon and the Snowman.”




Live versions: David Bowie live at the BBC; Anna Maria Jopek and Pat Metheny

 

[bantamlaker]

Animal House

 

[bbfanLA]

This is my favorite song from my favorite soundtrack from one of my favorite movies of all time, Strange Days. And it was written and sung by Peter Gabriel. This is such an underrated movie especially considering it was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, written by James Cameron and stars Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett and Juliette Lewis.