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Colloquially, it used to be called the "needle drib"—when a Martin Scorsese or Quentin Tarantino picked a slice of preexisting music and laid it down under a dramatic scene, with seismic results. Nosotros've thumbed through our stacks of wax (i.e., Blu-ray collections) to collect cinema'southward nigh strong examples, assuasive for iconic uses of classical music and jazz along with the expected pop hits. One parameter, though: no songs composed for the movie itself. (Sad, Simple Minds.) The outcome is our almost toe-borer list to appointment. But do let us know if we've left out your favorite jam.
fifty. "Orinoco Flow (Sheet Away)," Enya, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
In David Fincher's latest antiseptic thriller, the murderer has all the usual instruments of torture: toxicant gas, precipitous scalpels, immobilizing slings. Simply near harrowing of all? A gustation for blasting Enya's cloying striking song at eye-glazing book. (We don't have the clip—and wouldn't want to ruin the killer's identity for you anyhow—but here'southward that cool trailer again.)—Keith Uhlich
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49. "Hip to Be Square," Huey Lewis and the News, American Psycho (2000)
Truthful to the spirit of the novel, this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis'due south serial-killer satire uses Huey's catchy hit unmarried to score the cutthroat dispatching of a Wall Street rival. Christian Bale alternates gleeful disquisitional assessments with grisly ax thwacks, making this superficially slick '80s tune emblematic of the ultimate Reagan-era hollow human.—David Fear
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48. "You lot Never Tin Tell," Chuck Berry, Lurid Fiction (1994)
Of the many peppy, popular-culture-charged scenes in Quentin Tarantino's landmark offense comedy, few pack the giddy punch of this Jack Rabbit Slim's musical number, ready to a Chuck Berry jaunt. Uma Thurman slinks with feline grace, and John Travolta proves he's yet got the Tony Manero moves.—Keith Uhlich
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47. "He Needs Me," Shelley Duvall, Punch-Drunk Dearest (2002)
The lilting love anthem from Robert Altman'south 1980 Popaeye was brilliantly repurposed by Paul Thomas Anderson for his quirky romance: Adam Sandler races to join inamorata Emily Watson in Hawaii. When they finally embrace, the music flourishes and the rush is palpable.—Keith Uhlich
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46. "Some Velvet Forenoon," Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, Morvern Callar (2002)
A psychedelic groove of soap-opera strings and lyrical menace accompanies Samantha Morton, lost in her headphone cloud, as she cruises to her McJob at the supermarket. It's a perfectly rendered Gen-Whatever moment, an interior mood that few filmmakers accept nailed equally expertly as Scotland'south Lynne Ramsay.—Joshua Rothkopf
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45. "The Times They Are a-Changin'," Bob Dylan, Watchmen (2009)
Zack Snyder'due south faithful-to-a-fault adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons'south influential graphic novel is a dud, salvage its mesmerizing, Bob Dylan–scored opening-credits sequence. Dylan'southward folk prophecy poetically complements the history of the story'due south superhero protagonists, from their WWII heyday to a Vietnam-era fall from grace.—Keith Uhlich
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44. "Natural'south Not in It," Gang of Iv, Marie Antoinette (2006)
Sofia Coppola's threading of anachronistic postpunk into her portrait of the 18th-century queen prompts caput-scratching amid historical purists. Just boot things off with Gang of Iv'south Marxist critique is inspired: The song immediately puts displays of conspicuous consumption within contextual air quotes. (Here's the trailer, with a taste of Gang of Four at the 0:30 mark, along with other artists.)—David Fear
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43. "Danny Boy," Frank Patterson, Miller's Crossing (1990)
Information technology's ironic enough for an Irish gaelic crime boss to be assassinated in his sleeping room while listening to this ballad. Yet the Coen brothers rev up the humor massively by having the contemplative gent (the mighty Albert Finney) actually survive the hitting, returning a hail of submachine-gun burn down while his favorite song calmly concludes.—Joshua Rothkopf
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42. "These Days," Nico, The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Gwyneth Paltrow is immortalized every bit the alluring, raccoon-eyed Margot Tenenbaum in Wes Anderson's slo-mo tracking shot, which captures a sweet reunion, a hint of nostalgia and the filmmaker's signature coziness, all wrapped up in the Teutonic loveliness of Nico'due south quiet voice. If Anderson's choices were always this restrained, he'd be a behemothic.—Joshua Rothkopf
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41. "Imagine," John Lennon, The Killing Fields (1984)
This Oscar-winning drama about an American journalist and his captured Cambodian translator uses John Lennon'due south hit to end on a high annotation. The old Beatle's wish-list lyrics and the moment's emotional uplift—a tearful reunion—brand such utopian fantasies seem both noble and absolutely necessary.—David Fear
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40. "Making Time," the Creation, Rushmore (1998)
Hither's the moment when Wes Anderson truly arrives, forever to alive in the hearts of geeky obsessives with this montage of Max Fischer'southward extracurriculars, ranging from "bombardment order founder" to the director of the Max Fischer Players. The forgotten band that penned the tune, a lesser Who, supplies the attitude.—Joshua Rothkopf
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39. "Just Dropped In (To See What Status My Status Was In)," the First Edition, The Large Lebowski (1998)
Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski knows his way around narcotics, but he'south surely never had a trip quite like the bowling-alley dream sequence in the Coens' profanely funny comedy. Wagneresque chorines, scissor-wielding nihilists and a Kenny Rogers ditty combine for maximum, mind-altering surreality.—Keith Uhlich
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38. "Unchained Melody," the Righteous Brothers, Ghost (1990)
How many viewers wanted to take up pottery after watching this famous lovemaking sequence—scored to a sublime, Phil Spector–produced serenade? The romance is as shamelessly gloopy equally Demi Moore's moist molding clay, but boy, does it make the states swoon.—Keith Uhlich
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37. "Patricia," Perez Prado Orchestra, La Dolce Vita (1960)
If the films of Federico Fellini can be likened to one glamorous late-night party, unbound and spinning out of control, then here's the organ-drenched soundtrack, equal parts prim and perverse. A drunk party girl sheds her apparel (and shame) in this, the most notorious scene of the managing director's career.—Joshua Rothkopf
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36. "Head Over Heels," Tears for Fears, Donnie Darko (2001)
In a terrific early scene from Richard Kelly's cult debut, Jake Gyllenhaal's depressive, time-traveling outcast takes a long walk down his high-schoolhouse hallway. Assembled into a single, unbroken accept, it'south as if we're gliding through one morn in our ain angst-ridden teen existence—only with a better soundtrack.—Keith Uhlich
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35. "You Tin't E'er Get What You Desire," the Rolling Stones, The Large Chill (1983)
Effortlessly evoking the disappointments of the boomer era, Mick Jagger'southward profound lyric lends weight to this movie's early knockout scene, a funeral procession for a suicide. As we get to know these reuniting friends, we only hope they'll get what they need. (This prune isn't the full sequence, but you get the vibe.)—Joshua Rothkopf
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34. "California Dreamin'," the Mamas & the Papas, Chungking Express (1994)
The beaches of Malibu are a world way from the crowded noodle stalls of Hong Kong, but damned if director Wong Kar-wai doesn't brand it work. His missed-connection romance, between a world-weary cop and a pixieish young woman, gets a dreamy injection of urban ennui via John Phillips & Co.'s '60s pop hit.—David Fearfulness
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33. "I Got You lot Babe," Sonny & Cher, Groundhog Solar day (1993)
"Then put your petty hand in mine," yowls Sonny Bono on the radio promptly at 6am, solar day after day later on day, to the blinking frustration of cosmically trapped weatherman Neb Murray. Even every bit we laugh, the song's chorus takes on dark overtones—someone's "gotten" indeed. No other tune would accept been as maddening.—Joshua Rothkopf
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32. "My Sharona," the Knack, Reality Bites (1994)
The quintessential scene from Ben Stiller's Gen-X-catering romance takes place in a Food Mart as Winona Ryder and up-and-comers Steve Zahn and Janeane Garofalo "ironically" get down to this exuberant new-wave track. An embarrassed Ethan Hawke cringes on behalf of all involved.—Keith Uhlich
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31. A Love Supreme, John Coltrane, Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Spike Lee originally named his jazz film after John Coltrane'south epic 4-part suite, before the musician's widow asked him to modify the title. Thankfully, she permit Lee borrow office of the song to add resonance to the film's climax, in which Denzel Washington'due south troubled trumpeter starts a family and finally finds inner peace.—David Fear
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xxx. "Bohemian Rhapsody," Queen, Wayne'due south World (1992)
Who can forget Wayne and Garth's headbanging downtown bulldoze to this operatic power ballad? Director Penelope Spheeris was hesitant to use the vocal, but costar Mike Myers insisted, and its popular-cultural status soared. If a contempo Muppets cover is any indication, this is the hit that keeps on giving.—Keith Uhlich
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29. "Perfect Day," Lou Reed, Trainspotting (1996)
Whether Reed'due south tune is a direct reference to heroin has been long debated, only what isn't arguable is how effectively Danny Boyle employs it—as an overdosing Ewan McGregor imagines he's in a shag-carpeted coffin. The vocal'south blissful lyrics brand this junkie nightmare even more disturbing; it'southward the "perfect" example of needle-drib irony.—David Fear
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28. "Old Fourth dimension Rock and Gyre," Bob Seger and the Silvery Bullet Ring, Risky Business organization (1983)
From 1983—a time when the whole world could beloved Tom Cruise unreservedly—comes this euphoric scene of geeked-out underwear dancing, set up to the scratchy bar-band stylings of Bob Seger. Cruise even jumps on a burrow and it's okay.—Joshua Rothkopf
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27. "Oh Yes," Yello, Ferris Bueller'south 24-hour interval Off (1986)
John Hughes, that poet of teen-pop angst, was bound to appear on this listing somewhere. Not so surprisingly, it's via this Swiss-recorded dance trounce, a perfect complement to the Ferrari-stealing antics of the title character. Just endeavour not smiling (devilishly) when you lot hear it.—Joshua Rothkopf
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26. "Blue Moon," Sam Cooke, An American Werewolf in London (1981)
David Naughton'south lupine transformation is prepare to Cooke's crooning cover of the Rodgers and Hart standard, making it the most memorable (and jarring) of John Landis's wink-nudge musical choices. Rick Baker's groundbreaking makeup work may bring on the howling, but this lunar ballad adds a dark dose of levity.—David Fright
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25. "Tiny Dancer," Elton John, Virtually Famous (2000)
Never underestimate the healing power of Elton John: As the '70s rock ring of Cameron Crowe's autobiographical drama piles into its bout bus, everyone's in a funk. Then this uplifting 1971 tribute to an 50.A. lady comes on, and before long, everybody is singing along—including you lot.—David Fear
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24. "Stone Around the Clock," Bill Haley and the Comets, Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Rock & gyre was the soundtrack to juvenile delinquency, so how better to kick off a picture almost high-school hoodlums than with a existent poodle-skirt scorcher? Pecker Haley's 1954 B-side turned on tons of teens to this raucous new sound—the offset use of rock music in a pic, but far from the terminal, Daddy-o.—David Fear
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23. "Didn't I (Accident Your Listen This Time)," the Delfonics, Jackie Brown (1997)
This impassioned 1970s unmarried is the soul of Quentin Tarantino's almost romantic movie: Robert Forster'due south grizzled bond-bondsman hears the tune in the living room of beleaguered, cute client Pam Grier. It sends him from overjoyed to infatuated—and directly to the record store.—Keith Uhlich
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22. "Hurdy Gurdy Human," Donovan, Zodiac (2007)
This nearly-primal scene starts with two young adults flirting in a Corvair at a lovers' lane, until the headlights of a mysterious automobile pull up behind them. All of a sudden, the song on the radio can only signify evil. Past the time David Fincher returns to Donovan'due south sinuous groove in his closing credits, the tune has been transformed. (A clearer clip of the scene is here.)—Joshua Rothkopf
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21. "The Sound of Silence," Simon and Garfunkel, The Graduate (1967)
Hello darkness, my one-time friend: The signature track off the duo'south 1966 album perfectly underscores Dustin Hoffman'due south descent into suburban bummersville, as the song'south melody casts a melancholic pallor over his interchangeable lazy afternoons and numbing sexual trysts.—David Fearfulness
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twenty. "Adieu Horses," Q Lazzarus, The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
When cross-dressing serial killer Jame "Buffalo Pecker" Gumb primps and sashays in a foreign interlude from Jonathan Demme'due south suspense classic, he's listening to this enrapturing popular song. The queasy scene became a pop-cultural touchstone, parodied past everyone from Kevin Smith to Family Guy.—Keith Uhlich
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19. "Be My Baby," the Ronettes, Mean Streets (1973)
From the moment the wall-of-sound drums boot in to Harvey Keitel's head striking his pillow, Martin Scorsese's 'hood opera takes personalized-jukebox movie theater to a new level. When the song'southward harmonies sync up with the Super-8 credits, it's like Scorsese'due south career in miniature: movies and mobsters, street civilization and pop culture.—David Fear
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18. "Where Is My Mind?," Pixies, Fight Club (1999)
"Trust me, everything's going to be fine," says Edward Norton in the terminal seconds of David Fincher'due south unclassifiable thriller, as the skyline explodes outside the window. Buildings autumn, two easily squeeze tenderly, and the time to come is uncertain. The keening voices of Frank Black and Kim Deal seal the mood.—Joshua Rothkopf
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17. "Bela Lugosi's Dead," Bauhaus, The Hunger (1983)
The classic opening of Tony Scott's horror film forever linked goth stone, smoky NYC clubs and vampires. Dancing behind a grate, Peter White potato lip-synchs to his band'southward ominous single as bloodsuckers David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve telescopic out the gyrating bodies for the night'southward prey.—Joshua Rothkopf
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xvi. "Tequila," the Champs, Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
What's a manchild like Pee-wee Herman to practice when he knocks over a group of hulking bikers' motorcycles? Lace up a pair of platform shoes, hop atop the bar and get downwardly to the horn-bleating cocktail-lounge staple, of grade.—Keith Uhlich
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15. "Ride of the Valkyries," Richard Wagner, Apocalypse Now (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola's hijacking of this operatic leitmotif to score a chopper attack is a stroke of demented genius: Wagner'southward German Romantic bombast mocks the notion of American militarism in Vietnam, fifty-fifty as information technology makes Col. Kilgore's air-calvary strike sound similar a blow from the hammer of the gods. (The specific scene isn't available online, but this trailer has a large chunk of it starting at ane:xxx.)—David Fearfulness
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fourteen. "Gassenhauer," Carl Orff, Badlands (1973)
For a story about criminal lovers on the run, Terrence Malick's 1973 debut achieves a rare degree of innocence, largely due to this German composer'south shimmering, percussive masterwork (likewise used in True Romance). Sissy Spacek and Martin Sheen create an Edenic paradise in the wood; you hope it lasts forever.—Joshua Rothkopf
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13. "Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)," Harry Belafonte, Beetlejuice (1988)
Virtually onscreen possessions lead to screaming. But singing? In this hilarious sequence from Tim Burton's inventive horror-comedy, an uptight dinner becomes an exhilarating musical number set to Harry Belafonte's calypso standard. All meals should be like this, jumbo-shrimp bogeymen and all.—Keith Uhlich
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12. "The Rhythm of the Nighttime," Corona, Beau Travail (1999)
A black-clad Denis Lavant bursts into ecstatic dance with this 1994 lodge hit—and in 1 savage swoop, Claire Denis nudges her modern Billy Budd accommodation into the sublimely surreal, turning a cheesy Italian techno-disco song into an expression of repressed gay desire finally finding its form. (The vocal kicks in at the 0:l-second marker.)—David Fear
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11. "Born to Be Wild," Steppenwolf, Piece of cake Passenger (1969)
Steppenwolf's classic-rock staple became a hippie canticle one time Dennis Hopper included information technology his tale of two dudes hit the open road. Blasting over Hopper and Peter Fonda tooling down the highway on their Harleys, the vocal gear up off an explosion of soundtracks featuring the music of the '60s counterculture.—David Fright
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ten. "Sis Christian," Night Ranger/"Jessie's Girl," Rick Springfield, Boogie Nights (1997)
The sad rise and autumn of porn star Dirk Diggler reaches its catharsis in this legendary sequence, a drug deal gone amiss. First, we're introduced to the den of berobed crackhead Alfred Molina, jamming to his "awesome" mixtape and the aggressive triumphalism of Night Ranger'south pilus-metal canticle. Then (subsequently an unexpected cassette flip) the music shifts to Rick Springfield's puppy-eyed rocker, as our hero slips into a dangerous situation beyond his command. Watch Mark Wahlberg'due south complex shut-upwards as the chorus builds: He's one-half in awe of the song—perhaps it'southward the kind of music Dirk wishes he himself could record—and half cognizant of his own ruination. For all of his subsequent genius, director Paul Thomas Anderson has never eclipsed this scene.—Joshua Rothkopf
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9. "Layla," Derek and the Dominoes, Goodfellas (1990)
Ane could cull a top-x-song list just from Martin Scorsese's landmark offense epic, the virtually influential movie of the 1990s. The manager was yoking pop music and images with a deftness no 1 could affect; for the sake of our list, we'll get with this montage of whacked comrades, set to the forlorn piano outro of Eric Clapton's early-'70s radio staple. The party is over every bit goons run across their long-telegraphed ends: slain in a pink Caddy, hanging in a meat truck and gunned down in the individual living room of a "fabricated guy," where a promotion takes a shocking turn. Even as you watched the sequence for the get-go time, it felt similar a classic—and still does. (We can't embed the specific part, but here'southward a link to information technology.)—Joshua Rothkopf
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8. Tubular Bells, Mike Oldfield, The Exorcist (1973)
The nearly signature slice of music to ever grace a horror movie (and now an instant evocation of creeping doom), Mike Oldfield's prog-rock composition was selected for this 1973 blockbuster'due south opening theme after an entire original score was rejected by managing director William Friedkin. In the slice's tinkling pianoforte and synths, yous can hear a premonition of the iconic soundtracks of John Carpenter to come. Early on in the film itself, yous seen Ellen Burstyn strolling downwards a leafage-strewn Georgetown street. Children cavort in costumeâ€"it'southward Halloween. Nuns pass, their robes billowing in ghostly waves. Suddenly Burstyn stops, noticing two priests having a heart-to-middle conversation. "There's non a day in my life that I don't feel like a fraud," 1 of them says, anguished. Anybody's religion is about to be tested. (Higher up is the trailer—brace yourself—and hither's a link to the scene.)—Joshua Rothkopf
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7. Rhapsody in Blue, George Gershwin, Manhattan (1979)
Gershwin wrote his groundbreaking high-fine art-meets-lowbrow work in 1924 as a "musical kaleidoscope of America." But after fellow Brooklynite Woody Allen prepare his film'south opening montage of local landmarks and crowded avenues to the composer's signature melody, you can't help only think of ane specific city whenever yous hear those joyously jazz-inflected fanfares. Cinematographer Gordon Willis'southward peerless black-and-white Gotham bout combined with Gershwin's vintage ode fully captures the poetry and sound of the streets. This is belatedly-'70s NYC recast as an erstwhile-fashioned urban wonderland, a version of past and present Manhattans linked together with every skyscraper shot and slinky pianoforte run.—David Fear
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vi. "Stuck in the Middle with You," Stealers Cycle, Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Tarantino has already made several appearances on our list, yet here is the sequence that stands above all his others. QT places Stealers Wheel's beneficial folk-popular melody over an unlikely scene in which a cop is tortured at bang-up length by the psychotic, razor-wielding Michael Madsen. What starts every bit a playfully meta moment with "Mr. Blonde" doing some swaggering dance moves turns deadly serious by the fourth dimension of the infamous ear slicing, when the song's playful cries of "Pl-ee-ee-ease!" might double as unanswered cries for mercy. Forth with Tarantino'south impeccable musical taste, it makes for an instantly memorable set pieceâ€"the get-go of many in the filmmaker's oeuvre.—Keith Uhlich
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5. "In Your Eyes," Peter Gabriel, Say Anything... (1989)
Let'south say your true dearest has broken up with you, and you're going to boom something on a boom box exterior their window to win them back. Most people would probably pick one of the era'southward soft-rock hits or ability ballads; then again, most people aren't Lloyd Dobler. Kudos to Cameron Crowe for picking Peter Gabriel's sincere confessional every bit the perfect offbeat choice for John Cusack'due south middle-on-his-sleeve hero to serenade dream girl Ione Skye. Thanks to the combo of the vocal'due south testimony to soulmate salvation and Cusack's misfit sensitivity, the scene has go an iconic moment of hopeless romanticism, parodied a million times over yet still able to bring tears to our eyes.—David Fear
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4. "We'll Meet Again," Vera Lynn, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Vera Lynn'south sentimental 1939 melody became a WWII anthem for the British, a heartfelt promise that England's sons and daughters would exist reunited come what may and normal existence would resume. Stanley Kubrick'due south repurposing of Vera Lynn'due south continue-your-mentum-upwards ditty for his satirical zero-sum game, however, put a pale through any prevailing notions of optimism; life subsequently wartime was a at present matter of the past. In an era when sick sense of humour was the only sane reaction to notions of nuclear Armageddon, Kubrick'due south keenly realized callback to this old favorite, playing over a parade of mushroom clouds, goes way across irony. It'due south a punch line to the blackest joke imaginable. (Our clip includes the scene beforehand.)—David Fear
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3. "The End," the Doors, Apocalypse Now (1979)
Jim Morrison'southward spellbinding 12-minute dirge was originally intended every bit a breakdown song, but with its explicit evocations of patricide and incest (besides as the lead vocalist's animalistic vocalizations), the tune evolved into something more than emblematic, a larger consideration of the fierce animal inside the states all. The mythic stature of this popular magnum opus only increased when Francis Ford Coppola placed it over the trancelike prologue of his 1979 Vietnam war epic. Helicopters slide cagily through the frame, a forest is devastated in a slo-mo napalm bombing, and Martin Sheen's somnolent visage—caught somewhere betwixt dream and reality—floats over it all. Morrison and the ring's apocalyptic lament evokes the horrors of a state of war as vividly and aptly as practice the images.—Keith Uhlich
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2. "In Dreams," Roy Orbison, Blue Velvet (1986)
"Processed-colored clown...," requests the deranged Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) to his dandyish friend Ben (Dean Stockwell) in a womblike parlor. What has curious collegian Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) gotten himself into? David Lynch's epochal 1986 freak-out doesn't lack outr sequences, but there's something especially unnerving about this prolonged detour behind suburban closed doors (freaky ladies sitting around listlessly, Hopper's terrifyingly bug-eyed countenance). Information technology famously climaxes with Ben lip-synching to Roy Orbison'southward soaring lost-love ballad using a work lite equally a microphone. Information technology'south a nightmare you never want to wake up from.—Keith Uhlich
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i. Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Richard Strauss, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
It builds, softly, with three ascending notes...then an eruption of strings and woodwinds, punctuated by colossal timpani hits. That's when the light crests over a gigantic planet—the view of a sunrise as seen from an orbiting space station, or witnessed by God Himself. Stanley Kubrick wanted to use classical compositions instead of the commissioned (and discarded) Alex North score to accomplish an appropriately massive soundtrack to his cerebral sci-fi masterpiece, and Richard Strauss's tone poem supplies the film'southward opening moments with an immediate sense of scope and grandeur: This is what the majesty of the universe sounds similar. Everyone from Elvis Presley to the makers of cat-food commercials has since hijacked this Nietzsche-inspired work for their grand entrances, but Kubrick got in that location beginning; by the time 2001'due south title credit shows upwards under that sustained musical burst, the combination of sound and image has already transported you to infinity and beyond.—David Fear
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