slaytonf Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 I'm not talking about existing title sequences, live or otherwise, but music you've always thought would go well as we watched the opening sequence of a movie. Songs I thought include: What kind of movie would that be? Well, just like the song says, someone working for the FBI who gets blindsided by a long cool woman. Maybe she's bad, maybe she's good, but we don't find out until the end. Almost anything by Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, but this is good: A story about an onagainoffagain relationship between an onagainoffagain man and a woman who's too good for him but who's resigned to the fact she's stuck on him. Link to post Share on other sites
jamesjazzguitar Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 1 Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted September 13, 2020 Author Share Posted September 13, 2020 You hit on one of my favorites. I saw him in a movie, 'Round Midnight (1986) a long time ago. I don't remember much of the movie, but I remember Mr. Gordon doing a fine job and a commanding presence. Wish TCM would air it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Vautrin Posted September 13, 2020 Share Posted September 13, 2020 Squeeze Box. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BgayE Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 Heart of Gold, Neil Young was one of best TCM has aired, the easy listening music, short personal stories by Neil...wraps warmth around any stranger. If you’ve ever seen a CS&N and a CSN&Y show you know Neil “rocked up the show” considerably with CS&N but Heart of Gold is totally the opposite revealing the soft, sweet inner Neil, an absolute gem to record and LISTEN to until the lights go out, Bless you Neil.. Link to post Share on other sites
skimpole Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 This may work better for the closing credits: Link to post Share on other sites
jinsinna13 Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 "...Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears would work best at the beginning of a teen movie. Imagine this scenario. The teen movie begins with the protagonist and their friends at their locker when the hot guy or cheerleader mesmerizes the protagonist as they walk down the hall with the song playing in the background. Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 With all the predictive programming crap out there, this could fit right in for closing credits. Don't blame Weird Al for this crappy music, it isn't his. 😁 Link to post Share on other sites
Sepiatone Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 How about this old SPIRIT tune for "Splash"? ('84) Sepiatone Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 This one is for any number of Interstate road travel movies out there. Man, I could go for a road trip right about now... 😁 Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted September 14, 2020 Share Posted September 14, 2020 End titles for some kind of tragic drama. An entire town gets wiped out or something. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted October 9, 2020 Author Share Posted October 9, 2020 Just heard this on my local jazz station (KSDS). How didn't I know this before?: I was half out of breath and my skin tingled. What's the movie this opens for is about? Like the man says, baby I don't care. Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted December 30, 2020 Author Share Posted December 30, 2020 Got an idea of the kind of movie it would be good for? Link to post Share on other sites
NoShear Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 26 minutes ago, slaytonf said: Got an idea of the kind of movie it would be good for? The sole survivors of an Indian nuclear holocaust inhabit a Caribbean island and anxiously await the second coming of Haile Selassie. Link to post Share on other sites
NoShear Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 On 9/20/2020 at 2:26 PM, NoShear said: As to my previous Vangelis-esque "Initial Machine Experiments" submission, slaytonf, someone already had cleverly used it as soundtrack audio on the following YouTube upload: https://youtu.be/haMUeYamV0c Link to post Share on other sites
SansFin Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 The song is a very jaded view of people who seek out fortune tellers. I see this for a movie of an old Gypsy woman who is last in a long line of fortune tellers who have all been uncannily accurate. She is the last for she never married and never had children. The odd thing is that the cards always say that she will find true love in the arms of a young man and her daughters will honor her. This is true whether she deals the cards or others of her kind cast her fortune. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
chaya bat woof woof Posted December 30, 2020 Share Posted December 30, 2020 Witchy Woman by the Eagles Life is a Carnival (The Band) You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Stones) Sympathy for the Devil (also Stones) I can also think of a couple of Eric Clapton/Cream songs 1 Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 3 hours ago, SansFin said: The song is a very jaded view of people who seek out fortune tellers. I see this for a movie of an old Gypsy woman who is last in a long line of fortune tellers who have all been uncannily accurate. She is the last for she never married and never had children. The odd thing is that the cards always say that she will find true love in the arms of a young man and her daughters will honor her. This is true whether she deals the cards or others of her kind cast her fortune. Uncanny! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
slaytonf Posted December 31, 2020 Author Share Posted December 31, 2020 3 hours ago, chaya bat woof woof said: Witchy Woman by the Eagles Life is a Carnival (The Band) You Can't Always Get What You Want (The Stones) Sympathy for the Devil (also Stones) I can also think of a couple of Eric Clapton/Cream songs Have any idea what kind of movie any of them would go with? Link to post Share on other sites
Janet0312 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 On 9/14/2020 at 12:38 PM, MovieCollectorOH said: This one is for any number of Interstate road travel movies out there. Man, I could go for a road trip right about now... 😁 Now you're talking my language. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Janet0312 Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 On 9/14/2020 at 12:45 PM, MovieCollectorOH said: End titles for some kind of tragic drama. An entire town gets wiped out or something. My cousin over in Sweden says ABBA is still a most popular band. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
chaya bat woof woof Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 When I student taught , they did their own version of The Wizard of Oz, and the wicked witch danced to it. So, it would fit with a movie about magic. You Can't Always Get... (used notably in The Big Chill) could be used in any film where the thing you wind up with is better than the one you wanted (fits many rom coms). Life is a Carnival (may have been used in Carny (sp?), the only movie Robbie Robertson starred in). There is a remake of Nightmare Alley that was just filmed up here. They could use that too. Sympathy for the Devil has been used on soundtracks, but could take the devil literally or figuratively (like witches). 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MovieCollectorOH Posted January 3 Share Posted January 3 On 12/30/2020 at 9:21 PM, Janet0312 said: My cousin over in Sweden says ABBA is still a most popular band. It never gets old. Link to post Share on other sites
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