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| From | "Drew MacDonald" <drewmacdonald1@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Cinema Songs |
| Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:31:00 -0700 |
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Jaime Vernon:
"Worst song ever? It's a tie -- 'Born To Run' or 'Paradise By The Dashboard
Light"....for the same reason. Overblown Broadway/West Side Story
histrionics....unless it's BTR performed by Frankie GoesTo Hollywood, then
it's just comic."
Spoken like a true (former) punk, Jaimie! And I get what you're saying,
though I disagree. (I was at just the right place in my life when "BTR" hit,
and it can still kick up the old goosebumps. And "Paradise" always struck me
as a PARODY of that "widescreen" style, not an example of it.)
But I broke this out of the "Annoying Songs" thread because it made me
wonder:
What are the most "movie-sounding" songs you can think of? I don't mean
actual film scores or stand-alone pop tunes that were written for a
soundtrack (XTC's "Happy Families") or pre-existing songs that got famous or
more famous from their use in a movie (Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes"). I'm
looking for songs that could BE movies, either because they tell a
cinematic-style story in the lyrics and/or provoke a "visual version"
through music and production. I'd particularly like to see examples of songs
that aren't already associated with a pre-existing literalistic video.
First thing that comes to my mind --apart from all those classic-era Broooce
tunes-- is "Lily, Rosemary and The Jack Of Hearts" from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS.
I have lit, blocked and cast (and recast) that Western in my head many times
in the thirty-odd years since I first heard the song.
Drew
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