Not songs infilms, mind you. Just songs ABOUT films.
"Girls on Film" - Duran Duran
"Filmstar" - Suede
"Celluloid Heroes" - The Kinks
"Kissability" - Sonic Youth
"Deeper Into Film" - Yo La Tengo (I can't tell if it's really about movies, but the title seems to be some sort of homage to Kael's Deeper Into Movies).
"not now john" pink floyd
"Cinematography" - Tristeza.
Quote from: Newtron"Cinematography" - Tristeza.
:yabbse-thumbup:
Do you listen to Album Leaf?
As for titles, there is
From Bone to Satellite by Tarentel, which is a reference to 2001.
Well, you've got the obvious:
Exit Music (For a film) and Motion Picture Soundtrack
and also:
Movie (never made) - Silver Mount Zion
One of the most beautiful songs they've written - just... Beautiful. I don't think it's really about movies though.
And does this count?:
Stanley Kubrick - Mogwai
No words here, so who can tell what it's really about, but it always gives me the vibe of 2001.
Aphex Twin's "Film" is beautiful, but, as with the mogwai song previously listed, I don't know if it counts.
Blur's "Look Inside America" isn't all about movies but I've always loved the line "Annie Hall leaves New York in the end, but you push rewind and Woody gets her back again".
Quote from: BonBon85Aphex Twin's "Film" is beautiful, but, as with the mogwai song previously listed, I don't know if it counts.
Blur's "Look Inside America" isn't all about movies but I've always loved the line "Annie Hall leaves New York in the end, but you push rewind and Woody gets her back again".
I've always liked that song, but I've never made out that line. :oops: I'm going back to listen to it again right now.
"Cracked Actor" - David Bowie
"Bonbon85: Blur's look inside America"
That's so beautiful! I've never heard that track - I must do now: I had no idea Damon Albarn had such good taste in movies...!
Isn't the Aphex track called "flim"?
Recently remembered: Billy Bragg - "Ingrid Bergman"
"Rivers" by Skinny Puppy (homage to kubrick mainly)
Quote from: DirkDo you listen to Album Leaf?
I do now! :-D
"Pretty Baby" - Blondie
I'm pretty sure the song is about Brooke Shields and the movie that launched her film-stardom.
It also references La Dolce Vita and "Incense and Peppermints."
From the very same album: "Fade Away and Radiate," which is a song about cinephilia (and possibly James Dean), pure and simple.
Both fantastic songs. Anyone else think Blondie is too often reduced to "That band that did 'Heart of Glass' and 'Call Me'"? I mean, for a while they were doing some really consistently great pop music.
Anyway, those are their two big movie songs. Off Parallel Lines.
Also: Pulp's "TV Movie." Sort of.
Quote from: NewtronI do now! :-D
Listen to "The MP". Great track.
One of my favorites: "I Paid My Money" by Ben Folds / Fear of Pop:
turn up the music
thanks!
I paid my money
and I'm gonna see all the movie
I paid my money
and I'm gonna see all the movie
and it's gonna be good
I'm telling you people
it's gonna be real good,
'cause I paid my money
I paid my money
bring it on!
yeah!
I see people leaving early
they don't know what they're missing,
they don't know what they're missing —
they're missing half the movie
and I'll not be screwed —
I'll not be screwed
like the people leaving early,
'cause I paid my money,
I paid my money
I paid!
I paid!
I paid!
roll up the windows
I hear a tale about a store
where pain's for free
and if I ask for more
I don't pay my money
and it's terrible pain
and it's all for free
and if I ask for more
they're gonna give it to me
[I'll not be screwed]
I'll not be screwed
[I'll not be screwed]
[like the people leaving early]
[I'll not be screwed]
funky bass
yeah!
ho!
[you're living in a fantasy world]
[?]
[I made an investment]
I paid my money
[I paid my money]
and I'm gonna see all the movie
I paid my money
[I paid my money]
and I'm gonna see all the movie
and it's gonna be good
[it's gonna be good!]
and I'm telling you people
it's gonna be real good,
'cause I paid my money
[I paid my money]
I paid my money
[I paid!]
[I paid!]
I paid
[I paid!]
I paid
[I paid!]
I paid
I paid my money
I paid my money
I paid my money
and I saw it all
I love that track! Really should've thought of that one... The whole Fear of Pop album feels kind of like a movie. William Shatner's is my favourite: that's one of my favourite songs...
I've had the idea for a while: how cool would it be to make a whole album as if it is the soundtrack of a movie that will never be made - literally, just the sound from a movie with dialogue and everything, but with the music being particularly prominent I guess. Have a whole story maybe... Or maybe just random scenes... Whatever - I think it would be great. I could start a whole new artform!
Does anyone know if anything like this already exits? It feels like the kind of idea that should've been done by now...
There was a lot of that sort of thing back when the "rock opera" was popular in the 70's, but few of them had actual dialogue.
You could point to Pink Floyd's "The Wall" which was never envisioned as a movie. Countless other rock operas exist. Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun" trilogy was one of my favorites. Styx had a couple with "Paradise Theater" and "Kilroy was Here". The Who did several, too, although I was never a fan of those.
Geez, I'm showing my age.
But yeah, long story short, this was done over and over again in the 70's when that sort of thing was cool.
Some guys I know are working on one right now. Kind of a Jesus Christ Superstar thing. I've heard it, and I must say it's pretty freaking amazing: http://www.herouniverse.com
Yeah, but I'm not talking about rock operas here... No singing. I'm talking about a kind of soundtrack that has no songs, no nothing except dialogue and music - as if you're watching a movie with your eyes closed...
Quote from: children with angelsYeah, but I'm not talking about rock operas here... No singing. I'm talking about a kind of soundtrack that has no songs, no nothing except dialogue and music - as if you're watching a movie with your eyes closed...
www.mirandajuly.com
...she also makes movie-movies, too, but I have both her albums, and I think they fit what you're talking about.
Lydia Lunch and Laurie Anderson too, in some ways, but I think July really gets closer to what you're talking about on her albums, which are often mistakenly put into the "spoken word" section of the record shop, though they contain "characters" and "dialogue" and tell a sort of "story" rather than, you know, someone reading a poetry or an essay or some such.
Thanks... She sounds really interesting, man - and she directed a Sleater Kinney video...! And was in Jesus' Son (that really quite cool My Own Private Idaho rip-off)...
You got any of her stuff? Is it really good?
Reading about her reminds me of an art piece I saw at the 2001 Biennale in Venice by a Canadian artist - can't remember the name now - called 'The Paradise Institute'. You watched a film with headphones on in a little cinema, and the headphones gave you (a) the sound of the movie and (b) really fucking realistic sounds of people sitting round, next to you, behind you in the movie theatre, talking to you and stuff. As the film went on, characters from the movie start 'coming up behind you' in the cinema, and you become kind of involved in the plot. It ended with your 'girlfriend' who'd been sitting next to you leaving to go home and check she hadn't left the gas on, then the bad guy from the movie comes behind you and whispers "all it takes is just the key in the lock - she's putting the key in the lock now..." and you see a house explode in the movie, followed by the filmstock burning up and the sound of the cinema burning down around you as you watched a burning house disapper onscreen. It was pretty damn cool. Kind hard to explain though...
Yeah, she's very cool. She lives in Portland, my hometown, as do Sleater-Kinney. And Todd Haynes. And Gus van Sant. And the Dandy Warhols. I miss it SO much. Seattle has nothing like that, really. Eddie Vedder just doesn't cut it.
I much prefer her second album, The Binet-Simon Test, to her first.
I can e-mail or burn and snail-mail you some of her stuff if you'd like. If you have the e-mail capacity for it, that might be better, as it might take a while to get to England from here.
Miranda also co-wrote the screenplay to Wayne Wang's Center of the World.
Two Steely Dan songs tangentially related to cinema:
"Peg"
"Everyone's Gone to the Movies"
Don't know why the fuck I'm gonna post this, but...
That one Barenaked Ladies song:
"Like Kurosawa I make mad films,
'K, I don't make films,
But if I did they'd have a samurai"
there's another barenaked ladies song called 'sell, sell, sell' which is pretty much about the career of jeff goldblum
Resurrecting an old, old thread:
"Mrs. Potter's Lullaby" by Counting Crows is a song about falling in love with a movie star, which got Adam Duritz and Monica Potter hooked up....
Well I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
Aw, but I'd sure like to find out
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen
Hey, Mrs. Potter, don't turn
Hey, Mrs. Potter, I burn for you
Hey, Mrs. Potter, won't you talk to me
i wish i had a pencil thin mustach by jimmy buffett
stanley kubrick and his buddy hal are mentioned in it
Dream Theater likes to sample movies. The song Take the Time samples Cinema Paradiso and the new song Honor Thy Father samples Magnolia, amongst others.
"Celluloid Heroes" - The Kinks
"Everybody's a dreamer
And everybody's a star
And everybody's in movies
It doesn't matter who you are
There are stars in every city
In every house and on every street
And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Their names are written in concrete
Don't step on Greta Garbo
As you walk down the boulevard
She looks so weak and fragile
That's why she tried to be so hard
But they turned her into a princess
And they sat her on a throne
But she turned her back on stardom
Because she wanted to be alone
You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain
Rudolph Valentino
Looks very much alive
And he looks up ladies' dresses
As they sadly pass him by
Avoid stepping on Bela Lugosi
'Cos he's liable to turn and bite
But stand close by Bette Davis
Because hers was such a lonely life
If you covered him with garbage
George Saunders would still have style
And if you stamped on Mickey Rooney
He would still turn 'round and smile
But please don't tread on dearest Marilyn
'Cos she's not very tough
She should've been made of iron or steel
But she was only made of flesh and blood
You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard
Some that you recognize, some that you've hardly even heard of
People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame
Some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain
Everybody's a dreamer
And everybody's a star
And everybody's in showbiz
It doesn't matter who you are
And those who are successful
Be always on your guard
Success walks hand in hand with failure
Along Hollywood Boulevard
I wish my life was a non-stop Hollywood movie show
A fantasy world of celluloid villians and heroes
Because celluloid heroes never feel any pain
And celluloid heroes never really die"
"Gone to the Movies" -- Semisonic
One of my favorite songs from the 90's. Although, other than the chorus and title, not to do too much with movies.
Roxy Music - 2HB
Quote from: SlorgRoxy Music - 2HB
Yes!
Yes!!
Yes!!!!
I Loooooooooove Roxy Music. Pre-1980, anyways.
the whole album "Chain Gang of Love" by the Raveonettes has a 50's movie vibe in it.
Quote from: godardianQuote from: SlorgRoxy Music - 2HB
Yes!
Yes!!
Yes!!!!
I Loooooooooove Roxy Music. Pre-1980, anyways.
have you heard the cover by the supergroup Venus in Furs? Thom Yorke is almost unrecognizable so you might like it
sorry to be so vague, but i'm on my way out the door, just wanted to post this, maybe someone can fill in the blanks.
there's a pixie's song, first song on doolittle, i think, that talks about that bunuel short; i'm not going to even attempt to spell it right now...okay, i'll try to start it...Un Chein Ad....nevermind
Debaser seems to be about Un Chien Andalou but Frank says something like, "I am un chien andalousia"
Quote from: SlorgQuote from: godardianQuote from: SlorgRoxy Music - 2HB
Yes!
Yes!!
Yes!!!!
I Loooooooooove Roxy Music. Pre-1980, anyways.
have you heard the cover by the supergroup Venus in Furs? Thom Yorke is almost unrecognizable so you might like it
As featured in
Velvet Goldmine and on the soundtrack?
ABSOLUTELY!!!
I've seen the film dozens of times, played the soundtrack hundreds. One of the best things Thom Yorke ever did. Ewan McGregor can sing just like Iggy Pop, too!!
"debaser" has the really big Un Chien Andalou reference of "slicin up eyeballs"
tom courtenay - yo la tengo
references to julie christie among others
Quote from: Pedro the Wombat"debaser" has the really big Un Chien Andalou reference of "slicin up eyeballs"
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