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Cinema Songs

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What is your favorite song from a film, or song brilliantly used in a film?

I have so many and if this thread takes off I’ll post a few. But I’ll start with Curtis Mayfield. Obviously Superfly is his career highpoint; few soundtrack composers get to undermine the entire film they are soundtracking (low budget has a certain freedom). But this song, No Thing On Me (Cocaine On Me) doesn’t get the attention it deserves. It’s a glorious piece of joy.

So folks, film soundtracks or moments from films brilliantly soundtracked by the perfect song. Let me know…

Let’s put together Tarantino’s new soundtrack!

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A spoddy thing I occasionally do is make soundtracks; ie my soundtrack to an imagined David Lynch film, my alternative Wicker Man soundtrack etc and it occurs to me that it could be fun to do it here.

So fellow Afterworders, Tarantino has a new film out, Kill The Inglourious Hateful Reservoir Eight From Dusk Till Dawn, about a bunch of kung fu bounty hunters chasing down runaway nazis in Latin America.

I don’t think this is main theme material, but in the crucial bar room brawl with vampires scene, it certainly plays…