What songs have been ruined by TV/films?

ixoy

What songs that, whenver you hear them, are inextricably linked to a TV show/scene/ad/film in such a way that you can't actually really enjoy the song?

For me, for example, I can't listen to "It's A Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong) without immediately thinking of cars flipping over and blood soaked people screaming. It's a shame it's such a nice song but the campaign was clearly successful enough to indelibly stamp the song on my mind.

Another example is the song "I'm So Excited" which, no matter what, reminds me of Crunchie. Whatever power the song might originally have is ruined in favor of a chocolate rollercoaster. I'm sure the band are thrilled....

Or "How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?" reminds me of a prostitute, poor down trodden woman, living out her last moments before being butchered in "Cracker".

And now, most recently, I can't hear Kelis' "Milkshake" song without seeing Ben Stiller's horrific dance in "Dodgeball" (you had to stay until the end of the credits to see it, in case you're wondering).

It's obviously not with all ads. I can still enjoy "Les Fleurs" without seeing Baileys for example...

Anyone got any others?

monkeyfudge

ixoy wrote:

For me, for example, I can't listen to "It's A Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong) without immediately thinking of cars flipping over and blood soaked people screaming. It's a shame it's such a nice song but the campaign was clearly successful enough to indelibly stamp the song on my mind.

I get the far more disturbing image of Rutger Hauer with a pint of Guinness...

Kain

Just like you, any song that has been used in the ad's with car crashes are unbearable for me, cause all i can think about is that scene in the ad's.

jamie_jj69

i love the song "all along the watchtower" especially the jimi hendrix version, and every time i hear it i just get the picture of italian mobsters beating the crap out of some bloke or burning out a place with petrol bombs (just like in the film "A Bronx Tale")

still love the song though

Pigman II

The Who 'Baba O'Riley'
ruined by Son of Sam.

I don't know whether it was meant to be ironic or whatever but Adrian Brody dressed as a punk and headbanging to a (non-punk) tune that was already about 7 years old at the time the movie was set in just left me going ... WHA?

Anyway, I can't hear that tune anymore without getting the image of Mohawks, Union Jack t-shirts and a huge proboscis.

Elmo

For me, for example, I can't listen to "It's A Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong) without immediately thinking of cars flipping over and blood soaked people screaming. It's a shame it's such a nice song but the campaign was clearly successful enough to indelibly stamp the song on my mind.

The add before the Austrailians got around to doing those types of adds. How come they got the credit?

The song was writen for James Bond On her Majesty's Secret Service, or prehaps they just use that song in the movie. The moving scene where Mr. Bond's Mrs. is shot.

Or "How Much Is That Doggy in the Window?" reminds me of a prostitute, poor down trodden woman, living out her last moments before being butchered in "Cracker".

Is it not an annoying song anyway.


There was an episode of Milleneum, that had a song play right throughout it, while it was a good episode the song was just making you go more and more insane. Prehaps that's what they wanted to do, annoy you.

Anyone know the name of the song?

jill_valentine

Hmm.... Nancy Sinatra will forever belong to Kill Bill... but TV wise... Agreed on all the crash ads, in particular Body to Body. Love is in the Air reminds me of the rather fabulous punch in This Life. I can't take Song 2 seriously after that Simpsons with Dolly Parton...

Basq

Hasn't ruined the song, perhaps even enhanced it in my mind..

But i can't listen to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' without picturing the scene with the pool cues in 'Shaun of The Dead'.

Genius!!

sceptre

I tend to think of tractors any time Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero comes on the radio but that song was rubbish to start with so that's OK.

Töpher

basquille wrote:

Hasn't ruined the song, perhaps even enhanced it in my mind..

But i can't listen to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' without picturing the scene with the pool cues in 'Shaun of The Dead'.

Genius!!

Can't listen to it cuz I end up thinking of Eircons smelly stained mascot dancing on an ironing board.
Every time I hear Every You Every Me I think of the intro sequence to Cruel Intentions, like both song and movie, but don't like having them brought together like that!

billy the squid

Wasnt Queen's Dont stop me now used in a club orange ad during the eighties.

The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up, why did they sell out to microsoft

Luke Kelly - Song For Ireland always reminds me of those RTE ads.

The Primitives - Crash, Not only does it remind me of that crap movie "Dumb and Dumber" but it was some sort of "95 Mix"

I would be more worried though about songs which have been ruined by teenie-bopper bands that cannot write their own music.

Bard

ixoy wrote:

I can't listen to "It's A Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong) without immediately thinking of cars flipping over and blood soaked people screaming. It's a shame it's such a nice song but the campaign was clearly successful enough to indelibly stamp the song on my mind.

So it stamped the song on your mind? Did it not drive home the message about speeding, or wearing a seatbelt, ot whatever?

For me, that song is a reminder of the montage of scenes of bombs going off, soldiers running around, children running and crying, faces twisted in mixtures of confusion and terror, general desolation and poverty, and the other images of the Vietnam war as shown in the moving section of "Good Morning Vietnam" that contains that song, along with Robin Williams' "oohhhhh .. yeahhhh!" out-tro, calling Armstrong the 'great Satchmo'.

DirtyDog

Stuck in the middle with you - Reservoir Dogs

Good bye ear, hello petrol...............

penguinbloke

Elmo wrote:

The song was writen for James Bond On her Majesty's Secret Service, or prehaps they just use that song in the movie. The moving scene where Mr. Bond's Mrs. is shot.

monkeyfudge wrote:

I get the far more disturbing image of Rutger Hauer with a pint of Guinness...

Wasn't that "All the time in the World"

basquille wrote:

Hasn't ruined the song, perhaps even enhanced it in my mind..

But i can't listen to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' without picturing the scene with the pool cues in 'Shaun of The Dead'.

Genius!!

I agree, that movie saved that song from being banished to man in mouse suit hell. Well, in my mind anyway.

sceptre wrote:

I tend to think of tractors any time Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero comes on the radio but that song was rubbish to start with so that's OK.

Short Circuit 2 for me, I love that movie.

And a song irreperably damaged for me is "The Crying Game"
I'm getting shivers just thinking about it.

Elmo

Wasn't that "All the time in the World"

Yeah! Sorry!

Well did Irish Rail use It's A wonderful world, Jack L. did the singing.

Perhaps I just have three very similar songs in my head.

I see fields of green
Red Roses Too
And I think to myself .......

I have all the time in the world
Nothing more nothing else
what a wonderful world ?????????

So mixed up with these songs, I need help.

sceptre

billy the squid wrote:

The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up, why did they sell out to microsoft

8 million dollars. Windows 95 made grown men cry.

Elmo wrote:

I have all the time in the world
Nothing more nothing else
what a wonderful world ?????????

We have all the time in the world
Just for love
Nothing more, nothing less
Only love

Any help?

callmescratch

jamie_jj69 wrote:

i love the song "all along the watchtower" especially the jimi hendrix version, and every time i hear it i just get the picture of italian mobsters beating the crap out of some bloke or burning out a place with petrol bombs (just like in the film "A Bronx Tale")

still love the song though

when i hear this i get an image of withnail and marlow (is that what his name is?) driving around london in a jag.
good image

RuggieBear

That ugly kid joe (i think) song "Cats in the craddle" being used in an anti-terrorist advert in Northern Ireland....you know the one where the kid grows up with his father always been absent on terrorist duty and then grows up just like him....

monkeyfudge

penguinbloke wrote:

Wasn't that "All the time in the World"

You are quite right.

The Hans Zimmer 'You're So Cool' theme from True Romance reminds me of that Irish Independent advert.

Oh and that 'Cat's in the Cradle' song always reminds me of that advert... what was it for? an confidential informant line for information on terror acts up North?

RobertFoster

Queen - I Want To Break Free : Eircom
The Mamas and The Papas - Monday, Monday : Carlsberg

Two more songs ruined by advertising.

zeris

Elmo wrote:

There was an episode of Milleneum, that had a song play right throughout it, while it was a good episode the song was just making you go more and more insane. Prehaps that's what they wanted to do, annoy you.

Anyone know the name of the song?

I think the episode you mean is "Room with no view". The song is "Love is Blue" by Paul Mauriat. And yes, it does get annoying.

Snippets of Coldplay songs on every single MTV show. I hate them, they make my skin crawl.

billy the squid

just thought of one that was ruined :

Lady Madonna by the beatles - was used in sitcom Grace Under Fire sung by some woman dont remember who she was though but the version she did was crap.

steveland?

basquille wrote:

Hasn't ruined the song, perhaps even enhanced it in my mind..

But i can't listen to Queen's 'Don't Stop Me Now' without picturing the scene with the pool cues in 'Shaun of The Dead'.

Genius!!

That song kinda just makes me think of the guy from that documentary "the boy who's skin fell off" cos when they were showing montage at the end thats the song they played. Fairly sad program

Raam

anything from any of the vodafone ads. They are on too much, or else I watch too much tv

Frank Drebin

AC/DC big gun was ruined by last action hero for sure....But maybe it was made for the movie...either way its ruined

Zoton

Time is on my side....absolutely ruined by those bloody bulmers ads and their crappiness!!! :mad:

starn

Jammin by Bob Marley. Cant listin to it now without think of those Vodafone roaming ads. Just thinking about it now annoys the fvck out of me

Linku

I find Fields of Gold (I think it was the Eva Cassidy version) really sad since it was on a Cancer Research ad a few years ago.

And I can't take Hide & Seek by Imogen Heap seriously since that slo-mo scene in The OC when Marissa shot the guy who tried to rape her or something (can't remember), and the SNL parody of it too...

SNL pretty much ruined Don't Fear the Reaper too, amongst other songs...

Aidric

Lux Aeterna by Clint Mansell from 'Requiem For A Dream'. Completely overplayed at this point, pity, excellent composition.

blow69

Um hello? Don't Stop Believing by Journey on the finale of The Sopranos. Was a classic song until nightclubs started to play it constantly.....and I died a little inside!