Movies that suggest you buy a CD (1 Viewer)

[Henry Gale]

I Am Legend recommended a specific Bob Marley CD "Legend".
Just saw The Visitor (2007), which I loved, and during the film one character insists that another listen to Fela Kuti.
Specifically Fela's "Open & Close" disc.
This sort of thing happened throughout High Fidelity.

Any examples you can add?

 

[Tim Glover]

You aren't really talking about soundtracks right? Just music that might be featured in a given film?

 

[Henry Gale]

Neither.

As I said, a character in a film saying in so many words, "You NEED this music in your life."

 

[Tim Glover]

Gotcha.

 

[Henry Gale]

Yep, this is going real well.

 

[Brandon Conway]

Would A Hard Day's Night or Help! count?

Juno - Sonic Youth is recommended strongly by Mark (Jason Bateman).

South Park episode - "Disintegration [from The Cure] is the best album ever!"

 

[Zack Gibbs]

Almost Famous had a couple I think. "Tommy will change your life" or something.

Any particular reason for the question?

 

[Don Giro]

Natalie Portman and Zack Braff "schilling" for The Shins in "Garden State": "It will change your life..."

Zooey Deschanel's handwritten note in "Almost Famous": "Listen to 'Tommy' with a single candle burning and you'll see your whole future..." Something tells me she didn't really mean a "candle," though...

 

[george kaplan]

Monty Python's Life of Brian. They tell you that the soundtrack is available in the lobby and you should buy it on the way out.

 

[Henry Gale]

Exactly!
Thanks Zack. I'd been jonesing to see Almost Famous again and that's as good a reason as any to pull it off the shelf.

Reason for the question? Vinyl junkies just want to have fun.

 

[JohnRice]

I'll have to put some thought to this. I'm sure I can come up with some.

What was John Cusack playing as he held the boombox over his head in Say Anything? Something by Peter Gabriel, wasn't it?

 

[JohnRice]

OK, here's one. Patrick Bateman extensively analyzes a lot of popular music in American Psycho. Huey Lewis, Genesis, and maybe a few more.

 

[Henry Gale]

Yes! That's another film in my collection. I knew I was into this.


Patrick Bateman: In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

 

[Holadem]

Speaking of John Cusack, High Fidelity might have a scene like that, half of it takes place in a record store anyway.

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[Mark Hawley]

There's a deleted scene on the Almost Famous DVD that strongly encourages you to go out and get a copy of Led Zeppelin IV.

 

[Henry Gale]

Holadem,
That's OK if you didn't read the first post.

 

[JohnRice]

Damone talks about playing the first or second side of some Zeppelin album, III or IV I believe, on a first date in Fast Time at Ridgemont High. Of course, then in the following scene, it is actually Houses of the Holy (I think) that Ratner is playing. I don't think anyone was supposed to know the difference.

Also, it's been a while, but I'm almost certain some specific music is touted in Empire Records.

 

[TravisR]

It's a TV show but on the last season of The Sopranos, Tony and Christopher talked about how great the soundtrack to The Departed is and then listened to Comfortably Numb.

 

[Craig S]

Yeah, he recommends side 1 of LZ IV (which, of course, ends with the ultimate 70s makeout epic "Stairway To Heaven") - and then the film cuts to Ratner & Stacey on their date with "Kashmir" (from "Physical Graffiti") on the stereo. On the DVD commentary screenwriter Cameron Crowe says that although Zeppelin approved the use of their music in the film, there was a rights snafu and they couldn't use anything from "IV" - so the band offered "Kashmir" instead. Crowe says he went with it as a joke on Ratner's cluelessness (dude clearly didn't know his Zep). Director Amy Heckerling says that musically she thought "Kashmir" worked better in the scene, and I agree. When you hear that music you just know this date is a disaster in the making!

What both of those example have in common is that they're Cameron Crowe scripts, and the artists in question rarely approve use of their music in films. Zeppelin agreed because of Crowe's being a supporter during his "Rolling Stone" days. In the case of Say Anything, I believe I read that Crowe personally appealed to Gabriel for the use of the song, and sent him a script. Gabriel liked the script, approved the use of "In Your Eyes", and a classic scene was born.

 

[Holadem]

Oh -- I am Legend and The Visitor have scenes like that as well.

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