Neoptolemos made an interesting comment over on the Survivor thread about songs which we like, or like more, after hearing them in a movie. It got me thinking about some of my own:

The Rolling Stones, "Gimme Shelter" (GoodFellas)
Dropkick Murphys, "Shipping Up to Boston" (The Departed)
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, "Matador" (Grosse Pointe Blank)
B-52's, "Rock Lobster" (Knocked Up)
Dick Dale, "Misirlou" (Pulp Fiction)
Statler Brothers, "Flowers on the Wall" (also Pulp Fiction)

There are probably a hundred more, but that's off the top of my head. I should also mention the TV show "Scrubs," which has hilariously recontextualized more songs than I can count; at the moment I'm visualizing the air-band version of Boston's "More Than a Feeling."

Waddayou got?

Gimme Shelter and Shipping Up To Boston here as well, and I'll add to that list:

Movies:
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
Ennio Morricone - Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time in America (Once Upon A Time In America
Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs)
Sting - Shape Of My Heart (Léon)
The Rolling Stones - Street Fightin' Man (V For Vendetta)


Tears For Fears - Mad World (Cover by Gary Jules in Donnie Darko)

Series:
Kim Richey - A Place Called Home (Angel)
Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled (Angel)
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace (Buffy)
U2 - With Or Without You (Friends)

Videogames:
Rod Stewart - Young Turks (GTA San Andreas
The Who - Eminence Front (GTA San Andreas)
Buggles - Video Killed The Radiostar (GTA Vice City)

I could probably

Gimme Shelter and Shipping Up To Boston here as well, and I'll add to that list:

Movies:
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia (Philadelphia)
Ennio Morricone - Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon A Time in America (Once Upon A Time In America
Stealer's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You (Reservoir Dogs)
Sting - Shape Of My Heart (Léon)
The Rolling Stones - Street Fightin' Man (V For Vendetta)
Tears For Fears - Mad World (Cover by Gary Jules in Donnie Darko)

Series:
Kim Richey - A Place Called Home (Angel)
Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled (Angel)
Sarah McLachlan - Full of Grace (Buffy)
U2 - With Or Without You (Friends)

Videogames:
Rod Stewart - Young Turks (GTA San Andreas
The Who - Eminence Front (GTA San Andreas)
Buggles - Video Killed The Radiostar (GTA Vice City)

I could probably think of a few more, but that's what comes to mind right now.

Bah.. sorry.

Obviously, Scorcese and Tarantino have unusually fine taste in music for Hollywood types, or at least an intuative ability to marry stylish visual material to suitable musical accompaniament.
Sometimes, though, the love of a film can engender serious lapses in musical taste. In the early 90s I got so into Richard Linklater's Dazed And Confused that I was happily listening to 70s AOR no-marks like Edgar Winter, Head East and Foghat for a few regrettable weeks.
The flip side is that a great film can re-affirm musical tastes, as with The Big Lebowski, which sent me back to Creedence Clearwater Revival and Captain Beefheart's 'Clear Spot'.

Moby - Porcelain (The Beach)

Sorry about the whole Benoit fiasco LOL! He was a great wrestler. In fact the Soundtrack or Our Lives had a single called "Big Time" used in WWE's promo. I think you could name any single off the new Feist record and it's been played in some commercial, movie or TV show. I also loved Falling Slowly by Glen Hansard Markéta Irglová from Once and "Mayor of the Sunset Strip" by Marizane from the movie Mayor of the Sunset Strip, the original Almost Famous.

I just thought of one: Sigur Rós - Untitled #4 (a.k.a. "Njósnavélin" or "The Nothing Song") - from Vanilla Sky.

Not the greatest movie I’ve ever seen (in fact, with time I find more and more wrong with it), however, there’s a poignant scene at the end where Tom Cruise’s character jumps off a skyscraper, and while he’s falling, a series of images that he remembers from his life flashes on the screen (in almost stroboscopic fashion) and this song is playing in the background.

Interestingly, the song had yet to be officially released by Sigur Rós, but Cameron Crowe was so enamored after hearing the live version of that song, that he used it for the film. The album, ( ) , was subsequently released a few months later and contained the studio recording of the song.

Amazing song, amazing album. The film? Not so much.

Nobody has mentioned anything out of Wes Anderson's films? The entire Rushmore soundtrack is awesome including the Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) input. All of his other movies have good soundtracks too, but I don't think there has ever been a soundtrack as good as Rushmore...plus the movie is one of the best ever!

I think the song is called "Gonna Make a Pie" from Waitress. Everytime I hear it I think the of poor directer who was brutally murdered. Very bittersweet :-(

Audrey Hepburn’s “Moon River” in Blake Edward’s “Breakfast at Tifanny’s”
Beck’s “Everybody’s Got to Learn Something” in Michel Gondry’s “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”
The Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” in Lawrence Kasdan’s “The Big Chill”

Good call on Beck, and I would add Deep Blue Something's Breakfast at Tiffany's to Moon River.

I second Rushmore, my favorite movie of all time. Moonlight Mile is also a movie that uses music well, especially "I'll Be Your Lover, Too" and "Astral Weeks" by Van Morrison, my favorite artist of all time.

Am i the only one who hat3es rock music being blasted at you in films? Instrumental pieces are much more effective i find

Ladies and gentlemen!

The Usual Suspects (movie)
Main Theme (from The Usual Suspects) (song)

Scorsese. Again. Casino. Devo. Satisfaction. Awe.
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Sum
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Sentence. Construct. Please. A.

Almost Famous:

"Tiny Dancer" by Elton John

"America" by Simon & Garfunkel

Ver.Ne!!

Chris, you sound like a good man. Putting Van Morrison in a movie bumps it up in my book.