Great Musical Moments Captured on Film, part fivezzzzzzz.....

In the latest installment of bone-idle blogging, I'm moving on from actual artists appearing on-screen to the use of music on film. Many directors, from the good to the bad, have used music on film to convey moods or to enhance a scene, even breaking Cameron Crowe's rule that the lyrics from a song should never match what's going on in a scene. To be fair, even CC has broken that rule with Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" during Vanilla Sky.

I decided, however, to focus down on kick-arse openings to movies. After considering being bang-up-to-date with The Social Network beginning in media res with The White Stripes "Ball and Biscuit" blues howl over Mark Zuckerberg and Erica Albright's breakup, I then moved on to ruling out High Fidelity opening with The 13th Floor Elevator's "You're Gonna Miss Me".....anyone sensing a theme here?

Finally, I settled on the intro to Wes Anderson's Rushmore, which makes wonderful use of The Creation's garage rock classic "Making Time". A terrific introduction into the world of Wes Anderson, a man who always seems to come up with the goods on his soundtracks. Enjoy!

Great Musical Moments Captured on Film - part four!

Yasss! It's back again folks, that time no-one looks forward to but me.......Warning: this blog contains swearing. Edgy!

This time, I give you the meeting of hip hop visionaries GZA (Gary Grice, The Genius, Gizza) and RZA (Robert Diggs, Rizza, Bobby Digital), and Mr Bill Murray, acting legend, in Jim Jarmusch's 2003 classic Coffee and Cigarettes. Words can't do this justice, so here you go:




Herbal tea and "Bill Motherfuckin' Murray". It's crazy, yo.