It's a 1960s movie

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daredevil wrote:
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Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
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Kick Out the Jams
Born to be Wild
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
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If it’s an actual 60s comedy movie, there’s at least a 40% chance there will be someone in a gorilla suit somewhere in it.
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If it’s an actual 60s comedy movie, there’s at least a 40% chance there will be someone in a gorilla suit somewhere in it.
And/or Joe Flynn is in the cast.
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Looking at what people have offered up, what's notably missing is the Beatles. I don't disagree, but is this simply a case of it costing too much to license Beatles songs (Mad Men paid $250K to use "Tomorrow Never Knows"—to superb effect—in one episode) or is it a case that the Beatles just didn't produce music that has achieved that kind of iconic status with the generic hippie/Vietnam imagery? The easier answer is the former, but I think there might be something to the latter.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:06pm
Looking at what people have offered up, what's notably missing is the Beatles. I don't disagree, but is this simply a case of it costing too much to license Beatles songs (Mad Men paid $250K to use "Tomorrow Never Knows"—to superb effect—in one episode) or is it a case that the Beatles just didn't produce music that has achieved that kind of iconic status with the generic hippie/Vietnam imagery? The easier answer is the former, but I think there might be something to the latter.
Could it be a little of both? For instance if Beatles songs cost too much movie makers were forced to go with different songs which in some cases gave better visibility to some songs/artists. And perhaps this created an idea of what a 60s soindtrack should sound like. Just a theory. I'll go on record as saying I'm not a big Beatles fan, I dont dislike them just don't get moved by them all that much (with a few exceptions). I think the Beatles became somewhat institutional and can lack some of the edge that some other songs from that era have. As well as not so often being so overtly political and lending to the message that some move makers are going for.

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revbob wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:35pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:06pm
Looking at what people have offered up, what's notably missing is the Beatles. I don't disagree, but is this simply a case of it costing too much to license Beatles songs (Mad Men paid $250K to use "Tomorrow Never Knows"—to superb effect—in one episode) or is it a case that the Beatles just didn't produce music that has achieved that kind of iconic status with the generic hippie/Vietnam imagery? The easier answer is the former, but I think there might be something to the latter.
Could it be a little of both? For instance if Beatles songs cost too much movie makers were forced to go with different songs which in some cases gave better visibility to some songs/artists. And perhaps this created an idea of what a 60s soindtrack should sound like. Just a theory. I'll go on record as saying I'm not a big Beatles fan, I dont dislike them just don't get moved by them all that much (with a few exceptions). I think the Beatles became somewhat institutional and can lack some of the edge that some other songs from that era have. As well as not so often being so overtly political and lending to the message that some move makers are going for.
I like this idea as it has that unintentional, self-generating engine aspect to it. The other possibility that I wonder is that, Stones aside, the list is American. It does make some sense that there's something very local about how these things are constructed.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:43pm
revbob wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:35pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:06pm
Looking at what people have offered up, what's notably missing is the Beatles. I don't disagree, but is this simply a case of it costing too much to license Beatles songs (Mad Men paid $250K to use "Tomorrow Never Knows"—to superb effect—in one episode) or is it a case that the Beatles just didn't produce music that has achieved that kind of iconic status with the generic hippie/Vietnam imagery? The easier answer is the former, but I think there might be something to the latter.
Could it be a little of both? For instance if Beatles songs cost too much movie makers were forced to go with different songs which in some cases gave better visibility to some songs/artists. And perhaps this created an idea of what a 60s soindtrack should sound like. Just a theory. I'll go on record as saying I'm not a big Beatles fan, I dont dislike them just don't get moved by them all that much (with a few exceptions). I think the Beatles became somewhat institutional and can lack some of the edge that some other songs from that era have. As well as not so often being so overtly political and lending to the message that some move makers are going for.
I like this idea as it has that unintentional, self-generating engine aspect to it. The other possibility that I wonder is that, Stones aside, the list is American. It does make some sense that there's something very local about how these things are constructed.
Yeah other than say Paint it Black, Satisfaction (in Apocalypse Now), We Gotta get out of this Place and a few others the songs for such movies I think tend to be overwhelming American and I think other than perhpas having a song of that era American songs of that period are usually a better reflection of the times as experienced from the American perspective.

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revbob wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:53pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:43pm
revbob wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:35pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 9:06pm
Looking at what people have offered up, what's notably missing is the Beatles. I don't disagree, but is this simply a case of it costing too much to license Beatles songs (Mad Men paid $250K to use "Tomorrow Never Knows"—to superb effect—in one episode) or is it a case that the Beatles just didn't produce music that has achieved that kind of iconic status with the generic hippie/Vietnam imagery? The easier answer is the former, but I think there might be something to the latter.
Could it be a little of both? For instance if Beatles songs cost too much movie makers were forced to go with different songs which in some cases gave better visibility to some songs/artists. And perhaps this created an idea of what a 60s soindtrack should sound like. Just a theory. I'll go on record as saying I'm not a big Beatles fan, I dont dislike them just don't get moved by them all that much (with a few exceptions). I think the Beatles became somewhat institutional and can lack some of the edge that some other songs from that era have. As well as not so often being so overtly political and lending to the message that some move makers are going for.
I like this idea as it has that unintentional, self-generating engine aspect to it. The other possibility that I wonder is that, Stones aside, the list is American. It does make some sense that there's something very local about how these things are constructed.
Yeah other than say Paint it Black, Satisfaction (in Apocalypse Now), We Gotta get out of this Place and a few others the songs for such movies I think tend to be overwhelming American and I think other than perhpas having a song of that era American songs of that period are usually a better reflection of the times as experienced from the American perspective.
And, really, with their affection for blues, the Stones were always more American sounding than the Beatles.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 3:44pm
coffeepotman wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 3:23pm
Such a wide spectrum to choose from Velvet Underground to the Four Tops and everything in between
VU is too outre for most 60s flicks, I'd say. As Inder put it, the songs from Time-Life ads—with aging Boomers grooving on their past, "when the music meant something."
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08 Feb 2018, 4:27pm
Barry McGuire - Eve of Destruction
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Feb 2018, 3:13pm

CCR - Fortunate Son (I have had this playing in my head all morning—so bloody good)
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tepista wrote:
09 Feb 2018, 12:09am
Time Has Come Today
Good call. Very effective in 'Coming Home' with Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern and Jon Voight, along with the Stones' Out of Time, JJ Flash and Sympathy, all played in their entirety (very unusual to play the full track, but those scenes really benefit from it).
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