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Bit of a cliche now but the Doors' 'The End' in Apocalypse Now.

It just works.

Every use of Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" as the camera swoops in over a battle scene. At least shake it up a bit and use the Pat Boone version.

That scene in Half Nelson where Shareeka Epps finds Ryan Gosling in the motel with that sketchy dude and the two hookers. There's a Broken Social Scene song playing, I'm nearly positive it's "Shampoo Suicide."

The face he makes when he opens the door and sees her and nods his head- fucking amazing.

Also in The Royal Tenenbaums when The Baumer(Luke Wilson)slits his wrist to Elliot Smith. That scene is fucking powerful .

I'm showing my sappy, loserish side here, but "I'll Be Seeing You" in The Notebook just kills me. I'm a sucker for the old-timey tunes.

Of course, one of the all time greatest is Damien Rice's "The Blower's Daughter" from Closer. Fucking gorgeous.

No Easy Way Out- Rocky IV

The use of "Red Right Hand" by Nick cave in Dumb and Dumber was incomprehensible and bugs me to this day.
I loved "Running the World" by Jarvis Cocker during the credits of Children of Men.

Just remembered one more...
From John from Cincinnati, the series finale Bob Dylan's Series of a Dream... wonderful floating guitar over visuals of surfing... I had to watch the sequence a number of times...

I loved "Running the World" by Jarvis Cocker during the credits of Children of Men.

You don't mean the end credits, do you? 'Cause when I rented the DVD of Children of Men the end credits were set to "Bring On De Lucie (Freda Peeple)," a lost gem of a song by John Lennon (it's from Mind Games). I hadn't heard it in years; downloaded it that very night, which is why I remember.

Best:

That one guy's version of Hallelujah in Shrek. You know how perfect it is, I don't have to elaborate.

The Four Seasons' Walk Like a Man in Heart and Soul

Baz [unspellable]'s Romeo and Juliet was full of perfection, too. "Talk Show Host" by Radiohead. "I'm Kissing You" by Des'ree.

Worst:

Everything in Moulin Rouge. Baz Unspellable, in my books, represents the absolute best and worst of what can happen when you employ absurdity in a mainstream film. Either you can make a really balls-to-the-wall movie full of raw teen angst that somehow works despite the suicide-inspiring acting (no pun intended, haw haw haw). Or you can make an overproduced self indulgent POS with the flimsiest plot in existence, casting two A-listers with no chemistry to clumsily either pant or simper. Singing ability? Oh, not important! No no, don't worry. We'll fix it up in post. Just bellow the lyrics, it'll be fine.

I forgot "Blue Velvet" in the film Blue Velvet. The times they use this song it really strikes a chord in me.

"Across the Universe" by Fiona Apple in Pleasantville. It's a beautiful song that fits the film nicely.

Devotchka's score for Little Miss Sunshine was quite catchy and well done. I loved it.

A bad usage of a good song was in the Feast of Love trailer. They used "The Bleeding Heart Show" by The New Pornographers. What a lousy looking movie.

Depending on who you are, the movie Juno either has the perfect song choices, or the shittiest fucking song choices in the history of mankind. Debate settled.

Best use of a song: Any movie that had a Queen song. Wayne's World, Highlander, Flash Gordon, Mighty Ducks, you name it. Queen just works.

Also, Eye of the Tiger in Rocky. Hey it may be cliche now, but it was full of awesome then.

Worst use of a song: Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, from fucking Armageddon. It was already a bad song, but combined with the patented Bay-O-Vision sweeping shots made it even more Narmtastic than ever.

Posted by: chayes at June 17, 2009 9:33 PM

It makes even funnier if you pretend that the song was going through Nite Owl's head the entire scene.

Hallelujah, indeed.

I realize many won't even like the film - but I enjoy Bridget Jones' Diary (the first one, not the sequel). But close to every single song in that is just bad and doesn't fit and always reminds me that I'm watching a movie.

Augh, "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" in fucking SPIDERMAN, alphawhiskey. Augh I wanted to never remember that again.

"Jelly, Jelly Blues" by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in Love Jones (go watch if, fuckers). If you've seen it (go, now) you know the scene and just how perfect that song was.

The use of "I've Got You, Babe" on Groundhog Day is truly inspired.

Worse:

"Stayin' Alive" on Spiderman 3.

Fuck Spiderman 3.

Love Sam Raimi.

Fuck Spiderman 3.

Donovan's "Atlantis" in Goodfellas, while Billy Bats is being stomped to near death.

Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" at the very end of The Sopranos. I loved that ambiguous series ending (even though I can't stand that song).

& the "Dies Irae" at the beginning of The Shining is great in combo with the aerial photography following the car...

"Oh Yeah" by Yello in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It was the go-to 80's filler music (Secret of My Success comes to mind too), but Ferris Bueller is all about that song. Que Bella!

Best:
"Taste the Pain" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the opening scene of Say Anything. Sets up Lloyd Dobler perfectly.
"Spybreak" by the Propellerheads in The Matrix when Neo and Trinity fuck shit up in the lobby when they go to rescue Morpheus.
Worst:
"Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon" by Urge Overkill in Pulp Fiction. Painful. Maybe it's just because I hate that song.

"Ruby Tuesday" in Children in Men > most

One of my favorites has always been the use of the Dire Straits' Romeo and Juliet in Empire Records. But it might just be that I love that song. Of course, Say No More, Mon Amour is really the piece de resistance of that movie.

Oh, and to pile it on Watchmen, why in the hell was My Chemical Romance allowed to touch "Desolation Row"?! A disgusting cover.

Dylan:
The Times they are a'Changin'

WATCHMEN! GO!

Though I may have misspelled that. "Staralfur"? I think that's it.

I second the Damien Rice love.

"Ripchord" by Rilo Kiley in Conversations with Other Women.

"Can I Kick It?" by A Tribe Called Quest in The Wackness.

"Ooh La La" by The Faces at the end of Rushmore. Growing up.

"Chicago" by Sufjan Stevens in Little Miss Sunshine.

"Trouble" by Cat Stevens in Harold & Maude. If I had to pick just one. I'd kill movie execs if that song was used for another movie.

Most painful song choices?

"Bennie and the Jets" by Elton John in 27 Dresses. Skank Cancer drunkenly singing in her best off-key voice. Ugh.

"This Year's Love" by David Gray in The Girl Next Door. Way too serious for that movie.

"Mr. Brightside" in The Holiday. What?

As for T.V.

"Devil Town" in Friday Night Lights. Come ON. Perfect.
and
"Come Around" by Rhett Miller on Scrubs.

Memorable use:
"Don't You Forget About Me" - Breakfast Club
"Falling Slowly" - Once
The entire soundtrack of The Crow
"Down in Mexico" - Deathproof
"LLorando" by Rebekah del Rio - Mulholland Drive
"Ay Ay Ay Paloma" Gilberto Gil - Habla con Ella/Talk to her. Seriously this is the most gorgeous song use in a film ever.

Worst:
"I Say A Little Prayer" - My Best Friend's Wedding. This scene is hiney cringing bad. There's a dude with a lobster claw waving his hands around as the whole restaurant sings along.

Ditto to "Blower's Daughter" - Closer, "The End" - Apocolypse Now, "Tiny Dancer" - Almost Famous

Best: (though some of these examples are from the credits of the movies)

The Pixies-Where Is My Mind?: Fight Club

The Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday: Children of Men
The Rolling Stones - Street Fighting Man: V for Vendetta

Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth: Wall-E

George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag: Reservoir Dogs

The Blues Brothers - Everybody Needs Somebody to Love: The Blues Brothers

Most of Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack, specially DeVotchka's songs (the instrumental version of How It Ends in the opening scenes is my favorite)

Bob Seeger - Old Time Rock and Roll: Risky Business (sorry, I love that song and that scene)

A good one that pops into my mind is Stuck in the Middle With You during Reservoir Dogs. And that entire soundtrack rocks.

Nico covering Jackson Brown's "These Days" from The Royal Tenenbaums as Margot disembarks the Green Line Bus.

Peter Sarstedt's Where Do You Go To My Lovely in Hotel Chevalier (Darjeeling Limited mini-prequal)

Rufus Wainwright's "Beautiful Child" at the end of The Baxter

Kenny Rogers's "Just Dropped In" in The Big Lebowski

Worst:

Jane Siberry's "Calling All Angels" at the end of Pay it Forward

BEST:
1) "Butt Machine" at the end of an episode in Weeds Season 3 where this badass character rigs the sewage line to explode during an unveiling, and he's dancing to that song. Basically, any song in the first 3 seasons of Weeds they chose to end the episode. All fuckin' brilliant choices.
2) "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime" by Beck in the beginning of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Beautiful song for the moment.
3) "Painted Black" by the Rolling Stones in Full Metal Jacket used in the closin' credits.
4) "I'm a Man" by Black Strobe during the opening credits of RocknRolla.

WORST:
1) Tom Cruise singing "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty in Jerry Mcguire... argh. Fuck you, you annoying little man.
2) this is hard to think of, but there's a lot of movies that have some awful fuckin' song choices... like NINE INCH FREAKING NAILS in 300. Whatev.

There's so many good ones here, but I have to add "Storybook Love" from The Princess Bride.

Ooh ooh! And the unequivocal best use of a song in a movie is "Get Back" by Ludacris at the end of Tropic Thunder. Tom Cruise bought himself a lifetime free pass for craziness with that dance.

sansho1: Isn't that Verdi's Requiem in the beginning of Battle Royale? Though I agree,that music choice knocked my socks off.

On a Requiem note, I also love the bit in Amadeus when Mozart's Requiem is used.

Best:
'Handbag and Gladrags' (instrumental): end credits of The Office UK.

'Most of the time' - Bob Dylan: High Fidelity

'Where Do You Go To My Lovely' - Peter Sarstedt: Darjeeling Limited

Worst:
i second on 'Raindrops keep falling on my head': butch cassidy and the sundance kid. it makes the scene even more bizzare (Paul newman doing bike acrobats..??)

cleverpeach, I might have to recheck. I saw it at a film fest back in 2001 before its eventual DVD release, and "Carmina Burana" kicked in right as the announcer looked at the blood-spattered ragamuffin just off the helicopter and said "I can't believe this -- she's smiling!" and the opening credits rolled. Then when I saw it on DVD I noticed a bunch of editing changes. Hmmm....

No question...

A tie between Layla in Goodfellas and Analyse by Thom Yorke at the end of The Prestige.

Both gave me massive chills.

All of Trainspotting, especially "Perfect Day"

You Could Be Mine - T2

It just kicked so much ass. Brilliant marketing as well.

Ditto what figgy says on the Oh Brother, Where Art Thou soundtrack.

My favorite non-credits song has to be The Rolling Stones' version of "Time Is on My Side" used in Fallen.

The entire soundtrack to The Virgin Suicides.

Cat Power - I Found A Reason from V for Vendetta.

I emphatically agree that "Where Is My Mind" is perfect for that final scene in Fight Club. Amid all the schizophrenia and crumbling buildings, what other song could be better?

I'd also like to express my love for Donovan's "Hurdy-Gurdy Man" in L.I.E. As Brian Cox (the pedophile) is driving slowly through the suburban streets like a shark on the hunt, this song adds just the right retro-creepy mood.

On the crappy side of things, Top Gun desecrated "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" and Risky Business took a crappy song ("Old Time Rock And Roll") by a crappy artist (Bob Seger) and let a crappy actor, and for that matter a crappy human (Tom Cruise) lip-sync it until the movie excreted an inherently unstable, super-concentrated, highly-radioactive isotope of crap that threatened to devour the entire human race.

Worst:
Layla (Goodfellas) - I hate most of Scorsese's choices for music. I usually like the song, but hate the placement.

Back in Black (Iron Man) - Robert Downey Jr. is way too cool to be introduced by AC/DC. This song, especially, has become a cliche for introducing cool characters in action movies.

Seymour Stein (High Fidelity) - This is the song Barry puts on to prove he can sell a record on the spot. I like this song alright, but Belle and Sebastian is not the kind of music that makes you perk up your ears and ask "What band is this?"

Best(I'm not counting original scores):
Shout (Animal House)

Gloria (The Outsiders)

Tiny Dancer and Tangerine (Almost Famous)

Mrs. Robinson and the Sound of Silence (The Graduate)

Where is My Mind? (Fight Club)

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime (Eternal Sunshine)

Freddie's Dead (Superfly)

Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001: A Space Odyssey)

Fight the Power (Do the Right Thing)

Say what you will about Moulin Rouge, but that tango version of "Roxanne" was a stroke of genius.

Every single song choice in "The Big Lebowski" is pitch-perfect, from the tumbleweed song at the beginning right on down to Townes Van Zant's "Dead Flowers" cover at the end.

I almost never notice the music in a movie. Seriously. I'm sure it registers at some subconscious level, but somehow I don't hear it.

That said, I DO kinda like it in "Die Hard" when the bad guys crack the vault open to "Ode to Joy."

It was "Ode to Joy," wasn't it?

See?

Oh, yeah, forgot: The soundtrack to "Woodstock" is terrible, they should have used some better bands.

So much goodness here - I'm down with the Moulin (suck it), the Stones, MIA, and anything Blues Brothers (Rawhide: cannot get better than that, sorry)...

I'll add the few I can think of:

- Dirty Dancing, 'Hey Baby'
- X-men 3 I guess? 'Centre of the Sun' Conjure1 (very pretty song, very subtle)
- Full Monty 'Sexy Thing'
- Philadelphia - whatever that Maria Callas song was that Hanks explained...
- Natural Born Killers - 'Shit List'

Not the strongest entries, but they'll do...

Can't belive I forgot about "Don't Stop Me Now" in Shaun of the Dead. Perfect.

He's already been mentioned a few times, but Wes Anderson is a genius with song choices. Of particular impact are "Hey Jude" and "Needle in the Hay" in The Royal Tenenbaums, and "Staralfur" in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou.

Worst? Anything in Daredevil.

To me a good song is one that when you hear it you can't help but think of the scene that it was playing over.

For the best,

"Devil Town" in multiple episdoes of Friday Night Lights. They played in in the 3rd (?) episode and first season finale. Both are awesome. Honorable mention to "Revival" by the Soulsavers during an episode this past season. Absolute perfection.

"Layla" in Goodfellas. Every single time I hear that song I think about the bodies being discovered one by one.

Everything in Mermaids. So perfect, every single one.

The worst,

I second (third, fourth, fifth?) the Moulin Rouge hate. My college roommate would sing that damn soundtrack every weekend when they were drunk. God I hate, hate, hate it.

I apologize for any obvious typos. I just drank A LOT of wine.

Surpised no one has mentioned:

Best
- "Remember Me As a Time of Day" Explosions in the Sky (Friday Night Lights) - fits perfectly with the atmosphere in the movie
- Stuck in the Middle (Reservoir Dogs)
- The Seed 2.0 (Collateral)
Worst
- Most of the Forrest Gump soundtrack
- Let's Hear It for the Boys (Footloose)
- It's In the Way That You Move It (Color of Money)

"Singin' In The Rain" - Clockwork Orange. The whole soundtrack really, as well as 2001.

The "Intermezzo" from Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" at the beginning of Raging Bull.

Gorecki's 3rd in "Basquiat" (and the Armando Iannucci shows, of course)

Also, that song from "Even Dwarfs Started Small".

Don't really know about bad.... I want to see Watchmen now, though.

Best: I just love Jennifer Saunders' version of "Holding Out For A Hero" in Shrek 2 as Shrek and co. storm the castle. It's campy and OTT, but it's just brilliant for the scene, and dragged the whole movie up in my mind. If we're going with scores, I have to back krza - "In The House, In A Heartbeat" from 28 Days Later is chillingly perfect. And a nomination for "Musical choice so good, you actually like the movie more" - as awful a film as Crash is, I loved the use of "Maybe Tomorrow" by the Stereophonics over the closing scenes. And finally, gotta give a nod to "Hot Stuff" in the Full Monty.

Worst: I'm having real trouble thinking of anything to top the Hallelujah scene in Watchmen. I can think of some truly awful musical moments in bad films ("Bring Me To Life" playing over Elektra's training scene in Daredevil stands out as one where those of us watching just scoffed and mocked), but much fewer where a bad musical choice has ruined an otherwise good scene. Watchmen is literally the only movie I've ever left thinking to myself "Man, I'd have liked that a whole lot more with a better soundtrack".

Since folks decided to throw in TV shows now, I put forth Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo. Especially the respective theme songs.

The whole Watchmen soundtrack left me cold. I just sat there thinking song selection wasn't being given any thought -- they just knew they needed music and threw money at it. And (for me, anyway) the subject matter didn't warrant the heavy dose of iconic songs.

It is unquestionably Underworld's 'Born Slippy' at the end of Trainspotting!
In fact the entire soundtracks is awesome, how quickly we forget eh?

Honorable mentions:

The Doors, 'The End' opening Apocalypse Now
The Pixies-Where Is My Mind?: Fight Club
Needle in the Hay from The Royal Tenenbaums
Simon and Garfunkel - The only living boy in new york in Garden State

Elliot Smith throughout Good Will Hunting.

Also, Dropkick Murphys' Going Back To Boston about 15-20 minutes into The Departed when the title screen finally pops up.

Best:

Entire soundtrack to About a Boy

Soundtrack to Thelma and Louise

Soundtrack to Pulp Fiction

Hey, it's 9:25, can we get some fucking new posts up?

*taps foot, drums fingers*

Almost Famous - Tiny Dancer
Closer - Blower's Daughter
Little Miss Sunshine - Chicago
Good Will Hunting - Miss Misery
Fight Club - Wave of Mutilation
Pump up the Volume - Why Can't I Fall in Love or Let's Get Buck Naked and Fuck or Everybody Knows, fuck it...the whole soundtrack

Sometimes the music in a trailer is better than the stuff in the movie:
Cells by The Servant from Sin City.
Red Tape by Agent Provocateur from Underworld.
Woo Hoo by Blur from Starship Troopers.

But for songs in movies, my favorite is No Budget by DJ Class & Mayo from the John Water's movie Cecil B. Demented followed closely by Vanilla Ice's Go Ninja from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze...

figgy is on top of it with Wise Up, but the two best, without a doubt, are

You're The Best from Karate Kid. The epitome of a montage song.

and

Stayin' Alive from Saturday Night Fever. As my mom says, nobody swings a paint can like John Travolta. This song was perfect for that vibe.

and the two worst

Stayin' Alive from Spidey 3. No explanation needed.

The crap opening credit song to Enterprise.

Anything from Amadeus can't count. It's not fair. It's MOZART, plus it's all music by the guy the movie is about, so soundtracking isn't exactly a creative process. It'd be like going with "Georgia on my Mind" from RAY or "Walk the Line" from Walk the Line.

This might also not count, since it's a TV show, but:

Sia's "Breath Me" over the last five minues ot Six Feet Under is one of the most emotionally devastating sequences in all modern entertainment.

For worst, I can't believe no one said "A Knight's Tale." The modern pop music ("We Will Rock You?" At a joust?) was damn jarring. I realize it wasn't a great movie, but they could have at least TRIED with the soundtrack, you know?

As for best, I am partial to the songs in Snatch and Get Shorty. I always bop along to that pop jazz stuff.

For worst: every piece of music in LadyHawk. Pretty solid flick ruined by shitty music. Whoever thought to pair 80's music with a medieval period piece taking one too many hits on the crack pipe.

Edit: The song from Terminator 1 was "Burning in the 3rd Degree" not "Photoplay". Right club, wrong song.

This is not exactly a movie, but I loved the use of Nick Cave's "Lay Me Low" on that promo for the final 9 episodes of The Sopranos

I love the opening scene in Ghost World, where Enid is dancing along to the Indian movie on TV. Actually, there's a lot of good music in that movie, thanks to Seymour's obsession with blues and jazz.

Everything in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion. When they sing their made up lyrics to Footlose or when they dance to Time after Time. Good shit!

Somewhere beyond the Sea at the end of Finding Nemo gets me. But that's just a wonderful song so always a good choice.

As does La Vie En Rose in Wall-E and the Hello Dolly music in Wall-E. When he hums "sunday clothes" and dances with a trash can lid I felt new life breathed into Barbra Streisands campy musical. Hello Dolly is not a good musical but damn if "as time runs out" doesn't mist me up a bit as Wall-E pines for a loved one.

Frankly Pixar just knows whats up.

EVERYTHING IN PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT. Terrific cliches and sassy disco to compliment the best costumes the world has ever known.

OH!

"I Want Candy" in Marie Antoinette (fucking Sophia Coppola) and that song they dance to in "A Knight's Tale".

Tom Waits, "Innocent When You Dream," in Smoke.

Ooooh, love the comment threads... :)

For the worst, I absolutely agree with whoever said "Lady Marmalade". That was one of the shittiest, most annoying songs ever created or put into a movie (at least Beyonce wasn't big at that time, or her horrible screeching would have been a part of it, too).

Best...WOW. Too many to name... Okay, I'm going to repeat some of your excellent choices here:

"Kissing You", Des'ree, Romeo + Juliet
Entire Full Metal Jacket sountrack (esp. Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin']
"If You Leave", Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark, Pretty in Pink
"Put the Blame on Mame", Gilda
"Tiny Dancer", Elton John, Almost Famous
Entire Trainspotting soundtrack (esp. Born Slippy)
"Paper Planes", M.I.A, Slumdog Millionaire/ PineappleExpress
Entire Dirty Dancing soundtrack (esp. the use of Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, and The Shirelles)
"Mad World", Gary Jule's version, Donnie Darko

And, for the cheesy songs that are so bad they're good, and just fit in and are the first thing people think of when they think of these movies:

"I Wanna Sex You Up", Color Me Badd, New Jack City
"Take My Breath Away", Berlin, Top Gun
"Everything I Do, I Do For You", Bryan Adams, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

the Sigur Ros song in Steve Zizou when they find the jaguar shark (actually, anything goes well with Bill Murra's tears)

Yes Ma'am The Sopranos does have some classics. I don't know the season or episode, but it ends with Meadow telling Carmela that she is getting married. The looks on Edie Falco's face with the Johnny Cash song, "If I were a Carpenter" just kills me.

And also...when Kate Hudson is dancing on the stage to "The Wind" by Cat Stevens in Almost Famous. Think I like that more than Tiny Dancer and I don't particularly like Kate Hudson...

How about,

"Monterey" in Devil's Advocate

"All I Want is You" in Reality Bites

"Chewbacca" in Clerks

Ending song in Platoon

Battle song in Excalibur

BEST:

"Burn" by the Cure, The Crow
"Ooh La La" by the Faces, Rushmore
"Miss Misery" by Elliot Smith, Good Will Hunting
"Hit 'Em High" by the Monstars (B-Real, Coolio, L.L. Cool J, Method Man and Busta Rhymes), Space Jam
"Sway" by Bic Runga, American Pie
"Down to Earth" by Peter Gabriel, Wall-E
"Dare" by Stan Bush, Transformers: The Movie (if you fight me on this I WILL CUT YOU)
"Tiny Dancer" by Elton John, Almost Famous
"School's Out" by Alice Cooper, Dazed and Confused
"Three Small Words" by "Josie and the Pussycats" (actually Letters to Cleo), Josie and the Pussycats
"The Times, They Are A-Changin" by Bob Dylan, Watchmen

I'll third the "Raindrops" from Butch Cassidy as worst, but it also has one of the best: "South American Getaway." I still listen to that song and enjoy the Butchy memories.

figgy - it's Golden Years by David Bowie. Extremely excellent use of music in an otherwise silly movie.

I can only think of TV...

Best: all the music in Life on Mars (UK). Notable moments include:
The team chases a crook out of the local pool - the lot in their swimmers - to Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney/Wings (hilarious) (s.1, ep.2)
Bringing in a serial killer to the freakout bit in White Room by Cream (s.1, ep.1) and
Sinnerman by Nina Simone after unveiling a cover-up (s.1, ep.7) Brilliant.

Worst: the song at the end of every episode of Scrubs. I'm sure if you look at each episode in isolation you'll find one that works, but generally they lay it on WAY too thick. It's so fucking LAME. It's a pretty annoying show, but the weepy/melodramatic song formula makes it unwatchable.

Ooh, one I forgot earlier...although I usually detest the song, I love 'Without You' as used in Rules of Attraction, makes me go all woozy!

HELLO. No mention of South Park or Team America.

Without A Paddle - R. Kelly.

BEST -

New Born by Muse in High Tension
The Entire Breakfast On Pluto soundtrack
Kronos Quartet in Requiem For A Dream
Here With Me by Dido in Love Actually
'THe Beast' by ANgelo Badalamenti in Mulholland Drive.
Roxanne in Moulin Rouge
Jessie's GIrl in Boogie Nights
Damn in feels good to be a gangsta - Office Space

WORST - 'Last Goodbye' covered by Scarlet Johannson in He's Just Not That Into You

The entire Adventures In Babysitting soundtrack

The entire soundtrack of Rocket Science is BRILLIANT. Violent Femmes on cello? Violent Femmes in general? Plus Eef Barezlay? sooo good.