Best use of a song in a film

[MmzHrrdb]

A Clockwork Orange deserves a very honorable mention for the music used in that film, and I also loved the music featured in the climactic action sequence in Charlie's Angels (Smack My Bitch Up by Prodigy and Ya Mama by Fatboy Slim) but since New Born by Muse is my favourite song of all time, I'm going to have to give it to the car chase scene in High Tension in which it's featured. They could not have chosen a better song.

[Stain]

I'll probably think of something better as soon as I hit "Submit", but how about Steppenwolf's "Magic Carpet Ride" in Star Trek: First Contact.

[Spunkie]

Some I can think of right away :

Ride of the Valkyries march of the helicopters in Apocalypse Now! It's also spot on with historical significance. Apocalypse is coming, so this is -The End-.

Fight The Power in Do the Right Thing. The song is used the flashy opening sequence and travels around the movie.

Can anyone think of Three Colors: Blue without Preisner's powerful theme? Whenever Kieslowski paints it blue, the theme kicks in sending shivers up my spine.

White Rabbit although wildly popular and obvious, marks Fear and Loathing. While the song is an allegory of Alice and drug use of the era, I can't think of Del Toro on acid trying to electrocute himself when I hear the tune.

Arizone Dream is a joyride inside the dreamscape of Kusturica with a killer soundtrack, but most of all In the Deathcar. Ederlezi in Time of the Gypsies, the traditional mourning song starts right before the dream sequences alerting our senses something eerie is going to happen.

The highly debated Koyaanisqatsi wouldn't be as significant if most of the sequences weren't synched with Philip Glass' progressions.

Don't You Forget About Me is cheesy as hell and contains that feeling of my childhood in the 80ies from teenage angst masterpiece Breakfast Club.

Possesion sequence in Bettlejuice, Day-O, another cheesy hit of 80ies.

6 inches forward, 5 inches back, Hedwig's got an angry inch.

Long Good Friday, a somewhat known English crime movie is carried by Francis Monkman's soundtrack, which is a bit reminisecent of Exorcist's Tubular Bells. Both very efficient.

Requiem for a Dream's overly abused overture is maybe half the movies success.

Kenji Kawai's score in the most striking scenes in Ghost in the Shell is a must for me.

In the short film "More" while the idea is obvious New Order's Elegia triples memorability factor.

Bismillah, noooo, we will not let you goooo. Wacky humor of Wayne's World with Queen's best.

Earlier Wong Kar Wai is epitome of naive use of Chinese versions of popular songs.

And oh Blade Runner! There is no letting go from Vangelis from the very first second to last.

Tarantino and Baz Luhrmann are the obvious directors as far as music use is concerned.

[Pickpocket]

Apocalypse Now - the intro with The Doors song "the end"

Magnolia - Aimee Mann's Wise Up when all the actors sing a part of it

Lost in Translation - the whole thing. kevin shields =

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[Bojangles]

Blade Runner, end credits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1skkb-6R6U0&feature=related
The Big Lebowski, Bob Dylan's The Man in Me during the hallucination scenes.
Heat, Moby's God Moving Over The Face Of the Waters in the final scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doyix3dRGb8&fmt=18 SPOILERZ LOL
Goodfellas, Layla (piano exit).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAvgCloTNI0
Taxi Driver, Jackson Browne's Late For The Sky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61kkRHw_uF4
The Insider, Massive Attack's Safe From Harm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEIMNeHyAio&feature=related&fmt=18
Mean Streets, The Rolling Stones' Jumpin Jack Flash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsTPL0iCzpI

k that's enough.