Movies, Music and More OH MY!

THIS LIST OF GREAT MOVIE MUSIC MOMENTS is pretty good, but of course I have a few thoughts:

1. Fight the Power from Do the Right Thing is woefully low-ranked here.

2. I'm glad they chose Try a Little Tenderness from Pretty in Pink to check off the John Hughes category over Twist and Shout from Ferris Bueller's Day Off because I've always loved Otis Redding and hated Ferris Bueller. 

3. The Zeppelin song in Fast Times at Ridgemont High is okay but WAY more iconic would be the Phoebe Cates pool scene showing her tittays along to the Cars' Moving in Stereo. I don't like the song, but iconic is iconic (and tittays are tittays).

4. Tough to pick just one for Dazed and Confused. Impossible, really.

5. The Tiny Dancer scene in Almost Famous is an ALMOST perfect scene - every movement and head turn is perfect, even down to the number of times the bass player hits Billy Crudup's shoulder at the end. You can feel that early-morning bad feeling roll off everybody's face. Awesome.  EXCEPT.  The greatness of the scene gets COMPLETELY undermined by the ridiculous corniness of the "you are home" nonsense with the kid and Kate Hudson. Sucks the life outta the whole gotdam thing. 

6. Wait - you have a scene from Goodfellas and it's not Then He Kissed Me in one of the most iconic long take scenes in movie history? At worst not even the piano coda from Layla at the end? I have NO idea wtf Atlantis by Donovon is. Terrible pick here, Rolling Stone!!

7. Lots to choose from in Rushmore, of which the soundtrack is almost a whole character to itself. Which I think became a Wes Anderson "thing".

8. How on Earth is any scene from Boogie Nights on this list that's not the Jesse's Girl/Sister Christian Alfred Molina scene, a scene that's so good it almost overwhelms an entire movie that's great?

9. The In Your Eyes boombox scene from Say Anything always deserves to be on a list like this but is also a good excuse to remind ourselves that The Replacements' classic Within Your Reach also appears in the flick.

10. Of course the title scene for A Hard Day's Night is absolutely perfect (sorry George!)