Favorite Film/TV Needle Drops

Trying to avoid the overwhelmingly obvious here and therefore:

No Don't Stop Me Now in Shaun of the Dead

No Where Is My Mind? in Fight Club

No Sound of Silence in The Graduate

No Stuck in the Middle with You in Reservoir Dogs

No Bohemian Rhapsody in Wayne's World

No New Slang in Garden State

So on and so forth

I'll admit this is on the cusp of being too obvious to in... more
Say what you want about Lost (or don't, I'm sensitive and... more
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Absolute genius Terrence Malick's Badlands is largely an ... more
Gregg Araki, MASSIVE shoegaze fan, brilliantly used this ... more
An early highlight, this scene brilliantly flips the clas... more

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Jesse Plemons, who has since continued his ascent to beco... more
A beautiful film with a beautiful ending featuring a beau... more
Shameless taken by Stranger Things, over and over, this a... more
Incredible montage, incredible film — this track carries ... more
The perfect (hehe), extraordinarily well acted, ending to... more
I won't spoil exactly how this track is used in the film ... more
Worth every penny of the quarter million dollars they pai... more
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Boy does the end of this movie go hard. Kate Bush wrote t... more
This song is less of a feature and more of a character in... more
Soundtracking moments in the first, third, seventh episod... more
An insanely cathartic ending to an otherwise cold and sto... more
For my money, one of the best scenes in any movie ever. W... more

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