Best Uses of Non-Original Music in Film

Submitted by lukeprog on Sat, 11/26/2005 - 13:33
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  1. opening of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Richard Strauss in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  2. "East Hastings" by Godspeed You Black Emperor in 28 Days Later
  3. "Where is My Mind" by The Pixies in Fight Club
  4. "Njosnavelin" by Sigur Ros in Vanilla Sky
Author Comments: 

Suggestions highly welcome. I'm missing hundreds of more worthy candidates.

Non-original, non-incidental music doesn't count. So, "Johnny B Goode" in Back to the Future is disqualified, Mozart's music in Amadeus is disqualified, Rachmaninov's 3rd piano concerto is disqualified in Shine, and theater music used in a movie adaptation of a play is disqualified.

lukeprog11/26/2005

I can't remember. Which of these pieces is played during the fast-forward fucking scene in A Clockwork Orange?

Edward Elgar (from "Pomp and Circumstance March Nos. 1 & 4")
Gioacchino Rossini ("Overture" from opera "Guilluame Tell")
Gioacchino Rossini ("Overture" from opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia")
Gioacchino Rossini ("Overture" from opera "La gazza ladra")
Ludwig van Beethoven (from "9th symphony")
Henry Purcell (from "Music on the Death of Queen Mary")
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (from "Scheherazade")