songs you can't hear w/out thinking of a movie/tv-show scene they were used in

it's funny you didn't mention r.e.m.'s "stand" which was the Get a Life theme song.
that stalker episode is funny, cause there's some meta-stalking involved.

'the stranger song' by leonard cohen - i had heard this a million times before i ever saw 'maccabe and mrs. miller' but now i will probably always think of warren beatty riding through a snowy, hazy american frontier. or at least some sense of that graint vilmos zsigmond cinematography.....

'all you need is love' always makes me think of the last episode of 'the prisoner'.

i don't think i've heard that song in the last 8 years without saying "keeeeeeg's empty".

Others:"Moving In Stereo" (Fast Times...good call Alex!), "Everybody Want Some!" (Better Off Dead, that scene with the hamburger is genius), and "My Cherie Amour" (Almost Famous, after Penny OD's and is being resusitated)

"Comanche" by The Revels, made memorable in _Pulp Fiction_. You know the scene.

Though somehow i've managed to divorce "Miserlou" from that movie, but "Comanche" is permanently welded to it.

I just realized - despite all the music videos I've seen in my life, I don't think there's a single song that makes me automatically think of the video. But that can't be right. More likely, they ALL do, in some subliminal way.

I can't hear that song without thinking of the excellent performance of it in the Simpsons. "In The Garden Of Eden, by I. Ron Butterfly!"

'all you need is love' always makes me think of the last episode of 'the prisoner'.

I think of that same episode whenever I hear "Dem Bones".

Scorsese is so great at using popular music.

"Believe It or Not" shouldn't be mentioned in this thread. Oops. Too late.

Dude, this is exactly what I was gonna say. Wow.

Most of the Rushmore soundtrack falls into this category, but the movie used the music so well, it's forgivable, in context.

and the Simpsons make me LIKE those songs more - ever hear Homer do Radar Love?? "said my baby called me on the telephone" and he mimes a telephone - laughed for days. and singing Smoke on the Water, talking about how he's hungry for a candy bar and thinks he'll eat a Mounds.

oh and i HATE that fucking car commercial where all the yuppies are singing my favorite Faces song (also in Rushmore) "Ooh La La"

Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" - at Ben's in Blue Velvet

Rough Trade's "High School Confidential" - The truly strange football stadium scene in The Adjuster

The Byrds' "Wasn't Born to Follow" - the valley/river scene in Easy Rider

J.J. Cale's "You Keep Me Hanging On" from My Best Friend's Girl (french movie) - fucking great scene

"Build Me Up Buttercup" - end of There's Something About Mary

Tom Waits' "Innocent When You Dream" - end of Smoke

Stealers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle of You - take a guess

I usually don't like the ones nowadays where it's the cast singing a popular song together (e.g. "Say a Little Prayer for You" in that Julia Roberts/wedding movie) or singing along with the song. More often than not it comes across smug and calculated.