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Post by HollyH on Dec 13, 2007 15:31:24 GMT -5
I just saw a track listing for the soundtrack album of the new movie Juno (an indie film getting great reviews, about a pregnant teenager who decides to keep her baby), and guess what song is in the movie? "Well-Respected Man."
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Post by rose on Jan 5, 2008 6:44:54 GMT -5
BOSTON GLOBE SOUND EFFECTS MUSIC NEWS & REVIEWS Working in the KinksOur musically-inclined colleague, and Boston.com editor, David Beard weighs in on the resurgence of love for Ray and the boys at the cinema. Celluloid Heroes: Must Be The Season of the KinksFor a group that began making music 45 years ago, The Kinks are doing quite well this season in movie royalty checks. At least three recent movies have featured songs by the British invasion band, which graduated from "You Really Got Me'' to a quiet intellectual cult phase, a New Wave appreciation by The Jam and The Pretenders, and a heavier metal rebirth. The Kinks make themselves heard in the just-released "Juno'' when studious and unglamorous high-schooler (and possible dad-to-be) Michael Cera is getting dressed in his track gear, rubbing deodorant on his thighs. "He's a well-respected man about town,'' sings Ray Davies in The Kinks's 1965 hit of the same name. Indeed, ha ha. The Jason Reitman movie attempts much of the same sensibility as a film by Wes Anderson, whose latest, "The Darjeeling Limited,'' had three Kinks tunes from the group's 1970 album, "Lola versus The Powerman and the Money-go-round.'' One of the "Darjeeling'' songs, "This Time Tomorrow,'' was featured in the movie's trailer, and another, "Strangers,'' came at the moment "brothers'' Adrien Brody, Owen Wilson, and Jason Schwartzman stop simply traveling through India and actually interact with its people. In his earlier film "Rushmore,'' Anderson also used a melancholy Ray Davies song, "Nothing In This World Can Stop Me From Worrying About The Girl'' to back a cannonball splash and swim by sad-sack rich guy Bill Murray. Oh, the third film? That would the pump-up-the-volume cops movie "Hot Fuzz.'' And how better to introduce the movie's big joke, that "Lethal Weapon'' could happen in a quiet Cotswolds town, than with The Kinks "The Village Green Preservation Society?'' Soon after that ode to orderly, uneventful small-town life sounds? Yes, you guessed it, blood. "Everybody's in showbiz, and everybody's a star,'' Davies sang three-and-a-half decades ago on "Celluloid Heroes.'' For The Kinks, who ended up exploring different terrain than most love-stuck bands, that celluloid moment is now, as current filmmakers plumb the work of a classic band that matches their contemporary mix of irony, satire, and detachment. DAVID BEARD
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Post by HollyH on Jan 8, 2008 9:20:00 GMT -5
Nice piece! The only problem is, that when we're watching a movie and a Kinks song comes up on the soundtrack, everyone in my family turns around and kicks me or punches me in the arm to keep me from singing along.
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Post by Iñakink on Jan 8, 2008 14:50:04 GMT -5
I know that.
Sometimes I have to punch my mother too. ;D
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Post by Rosemary Rose on Feb 12, 2008 15:33:20 GMT -5
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Post by rose on Apr 3, 2008 18:21:13 GMT -5
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Post by HollyH on Apr 3, 2008 20:26:55 GMT -5
Really? I love that Judith Owen recording...
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Post by nicola6 on Apr 5, 2008 13:27:11 GMT -5
I couldn't find the radio thread, but I just heard "Working Man's Cafe" on NPR's World Cafe. The presenter said it was always good to hear from him.
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Post by kyrck on Apr 24, 2008 12:24:54 GMT -5
Hi fellow Kinksters.
Just joined a few days ago and have been reading some of your very interesting and entertaining posts. As for Kinks on movie soundtracks, there must be plenty more. Just this afternoon when I was half-dozing in front of my TV, I heard the music for a movie called "Glitch" or "Glick" or something like that, and the accompanying music was "Do it again".
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Post by HollyH on Apr 24, 2008 12:39:02 GMT -5
Click, with Adam Sandler? I liked that movie.
Welcome, kyrck -- keep on posting!
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Post by Smiley on Apr 24, 2008 18:23:59 GMT -5
How cool is that.... THANKS!
Welcome to the KinKdom!
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Post by kinkfrank49 on May 30, 2008 1:04:55 GMT -5
I haven't been on the board long, and haven't seen the flick yet. My search came up empty but I might have done it wrong. The movie 'Darjeeling Limited' has had a trailer on TV for weeks and is out on video. In the trailer, they use both the tunes 'Strangers' and "This Time Tomorrow' for a few seconds, but any Kinks fan should recognize them, and I understand that these songs are in the soundtrack as well, at least 'Strangers' is for sure. It is good to see someone using the great back catalogue of this band for something other than commercials the way they used Tired of Waiting, Picture Book, and other songs.
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Post by HollyH on May 30, 2008 8:51:53 GMT -5
Strangers, Powerman, and This Time Tomorrow are all in the film, kinkfrank, and played nearly full-length. And not just in the background under dialogue -- they're played at full volume accompanied by visuals. Wes Anderson is a known Kinks fan.
Film's good too.
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Post by kinkfrank49 on May 30, 2008 13:10:44 GMT -5
Now that I read the blogs, I see that Rose had this all laid out already. Still glad to see a movie using the tunes from an album I really like that critics unjustly slammed. Powerman is up there with my favorite songs ever by anyone.
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