August 7, 2025 • 36 mins
Movie soundtracks have given us some of the most unforgettable songs in music history, from Adele's haunting "Skyfall" to Seal's unexpected hit "Kiss from a Rose," we explore twelve iconic songs that made their mark through cinema.
What happens when legendary artists create music specifically for the silver screen? We dive into Bruce Springsteen's approach to "The Wrestler" – a song he casually wrote after a concert and gave away for free – alongside Tina Turner's deeply personal "I Don't Want to Fight" created for her own biopic.
Bond themes get special attention as we compare Paul McCartney's revolutionary "Live and Let Die" with Adele's moody, orchestral "Skyfall," showing how these musical moments reflect the evolution of the 007 franchise itself. Meanwhile, The Weeknd's sultry "Earned It" demonstrates how a film tie-in (Fifty Shades of Grey) can launch a song into the stratosphere regardless of the movie's critical reception.
The mix also features the fascinating origin story behind Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," which was originally written about Eleanor Roosevelt before being hastily repurposed for "The Graduate" with a simple word replacement. From Randy Newman's heartwarming "You've Got a Friend in Me" to the emotionally devastating "See You Again" by Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth, these songs prove that when filmmakers and musicians collaborate, magic happens.
Whether you're a film buff, music lover, or both, this episode celebrates those perfect moments when visuals and sound collide to create something greater than the sum of their parts.
- Old Habits Die Hard by Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart
- Kiss from a Rose by Seal
- A Mighty Wind by The Folksmen
- Skyfall by Adele
- The Great Beyond by R.E.M.
- Earned It by The Weeknd
- The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen
- See You Again by Wiz Khalifa feat Charlie Puth
- Live and Let Die by Paul McCartney & Wings
- You’ve Got a Friend In Me by Randy Newman
- I Don’t Wanna Fight by Tina Turner
- Mrs. Robinson by Simon & Garfunkel
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix Samer
Abu Salbi.
Samer, how are we doing thisweek?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am doing.
Well, I want to give thelisteners a little bit of
history or context on thisrecording that we're doing.
So it's songs from movies ormovies that you know like kind
of made a song very popular andI got really excited about doing
this because I thought, well,this is going to be great
because not only can we talkabout music, but we can also
talk about movies.
About doing this because Ithought, well, this is going to
be great because not only can wetalk about music, but we can
(00:46):
also talk about movies.
But then I've learned that youand I have very different movie
tastes, because I haven't seen asingle movie that you featured
a song from that is interesting.
Yeah, it might have been a badidea.
I am full of regret.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, because I think I'd heard of just about, I
think I'd heard of at least allof the movies you put forth.
I realized I hadn't seen all ofthem, but yeah, there weren't
any mysteries.
But yeah, probably the way wediverge a little bit on music
preferences, probably the samewould be true of movies.
That shouldn't be too shocking,right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I should have known better.
Oh well, here we are, but yes,yeah it's, it's summertime, the
blockbuster movie time.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
There's so many big movies coming out now, so, uh,
we thought we'd kind ofcelebrate that by celebrating
some great music that either waswritten exclusively for or,
like, like you said, madepopular by a certain movie.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and there were a lot to pick from.
So this is a good volume onemix for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, there's going to be plenty of volumes of this,
one for sure.
So this isn't necessarily a top12, because there's probably a
thousand others.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Absolutely All right.
Well with that, let's getrolling.
Others Absolutely All right,well with that, let's get
rolling.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Song number one is your pick and it is Old Habits
Die Hard by Mick Jagger and DaveStewart.
Okay, so I haven't even seenthis movie, okay.
So maybe I should get that outof the way.
First, it's from the movieAlfie.
Okay, now, the original Alfiewas played by Michael Caine and
was like 50 years ago, and thenthey remade it about 15 years
(02:26):
ago with Jude Law, and that'swhere this song came into play.
So this song was written forthe remake of Alfie with Jude
Law.
I just think this is a greatsong, like.
It just came on the radio onceand it got like just a smidgen
of airplay enough for me to runacross it and I was like man, I
(02:47):
really like this song, and thenrealized it was from the movie.
So the movie is about, uh, thisguy, alfie, who is, you know,
some sort of you know lifetimebachelor and sort of goes around
and has, you know, heard a lotof women along the way and hurt
a lot of people.
So that's that's the gist ofthe film, right, okay.
But I just I listened to thesong and I was like, wow, this
(03:09):
is a really good song and kindof shows off Mick Jagger's voice
, like it's not just sort of himposturing, necessarily, I think
.
I think he sounds great here.
And then I also thought it wasappropriate, samer, because you
host a podcast called SuperAwesome you and you're talking
all about habits right now.
And I was like well, this hitsexactly that.
(03:30):
So if you're not, this is agreat song.
But second, I mean it's a greatsegue to kind of say hey,
everybody should go listen toSuper Awesome you and learn a
little bit about habits, right?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, exactly, I just featured the song Breaking the
Habit by Linkin Park and I feellike Old Habits Die Hard is also
going to be an appropriate oneto do as part two of three on my
little mini series on habits.
But yeah, you're right, likethis song, this song grew on me
Like the first time I heard Iwas like I don't know, I'm not
really into it.
And then I listened to it againI was like, okay, all right,
(04:02):
and you, you know.
I listened to it a third timeand really, yeah, I started to
enjoy it.
So it did have that effect andI think a big part of that is
just Mick Jagger's voice for me,because he's just got a, yeah,
such a unique, interesting voiceand I've always loved the
Rolling Stones, so I think thatwas like a big part of it.
But I had not heard the movieeither and in fact I immediately
(04:30):
got it confused with Alf, thecharacter from the 90s sitcom.
I was like Alf had a movie.
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But then I was like, oh right, no, alfie, it was a
super serious version of thesitcom Alf, so they needed Mick
Jagger to write a serious songabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man.
The 90s sitcoms are justsomething special no, alf was
from the late 80s yeah, was itreally?
Oh, yeah, I guess I waswatching in the 90s.
Yeah, you might have beenwatching in the in the 90s, but
yeah, alf was uh.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean he had the habit of always trying to
eat the cat of the family thathe lived with right right so
that was an old habit that diedhard.
That's why mick jagger wrotethis song.
He was like that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, why is?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
everyone laughing at alf.
This is serious, okay don't eat, the cat don't eat the cat oh
man, okay, well, yeah, good,glad you eventually enjoyed this
one and thought it was about al.
This is perfect, all right.
So, speaking of okay, this iskind of an all-timer, this next
(05:30):
one.
And speaking of animals, that'sa good segue for this next one.
It is Kiss from a Rose, it's bySeal.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yes, I like that segue.
So, yeah, I mean, this was mytop of mind pick whenever we
were, you know, doing this mix.
Um, this was actually a single94, but then re-released to 95
on the batman forever soundtrack, and that is when it just kind
of like blew up and became sopopular and went on to like win
(05:59):
grammys and a ton of awards andstill to this day gets played
and lauded for like what afantastic song this is.
It's probably seal's biggesthit, no doubt.
Um, I don't know.
Like I can't name many otherseal songs I can.
I can play this one over andover.
Also great for karaoke.
It's like a crowd pleaser forkaraoke.
Like everyone's gonna getreally into it.
(06:21):
Um, because you know he reallydoes in the song.
But yeah, I love like themedieval.
But yeah, I love like themedieval instrumentation in this
one too.
Like that's really unique.
Seal's voice is amazing.
I also think this has one ofthe all time like probably
misheard lines where he'ssinging a light hits the gloom
on the gray, but I always heardof it as on the grave and I
(06:44):
think he did finally say it wason the gray, but for a long time
he was just like no, I'm notgoing to clarify.
It's like come on, man, you'resinging the song.
Why wouldn't you tell us?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, and it kind of has like somewhat esoteric
lyrics, right.
So if you're hearing grave andyou're thinking one thing, I
think it would help to get alittle clarity.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Seal you know I right , yeah, come on, that's all we
are, that's all we want, that'sall we want um, but yeah, yeah,
seals other hit crazy right likethat's probably the other big
song you've had, yes, besidesthis one yeah yeah, and what was
really interesting readingabout this is that he was
originally like totallyembarrassed by this song and
then basically like played itfor someone who thought like oh,
(07:28):
this is actually pretty great,and convince him to release it
up being just this amazing thinglike smells, like teen spirit
wasn't supposed to be like thelead single, like that was
supposed to just be like the ohthrowaway song on the on the
(07:50):
album and that was like a genredefining.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
yeah, you know, music altering song, so incredible so
you're saying seal and nirvanahave a lot more in common than
we think?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I mean, yeah, they do .
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You can do a whole podcast about that, um this was
from the movie batman and robinuh, which was the first movie
and only movie with val kilmeras batman and then jim carrey
starred in this one as theriddler and this was when jim
carrey was like red hot, likedid like ace ventura and just
(08:22):
was yeah, he was in everythingfor a while there.
So, um, not a great movieoverall.
Like Jim Carrey's performanceis is pretty good and kind of
fits the sort of Tim Burton likestylized, you know atmosphere
there.
But um, yeah, I don't know Ididn't love the Tim Burton
produced series of Batman films,like so or I think we're all
(08:50):
thankful Christopher Nolan got ahold of the series eventually.
Yeah, this is one where I thinkpeople know the song, but
probably the movie was not asmemorable as the song was yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
this is probably a unique category where the song's
bigger than the movie, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That could be its own mix probably.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Right, All right, let's move on to track number
three.
Your next pick A Mighty Wind bythe Folksmen.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, this is the Folksmen Mitch and Mickey and
the New Main Street Singers.
Those are all fictional folkbands.
The movie A Mighty Wind is aChristopher Guest documentary
mockumentary, if you will.
It's about the 60s.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What's that?
Sorry, he did Best in Showright.
That's why I know that name.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yes, that's right.
Christopher Guest yeah, he didBest in Show.
Waiting for Guffman yeah,there's a whole series of movies
that he's done and they allkind of take on a certain genre.
They're almost entirelyimprovised, these movies, and
they have a lot of the sameactors.
Um, they're, they're hilarious,and this one is just amazing.
(09:53):
But this one was unique amongstthe films because they produced
a whole album.
So there's a whole album of oflike fictional songs from these
bands that never existed thatare sung by these actors, and
this is kind of the the maintheme from a mighty wind, where
all of these bands, uh, cometogether to sing this song.
And if you're familiar withlike 60s folk music, the lyrics
(10:17):
here are just brilliant becausethey just hit upon every theme
of like.
There's this perfect, idyllicworld.
If we would all just cometogether and the blind will see
and the deaf will hear and um,the.
The funny thing here is likethey they talk at the end.
You know the mighty wind theyrefer to is this mighty wind of
change, right?
(10:37):
right they keep saying it'sblowing here, it's blowing there
and, of course, because it'schristopher guest, you guess you
get at the very end the twistof it's blowing peace and
freedom.
It's blowing you and me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That line killed me.
That was the one I was going tobring up.
It's so good, yeah, like thelittle clever innuendo there
right at the end, and becausealso I think like he's so smart
to kind of make fun of musicals,because often musicals will
have lines in there that you dokind of like tilt your head at,
(11:14):
you know, especially like olderones where, like maybe it
doesn't translate as well 50years later.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And you're just like wait what are you?
Singing about.
So I think that I think thatwas really clever in that regard
.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, the whole movie too.
They're so earnest about whatthey do and what they sing.
That's what I love about hismovies is that there's never any
over jokes, right, right.
It's really just these peopleplaying over the top characters
that that is funny, but it'sbecause they take themselves so
seriously that that that's wherethe humor is I mean seriously
(11:51):
kudos to the actors because I Idon't know how they can get
through a scene without justdying, like cracking up it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
they're so, so funny.
And you're right, it's like somuch deadpan, like the delivery
is just, it's earnest, like yousaid, yeah, it's so honest and
real.
But then you're like thesecharacters are ridiculous and
it's so much fun.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
All right.
Track four you went with.
Skyfall by Adele.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, I had to pick a Bond song and it seems that you
did.
You had a similar thought lateron this mix, which is great.
So these, the two songs, arevery different from one another.
Bond, um, you know, bond trackshave changed over time, same as
batman films.
Uh, they went from kind ofbeing like cutesy in some ways I
I think you know you couldargue looking back at them to
(12:39):
very dark and very serious soskyfall is definitely in that
dark and serious kind of.
You know, daniel Craig is abroken man theme and everything.
And this is just one of myfavorite that came out recently.
It was either this or theBillie Eilish one, which is also
excellent.
I think her voice also does anamazing job for like a Bond film
.
But I mean, adele isunbelievable, like she has one
(13:00):
of the greatest voice of of thiscurrent generation of singers.
I'd say um, and I think alsoit's like it.
It is incredible when you thinkabout how big of a crossover
hit this one is.
You know, like to make a songfor opening credits for a movie
is kind of a dated idea, butobviously Bond has just turned
that as part of the franchise islike you're gonna get a Bond
(13:22):
film but you're also going toget this like massive, massive,
like successful song that comesout of it.
And so you know it's.
It is incredible.
And she won best original songat Golden Globes, at Academy
Awards and the best song writtenfor visual media at the Grammy.
So kudos to Adele, she, sheknocked it out of the park Well
(13:42):
and she's perfect for the Bondsong, right?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So if you're not, you know one who has sat down and
watched a lot of James Bondmovies the opening sequence,
they play the entire song asthey're rolling through the
credits, and so it was always abig deal.
I remember when, like, not onlythe James Bond movie coming out
but, like you said, like thesong that comes with it.
So it was always kind of thishonor when a band would kind of
(14:07):
get chosen for a Bond song, andso, yeah, Adele had this one,
and you know her voice isincredible, but also just the
orchestral background, you know,taking you through this sort of
bringing the emotion, you know,bringing that much more emotion
to her voice.
So, yeah, this was, I think, aperfect fit.
Of course, Adele was going todo a Bond song at some point.
(14:29):
So I never saw Skyfall themovie, though Did you see the
movie?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I did several times.
It's probably his best one,Daniel Craig's best Bond film.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I definitely want to watch that one because I've
heard it was good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was really good.
Yeah, I'd rank that one eithernumber one or number two with
Casino Royale, and then theothers all kind of fall behind
back there somewhere, but thisone is excellent.
All right.
Track number five a movie thatI've heard a lot about but I
have yet to see, although I feellike I should.
So the song is the Great Beyondby REM, and the movie, of
(15:05):
course is Banned on the Moon.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, so that was about comedian Andy Kaufman and
he's played by Jim Carrey inthat one.
Really, I think if you want tosee something, go and watch the
documentary.
I think it's called when JimMet Andy and it's about the
filming of this movie.
And when they filmed this movieJim Carrey became Andy Kaufman
(15:28):
and then refused to breakcharacter until they were done
filming.
And in this documentary theyjust talk about how he just
drove everyone crazy by takingon the persona of Andy Kaufman,
because we're not familiar withAndy Kaufman Before the word
viral was a thing.
He became very popular forthese like public kind of stunts
(15:50):
and and things where he waskind of joking but no one else
was in on the joke, right, yeah,and he put himself in these
very dangerous situations, sosimilar to Christopher Guest
stuff.
That's not just overtly funnyand like kind of pratfallish,
right, but it was more just likeis this person?
It's almost like an earlyversion of borat, right where
(16:12):
it's like is this a real?
thing or not, right, you can'tquite figure it out.
And so the movie kind of, youknow, depicts his lifetime.
But then, um yeah, jim carreysort of famously took this on
and was like I'm going to becomehim.
So he's like pulling pranks andstuff on the set and and really
everyone was just on their lastnerve by the time it was, uh,
(16:34):
done filming.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's awesome.
Yeah, I I liked the song too.
I love the line pushing anelephant up the stairs.
To me that was like the song,that, the line that really stuck
out out of everything, and Ithink that that's just a great
description sometimes ofsomething we need to do.
And I bet the cast and filmcrew felt that way about working
with Jim Carrey on the set.
You know, it's like pushing anelephant up the stairs, like he
(16:58):
was just very difficult to workwith at times while he embodied
this role.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So when and you're right the lyrics talk about I'm
bending spoons, I'm breakingthrough, like it's all about
kind of doing the impossible alittle bit, which is what, yeah,
you know, andy Kaufman kind ofdid, because he was this very
one of a kind, and I'd say,still to this day.
You know, probably Sacha BaronCohen might be the closest thing
we've gotten to him, but he wasjust this very one of a kind
(17:29):
comedian again in a time with nosocial media.
So it's like how do you getpeople sort of on board with
these things that you're doing?
So, yeah, the song is kind ofperfect for who he was.
All right, track six.
We're going to take a very hardleft turn here.
It is Earned it by the Weeknd.
It's from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh, yes, yeah, I mean this is also a song that came
to mind for me in terms of justlike massive hits from a film
series that just continue to getplayed today, regardless of
whether or not you know.
Like I bet at some pointsomeone's not going to know that
this is from that movie.
I think we all know, you know,because it's like we're still
part of that generation, but Iimagine in a long time it'll
(18:10):
still get played because it isan amazing r&b track.
Um, but the movie will becomeless important that you know.
That's where it kind of camefrom.
But yeah, I mean, I think thisreally showcases the weekend's,
I mean, his talent andespecially his talent for R&B
singing.
He had such a smooth voice forit and I think, instrumentally,
like this is just, this is likea kind of sexiness in a song,
(18:33):
like I hate to put it that way,but like I think it just really
does such a good job of that,the mood fits, like I think it's
perfect, for this filmobviously is all about christian
gray and like that whole thing.
I ended up actually reading allthree books at the time because
everyone was so like nuts aboutit that I thought I was like
you know I'm curious, let me letme try the first one.
I ended up reading all three.
(18:54):
Um they were.
They were interesting books,certainly entertaining.
Um, they offered at leastentertainment value.
But yeah, I just think the songis so good and really shows
like the weekend's power at R&B.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, similar to Kiss from a Rose.
This is a song I'd heard butlike didn't know it was
associated with a movie.
Oh nice, okay, yeah, I was like, oh, this is just an R&B song,
right?
And then I was like, oh, okay,it's from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Never saw the movie, did notread the books.
My wife had read the books, asshe described it.
They kind of just gotprogressively worse as you read
(19:30):
through the books.
So accurate yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I also remember somewhat famously.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The actors in Fifty Shades of Grey kind of famously
hated each other.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think, think so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
As they filmed these.
So, yeah, so I'm glad we gotsomething positive out of this
movie, because I really likedthis song and I was like, what's
this from?
And I was like, oh, fiftyShades of Grey huh, never saw
that one, but yeah, but yeah.
I'm glad we got a.
We got a great track out of it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, absolutely All right, we had to have Bruce on
here.
I mean, he's done everything,so of course he's done a song
for a movie, and it is theWrestler by Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, from the movie the Wrestler.
He's written three songsspecifically from movies.
Streets of Philadelphia fromthe movie Philadelphia, won him
an Oscar.
Dead man Walking, again from amovie of the same name that one
he was nominated him an Oscar.
Dead man Walking, again from amovie the same name that one he
was nominated for an Oscar butlost.
This one he won a Golden Globefor but then was not even
nominated for an Oscar, whichwas kind of a surprise move.
(20:35):
Rude, it is rude, it is, he'sthe boss, okay, yeah, if you're
not familiar with the movie, itstars Mickey Rourke as an aging
professional wrestler and kindof shows all the struggles that
come with that profession.
I believe Mickey Rourke wasnominated as a result of his
performance in this movie, butthe song depicts this.
(20:57):
You know, just very sadscenarios where these, you know
things are trying, they'retrying to get a smile out of
this person, even though theyare this very broken person,
right and and it's just perfect.
if I grew up watching a lot ofprofessional wrestling and as a
lot of the kind of stars Iwatched growing up have aged and
(21:20):
then this movie came out, I itwas like the perfect
intersection, because it reallyis exactly like that.
Like these guys sacrifice kindof their lives and their bodies
going from town to town andthey're just trying to entertain
, because that's whatprofessional wrestling is, but
they end up with just all sortsof physical problems and
sometimes family problems.
(21:41):
And so Bruce does a great jobin this, in the song, of just
capturing that, even if you'renot necessarily a professional
wrestling fan.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I didn't really know a lot of that context, but
you're absolutely right, likethat song does a really good job
at it and I you know he singsit perfectly well, as he always
does.
The other thing that reallymade me amazed is that he just
like wrote this after a concertat giant stadium and gave it to
them for free.
Like he just kind of likewhipped this together on his
guitar and was like yeah, y'allcan have this one for free.
(22:12):
I just think like what a career.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What hey, sam?
Or today, on your lunch break,go ahead and write me a song.
Okay, you just knock that out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You got it.
It's going to be terrible, butI will write it, okay, thank you
.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Thank you.
All right, let's keep thisemotional train going, because I
feel like this stretch of songis a little emotional.
See you Again.
By Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, I mean, I think we recently brought back up I
mentioned, songs from Fast andFurious and how like they're all
so good and high energy, andthen we remembered that, like,
this song exists.
So I had to put this song onhere because this, honestly,
might be one of the saddestsongs like ever period, and then
certainly much sadder given thecontext of the death of Paul
Walker on, you know, from theFast and Furious film, yeah, I
(23:06):
believe, like the opening linesare actually written from the
perspective of Vin Diesel, as ifhe, like he tried to imagine
what would Vin Diesel write atext to Paul Walker, you know
like what?
What would be written in thattext message?
Or something like that.
And so, you know, he was like,oh, what a long day it's been,
but I'll tell you all about itwhen I see you again.
This kind of really like warmway of thinking, like, yeah,
(23:26):
you're gone, but I'm going tosee you again and you know,
speaking that this isn't likethe last time that they'll ever
speak, which is really sweet.
But, yeah, this song is reallygood.
I think it's really powerfuland it was made for the Fast and
Furious films which, like you,wouldn't expect such a, such an
emotional song to come out ofsuch ridiculous films that just
keep getting more and moreridiculous as they go.
(23:49):
So yeah, great song.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Agreed.
Yeah, great song.
Like we joke a lot on this onthis show, about the Fast and
Furious movies.
You're right, they just getridiculous.
But this is a really poignantmoment in Furious Seven, where
they have the cars kind of pullup each other and then kind of
go in different directions whilethis song is playing.
And, um, yeah, I mean honestly,if you've ever lost a friend,
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like this song kind of hits you.
Yes, like it is a great songfor that, even if you're not
into the fast and furious movies.
Um, so I was like, yeah, this Imean feel like this has to be
on here I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, definitely had to put this on here.
All right track.
Nine, the other bond film song,a very different vibe from
skyfall, and billy eilish's bondsong this is live and let die
by paul mccartney and wings yeah, I'm glad you had the same
thought of like a James Bondsong, because I immediately my
mind went to that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But I had like five choices I was going through.
I thought about Skyfall, Ithought about Live and Let Die.
Obviously I picked that one.
View to a Kill is a Duran Duransong from the 80s which sounds
very 80s like.
But yeah, I picked this onebecause it was, I guess, a big
deal when Paul McCartney agreedto do a Bond song.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Right, he did the song and it's.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
it's great and when you think about, you know, a
Bond movie, you can absolutelysee sort of an action sequence
going along with all the musicalchanges in this one, and it's a
great song, just on its ownguns, and roses redid it later.
But yeah, I mean, this was just.
I don't know that this was theone I ultimately landed on, but
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definitely could have pickedSkyfall or any number of a of a
handful of other songs, for youknow my, my bond film pick.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, I just was like so kind of amazed at how
different of a vibe it is.
I you know so many years havegone between this one.
This was the first Roger Moorefilm and then you know there
have been many bonds in between.
And what I thought also wasreally interesting is that they
recorded this one with like alive orchestra in a very large
room and I think that actuallyadds to the musical quality of
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it, because it has like afrantic energy and there are a
lot of shifts and you can kindof get that feel that they're
like literally in a huge roomwith a large orchestra.
They're like all right, let'sdo this.
You know I hit record everyone,everyone to your places.
It has that energy to it, and Ithink that's another reason why
it's like such a popular songfor a, a bond film, and one that
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you know kind of haslong-standing history okay, we
can't talk about movies fromfilm without including something
from an animated film.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So you hit that, hit that mark here with.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You've got a friend in me by randy newman yeah, I
mean also because we recentlyfeatured randy newman on on a
recent episode and so RandyNewman was top of mind and
obviously this is, for me atleast, like you know, the number
one Randy Newman song.
Especially just growing up,watching the Toy Story films,
which have been around for likeover 20 years at this point I
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think maybe even 25 years orsomething ridiculous like that,
which is wild, because, you know, having having that be
introduced in our lifetime, it'slike oh yeah, didn't that just
come out?
It's like, nope, they're up tolike toy story 17 and he's now
the old man from up.
that's uh, that's the whole,that's the whole universe
they've created.
(27:20):
Um, but yes, I think this issuch a cute song and, other than
the fact it was made for thisfilm, I think on its own it's
just.
It is a beautiful song aboutfriendship and I think the song
itself just sounds likefriendship, like it's got this
little whimsy to it and it justsounds really nice.
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It's got very cute lyrics and Ithink it's one that you know.
If you've got a good friend,you can kind of reminisce to all
the fun you've had togetherwith this person while listening
to this song.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, similar to See you Again, right, it's one of
these songs where it's like youassociate it with the movie and
maybe it lessens it a little bit, right.
But when you really listen toit it's just great.
And you're right, it's just aperfect song about friendship.
Yeah, I mean you talk about howlong these movies have been
around.
I mean, I think I don't evenknow if I saw toy story before I
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had kids, just because I wasjust like a single adult when it
came out.
Sure, and did not get around tosee it.
And then and then, years later,I took my kids to see toy story
4 and we were kicked out of themovie theater.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So so there you know, I don't know, I guess it comes
full circle maybe that's awesome.
You're not allowed to throwthings at the screen, Matt.
That's why they kicked you outand your kids had to suffer.
You got to learn.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I wasn't happy with some of the choices the actors
made.
That's all that's all I'll sayOkay.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
All right, well, listen, I don't want to fight
about this any longer.
It just takes us to tracknumber 11, just the all time.
And may she rest in peace.
Tina Turner, the song I Don'tWant to Fight.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, so this was an original song she wrote for the
movie treatment of her lifecalled what's Love Got to do
with it, which came out, I think, in the early 90s, which is
wild to think that it's like 30years prior to her passing.
There was this biopic, uh doneabout her life.
Um, and if you're not familiarwith her story, I mean she was
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originally a duo with her thenhusband, ike turn Turner, and
sort of shot up to fame.
But you know they had thisawful relationship, uh, where
Ike Turner was abusing her and,um, that's what the movie kind
of takes you through is theirrelationship.
And then she walks away fromhim at the end and obviously her
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career continues to soar whilewhile his kind of falls by the
wayside.
Um, and it's funny because atthe end he's very much like
you're nothing without me.
They talk about having thissort of complicated divorce, but
she's like you can takeeverything, I just want my name
and she walks away and just sortof rebuilds her career from
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there and it just takes off.
So it's actually I think it's agreat movie, and this song is
just perfect for sort ofexhibiting this broken
relationship and how she's justlike I don't want to do this
anymore.
Right, like on top of the factthat she's the one getting
abused, but it's also just sheexpresses this kind of weariness
(30:27):
, but also how, you know, thereused to be some positive things
in this relationship, but nowit's like nope, I'm done with
this.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Like all it is is just negativity and fighting
yeah, no, her story really isincredible, um, and what she
went on to do and and make suchan enormous name for herself.
The other thing that made mehappy about listening to this
song again is it reminded methat this was also on my, on my
parents like mix that they wouldlisten to all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So you just got another one.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
We got a bingo you gotta, you gotta bingo.
Long time listeners will knowthat they're.
Ever.
Since the start of the showthere have been songs that
appear that remind me of beingin the car with my parents that
they had like this cd ormixtapes that they would listen
to on repeat all the time.
So this was on there, so we gotanother one.
It's always exciting when thathappens nice, nice.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All right, let's bring this one home.
Track 12 your last pick, mrsrobinson, by simon and garfunkel
yeah, I think this was.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I'm pretty sure we've talked about this song, um, on
a previous mix.
It may have been something fromthe 60s, like a 60s mixtape,
but I had to include it again.
It's from the film the Graduate, which is also like a top 10
movie for me.
I absolutely love DustinHoffman in that film and I just
like the weirdness of the movie.
It's great.
But you know, the thing thatreally makes me laugh about this
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song is how it came to be likethe song for the Graduate.
The creators of the movie werelooking for, you know, a song to
go along with it, and they loveSimon and Garfunkel's music and
they were like, hey, can youwrite us a song?
And I'm pretty sure it was that.
Simon and Garfunkel were like,well, we were going to write the
song, mrs Roosevelt, aboutEleanor Roosevelt, and but you
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know, know we could literallyjust swap out roosevelt for
robinson, because it's the exactsame number of syllables and it
works in the song.
And so they're like, great,we're done.
Here's your song, similar tokind of.
You know it's almost in thesame category as like bruce,
just like you know, knocking asong out 30 minutes after after
finishing a concert.
They're just kind of like yeah,whatever, just you know
knocking a song out 30 minutesafter after finishing a concert.
They're just kind of like yeah,whatever, just you know, find
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and replace roosevelt withrobinson, let's call it a day
it's like in modern times.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It would be like as if an assignment was due today
and it's like guys, remember, weasked you to write that song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, we got it.
We got it.
I'll just send it over.
Right now it's on my homecomputer.
Let me get back home.
Yeah, yeah, here you go guys,yeah, just quick find and
replace.
Okay, just drop in Robinson.
(33:00):
All right, there you go, guys.
Yep, we're good.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
These lyrics don't fit, but I love that you titled
it.
Mrs Robinson, this is great,right?
Yeah, I know, because, like youknow, the movies is like about
Dustin Hoffman's character who'slike young, just out of college
, who starts dating this olderwoman and then ends up dating
and trying to marry his daughter, or sorry, her daughter, which
is very strange and bizarre andit's like, again, just an
interesting film.
But you know, she's like aboard, kind of socialite and
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this I feel like again, ispretty clearly Mrs Roosevelt and
her life.
Like I think, especially versethree, you know, sitting on a
sofa on a Sunday afternoon goingto the candidates debate.
Laugh about a shot about itwhen you've got to choose.
You know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I don, you know, it's like I don't.
I didn't imagine that thiswoman in the movie is going to
any candidates debate, um.
But you know it's fine, itworks.
It's never quite matched up,yeah right.
Well, and interestingly, it wasnot eligible for the oscars the
year it was released, and partof it is because I think it was
not purely written for the.
It was like this technicality,it was not purely written for
the movie, it was like a songreleased with the movie or
something like that.
but I don't know, for somereason that relationship ended
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up making it like not eligibleto win an oscar, because I I was
certain this would have won theoscar.
But all right, um, all right.
There you have it.
It's another super awesome mixfor your collection, this time
Music from movies that, some ofwhich you may have seen, some of
which you just heard of, but,you know, probably worth
checking out and go to themovies this summer.
(34:38):
Right, like you can go to themovies again.
So check out some of theblockbusters.
I think there's a lot of funmovies coming out.
Coming out and, you know, whileyou're maybe thinking about
whether they're good or bad, goahead and give us a five-star
review.
While you're listening to theshow here, samra and I will get
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to work on our next mix.
So, for Samra, this is Matt andwe'll see you next time.
Welcome back to another Super Awesome Mix Samer
Abu Salbi.
Samer, how are we doing thisweek?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
I am doing.
Well, I want to give thelisteners a little bit of
history or context on thisrecording that we're doing.
So it's songs from movies ormovies that you know like kind
of made a song very popular andI got really excited about doing
this because I thought, well,this is going to be great
because not only can we talkabout music, but we can also
talk about movies.
About doing this because Ithought, well, this is going to
be great because not only can wetalk about music, but we can
(00:46):
also talk about movies.
But then I've learned that youand I have very different movie
tastes, because I haven't seen asingle movie that you featured
a song from that is interesting.
Yeah, it might have been a badidea.
I am full of regret.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, because I think I'd heard of just about, I
think I'd heard of at least allof the movies you put forth.
I realized I hadn't seen all ofthem, but yeah, there weren't
any mysteries.
But yeah, probably the way wediverge a little bit on music
preferences, probably the samewould be true of movies.
That shouldn't be too shocking,right.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah, I should have known better.
Oh well, here we are, but yes,yeah it's, it's summertime, the
blockbuster movie time.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
There's so many big movies coming out now, so, uh,
we thought we'd kind ofcelebrate that by celebrating
some great music that either waswritten exclusively for or,
like, like you said, madepopular by a certain movie.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yeah, and there were a lot to pick from.
So this is a good volume onemix for sure.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, there's going to be plenty of volumes of this,
one for sure.
So this isn't necessarily a top12, because there's probably a
thousand others.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Absolutely All right.
Well with that, let's getrolling.
Others Absolutely All right,well with that, let's get
rolling.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Song number one is your pick and it is Old Habits
Die Hard by Mick Jagger and DaveStewart.
Okay, so I haven't even seenthis movie, okay.
So maybe I should get that outof the way.
First, it's from the movieAlfie.
Okay, now, the original Alfiewas played by Michael Caine and
was like 50 years ago, and thenthey remade it about 15 years
(02:26):
ago with Jude Law, and that'swhere this song came into play.
So this song was written forthe remake of Alfie with Jude
Law.
I just think this is a greatsong, like.
It just came on the radio onceand it got like just a smidgen
of airplay enough for me to runacross it and I was like man, I
(02:47):
really like this song, and thenrealized it was from the movie.
So the movie is about, uh, thisguy, alfie, who is, you know,
some sort of you know lifetimebachelor and sort of goes around
and has, you know, heard a lotof women along the way and hurt
a lot of people.
So that's that's the gist ofthe film, right, okay.
But I just I listened to thesong and I was like, wow, this
(03:09):
is a really good song and kindof shows off Mick Jagger's voice
, like it's not just sort of himposturing, necessarily, I think
.
I think he sounds great here.
And then I also thought it wasappropriate, samer, because you
host a podcast called SuperAwesome you and you're talking
all about habits right now.
And I was like well, this hitsexactly that.
(03:30):
So if you're not, this is agreat song.
But second, I mean it's a greatsegue to kind of say hey,
everybody should go listen toSuper Awesome you and learn a
little bit about habits, right?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah, exactly, I just featured the song Breaking the
Habit by Linkin Park and I feellike Old Habits Die Hard is also
going to be an appropriate oneto do as part two of three on my
little mini series on habits.
But yeah, you're right, likethis song, this song grew on me
Like the first time I heard Iwas like I don't know, I'm not
really into it.
And then I listened to it againI was like, okay, all right,
(04:02):
and you, you know.
I listened to it a third timeand really, yeah, I started to
enjoy it.
So it did have that effect andI think a big part of that is
just Mick Jagger's voice for me,because he's just got a, yeah,
such a unique, interesting voiceand I've always loved the
Rolling Stones, so I think thatwas like a big part of it.
But I had not heard the movieeither and in fact I immediately
(04:30):
got it confused with Alf, thecharacter from the 90s sitcom.
I was like Alf had a movie.
Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
But then I was like, oh right, no, alfie, it was a
super serious version of thesitcom Alf, so they needed Mick
Jagger to write a serious songabout it.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Man.
The 90s sitcoms are justsomething special no, alf was
from the late 80s yeah, was itreally?
Oh, yeah, I guess I waswatching in the 90s.
Yeah, you might have beenwatching in the in the 90s, but
yeah, alf was uh.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, I mean he had the habit of always trying to
eat the cat of the family thathe lived with right right so
that was an old habit that diedhard.
That's why mick jagger wrotethis song.
He was like that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Yeah, why is?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
everyone laughing at alf.
This is serious, okay don't eat, the cat don't eat the cat oh
man, okay, well, yeah, good,glad you eventually enjoyed this
one and thought it was about al.
This is perfect, all right.
So, speaking of okay, this iskind of an all-timer, this next
(05:30):
one.
And speaking of animals, that'sa good segue for this next one.
It is Kiss from a Rose, it's bySeal.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yes, I like that segue.
So, yeah, I mean, this was mytop of mind pick whenever we
were, you know, doing this mix.
Um, this was actually a single94, but then re-released to 95
on the batman forever soundtrack, and that is when it just kind
of like blew up and became sopopular and went on to like win
(05:59):
grammys and a ton of awards andstill to this day gets played
and lauded for like what afantastic song this is.
It's probably seal's biggesthit, no doubt.
Um, I don't know.
Like I can't name many otherseal songs I can.
I can play this one over andover.
Also great for karaoke.
It's like a crowd pleaser forkaraoke.
Like everyone's gonna getreally into it.
(06:21):
Um, because you know he reallydoes in the song.
But yeah, I love like themedieval.
But yeah, I love like themedieval instrumentation in this
one too.
Like that's really unique.
Seal's voice is amazing.
I also think this has one ofthe all time like probably
misheard lines where he'ssinging a light hits the gloom
on the gray, but I always heardof it as on the grave and I
(06:44):
think he did finally say it wason the gray, but for a long time
he was just like no, I'm notgoing to clarify.
It's like come on, man, you'resinging the song.
Why wouldn't you tell us?
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Well, and it kind of has like somewhat esoteric
lyrics, right.
So if you're hearing grave andyou're thinking one thing, I
think it would help to get alittle clarity.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Seal you know I right , yeah, come on, that's all we
are, that's all we want, that'sall we want um, but yeah, yeah,
seals other hit crazy right likethat's probably the other big
song you've had, yes, besidesthis one yeah yeah, and what was
really interesting readingabout this is that he was
originally like totallyembarrassed by this song and
then basically like played itfor someone who thought like oh,
(07:28):
this is actually pretty great,and convince him to release it
up being just this amazing thinglike smells, like teen spirit
wasn't supposed to be like thelead single, like that was
supposed to just be like the ohthrowaway song on the on the
(07:50):
album and that was like a genredefining.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
yeah, you know, music altering song, so incredible so
you're saying seal and nirvanahave a lot more in common than
we think?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
I mean, yeah, they do .
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You can do a whole podcast about that, um this was
from the movie batman and robinuh, which was the first movie
and only movie with val kilmeras batman and then jim carrey
starred in this one as theriddler and this was when jim
carrey was like red hot, likedid like ace ventura and just
(08:22):
was yeah, he was in everythingfor a while there.
So, um, not a great movieoverall.
Like Jim Carrey's performanceis is pretty good and kind of
fits the sort of Tim Burton likestylized, you know atmosphere
there.
But um, yeah, I don't know Ididn't love the Tim Burton
produced series of Batman films,like so or I think we're all
(08:50):
thankful Christopher Nolan got ahold of the series eventually.
Yeah, this is one where I thinkpeople know the song, but
probably the movie was not asmemorable as the song was yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
this is probably a unique category where the song's
bigger than the movie, for sure.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That could be its own mix probably.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Right, All right, let's move on to track number
three.
Your next pick A Mighty Wind bythe Folksmen.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Yeah, this is the Folksmen Mitch and Mickey and
the New Main Street Singers.
Those are all fictional folkbands.
The movie A Mighty Wind is aChristopher Guest documentary
mockumentary, if you will.
It's about the 60s.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
What's that?
Sorry, he did Best in Showright.
That's why I know that name.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yes, that's right.
Christopher Guest yeah, he didBest in Show.
Waiting for Guffman yeah,there's a whole series of movies
that he's done and they allkind of take on a certain genre.
They're almost entirelyimprovised, these movies, and
they have a lot of the sameactors.
Um, they're, they're hilarious,and this one is just amazing.
(09:53):
But this one was unique amongstthe films because they produced
a whole album.
So there's a whole album of oflike fictional songs from these
bands that never existed thatare sung by these actors, and
this is kind of the the maintheme from a mighty wind, where
all of these bands, uh, cometogether to sing this song.
And if you're familiar withlike 60s folk music, the lyrics
(10:17):
here are just brilliant becausethey just hit upon every theme
of like.
There's this perfect, idyllicworld.
If we would all just cometogether and the blind will see
and the deaf will hear and um,the.
The funny thing here is likethey they talk at the end.
You know the mighty wind theyrefer to is this mighty wind of
change, right?
(10:37):
right they keep saying it'sblowing here, it's blowing there
and, of course, because it'schristopher guest, you guess you
get at the very end the twistof it's blowing peace and
freedom.
It's blowing you and me.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That line killed me.
That was the one I was going tobring up.
It's so good, yeah, like thelittle clever innuendo there
right at the end, and becausealso I think like he's so smart
to kind of make fun of musicals,because often musicals will
have lines in there that you dokind of like tilt your head at,
(11:14):
you know, especially like olderones where, like maybe it
doesn't translate as well 50years later.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Right right.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
And you're just like wait what are you?
Singing about.
So I think that I think thatwas really clever in that regard
.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Yeah, the whole movie too.
They're so earnest about whatthey do and what they sing.
That's what I love about hismovies is that there's never any
over jokes, right, right.
It's really just these peopleplaying over the top characters
that that is funny, but it'sbecause they take themselves so
seriously that that that's wherethe humor is I mean seriously
(11:51):
kudos to the actors because I Idon't know how they can get
through a scene without justdying, like cracking up it.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
they're so, so funny.
And you're right, it's like somuch deadpan, like the delivery
is just, it's earnest, like yousaid, yeah, it's so honest and
real.
But then you're like thesecharacters are ridiculous and
it's so much fun.
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
All right.
Track four you went with.
Skyfall by Adele.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, I had to pick a Bond song and it seems that you
did.
You had a similar thought lateron this mix, which is great.
So these, the two songs, arevery different from one another.
Bond, um, you know, bond trackshave changed over time, same as
batman films.
Uh, they went from kind ofbeing like cutesy in some ways I
I think you know you couldargue looking back at them to
(12:39):
very dark and very serious soskyfall is definitely in that
dark and serious kind of.
You know, daniel Craig is abroken man theme and everything.
And this is just one of myfavorite that came out recently.
It was either this or theBillie Eilish one, which is also
excellent.
I think her voice also does anamazing job for like a Bond film
.
But I mean, adele isunbelievable, like she has one
(13:00):
of the greatest voice of of thiscurrent generation of singers.
I'd say um, and I think alsoit's like it.
It is incredible when you thinkabout how big of a crossover
hit this one is.
You know, like to make a songfor opening credits for a movie
is kind of a dated idea, butobviously Bond has just turned
that as part of the franchise islike you're gonna get a Bond
(13:22):
film but you're also going toget this like massive, massive,
like successful song that comesout of it.
And so you know it's.
It is incredible.
And she won best original songat Golden Globes, at Academy
Awards and the best song writtenfor visual media at the Grammy.
So kudos to Adele, she, sheknocked it out of the park Well
(13:42):
and she's perfect for the Bondsong, right?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
So if you're not, you know one who has sat down and
watched a lot of James Bondmovies the opening sequence,
they play the entire song asthey're rolling through the
credits, and so it was always abig deal.
I remember when, like, not onlythe James Bond movie coming out
but, like you said, like thesong that comes with it.
So it was always kind of thishonor when a band would kind of
(14:07):
get chosen for a Bond song, andso, yeah, Adele had this one,
and you know her voice isincredible, but also just the
orchestral background, you know,taking you through this sort of
bringing the emotion, you know,bringing that much more emotion
to her voice.
So, yeah, this was, I think, aperfect fit.
Of course, Adele was going todo a Bond song at some point.
(14:29):
So I never saw Skyfall themovie, though Did you see the
movie?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
I did several times.
It's probably his best one,Daniel Craig's best Bond film.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I definitely want to watch that one because I've
heard it was good.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
It was really good.
Yeah, I'd rank that one eithernumber one or number two with
Casino Royale, and then theothers all kind of fall behind
back there somewhere, but thisone is excellent.
All right.
Track number five a movie thatI've heard a lot about but I
have yet to see, although I feellike I should.
So the song is the Great Beyondby REM, and the movie, of
(15:05):
course is Banned on the Moon.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Yeah, so that was about comedian Andy Kaufman and
he's played by Jim Carrey inthat one.
Really, I think if you want tosee something, go and watch the
documentary.
I think it's called when JimMet Andy and it's about the
filming of this movie.
And when they filmed this movieJim Carrey became Andy Kaufman
(15:28):
and then refused to breakcharacter until they were done
filming.
And in this documentary theyjust talk about how he just
drove everyone crazy by takingon the persona of Andy Kaufman,
because we're not familiar withAndy Kaufman Before the word
viral was a thing.
He became very popular forthese like public kind of stunts
(15:50):
and and things where he waskind of joking but no one else
was in on the joke, right, yeah,and he put himself in these
very dangerous situations, sosimilar to Christopher Guest
stuff.
That's not just overtly funnyand like kind of pratfallish,
right, but it was more just likeis this person?
It's almost like an earlyversion of borat, right where
(16:12):
it's like is this a real?
thing or not, right, you can'tquite figure it out.
And so the movie kind of, youknow, depicts his lifetime.
But then, um yeah, jim carreysort of famously took this on
and was like I'm going to becomehim.
So he's like pulling pranks andstuff on the set and and really
everyone was just on their lastnerve by the time it was, uh,
(16:34):
done filming.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
That's awesome.
Yeah, I I liked the song too.
I love the line pushing anelephant up the stairs.
To me that was like the song,that, the line that really stuck
out out of everything, and Ithink that that's just a great
description sometimes ofsomething we need to do.
And I bet the cast and filmcrew felt that way about working
with Jim Carrey on the set.
You know, it's like pushing anelephant up the stairs, like he
(16:58):
was just very difficult to workwith at times while he embodied
this role.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
So when and you're right the lyrics talk about I'm
bending spoons, I'm breakingthrough, like it's all about
kind of doing the impossible alittle bit, which is what, yeah,
you know, andy Kaufman kind ofdid, because he was this very
one of a kind, and I'd say,still to this day.
You know, probably Sacha BaronCohen might be the closest thing
we've gotten to him, but he wasjust this very one of a kind
(17:29):
comedian again in a time with nosocial media.
So it's like how do you getpeople sort of on board with
these things that you're doing?
So, yeah, the song is kind ofperfect for who he was.
All right, track six.
We're going to take a very hardleft turn here.
It is Earned it by the Weeknd.
It's from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Oh, yes, yeah, I mean this is also a song that came
to mind for me in terms of justlike massive hits from a film
series that just continue to getplayed today, regardless of
whether or not you know.
Like I bet at some pointsomeone's not going to know that
this is from that movie.
I think we all know, you know,because it's like we're still
part of that generation, but Iimagine in a long time it'll
(18:10):
still get played because it isan amazing r&b track.
Um, but the movie will becomeless important that you know.
That's where it kind of camefrom.
But yeah, I mean, I think thisreally showcases the weekend's,
I mean, his talent andespecially his talent for R&B
singing.
He had such a smooth voice forit and I think, instrumentally,
like this is just, this is likea kind of sexiness in a song,
(18:33):
like I hate to put it that way,but like I think it just really
does such a good job of that,the mood fits, like I think it's
perfect, for this filmobviously is all about christian
gray and like that whole thing.
I ended up actually reading allthree books at the time because
everyone was so like nuts aboutit that I thought I was like
you know I'm curious, let me letme try the first one.
I ended up reading all three.
(18:54):
Um they were.
They were interesting books,certainly entertaining.
Um, they offered at leastentertainment value.
But yeah, I just think the songis so good and really shows
like the weekend's power at R&B.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
Yeah, similar to Kiss from a Rose.
This is a song I'd heard butlike didn't know it was
associated with a movie.
Oh nice, okay, yeah, I was like, oh, this is just an R&B song,
right?
And then I was like, oh, okay,it's from Fifty Shades of Grey.
Never saw the movie, did notread the books.
My wife had read the books, asshe described it.
They kind of just gotprogressively worse as you read
(19:30):
through the books.
So accurate yeah, okay, and.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I also remember somewhat famously.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The actors in Fifty Shades of Grey kind of famously
hated each other.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think, think so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
As they filmed these.
So, yeah, so I'm glad we gotsomething positive out of this
movie, because I really likedthis song and I was like, what's
this from?
And I was like, oh, fiftyShades of Grey huh, never saw
that one, but yeah, but yeah.
I'm glad we got a.
We got a great track out of it.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Yeah, absolutely All right, we had to have Bruce on
here.
I mean, he's done everything,so of course he's done a song
for a movie, and it is theWrestler by Bruce Springsteen.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yeah, from the movie the Wrestler.
He's written three songsspecifically from movies.
Streets of Philadelphia fromthe movie Philadelphia, won him
an Oscar.
Dead man Walking, again from amovie of the same name that one
he was nominated him an Oscar.
Dead man Walking, again from amovie the same name that one he
was nominated for an Oscar butlost.
This one he won a Golden Globefor but then was not even
nominated for an Oscar, whichwas kind of a surprise move.
(20:35):
Rude, it is rude, it is, he'sthe boss, okay, yeah, if you're
not familiar with the movie, itstars Mickey Rourke as an aging
professional wrestler and kindof shows all the struggles that
come with that profession.
I believe Mickey Rourke wasnominated as a result of his
performance in this movie, butthe song depicts this.
(20:57):
You know, just very sadscenarios where these, you know
things are trying, they'retrying to get a smile out of
this person, even though theyare this very broken person,
right and and it's just perfect.
if I grew up watching a lot ofprofessional wrestling and as a
lot of the kind of stars Iwatched growing up have aged and
(21:20):
then this movie came out, I itwas like the perfect
intersection, because it reallyis exactly like that.
Like these guys sacrifice kindof their lives and their bodies
going from town to town andthey're just trying to entertain
, because that's whatprofessional wrestling is, but
they end up with just all sortsof physical problems and
sometimes family problems.
(21:41):
And so Bruce does a great jobin this, in the song, of just
capturing that, even if you'renot necessarily a professional
wrestling fan.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Yeah, I didn't really know a lot of that context, but
you're absolutely right, likethat song does a really good job
at it and I you know he singsit perfectly well, as he always
does.
The other thing that reallymade me amazed is that he just
like wrote this after a concertat giant stadium and gave it to
them for free.
Like he just kind of likewhipped this together on his
guitar and was like yeah, y'allcan have this one for free.
(22:12):
I just think like what a career.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
What hey, sam?
Or today, on your lunch break,go ahead and write me a song.
Okay, you just knock that out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
You got it.
It's going to be terrible, butI will write it, okay, thank you
.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Thank you.
All right, let's keep thisemotional train going, because I
feel like this stretch of songis a little emotional.
See you Again.
By Wiz Khalifa and Charlie Puth.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah, I mean, I think we recently brought back up I
mentioned, songs from Fast andFurious and how like they're all
so good and high energy, andthen we remembered that, like,
this song exists.
So I had to put this song onhere because this, honestly,
might be one of the saddestsongs like ever period, and then
certainly much sadder given thecontext of the death of Paul
Walker on, you know, from theFast and Furious film, yeah, I
(23:06):
believe, like the opening linesare actually written from the
perspective of Vin Diesel, as ifhe, like he tried to imagine
what would Vin Diesel write atext to Paul Walker, you know
like what?
What would be written in thattext message?
Or something like that.
And so, you know, he was like,oh, what a long day it's been,
but I'll tell you all about itwhen I see you again.
This kind of really like warmway of thinking, like, yeah,
(23:26):
you're gone, but I'm going tosee you again and you know,
speaking that this isn't likethe last time that they'll ever
speak, which is really sweet.
But, yeah, this song is reallygood.
I think it's really powerfuland it was made for the Fast and
Furious films which, like you,wouldn't expect such a, such an
emotional song to come out ofsuch ridiculous films that just
keep getting more and moreridiculous as they go.
(23:49):
So yeah, great song.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Agreed.
Yeah, great song.
Like we joke a lot on this onthis show, about the Fast and
Furious movies.
You're right, they just getridiculous.
But this is a really poignantmoment in Furious Seven, where
they have the cars kind of pullup each other and then kind of
go in different directions whilethis song is playing.
And, um, yeah, I mean honestly,if you've ever lost a friend,
(24:14):
like this song kind of hits you.
Yes, like it is a great songfor that, even if you're not
into the fast and furious movies.
Um, so I was like, yeah, this Imean feel like this has to be
on here I agree.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Yeah, definitely had to put this on here.
All right track.
Nine, the other bond film song,a very different vibe from
skyfall, and billy eilish's bondsong this is live and let die
by paul mccartney and wings yeah, I'm glad you had the same
thought of like a James Bondsong, because I immediately my
mind went to that.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
But I had like five choices I was going through.
I thought about Skyfall, Ithought about Live and Let Die.
Obviously I picked that one.
View to a Kill is a Duran Duransong from the 80s which sounds
very 80s like.
But yeah, I picked this onebecause it was, I guess, a big
deal when Paul McCartney agreedto do a Bond song.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Right, he did the song and it's.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
it's great and when you think about, you know, a
Bond movie, you can absolutelysee sort of an action sequence
going along with all the musicalchanges in this one, and it's a
great song, just on its ownguns, and roses redid it later.
But yeah, I mean, this was just.
I don't know that this was theone I ultimately landed on, but
(25:36):
definitely could have pickedSkyfall or any number of a of a
handful of other songs, for youknow my, my bond film pick.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
Yeah, I just was like so kind of amazed at how
different of a vibe it is.
I you know so many years havegone between this one.
This was the first Roger Moorefilm and then you know there
have been many bonds in between.
And what I thought also wasreally interesting is that they
recorded this one with like alive orchestra in a very large
room and I think that actuallyadds to the musical quality of
(26:07):
it, because it has like afrantic energy and there are a
lot of shifts and you can kindof get that feel that they're
like literally in a huge roomwith a large orchestra.
They're like all right, let'sdo this.
You know I hit record everyone,everyone to your places.
It has that energy to it, and Ithink that's another reason why
it's like such a popular songfor a, a bond film, and one that
(26:28):
you know kind of haslong-standing history okay, we
can't talk about movies fromfilm without including something
from an animated film.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
So you hit that, hit that mark here with.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
You've got a friend in me by randy newman yeah, I
mean also because we recentlyfeatured randy newman on on a
recent episode and so RandyNewman was top of mind and
obviously this is, for me atleast, like you know, the number
one Randy Newman song.
Especially just growing up,watching the Toy Story films,
which have been around for likeover 20 years at this point I
(27:00):
think maybe even 25 years orsomething ridiculous like that,
which is wild, because, you know, having having that be
introduced in our lifetime, it'slike oh yeah, didn't that just
come out?
It's like, nope, they're up tolike toy story 17 and he's now
the old man from up.
that's uh, that's the whole,that's the whole universe
they've created.
(27:20):
Um, but yes, I think this issuch a cute song and, other than
the fact it was made for thisfilm, I think on its own it's
just.
It is a beautiful song aboutfriendship and I think the song
itself just sounds likefriendship, like it's got this
little whimsy to it and it justsounds really nice.
(27:41):
It's got very cute lyrics and Ithink it's one that you know.
If you've got a good friend,you can kind of reminisce to all
the fun you've had togetherwith this person while listening
to this song.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Yeah, similar to See you Again, right, it's one of
these songs where it's like youassociate it with the movie and
maybe it lessens it a little bit, right.
But when you really listen toit it's just great.
And you're right, it's just aperfect song about friendship.
Yeah, I mean you talk about howlong these movies have been
around.
I mean, I think I don't evenknow if I saw toy story before I
(28:15):
had kids, just because I wasjust like a single adult when it
came out.
Sure, and did not get around tosee it.
And then and then, years later,I took my kids to see toy story
4 and we were kicked out of themovie theater.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
So so there you know, I don't know, I guess it comes
full circle maybe that's awesome.
You're not allowed to throwthings at the screen, Matt.
That's why they kicked you outand your kids had to suffer.
You got to learn.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
I wasn't happy with some of the choices the actors
made.
That's all that's all I'll sayOkay.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
All right, well, listen, I don't want to fight
about this any longer.
It just takes us to tracknumber 11, just the all time.
And may she rest in peace.
Tina Turner, the song I Don'tWant to Fight.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
Yeah, so this was an original song she wrote for the
movie treatment of her lifecalled what's Love Got to do
with it, which came out, I think, in the early 90s, which is
wild to think that it's like 30years prior to her passing.
There was this biopic, uh doneabout her life.
Um, and if you're not familiarwith her story, I mean she was
(29:22):
originally a duo with her thenhusband, ike turn Turner, and
sort of shot up to fame.
But you know they had thisawful relationship, uh, where
Ike Turner was abusing her and,um, that's what the movie kind
of takes you through is theirrelationship.
And then she walks away fromhim at the end and obviously her
(29:44):
career continues to soar whilewhile his kind of falls by the
wayside.
Um, and it's funny because atthe end he's very much like
you're nothing without me.
They talk about having thissort of complicated divorce, but
she's like you can takeeverything, I just want my name
and she walks away and just sortof rebuilds her career from
(30:05):
there and it just takes off.
So it's actually I think it's agreat movie, and this song is
just perfect for sort ofexhibiting this broken
relationship and how she's justlike I don't want to do this
anymore.
Right, like on top of the factthat she's the one getting
abused, but it's also just sheexpresses this kind of weariness
(30:27):
, but also how, you know, thereused to be some positive things
in this relationship, but nowit's like nope, I'm done with
this.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Like all it is is just negativity and fighting
yeah, no, her story really isincredible, um, and what she
went on to do and and make suchan enormous name for herself.
The other thing that made mehappy about listening to this
song again is it reminded methat this was also on my, on my
parents like mix that they wouldlisten to all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
So you just got another one.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
We got a bingo you gotta, you gotta bingo.
Long time listeners will knowthat they're.
Ever.
Since the start of the showthere have been songs that
appear that remind me of beingin the car with my parents that
they had like this cd ormixtapes that they would listen
to on repeat all the time.
So this was on there, so we gotanother one.
It's always exciting when thathappens nice, nice.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
All right, let's bring this one home.
Track 12 your last pick, mrsrobinson, by simon and garfunkel
yeah, I think this was.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I'm pretty sure we've talked about this song, um, on
a previous mix.
It may have been something fromthe 60s, like a 60s mixtape,
but I had to include it again.
It's from the film the Graduate, which is also like a top 10
movie for me.
I absolutely love DustinHoffman in that film and I just
like the weirdness of the movie.
It's great.
But you know, the thing thatreally makes me laugh about this
(31:47):
song is how it came to be likethe song for the Graduate.
The creators of the movie werelooking for, you know, a song to
go along with it, and they loveSimon and Garfunkel's music and
they were like, hey, can youwrite us a song?
And I'm pretty sure it was that.
Simon and Garfunkel were like,well, we were going to write the
song, mrs Roosevelt, aboutEleanor Roosevelt, and but you
(32:09):
know, know we could literallyjust swap out roosevelt for
robinson, because it's the exactsame number of syllables and it
works in the song.
And so they're like, great,we're done.
Here's your song, similar tokind of.
You know it's almost in thesame category as like bruce,
just like you know, knocking asong out 30 minutes after after
finishing a concert.
They're just kind of like yeah,whatever, just you know
knocking a song out 30 minutesafter after finishing a concert.
They're just kind of like yeah,whatever, just you know, find
(32:31):
and replace roosevelt withrobinson, let's call it a day
it's like in modern times.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
It would be like as if an assignment was due today
and it's like guys, remember, weasked you to write that song.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, we got it.
We got it.
I'll just send it over.
Right now it's on my homecomputer.
Let me get back home.
Yeah, yeah, here you go guys,yeah, just quick find and
replace.
Okay, just drop in Robinson.
(33:00):
All right, there you go, guys.
Yep, we're good.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
These lyrics don't fit, but I love that you titled
it.
Mrs Robinson, this is great,right?
Yeah, I know, because, like youknow, the movies is like about
Dustin Hoffman's character who'slike young, just out of college
, who starts dating this olderwoman and then ends up dating
and trying to marry his daughter, or sorry, her daughter, which
is very strange and bizarre andit's like, again, just an
interesting film.
But you know, she's like aboard, kind of socialite and
(33:31):
this I feel like again, ispretty clearly Mrs Roosevelt and
her life.
Like I think, especially versethree, you know, sitting on a
sofa on a Sunday afternoon goingto the candidates debate.
Laugh about a shot about itwhen you've got to choose.
You know, it's like.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
I don, you know, it's like I don't.
I didn't imagine that thiswoman in the movie is going to
any candidates debate, um.
But you know it's fine, itworks.
It's never quite matched up,yeah right.
Well, and interestingly, it wasnot eligible for the oscars the
year it was released, and partof it is because I think it was
not purely written for the.
It was like this technicality,it was not purely written for
the movie, it was like a songreleased with the movie or
something like that.
but I don't know, for somereason that relationship ended
(34:17):
up making it like not eligibleto win an oscar, because I I was
certain this would have won theoscar.
But all right, um, all right.
There you have it.
It's another super awesome mixfor your collection, this time
Music from movies that, some ofwhich you may have seen, some of
which you just heard of, but,you know, probably worth
checking out and go to themovies this summer.
(34:38):
Right, like you can go to themovies again.
So check out some of theblockbusters.
I think there's a lot of funmovies coming out.
Coming out and, you know, whileyou're maybe thinking about
whether they're good or bad, goahead and give us a five-star
review.
While you're listening to theshow here, samra and I will get
(35:01):
to work on our next mix.
So, for Samra, this is Matt andwe'll see you next time.
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