THE DANCING DOZEN

[thefabone]

A few days ago, I watched Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing for the first time, a powerful film that grabbed me from its very first frames with one of the boldest credit sequences I've ever seen:

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Public Enemy's "Fight The Power" plays throughout the film, and it called me to action to, well, write a blog post about my favorite uses of pop music in

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[con_grazia]

No "In Your Eyes" from Say Anything? No? Really? Color me sad. :( I like a lot of your choices but In Your Eyes would be my top one.

Oh, wait...just looked it up and it's 26 years ago. DARN.

[thefabone]

I'm surprised, I actually thought it was older and from 1986 or 1987. But yeah, it misses my cut-off by a few months. But hey, at least another Cameron Crowe-film took the top spot!

[con_grazia]

Almost Famous is so good. And the first time I saw it (in the theater), I remember being so excited that every single album they pulled out of that cardboard box I had. It was very cool. Now I'm going to go and start thinking of other songs I loved in films.