The Mount Rushmore of: Movie "Needle Drops"

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5. In general, if there are two picks that can be considered the same product (i.e. Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle), I will combine them.
6. If a vote is vague, I will pick the first available choice that best matches the vote (i.e. "Mario" for Wii Games becomes Super Mario Galaxy).
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8. If a vote doesn't fit the topic, it will count as a blank vote.
9. You may nominate as much as you want and have an unlimited amount of seconds for established nominations.
10. Every Sunday, I'll post the schedule for next week. I will pick based on the number of nominations. Any ties will be determined by RNG.

Spreadsheet & Nominations

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aatA25pW6OsDn2RlAAGP1_GOGCMNvLLumAKckHOhtFk/edit?gid=1117984190#gid=1117984190

Last Topics Results

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Newton got on the literal Mount Rushmore of Historical Figures, with Einstein being a runner-up on it. So it's no surprise they easily took first and second. Curie and Darwin take 3rd and 4th with relative ease.

Last 5 Rushmores

Wrathful Fictional Characters: Kratos / John Wick / The Bride / Darth Vader
Xbox One Games: Forza Horizon 4 / Cuphead / Halo 5 / Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Cheat Codes: Konami Code / IDDQD / Game Genie / Justin Bailey
"Paul" (Fictional): Paul Bunyan / Paul Atreides / Paul Blart / Pauline
Scientists: Isaac Newton / Albert Einstein / Marie Curie / Charles Darwin

This Week's Rushmores

Sunday: Board 8 Usernames
Monday: Mythological Animals (Indigenous People Day special)
Tuesday: Dance Dance Revolutions Songs
Wednesday: Sleepyheads
Thursday: Walking Sims
Friday: Spoilers
Saturday: 3DO Games
(Next) Sunday: Wii U Games

Next Thematic Week: Famous Monster types (October 20 - 26)

Today's Parameters:

You must pick "needle drops" from movies.

Needle drops are defined as "a pre-existing song to be used in a movie, typically during scenes or credits." It's important that the song existed long before the movie.

https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/best-movie-songs/
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-needle-drops-movies/
https://www.thefader.com/2024/03/07/the-100-best-needle-drops-in-film-and-television-history
https://www.gq.com/story/the-best-movie-needle-drops-definitively-ranked
https://movieweb.com/most-iconic-needle-drops-in-modern-cinema/
https://www.cbr.com/10-most-iconic-needle-drops-in-movies/
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lucaiacobucci/best-needle-drops-in-film

Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Remember the Titans)
Come and Get Your Love (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)

Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)

Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)

Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)
Singin' in the Rain (A Clockwork Orange)
Misirlou (Pulp Fiction)

War (Rush Hour)
Beat it (Back to the Future Part II)
Run With Us (Hobo with a Shotgun)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)

Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)
Fools Rush In (Scorpio Rising - honestly the film's whole soundtrack is needle drops, but this one has the film's title)
Misirlou (Pulp Fiction)

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head (Spider-Man 2)
The Sound of Silence (The Graduate)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
You Make My Dreams (500 Days of Summer)

Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Twist and Shout (Ferris Buellers Day Off)
Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)
Hip to be Square (American Psycho)

hombad46 posted...

Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)

oh and

All-Star (Shrek)

ya go my shrek

Every other scene in Forrest Gump

Don't Stop Me Now [Shaun of the Dead]
Doodle Let Me Go (Yaller Girls) [The Lighthouse]
I Got 5 on It [Us]
Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (Third Movement: "Alla Turca") [The Truman Show]

Jumpin' Jack Flash (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Come a Little Bit Closer (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
Twist and Shout (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Holding Out For a Hero (Shrek 2)

HMs: Treat Her Like a Lady (Anchorman), Tuesday's Gone (Happy Gilmore), Burnin' Love (Lilo & Stitch and Zombieland: Double Tap)

Come A Little Bit Closer (Guardians of the Galaxy 2)
Wake Up (The Matrix)
Trinity: Titoli (Django Unchained)
All Star (Shrek)

Nominate: TV Needle Drops

God Only Knows (Love Actually)
Sound of Silence (The Graduate)
Misirlou/Jungle Boogie (Pulp Fiction)
Under Pressure (Aftersun)

HMs:
Anything from Casino
The two obvious Shrek songs
Anything from Tarantino
Mad World (Donnie Darko)
Everytime (Spring Breakers)

Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Twist and Shout (Ferris Buellers Day Off)
Don't Stop Me Now [Shaun of the Dead]
All-Star (Shrek)

All-Star (Shrek)
Holding Out For a Hero (Shrek 2)
Don't Stop Me Now (Shaun of the Dead)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)

Double dipping the Shrek. No shame.

Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Don't Stop Me Now (Shaun of the Dead)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)

All-Star should probably be here but I don't want to remove any of the other three and the climax of Shrek 2 is impossibly good for a lot of reasons but the song is a big one.

In the Hall of the Mountain King (M)
Colonel Bogey March (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
And Then He Kissed Me (Goodfellas)

Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)
Under Pressure (Aftersun)
Misirlou (Pulp Fiction)
I Follow Rivers (Blue is the Warmest Colour)

hombad46 posted...

Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)

Adding on

All-Star (Shrek)

Might as well double down as well

I don't think Mrs. Robinson is a needle drop. It was written for the film and released on the film's soundtrack.

Kids in America (Jimmy Neutron)

Snake5555555555 posted...

I don't think Mrs. Robinson is a needle drop. It was written for the film and released on the film's soundtrack.

That being the case...

Remove: Mrs Robinson
Add: American Girl - One Battle After Another

Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Iron Man (Iron Man)
Blitzkrieg Bop (Spider-Man Homecoming)

Snake5555555555 posted...

I don't think Mrs. Robinson is a needle drop. It was written for the film and released on the film's soundtrack.

In that case, replace mine for Sounds of Silence, also from The Graduate.

Am I the only one who thinks of music from Shrek and goes to Believer first?

Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Misirlou (Pulp Fiction)
Hip to be Square (American Psycho)
Iron Man (Iron Man)

azuarc posted...

Am I the only one who thinks of music from Shrek and goes to Believer first?

you are not!

Believer (Shrek)

lets complete the trifecta

Dancedreamer posted...

Come A Little Bit Closer (Guardians of the Galaxy 2)
Wake Up (The Matrix)
Trinity: Titoli (Django Unchained)
All Star (Shrek)

Nominate: TV Needle Drops

Seconded.

In the Air Tonight (Miami Vice)
Make Your Own Kind of Music (Lost)
Mr Roboto (Chuck)
Roxanne (Communi-"No." - Jeff Winger
Hide And Seek (The O.C.)

If Scrubs doesn't get an entry on that Rushmore, I riot

Come and Get Your Love (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Wake Up (The Matrix)
Iron Man (Iron Man)
Cat People (Putting out the Fire) (Inglourious Basterds)

The last one got stuck in my head for years, I have to include it

Mega_Mana posted...

Seconded.

In the Air Tonight (Miami Vice)
Make Your Own Kind of Music (Lost)
Mr Roboto (Chuck)
Roxanne (Communi-"No." - Jeff Winger
Hide And Seek (The O.C.)

I would pick Shambala as the LOST rep

I feel like O'Death from Supernatural or something from the show should be on there tbqh.

I was for some reason thinking exclusively of credits needle drops like The Matrix. Doing it for any point in the movie feels way harder

WazzupGenius00 posted...

I was for some reason thinking exclusively of credits needle drops like The Matrix. Doing it for any point in the movie feels way harder

My first thought was the lobby scene, but that's score.

Another tv: Footloose (Umbrella Academy)

Mega_Mana posted...

Another tv: Footloose (Umbrella Academy)

I'd have picked Instabul

Let's go way off the current noms on this one.

• La Marseillaise, Casablanca
• Flight of the Valkyries, Apocalypse Now
• The Blue Danube, 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Singin' In The Rain, Singin' In The Rain

DomaDragoon posted...

The Blue Danube, 2001: A Space Odyssey

Leonhart4 posted...

Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)

Not sure what else, I'm not familiar with a lot of "classic" movies...

Technically would the song from Inception be allowed? That French one that you hear slowed down when they're waking up

All-Star (Shrek)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Little Green Bag (Reservoir Dogs)

Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
Miserlou (Pulp Fiction)
Here Come the Fuzz (Hot Fuzz)
Bellbottoms (Baby Driver)

Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)
All-Star (Shrek)
Holding Out for a Hero (Shrek 2)
Come and Get Your Love (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Where Is My Mind? (Fight Club)
The Sound of Silence (The Graduate)
All-Star (Shrek)
Stuck in the Middle with You (Reservoir Dogs)

MetalmindStats posted...

Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major (Third Movement: "Alla Turca") [The Truman Show]

Subtracting this

DomaDragoon posted...

The Blue Danube, 2001: A Space Odyssey

And adding this

Don't Stop Me Now (Shaun of the Dead)

Dare to Be Stupid (The Transformers: The Movie 1986)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Iron Man (Iron Man)
Come and Get Your Love (Guardians of the Galaxy)

Danger Zone (Top Gun)
Bohemian Rhapsody (Wayne's World)
Flight of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now)
You're the Best (Karate Kid)

HM
Eye of the Tiger
Maniac
Little Green Bag