The Most Memorable Music at the Movies in 2011
It happens nearly every time you go to the movies. You’re watching the screen, keeping up with the plot, and then BAM! you’re hit by an amazing piece of music that permanently stamps that moment onto your memory.
Below is some of the best music–oldies and new tunes alike–that we heard at the movies this year.
How about you? What songs were you humming on the way out of the movie theater in 2011?
“Bad Girl” by Lee Moses (as heard in “House of Pleasures”)
“A Real Hero” by College (as heard in “Drive”)
“Man or Muppet” by The Muppets (as heard in “The Muppets”)
“Life’s a Happy Song” by The Muppets (as heard in “The Muppets”)
“Marcy’s Song” by John Hawkes (as heard in “Martha Marcy May Marlene”)
“Requiem op.5″ by Hector Berlioz (as heard in “The Tree of Life”)
“Prelude, Tristan and Isolde” by Richard Wagner (as heard in “Melancholia”)
“Scene D’Amour (from “Vertigo”)” by Bernard Herrmann (as heard in “The Artist”)
“I Wanna Go to Marz” by John Grant (as heard in “Weekend”)
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” by Elvis Presley (as heard in “A Brighter Summer Day”)
“Re: Stacks” by Bon Iver (as heard in “PressPausePlay”)
“Calvary” by Baby Dee (as heard in “To Die Like a Man”)
“Mule Skinner Blues” by Jimmie Rodgers & George Vaughn (as heard in “We Need to Talk About Kevin”)
“My Neck My Back” by Khia (as heard in “Pariah”)
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