I had mentioned in a post earlier this week, that Martin Scorcese did with music in a film, what VanGogh did with paint. For example in the film "Goodfellas", when they are showing the montage of everyone involved in the Lufthansa heist getting murdered, the slow tail end of Claptons "Layla" is playing. Prior to that, I never associated anything by Clapton, with mobsters getting "wacked", but now anytime I here that song that scene is the first thing I think of.

I feel it really takes a director with a very rare vision to wrap a certain song around a scene to the point that anytime you hear that song your brain immediately recollects a certain scene from a film.

Two other directors who I feel are tantamount to soundtrack gods along with Scorcese are Quentin Tarantino and Cameron Crowe.

Examples...In Tarantinos "Reservoir Dogs", who can forget Michael Madsen dancing around to Steelers Wheel's "Stuck in the Middle with You" as he cuts a bound and gagged cops ear off with a straight razor before dousing him in gasoline? Or in the same Tarantino vein, Kool and the Gangs "Jungle Boogie" in the hillbilly rape seen of Marselis Wallace in "Pulp Fiction"

Cameron Crowe, albeit a little less edgy, and his films are definitely a little more bubble gum than Scorcese or Tarantino, was just as brilliant in his music/scene pairings. Any time I hear Tom Petty's "Freefallin" I picture Americas favorite Scientologist, Tom Cruise belting it out in his car, windows down, after landing what he thought was the deal of his life. Or Crowes singing of Elton Johns "Tiny Dancer" on the tour bus in "Almost Famous".

There are lots of scenes out there that were made by the music, and being an avid film buff I'd love to hear others opinions of songs that made the scene...

s.h.