And on that note (this has now been kicking around my head all day), what other songs can you think of that have been given new meanings or associations in your head (particulary those of sinister cast) because of their association with a film or TV show?

Where is My Mind? by the Pixies - Always been one of my favorites but it's use at the end of Fight Club made it even better. Now I listen to that song and love it for both it and the movie.

On the other hand, the Sundays' version of Wild Horses (used decently in The Prom) was destroyed forever by its use during a really awful roller coaster scene in a really bad movie with Marky Mark and Reese Witherspoon (can't remember the name of it).

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I haven't posted in forever so have not been able to give a giant kudos and congratulations to Hec, JZ, Emmett and Matilda. I've loved all the pictures and teared up reading all the wonderful birth and bonding stories. Very happy for all of you.

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And also, holy weeping jesus is the new Hold Steady album amazing. The new Decemberists album had the great misfortune of being bought on the same day as the new Hold Steady, so while I am enjoying it as well, I can barely squeeze into rotation since I just want to listen to Craig Finn every single second. I am seeing them (the Hold Steady that is) on the 26th of this month and I can barely contain my excitement. I predict extreme awesomeness.

what other songs can you think of that have been given new meanings or associations in your head (particulary those of sinister cast) because of their association with a film or TV show?

Daniel Johnston's "Casper the Friendly Ghost" as used in "Kids". I get the shivers just thinking about it. Yeeeeeshhh!

It's rare that a song is changed -- for me, personally -- by use in a movie. But there's been a couple songs that were 'brought to my attention', particularly "Miserlou" by Dick Dale, which despite my liking for guitar-driven beach music, I'd never heard before Pulp Fiction.

While we're on Tarantino, I remember "Stuck in the Middle with You" from the radio when I was a kid. Needless to say, when I think of it now it conjures up RESERVOIR DOGS.

Can it be because of a vid? Because "Transparent," whose artist I have forgotten, is inextricably linked with Willow now.

Oooh, yeah. I would never have thought of it, but I don't see why vid use wouldn't count. Especially if it affects the song for you.

There's a brilliant Stargate: Atlantis vid to Regina Spektor's "On the Radio" that has definitely changed, or at least enhanced, the meaning of that song for me. The vid was actually done as a companion piece to a fanfic (probably one of my favorite fics ever), so hearing the song now brings up images and layers from both the vid and the story. I watch a lot of vids, but that's the one that has done the most to change how I hear that song. It's very cool.

Has this been posted? CBGB's is closing for good.

For fans of CBGB, "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow" is no longer just the title of a tune by the Ramones.

A performance by punk pioneer and CBGB alumna Patti Smith next Sunday will be the final show at the legendary lower East Side music club before the doors close for good on Oct. 31.

The club is exiting stage left after 32 years, a victim of a rent dispute with the space's landlord, the Bowery Residents' Committee, a not-for-profit homeless services agency.

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a really awful roller coaster scene in a really bad movie with Marky Mark and Reese Witherspoon (can't remember the name of it).

That would be Fear.

That album covers thing is great!