Samples from SF Movies That Have Been Used In More Than One Pop Song
Wake up - time to die!
Leon to Deckard, in Blade Runner
- Wake Up, Time To Die - Pop Will Eat Itself
- Meat Abstract - Therapy
Okay, everybody online and looking good; let's see what we can
see.
Gorman to the marines, Aliens.
- Some Future Sound of London track, possibly My Kingdom - ah, no,
it's The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman - The Future
Sound of London
- Actually, not sure i have heard this one anywhere else.
[sort of clicky beepy sound]
Mother, the main computer, to Ripley, in Alien.
- This i definitely have heard in at least two places; can't remember
either.
- One of them is a Fortran Five track, i'm pretty sure.
- Or maybe this one is My Kingdom.
He's losing his mind, and he feels it going
The narrator, from LSD-25; not strictly an
SF movie, but still.
- Teethgrinder - Therapy
- The Full Moon Mix - Paul Oakenfold
- Almost certainly over 1 000 000 other tracks.
Side props to Aliens:
The Musical. I would make a list of SF musicals, with this and
Fundament, but that would lay me open to charges of filk sympathism, so
i won't.
OMFG mother
lode111 According to this data, Blade Runner is the most
sampled movie in the world ... ever! Interestingly, almost
all of the most sampled movies are SF - US presidents, preachers,
serial killers, etc rate highly, NASA is in second place, Vietnam
movies do well, but other than that, it's non-stop SF (albeit
including quite a lot of supernatural horror).