Unexpected Rock/Metal Movie & TV Usage

Fat Freddy wrote:

Saw a trailer for the forthcoming "Final Destination 5" on TV last night that used AC/DC's "If You Want Blood"

Wasn't "Highway to Hell" used in one of them?

The kids were watchin' "What's New Scooby-Doo" this afternoon (the mid 90s "Scooby" revival series) and during the inevitable mid-episode "chase montage" (y'know, where Scooby, Shaggy, the villain, and the gang all chase each other around in circles, in and out of doors, etc.) they played "I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You" by the Ramones.

If you've ever heard of the obscure late 80s hair band Mammoth, their song "All the Days" was used as Chris Jericho's theme music in wcw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwhLZW8xvTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ym0bxYFRQ4&feature=fvwrel

Journey's "Separate Ways" was prominent during a key scene in "Tron: Legacy"

Heard Anvil's "Metal on Metal" on The Simpsons earlier!

On an older Halloween episode of Spongebob, the music was performed by The Ghastly Ones. For anyone unfamiliar with them, they play "surf rock" music with horror themes.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghastly_Ones

Fun stuff!!

Can' remember the tilte of the series, but it's an Aussie kid/youth series about this girl who turns out is a Indian Princess and can do magic and stuff (haven't really paid attention, but the kids watch it all the time)....

Anyway, this girl is playing in a band, and on her room there is an Airborne poster on her wall!

A few days before Halloween my kids were watching a silly children's movie on Nickelodeon called "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred."

(For those of you who aren't familiar with the "Fred" character, he's an extremely annoying teenage goofball who's kinda like a cross between Pee Wee Herman and Urkel. I can't stand it, but my kids think he's hilarious.)

Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

...my wife, of course, rolled her eyes and said "Only YOU would know that."

Fat Freddy wrote:

A few days before Halloween my kids were watching a silly children's movie on Nickelodeon called "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred."

(For those of you who aren't familiar with the "Fred" character, he's an extremely annoying teenage goofball who's kinda like a cross between Pee Wee Herman and Urkel. I can't stand it, but my kids think he's hilarious.)

Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

...my wife, of course, rolled her eyes and said "Only YOU would know that."

That's hilarious! This is a little bit off the subject, but while checking out the credits at the beginning of a Smallville episode for Season 8, I saw the name Rick Rosenthal (directing credit). I think I said the name three times out loud in a row, and then all of a sudden the epiphany; Halloween II... It was Rick's first stint as director way back in 1981. The guy is quite the T.V director over the last decade or so...

Fat Freddy wrote:

A few days before Halloween my kids were watching a silly children's movie on Nickelodeon called "Fred 2: Night of the Living Fred."

(For those of you who aren't familiar with the "Fred" character, he's an extremely annoying teenage goofball who's kinda like a cross between Pee Wee Herman and Urkel. I can't stand it, but my kids think he's hilarious.)

Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

...my wife, of course, rolled her eyes and said "Only YOU would know that."

That kid is annoying I wanted to duck tape his mouth so I didn't have to hear his voice!!!!! My kids love it too

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(For those of you who aren't familiar with the "Fred" character, he's an extremely annoying teenage goofball who's kinda like a cross between Pee Wee Herman and Urkel. I can't stand it, but my kids think he's hilarious.)

Thankfully my kids are too young to watch that show, however I've been subject to the endless commercials. I'm not a violent man, but given the opportunity, I'd punch Fred squarely in the face. More than once.

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Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

Along those same lines (and being generous with the 'rock/metal' bounderies), Mark Motherbough (sp?) of DEVO writes tons of movie and tv soundtracks and also appears as himself on the tv show 'Yo Gabba Gabba' making drawings that come to life, like the old 'Picture Pages' with the Cos.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

Along those same lines (and being generous with the 'rock/metal' bounderies), Mark Motherbough (sp?) of DEVO writes tons of movie and tv soundtracks and also appears as himself on the tv show 'Yo Gabba Gabba' making drawings that come to life, like the old 'Picture Pages' with the Cos.

My kids have fortunately aged out of the "Yo Gabba Gabba" target audience, but yeah, I've seen Mark on there. Rapper Biz Markie makes regular appearances on that show too.

...on a side note, who else thinks that the one-eyed orange thingy from "Yo Gabba Gabba" looks like a walking, giant sized marital aid?

I've been away from the Smallville franchise for a while now. I'm almost half way through Season 8, and already there have been two Whitesnake references, regarding Lois Lane and her love for David Coverdale and the boys. I just started episode 8 and Lois who is moving into the Kent's farm house (now Clark's home) has Def Leppard's "High 'N Dry" vinyl in a box with the rest of her essentials!!! How cool is that? Hell, she could have walked in with "Hysteria", but she walked in with Def Leppard's best album. Erica Durance is even more hot!!! I wonder if she's really a metal fan? Here's hoping so...

Fat Freddy wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

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Anyway, during the opening credits I noticed that the music for the film was composed by Roddy Bottum. I sez "Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time, I remember him, he was the keyboard player for Faith No More."

Along those same lines (and being generous with the 'rock/metal' bounderies), Mark Motherbough (sp?) of DEVO writes tons of movie and tv soundtracks and also appears as himself on the tv show 'Yo Gabba Gabba' making drawings that come to life, like the old 'Picture Pages' with the Cos.

My kids have fortunately aged out of the "Yo Gabba Gabba" target audience, but yeah, I've seen Mark on there. Rapper Biz Markie makes regular appearances on that show too.

...on a side note, who else thinks that the one-eyed orange thingy from "Yo Gabba Gabba" looks like a walking, giant sized marital aid?

Aren't his initials DP?

While watching the original "Prom Night" (1980) the other night, I noticed a vintage KISS poster on the wall in the school cafeteria, and one of the characters had KISS stickers on the inside of her locker.

...and yet for a high school apparently full of KISS fans, all the scenes set at the prom showed'em all boogie-oogie-oogie'ing on the disco dance floor. How sickening!

Well, I'm wrapping up my Smallville experience, but the Whitesnake references keep coming. In Season 10 Ep.19 Lois has a Whitesnake throw pillow w/Doug Aldrich playing guitar on one side and what looked to be tour dates on the other. I bet Lois has made more than 10 references to Whitesnake since she arrived on the show 7 seasons ago.

Fat Freddy wrote:

While watching the original "Prom Night" (1980) the other night, I noticed a vintage KISS poster on the wall in the school cafeteria, and one of the characters had KISS stickers on the inside of her locker.

...and yet for a high school apparently full of KISS fans, all the scenes set at the prom showed'em all boogie-oogie-oogie'ing on the disco dance floor. How sickening!

Well, that is EXACTLY how life was back then probably everywhere. I was a pre-teen and seen how my "rocker" friends had no problem dancing to disco at one school dance I went to. I refused and demanded some rock n roll to be put on, but it wasn't.
I bet many of them never got into metal.

I heard Back in Black, Welcome to the Jungle and Enter Sandman at a football game last month!

Oh wait, the OP said "unexpected"... ha!

On a serious note, the Caps use Iron Maiden's "The Wickerman" after scoring a goal. As a Caps/Maiden fanatic, I pretty much lose my smurf poo whenever that happens.

Andy wrote:

I heard Back in Black, Welcome to the Jungle and Enter Sandman at a football game last month!

Oh wait, the OP said "unexpected"... ha!

On a serious note, the Caps use Iron Maiden's "The Wickerman" after scoring a goal. As a Caps/Maiden fanatic, I pretty much lose my smurf poo whenever that happens.

That's awesome! I need to get to a Caps game this year

metalinmyveins wrote:

Well, I'm wrapping up my Smallville experience, but the Whitesnake references keep coming. In Season 10 Ep.19 Lois has a Whitesnake throw pillow w/Doug Aldrich playing guitar on one side and what looked to be tour dates on the other. I bet Lois has made more than 10 references to Whitesnake since she arrived on the show 7 seasons ago.

Whitesnake is Lois's favorite band

manny wrote:

metalinmyveins wrote:

Well, I'm wrapping up my Smallville experience, but the Whitesnake references keep coming. In Season 10 Ep.19 Lois has a Whitesnake throw pillow w/Doug Aldrich playing guitar on one side and what looked to be tour dates on the other. I bet Lois has made more than 10 references to Whitesnake since she arrived on the show 7 seasons ago.

Whitesnake is Lois's favorite band

Clearly, but every once in a while she would throw in stuff about Bono and U2. My favorite moment still regarding Lois and her appreciation of metal, was when she had the L.P of Def Leppard's High 'N Dry in Season 9. Had you asked me what album the director/producers of that show or Erica Durnace herself had placed in her box full of moving materials, I would have thought it to be, "Hysteria" or "Pyromania". The fact that it was "High 'N Dry" made that moment epic!

Smallville S3 E1 Frantic Metallica
https://youtu.be/vT7roO825Sk

mlotek wrote:

Smallville S3 E1 Frantic Metallica
https://youtu.be/vT7roO825Sk

Yeah, the cliffhanger from season 2 going into season 3 EP with Clark being evil Clark, due to the old red kryptonite...

Has anyone mentioned that South Park episode where everyone is getting high off of cat spray and their hallucinations are a parody of Heavy Metal complete with the Sammy Hagar song?

adrian wrote:

Has anyone mentioned that South Park episode where everyone is getting high off of cat spray and their hallucinations are a parody of Heavy Metal complete with the Sammy Hagar song?

You mean "Cheesing"

That episode was called "Major Boobage" and it is a classic