Songs that could be made into a film ?

[Turbotechnic]

The Beatles A day in the life.

[MikeT66]

Dr Jekyll said:

Meeting across the River, Bruce Springsteen.

Probably loads from Springsteen. 'Racing In The Street' another one. 'My Hometown', 'The River'...

[AshVX220]

For Album "This is War" by 30 Seconds to Mars tells a story I think. It's also one of my favourite albums (far better than their later stuff).

[easytiger123]

The one that sprung to mind when I read the thread title was Escape (aka the Pina Colada song) by Rupert Holmes.

[gareth_r]

So many...

Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash (and a million other country songs) >>>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=HxAa83gP9vc
("I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die")

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle >>>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=xvaEJzoaYZk
("Daddy ran the whisky in a big-block Dodge")

Spanish Moon - Little Feat >>>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=SQEhk0KtvG4
("I pawned my watch and I sold my ring just to hear that girl sing")

Roland The Headless Thomson Gunner - Warren Zevon >>>> https://youtube.com/watch?v=wRWCK9zGynA
("Roland was a warrior from the land of the midnight sun")

[Drumroll]

10CC I'm Mandy fly me.

10CC One night in Paris

Dexy's One day I am going to soar (album)

[Chestrockwell]

Richard Marx - Hazard

[66mpg]

Richard Thompson - Vincent Black Lighting 1952

[Eric Mc]

bristolracer said:

Its a shame no one ever made a musical of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds.
Obviously now not possible with the loss of Richard Burton and Phil Lynott.

Songs can be sung by other people.

Parts can be played by other actors.

Happens all the time.

[Eric Mc]

Mamma Mia (already done)
Copacabana (already made into a stage musical)
We Will Rock You (made into a stage musical)

[Halmyre]

MikeT66 said:

Dr Jekyll said:

Meeting across the River, Bruce Springsteen.

Probably loads from Springsteen. 'Racing In The Street' another one. 'My Hometown', 'The River'...

'Racing in the Street' takes a lot of influence from 'Two Lane Blacktop'. I think there's a reasonable musical to be made from some of his songs.

At one point Genesis's 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway' was mooted for a film, with William Friedkin's involvement.

[crofty1984]

Warren Zevon - Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner

[Starfighter]

bristolracer said:

Its a shame no one ever made a musical of Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds.
Obviously now not possible with the loss of Richard Burton and Phil Lynott.

Err, I went to see that in Birmingham on Saturday. Lots of film on the backing screen so should not be hard to do.

[Starfighter]

Ol’ Red - Blake Shelton
https://youtu.be/asxrMSVrJ08

[DickyC]

Handbags and Gladrags.

[The Hypno-Toad]

matbat said:

Dire Straits - On every street

One of my thoughts too.

tribalsurfer said:

Ode to Billy Joe - Bobby Gentry

Surprisingly already done
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074995/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Rather than go for one of the two most popular theories as to what the song was actually about (faking suicide to dodge the draft, they were throwing her aborted baby into the muddy waters before he scarpered.) they went with a gay liaison gone wrong so he faked suicide and fled, which was remarkably liberal for 1976.

Here are my thoughts and yes I have been thinking about this for quite awhile. So much I almost started an identical thread and these are copy and pasted from the word document I had ready.



Uninvited - Alanis Morrisette/Freemasons feat Bailey Tzuke
Man stalks woman. Woman welcomes him into her life. Stalker thinks all is wishes have come true. Too late he discovers she is not the pedestal mounted dream he had imagined but something utterly deranged. So Audition basically.

Keep It Dark - Genesis
Now bear with me on this one...
Normal family man vanishes, turns out he has been kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, he returns claiming that the bad guys let him go. In fact, what actually happened is he escaped & while being chased he fell into (insert bogus pseudo-scientific term for a rabbit hole.) where he found an alternative reality full of monstrous looking creatures who although are a peaceful seeming race only reluctantly let him return back to his family on the condition that he keeps their reality secret. However once things sort of return to normal, he realises that the bad guys are going to try and track him down to make sure he remains silent, the monsters will always be watching him and every body will think he is mad. Or is he? Did he imagine just the monsters or did he conjure up the whole thing?

phew?


Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Really, really depressing film about a man trying to get out of a spiral of depression and alcoholism in late 70s London

Goodbye Girl - Squeeze
Man just getting divorced meets beautiful little pixie who turns out to be a thief. He tracks her down, discovers he quite likes the idea of being a thief too. High jinks and romance ensue.

Breakfast - The Associates
Something about vampires? I don't know, just listen to it and tell me it doesn't sound like something very, very creepy is going on

The Chauffeur - Duran Duran
Something about a serial killer chauffeur. I don't know, just listen to it and tell me it doesn't sound like something very, very creepy is going on

Flashdance - Deepdish
The lyrics sound suspiciously like a statement been given to the police by a girl over her possible involvement in an assault/murder of a really nasty piece of work, so lets start from there.

Hobart Paving - St Etienne
A girl on railway platform ponders her life after her best friend dies and wonders if she is doing the right thing by leaving town and starting again. Lots of flashbacks and crying. Sounds terrible actually but I'm sure there would be a market.

[Troubleatmill]

52 Ways to leave your lover.

Has to be a comedy with 51 ways failing badly.

[Topbuzz]

Take On Me - A-ha

[The Hypno-Toad]

Troubleatmill said:

52 Ways to leave your lover.

Has to be a comedy with 51 ways failing badly.

So sort of Barney from How I Met Your Mother but in reverse....

Kid you're hired! Get me a treatment and a 15 minute pitch ready for a meeting on the lot first thing in the morning. Bring the sniff.

[kowalski655]

"Out of the blue(Into the fire)" by The The:
a man tries to find solace in the bed of a skanky ho, she fakes it, it probably ends badly