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Most compelling vocal you discovered in a movie?

I love music and find myself drawn to all sorts, most kinds of jazz, opera (except Wagner, which I have seen performed), rock, pop, world, etc. The radio, TV, concerts are obvious places to discover new tunes. How about the movies? Is there a song so wrenchingly beautiful that you discovered while watching a movie that you sat around to see the credits and then rushed off to buy it? For me the most recent tune was "When I Dream" by Carol Kidd in the highly recommended South-North Korea espionage drama "Shiri." The song is wonderful and fits the movie just so. If you haven't seen this, I urge you to find it somewhere. It was the highest grossing film in Korean history and while it is explosive, the character development and underpinnings of the motivations provide some nice food for thought.
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marakanetz
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Once I was watching a movie "Professional" with Jean Reno and Gary Oldman.
I wasn't impressed in general from this movie but the only thing I loved was the final song of Sting during the credits playback. I believe that everyone knows that song and I knew it too some time before this movie, but without full understanding of lyrics since English isn't my first language.
That day this song broke me through and I've memorised almost all lyrics from that listening!
Another movie that worth listening songs IMO is Natural Born Killers where Leonard Cohen has a bunch of musical credits.
edesilva
768 posts
 
The aria from La Wally from Diva. And, the choir piece from Empire of the Sun.
ben_campbell
1,169 posts
 
That bit in Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garret And Billy The Kid where Bob Dylan get's on his bike and starts singing Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head and then Coburn shoots him.
That was fun......
griswold
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Porschecab I agree. "Lucia Di Lammermoor" performed by Inva Mulla Tchako with the London Symphony Orchestra. The Fifth Element is also by the way a very well done dvd.
avguygeorge
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Natural Born--- is where I got hooked on Cohen. He has music in more movies also. I ran out and bought an Inya album after hearing it in a movie I can't remember the title of. There is so much good music in movies.
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