Has a movie ever turned you on to a band/musician?

[PGDGM]

Countless times i've heard a song in a movie and it drove me crazy until I found out who it was by. Just a few that come to mind (kind of random in their genre's)

Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice in the movie Closer (heard it here before it was all over the radio)

In League by BILE in the movie Strangeland

I Love Livin In The City by FEAR in the movie SLC Punk

after hearing the songs and finding out who performed them I went on to be a fan of the rest of their music.

[Spindaddydad]

Point of No Return turned me on the Nina Simone

Garden State turned me on to The Shins

[PGDGM]

Garden State had some great songs. I got hooked on Iron & Wine

[Signfire]

"Point of No Return turned me on to Nina Simone"

Good one... I guess the bad American remake of La Femme Nikita has at least one redeemable quality...

[thatboy]

Natural Born Killers - Leonard Cohen
9 songs (a movie I hated) - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Follow My Voice - Polyphonic Spree
Otto; or Up With Dead People - Coco Rosie
A Zed and Two Noughts - Michael Nyman

[Anita_Blake]

Gone In 60 Seconds turned me on to Moby....

Really good topic by the way. I am always hearing songs in movies and trying to figure out who sang them.

[Icantworkwithyou]

I was going to say Natural Born Killers\Leonard Cohen, but I heard Leonard Cohen on Pump Up the Volume first! Forgot about that one!

[Aces]

The only think I liked about The Island of Dr. Moreau (remake) was a scene when a girl (his daughter I think) is dancing sensually to haunting music. A couple of months after I saw the movie I heard the music in a shop and asked what it was. That's when I discovered Deep Forest. The girl was dancing to Night Bird. I can't find that scene but here's the song which highlights Baka Pygmy chants. A few years ago I was watching a documentary on how tribes in Cameroon were losing their land and several ladies were standing in a river chanting. It was amazing.

[Signfire]

I remember feeling kinda glum when everybody started getting into Deep Forest after they did the entire soundtrack for Strange Days.

I had already been listening to Deep Forest for quite some time and so I felt a little less special when everyone had newly "discovered" them... And then every time I played them in my car people would say "Have you ever heard of Enigma?"

Sheesh... talk about adding insult to injury... That's like asking an Ani DiFranco fan if they've ever heard of Alanis Morisette... Or asking a Taylor Dayne fan if they've ever heard of Anastacia... Or asking a Goth Punk if they've ever heard of Emo...

[Raechill]

You know I really like Deep forest but lost A LOT of respect for them when I discovered they don't give a lot of monetary compensation to the world artists they work with (like the Pygmies), but then again Paul Simon didn't either on his Graceland album.

At any rate, when I know that is going on and want their music anyway, I tend to buy it used in rebellion. I just don't think it's right

[Signfire]

But really... what are pygmies in the rainforest going to do with monetary compensation?
Put up a Wal-mart and buy some Mel Gibson movies on DVD?

Deep Forest tries to interfere with the local culture as little as possible, from what I understand.

[Mattias]

Same with Damien Rice. Iron & Wine I got into because a friend saw Garden State... so that kind of counts.

[Orion2012]

The Movie Trick Or Treat
I bought the soundtrack and became a Fastway fan