Category: Music Seen

Music Seen: “This Modern Love” and How I Met Your Mother

MUSIC SEEN – remembering some of our favorite confluences of music in movies, television, video games, anything. Pairing the moving image with musical notes is a time honored craft – about which, we will clumsily say is pretty awesome and pretty cool.

“This Modern Love” (Bloc Party) in How I Met Your Mother

I love her! I told her that the first night we went out, and here it is, eight months later, and nothing’s changed. So yes, I know this isn’t gonna work. But it HAS to work. You hear me, universe? This is Ted Mosby talking! Give me some rain! Come on! Come on! COME ON!!!!

What are you holding out for? / What’s always in the way?
Why so damn absent minded? / Why so scared of romance?
This modern love breaks me / This modern love wastes me

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Image: How I Met Your Mother Wikia

Season One of How I Met Your Mother ended with the episode “Come On” on May 15, 2006. The first season of this quirky romantic comedy ends with an extended sequence underscored with the song “This Modern Love” from Bloc Party’s debut album Silent Alarm, which came out a year earlier. However, mere facts are worthless when both of these are about FEELINGS, MAN. Let’s set the scene.

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Carrying a Tune: David Bowie’s “‘Heroes'”

Carrying a Tune is a series that looks at songs which have been used in various movies, tv series, and video games. In this series, we try to decide which one used the song best. For others in this series, click here.

Criteria: To be considered, the movie, series, or game must be notable enough to have its own Wikipedia page, and the scene in question must be accessible to me in some way. Other than non-musical documentaries and other occasional exceptions, only fictional works will be considered. Cover versions will be omitted.

The Song

“‘Heroes'” by David Bowie, 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgcc5V9Hu3g

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Music Seen: Miami Vice and Mogwai

MUSIC SEEN – remembering some of our favorite confluences of music in movies, television, video games, anything. Pairing the moving image with musical notes is a time honored craft – about which, we will clumsily say is pretty awesome and pretty cool.

“Auto Rock” (Mogwai) in Miami Vice (2006)

Why this movie? Why this song in this movie? Why now? So many questions.

Michael Mann re-made his 1980’s TV show in 2006 with Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx, alongside an underrated supporting cast of pre-Moonlight Naomie Harris, pre-Leftovers Justin Theroux and an ahead-of-its-time visual aesthetic, both surrealistic and gritty. It’s not a perfect movie, by any estimation. But it does do some things very well. Take music for instance.

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