Empire Mags Best Movie LIST &Spike theme songs for each Season of Buffy/Angel featuring Spike.

[shadowkat]

1. Empire Magazine's 500 Greatest Films of All Time - is a fun little quiz to take - check to see how many you've seen. I've 370 of them or 75%. I also don't agree with a lot of the choices on the list.

Honestly, as much as I enjoyed the Star Wars and Indiana Jones films, the only ones that belong on that list are Star Wars - New Hope, Star Wars - The Empire Strikes Back, Raiders of the Lost Arc, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. All the others? Not so much. And seriously, "The Transformers" , "Grease", "Superman Returns" and "Batman Returns"??

Also where are "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Body Heat", "Beckett", "A Lion in Winter", "Guys and Dolls",
"West Side Story" (yes, Grease made the list but not West Side Story), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Red River (which is actually a better film than The Searchers), Strangers on a Train, Shadow of a Doubt, and they ranked Howls Moving Castle above Spirited Away???

2.) Hmmm, was reading londonkds's posts on songs that fits Buffy villains, and he chose a rather good one for Spike S2 -Till the Following Night" (properly titled "Big Black Coffin", until the record label objected) by Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages. .

So I was thinking, in regards to Spike, who seemed to become a different character for each season of the series, what songs would fit him for each season?

* S2 - Till the Following Night by Such and The Savages is perfect. (or I can't come up with a better choice.)

* S3? (Lover's Walk) -- I'm thinking a ragged breakup song -- going with Billy Idol's White Wedding.

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S4 Buffy and S1 Angel? Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol

S5? The Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated

S6? Two possibilities:

* Florence and the Machine's "A Kiss with a Fist"

or

* Bad Romance by Lady Gaga -- but sung by someone else.

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Personally, I'm swinging towards Kiss with a Fist.

S7? - Pavlov's Bell by Aimee Mann

Pavlov's Bell

Angel S5? -- My Way by the Sex Pistols

or maybe...

Carry on My Wayward Son by Kansas

What do you think?

Comments

[petzipellepingo.livejournal.com]

"West Side Story" (yes, Grease made the list but not West Side Story)

Well that's just completely wrong.

[londonkds.livejournal.com]

The British comedian Charlie Brooker once parodied Empire as Shit Film Liker. It's a film magazine very much aimed at people who watch nothing but blockbusters.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

It does have a lot of non-blockbuster films on it...various little known foreign films and classics, but it feels very skewed. Hardly any of the classic song and dance musicals.
And a lot of dumb action films. (ie. Predator, and a lot of Arnie films.)