Entries in Rock and Roll Circus (1)
Music Memory Mondays: The Who, "A Quick One While He's Away"
Rob Dean On Monday, March 8, 2010 at 1:40PM Song: "A Quick One While He's Away" by The Who
Event: The movie, Rushmore
There's not too many filmmakers out there that can make a scene so iconic that every time you see or hear anything associated with that scene, their film is the first thing that comes to mind. Scorsese and Tarantino have both proven their effectiveness with marrying pop music to intense scenes so whenever you end up on classic radio and hear "Gimme Shelter" or "Stuck in the Middle" suddenly come on, that scene replays in your mind. (Although, Mr. Scorsese - please, no more with the "Gimme Shelter." We get it. I assure you - we get it)
Wes Anderson is, I suppose, the less violent and more hipster friendly version of this type of filmmaker. He's been able to marry numbers of great pop songs to beautifully staged and filmed scenes. Like Tarantino, he seems more interested in the music that stands just on the outside of the popular mainstream - focusing more on the songs in middle of the top ten than the first 3.