Now we are halfway through the decade what are the best needle drops?

Off the top of my head

Nope - exuma the obeah man (my favorite)
OBAA - soldier boy AND dirty work
Weapons - beware of darkness
Anatomy of a fall - PIMP
Licorice pizza - let me roll it and life on mars
The brutalist - one for you one for me

What are some other good ones

red rocket - bye bye bye
triangle of sadness - that fred again song
aftersun - under pressure

beware of darkness from weapons is instantly iconic imo. the idea to put that song with that image is virtuosic and is one of my fav things in years.

worst person in the world - harry nilson, i said goodbye to me
licorice pizza - nina simone, july tree
the holdovers - labbie sifre, crying laughing loving crying
urchin - atomic kitten, whole again
obaa - steely dan, dirty work ofc but upon multiple watches jackson 5 ready or not here i come has become a huge highlight of the film for me. the sequence of the nurse letting him run out the doctors office and get into sensei's car is so so good

Just 2025

Dangerous Animals (amazing soundtrack start to finish)
Stevie Wright - Evie

Die My Love (Low Quality and it comes back later in the movie)
John Prine and Iris Demint - In Spite of Ourselves

Miroirs No 3 (the titular piano piece also pops up obviously)
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons - The Night

tom petty & the heartbreakers - american girl in one battle after another

I quite like punk rocker in superman

Debussy - Clair de Lune in the miniseries The Underground Railroad

one of the most used piano pieces in film/TV but I've never seen it used so powerfully

aint no stoppin us now & the puerto rican day parade sequence in highest 2 lowest def two of em

Forever Young in Marty Supreme

I don't know if it counts but the end credits song Lonely Credit by The The is perfect for Megalopolis

The Smashing Machine comes to mind

Came in to post Aftersun. Glad someone beat me

Ray of Light in Caught Stealing

Oh y'all some real cinema lovers. I gotta pay more attention to s*** like this. I guess the one that's still fresh or comes to mind easily is the Steely Dan scene opener in OBAA

so real for the first one

I gotta make some n put good tracks on it

She Rides Shotgun ends with one of the best of the decade.
Not even a great movie but holy f*** this scene gets me.

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