Heavy stuff, man: Pink Floyd's reworking of "Eugene" as "Come in Number 51,
your Time is up" in Antonioni's "Blow Up" (1970) slow-motion explosions end
scene. (http://www.film.unizh.ch/zabriskie_4.html).
Also Patti Page's 78 "Tennesse Waltz" (1950) has made itself strongly
associated with the movie, as does The Rolling Stones's "You got the
Silver", missing from the CD for business reasons.
Jerry Garcia's "Love Scene" guitar noodlings are very pretty on the CD, but
they were full of clicks and heavy jumps when heard in the movie theatres at
the time: the operators would often cut nudity scenes from movies for
private home viewing. The liner notes of the expanded CD soundtrack are
here:
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/links/cinema/directors/antonioni/zabriskie/.
1970's "Performance" (Cammell and Roeg) made quite an impression on 19 year
old me. "Memo from Turner" even was a minor hit single in the Netherlands. I
remember a scene in which James Fox meets Anita Pallenberg, who is carrying
a basket of mushrooms, in the back garden, to the sound of Ry Cooder's
"Powis Square". For a few moments, the focus of the camera shifts to an
airplane flying over. A very memorable moment though I can not explain why.
"Powis Square" is Cooder's interpretation of Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark
was the Night" (1927) which he also used extensively in Wender's "Paris,
Texas".
Post by Cathy ParkerI cannot think separate Sound of Silence from the Graduate.
Same goes for Everybody's Balkin and Midnight Cowboy.
And, the ear cutting song and Reservoir Dogs. Hearing that song on the
radio gives me the creeps.