Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales 12 votes Sweet Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) is a black orphan who, having grown up in a brothel, now works there as part of a sex show. When the police need a patsy for a murder in the black commu...
My Sassy Girl Jun Ji-hyun, Cha Tae-hyun, Song Ok-sook 16 votes This wildly popular South Korean romantic comedy tells the story of a college student who becomes involved with an unpredictable and spirited young woman. The film's witty dialogue, hilarious antics, and heartfelt moments make ...
She had received only modest success in Europe while working with the production and songwriting team of Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte. Their demo of this song found its way to Casablanca Records, which signed her based on its club appeal. Even the significantly edited single, at 4:57, ...
(When she finally breaks free of that chord's gravity, more than a minute into the song, it's like a smack to the face.) Thompson, Fay Milton, and Ayse Hassan lock into the song's high-friction riff in a mode that's way too rare these days; for all the comparisons Savages get ...
Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds: Good Morning (Singin’ in the Rain, 1952) Debbie Reynolds once called this scene the toughest moment of her life: Just 16 when she was cast, she was performing a song and dance with two of the greatest hoofers in the movies. But she handl...
Honeymoon-Scott, she hated it. “I said that would go out over my dead body,” the singer recalled in 2020. “I thought it sounded like it was trying to be a Motown song, but it didn’t quite get it. But now I like that song because it’s one of those songs that served me ...
in 1968 and the U.S. one year later (with a slightly different song list that includes "All Along the Watchtower"), Smash Hits is everything any Hendrix fan could want. "Purple Haze," "Fire," "The Wind Cries Mary." That's just the first three songs on the album. Over t...
The title song, composed by Giorgio Moroder, became a chart success for Limahl, the former singer of Kajagoogoo; Dustin and his girlfriend cover the song in a metafictional moment during the third Stranger Things season. There were two sequels to the movie, one released in 1990, and ...
This album upended everything we know about rock’n’roll in 1976: It wasn’t supposed to be this raw, this snotty, or this much fun. The punk movement started here, but few at the time noticed how smart the Ramones really were: Just try writing a song (“I Don’t Wanna Walk Aro...
In Nile Rodgers’ excellent 2011 memoir Le Freak, the Chic producer shares the golden rule that made him such a prolific songwriter: "Every song had to have Deep Hidden Meaning… We felt that audiences would be more receptive to multilevel messages, just as long as they liked the groove."...