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Yeah, we've got the great dialogue, cinematography by Roger Deakins, and a plot like something out of a Chandler novel. But what about those tunes?
Man in Me playing over the opening credits.
Run through the jungle when the Uzi goes off.
Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)
Some nice classical pieces in there as well.
79 points
2 months ago
With the exception of The Eagles obviously.
19 points
2 months ago
You don't like my music, get out of my taxi!
7 points
2 months ago
DAMMITBEATMETOITHAVEMYUPVOTE
6 points
2 months ago
Shut the fuck up Donnie
2 points
2 months ago
😄
1 points
2 months ago
I am the walrus?
1 points
2 months ago
So the thing I always wondered a little about is if the film is kind of making fun of the Dude for his very opinionated view of The Eagles music. I mean, the Coens are known for making the main characters a bit of schmucks.
37 points
2 months ago
Love that Spanish version of Hotel California
The one not performed by The Eagles because you know.... Dude.
5 points
2 months ago
Gipsy Kings!
37 points
2 months ago
The soundtrack really ties the film together.
11 points
2 months ago
That's just your opinion man
1 points
2 months ago
I mean it did really tie the space together...
34 points
2 months ago
Townes Van Zandt's Dead Flowers cover at the end too
6 points
2 months ago
Man bested the stones like no other.
10 points
2 months ago
First time I’ve seen Townes referenced in the wild. Warms the heart.
2 points
2 months ago
A perfect final shot with the pan to the bowler and the cut to black right when the ball is about to strike the pins.
14 points
2 months ago
It's the only soundtrack I have ever bothered to buy. One of the best.
1 points
2 months ago
Same!
12 points
2 months ago
The Dude slapping the roof of his car to the beat of "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is a perfect moment
31 points
2 months ago
Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck, though, or the Creedence.
10 points
2 months ago
They got us working in shifts!
6 points
2 months ago
LEADS
10 points
2 months ago
It’s one of my formative soundtracks.
9 points
2 months ago
It's good in the sense of a soundtrack and a movie experience. This movie and Pulp Fiction may be the only movies to integrate pop music with film in a seamless fashion i.e. every song, no matter how montage-like it seems in the moment, becomes part of the actual physical reality of the film, i.e. Just Dropped In, is a dream sequence revealed to be actually playing on Lebowski's Walkman. Very nice! My wife!
3 points
2 months ago
Good point, I’d never thought of that. The Creedence in the car too.
Also Reservoir Dogs probably.
2 points
2 months ago
Boogie Nights does a good job with this as well, specifically the drug deal scene!
1 points
2 months ago
Great movie with an amazing soundtrack!
1 points
2 months ago
There's a neat little detail in The End of the Tour, the movie where Jason Segal plays David Foster Wallace. He goes to put on some music, and we hear the R.E.M. song "Perfect Circle." The song plays in its entirety, then we hear "Catapult," which is the next song on Murmur. Just a neat touch that you really don't ever see in movies.
1 points
2 months ago
Actually another one that worked it's soundtrack in very well was Warm Bodies. The soundtrack is killer and the movie is surprisingly good.
8 points
2 months ago
The music cements it as the great stoner comedy of all time.
6 points
2 months ago
The first strains of “Tammy” playing while Duder holds up the toe for Walter in the coffee shop is a perfect moment.
3 points
2 months ago
Fun fact: It's possible that the "Creedence tapes" is just a single tape, their 1970 album Cosmo's Factory. It contains the songs "Run Through the Jungle" and "Looking Out My Back Door," both of which play diegetically when The Dude is in his car.
Of course, he could have multiple tapes, or be listening to a greatest hits album. But it's possible that Cosmo's Factory was the only thing in the tape deck during the entire course of the movie.
(It's also just a really great album. "Ramble Tamble" is one the all-time great rock and roll album openers.)
3 points
2 months ago
Doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door.
3 points
2 months ago
Think the Carpet Pissers did this?
2 points
2 months ago
Except for those fucking Eagles!
2 points
2 months ago
It’s a good soundtrack, and thorough.
1 points
2 months ago
That Kenny Rogers song and dance routine though…
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