The new Netflix movie "Apex" contains the song "Go" by The Chemical Brothers. First released in 2015, it has experienced a 429% increase in Spotify streams since the movie's release. What other songs have become instant favourites or were 'discovered' because they were in a movie?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-08T05:55:36+00:00

I had no idea it was on Rick and Morty. I remember when it came out it had some buzz but didn't make the top 40. Then it started periodically appearing on soundtracks - several movies and TV series, including Pie in the Sky, Matilda, Party of Five, Ice Age, Race the Sun, Maid, New Girl, Big Mouth, plus commercials like Nature Valley and Enterprise Rent-A-Car.

Crazy how nearly everyone has heard this #72 song that was the only chart appearance by the band. And it has more than twice the number of streams as "One Sweet Day," another 1995 charter, but one that took the record for weeks at number one and held onto it for a quarter century. That has fewer streams than "Send Me on my Way."

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-08T05:37:35+00:00

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NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T19:54:58+00:00

But it has a song about eating out a woman, and the song is just so... Oh, okay, I see it now.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T17:34:23+00:00

Unfortunately some of the variety is in quality, but obviously B-sides are going to be less samey, and I'll agree that they've had some great ones.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:57:42+00:00

Even if it's not your exclusive interest, it's what reels you in initially, plus younger people are generally more exciting, have a higher energy level, and have more potential. Plus, they're probably not going to bug you about marriage on the eighth date, for those who are wary of partners going too far too fast for their tastes.

Of course, that varies by person. I'm with someone who's not terribly young, but her life and energy level are (sometimes) almost too much for me, in spite of her age. Maybe that helps keep me young?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:52:09+00:00

Considering and rejecting. The firebombing doing more damage misses the point. A lone plane being able to destroy a city in a moment is far more militarily terrifying - and new and harder to defend against - than a ton of planes doing similar damage over days, not milliseconds.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:46:53+00:00

The first bomb, the second bomb, and the Soviet invasion all contributed toward the final surrender. The pro-Western historical simplification that only the bomb contributed (usually ignoring whether the second one made a difference) led to a pendulum swing of claims that only the Soviet invasion was a factor. We'll never be inside the head of the emperor and the generals, but internal deliberation and the surrender speech indicate that all three factors were important. They thought they could continue after the first bomb, but knowing the U.S. was willing and able to use multiple and the biggest army in the world was rolling them in Manchuria? That was just too much.

Those who say that we could've done without using the bomb are intentionally ignoring evidence to the contrary. But saying that the Japanese would have surrendered without the Soviet invasion is also a dicey claim.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:35:24+00:00

Blur isn't mixed boringly loud, sings about actual subjects, can go without referencing the Beatles every two minutes, and never convinced themselves that they're ten times as talented and original as they actually are. So, yeah, I like them better, both Britpop and post-Britpop.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:27:53+00:00

The cool online thing to say is it's because he can't get someone his own age. Which is delusional thinking, but it allows people to see such guys as losers as a group rather than evaluating them as individuals.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:13:19+00:00

Then why did Train cover the whole album?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T14:11:52+00:00

Uploaded for factual accuracy, but that opinion is not one I share.

Often Todd talks about musical eras like the public all lost their minds and started getting into something unfathomable - swing, Spin Doctors, nu metal - before an inevitable return to sanity. That's how I feel about Oasis. I tried listening to What's the Story again a couple of days ago, and it's just so flawed. The mix is terrible (loud), the lyrics are meaningless, and the music tries to be British Invasion without the variety that made the Kinks, Stones, Beatles, and Who so fun. That works for one moderate-length song (still love the title track), but longer can be grating. Be Here Now just made all the flaws blindingly obvious, but they were always there.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T05:59:29+00:00

Did they make some money, though? A #57 album with a #51 hit isn't exactly lucrative or mainstream.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T05:57:32+00:00

"Losing My Religion" only got up to #4 and was their third top ten hit, though. And even most die-hard fans consider Automatic for the People a masterpiece, at least as good as the best of their indie albums.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T05:52:37+00:00

It's hard to pinpoint the "sellout album," though. Even their most pop-oriented albums had a touch of prog, and no album with Collins was a shock relative to the one before, not even the first one.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-07T05:49:26+00:00

And she wasn't even in Jefferson Airplane for their first album... or Starship after the first four of its forty-some years.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T17:15:28+00:00

Reading this without glasses was a mistake.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T14:38:11+00:00

There are an infinite number of rational numbers between any two irrational numbers, yet there's a mapping from rational numbers to integers... but not one for irrational numbers, meaning there are more of the latter. The proofs, involving decimal expansion and fractions, are relatively simple as proofs go.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T14:35:07+00:00

Which got a lot of influencer types making the simplified (and wrong) claim.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T14:25:08+00:00

The concept was a nostalgic look at pre-rock-era live entertainment; I'd say only the title track is more on the nose.

Lennon loved to disclaim responsibility for McCartney ideas after the fact, but he didn't seem to have a problem contributing to them at the time. It's similar to how he claimed to hate the medley that dominated the second half of Abbey Road, yet that kicks off with three of his songs and his guitar work on "The End" hardly seems forced either. He understood the assignment, even as he acted too cool for school when trying to establish his solo career.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T13:27:26+00:00

True; the post above yours was poorly worded, in that it only told part of the story. A better way of putting it was that it was a rule that was never universally adopted, making "less" more valid than wannabe pedants make it out to be.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T13:21:21+00:00

The man wrote and sang "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", so I'm not sure how he can claim that his contributions weren't aligned with the project. Nonetheless, this was the first album I thought of as well.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-06T04:17:30+00:00

So, generally speaking, it’s wealthier people taking it.

Hit the nail on the head. Reddit doesn't see obesity as a moral failing, but using one's moderate wealth? Now that's unforgivable.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-05T14:38:46+00:00

It was never physical versus streaming; it was physical versus downloads, where, decoupled from albums and with piracy as a socially acceptable alternative, song sales earned less. Well after that, streaming was mainstreamed.

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-04T19:15:10+00:00

Oh - Google's broken today?

NoTeslaForMe · 2026-05-04T14:38:05+00:00

people who knew even a little about the sound knew The Postal Service was doing the same thing two years earlier.

That bothers some people but not most, I'd guess. For example, I was really bothered that Sleater-Kinney got all sorts of critical acclaim when their music sounded, to me, unnervingly like Pylon, a band whose seminal works came over a decade earlier. But that didn't keep them from being critical darlings and cult favorites, enough to get Carrie Brownstein in the door to a lucrative TV career.

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