"The Truman Show" is not only a great film, a great choice and one that has gotten better with age, it's also a lot of fun to match music to...

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Title (Year)	Song	Artist
The Truman Show	Boy in the Bubble	Paul Simon	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1ki3AbK8tM#
(1998)	Every Breath You Take (I'll be watching)	The Police
..	Eye In the Sky	The Alan Parsons Project
..	Only A Paper Moon	Cliff Edwards Jazz Band	http://archive.org/details/CliffEdwardsCollection1927-1933
..	I Don't Trust Nobody	George Thuorogood
..	I'll Be Seeing You	Jimmy Durante	#http://archive.org/details/1950-jimmyDurante-01-12#
..	Stay on Your Island	The Alan Parsons Project
..	Dixie Chicken	Little Feat	#http://archive.org/details/lf2013-02-15.mtx.cafiero.ford.124231.sbeok.flac16#
..	I Got Everything I Need (almost)	Blues Brothers
..	Koka Kola	The Clash
..	Nothing is True	Jim Caroll Band
..	They Can't Take That Away From Me	Ella Fitzgerald
..	Unforgettable	Dame Vera Lynn/Nat King Cole	#http://archive.org/details/VeraLynn-180-190#
..	I Could Have Lied	Red Hot Chili Peppers
..	Lies	Al Bowlley	#http://archive.org/details/HarryHudsonBand-01-18#
..	McHappiness	Matt Keating
..	Pretending	Burl Ives	#http://archive.org/details/Burl-Ives-31-40#
..	Why Must the Show Go On	Noel Coward	#http://archive.org/details/NoelCoward-21-23#
..	Would I Lie to You	Eurythmics	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhpu2N4rQZM#
..	You Made Me Love You	Jimmy Durante	#http://archive.org/details/1950-jimmyDurante-01-12#
..	Jimmy Jazz	The Clash
..	You Don't Mess Around With Jim	Jim Croce

                                                     

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Right now we're leaning toward "Boy in the Bubble" with it's lyric:

"The way the camera follows us in slo-mo
the way we look to us all"

Or the Al Bowley Orchestra (who did the closing song in "The Shining")

"It's only a paper moon
looking over a cardboard sea
but it wouldn't be make believe
if you believed in me."


 

I want to thank all of those composers who have given us over a century of pop songs about the Moon. "First Men in the Moon" also has science, space travel, bugs, disease, and characters named Joe and Kate:

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Title (Year)	Song	Artist
First Men in the Moon	(You saw) The Whole of the Moon	The Waterboys	http://www.last.fm/music/The+Waterboys/_/The+Whole+of+the+Moon
(1964)	Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon	The Flaming Lips
..	Bad Moon Risin'	Creedence Clearwater	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-DkyMXTo5Q&NR=1#
..	Blue Moon	Annette Hanshaw	#http://archive.org/details/AnnetteHanshaw-BlueMoon#
..	El Dorado to the Moon	Mike Nesmith	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpOQKUAYZ0w#
..	Everyone's Gone to the Moon	Flaming Lips, Chad and Jeremy, Nina Simone	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29YK3aBmHm0#
..	Fly me to the moon	Olivia Ong	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWsRSSDnY08#
..	Fly me to the moon	Tony Bennett	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9c0wOX5dMc#
..	Fly me to the moon	Diana Krall
..	Get Out and Get Under the Moon	Frankie Marvin	#http://archive.org/details/edba-5551#
..	Man on the Moon	R.E.M.
..	Me and the Man in the Moon	Cliff Edwards Jazz Band	http://archive.org/details/CliffEdwardsCollection1927-1933
..	Missile to the Moon	The Rifftones	#http://www.rifftrax.com/music#
..	Moon Flight	Peter Scott Peters	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDz077U-nYk&feature=player_embedded#
..	Only A Paper Moon	Cliff Edwards Jazz Band	http://archive.org/details/CliffEdwardsCollection1927-1933
..	Same Old Moon	Rudy Valee	https://archive.org/details/RudyValleeCollection1925-1934PartOne-StandardLabels
..	There's a Moon In the Sky (Called the Moon)	The B-52's
..	Vollmond (full moon)	Nena	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hn4fYP7rnw#
..	Blinded Me With Science	Thomas Dolby
..	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	Karen Carpenter
..	Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft	Atom
..	Feeling Like an Alien	Atlanta Rhythm Section
..	Golden Rocket	Stoney Cooper	https://archive.org/details/GoldenRocket
..	I'll Be Leaving	Moon Boot Lover
..	Just Like a Melody from Out of the Sky	Cliff Edwards Jazz Band	https://archive.org/details/CliffEdwardsCollection1927-1933
..	Rocket Man	Puddle of Mudd
..	Rocket Man	Elton John
..	Space Oddity	David Bowie
..	Trans-mag-ni-fi-can-bam-dam-u-a-li-ty	Arthur Collins	#http://archive.org/details/ind-1062#
..	Weird Science	Oingo Boingo	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDe5Ckt4joQ#
..	Wicked Gravity	Jim Caroll Band
..	Ants in your Pants	Jim Henson	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7toxlOsG6s&playnext=1&list=PL86FB0F848923880C&fe...
..	Army Ant Song	Tom Waits	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBkyaJqQ-50#
..	Buggin'	The Flaming Lips
..	High Hopes	Frank Sinatra	#http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yGSDBXdCM#
..	Immigrant Song	Led Zeppelin
..	Some Little Bug is Going to Get You	Roy Atwill	https://archive.org/details/RoyAtwell
..	Space Invader	The Pretenders
..	Hey Joe	Jimi Hendrix	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3JsuWz4xWc
..	Joed Out	Barbara Manning And The San Francisco Seals
..	Kate	Ben Folds Five	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyH6xIDyIoU

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Y'know if I'd been paying more attention I would've suggested Happy Trails To You for Westworld.

I'm voting for It's the End of the World As We Know It by R.E.M. for Children, if for no other reason than it's a great sing along song.      

First film announced:
"Snowpiercer"
http://sf.theboard.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1416071317

Train songs? Songs about the cold? Songs about rich and poor?
This one's going to be so easy. Mrs F and I came up with these on the way to picking up a pizza without consulting the database:

"Ticket to Ride" -The Beatles

"Crazy Train" -Ozzy Osbourne

"Money" -Pink Floyd

"Baby It's Cold Outside" -Ella Fitzgerald

""Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow" -Traditional Christmas song.

The local favorite: "Charlie on the MTA" involves a smaller train but the riding forever and never returning refrain makes it a good fit.

All songs aside, it looks like a promising first announcement for a great Marathon Year!

chatanooga choochoo

moonraker
theme from jaws

Hey, not bad. I thought you guys would be suggesting campier stuff like "All I Want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth"¹ "Satellite of Love" shows real promise

Yes "Moonraker" is a fitting homage to the late Richard Kiel and the best choice possible for a Sci-fi film featuring him, given that a restored Director's Cut of his breakthrough film "Eegah!"² isn't likely to show up anytime soon.

Yes, he had roles in the Twilight Zone "To Serve Man" alongside fellow talented big guy Ted Cassidy and donned a really silly rubber suit in "The Phantom Planet" but the roles are blink-and-you'll-miss-him. Moonraker is by far his most memorable role.

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His "Jaws" is far more amusing than the pretty but wooden Lois Chiles and her costar the pretty but wooden Roger Moore.

I was thinking "Big Hands I Know You're the One"³ (Blister in the Sun) or how about Jethro Tull's "Bungle in the Jungle"⁴

I'll plug the usual keywords into the database and spit out a long list just for fun but I think I know where this one is headed.
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¹https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyWiiDxbk-A

²https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQVNo0i8N3k

³https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YdQBkxf4kU

⁴https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0frSN92mTGo

This Island Earth just added.
There's actually a song of the same name by The Nylons, beautiful tune too, may be too good for that film.