Dazed And Confused: The 10 Best Uses Of Music, Ranked

Richard Linklater has always been a highly musically minded filmmaker. school of rock music He introduced the audience to The Beatles’ Black Album with a hit from the genre of the same name childhoodwho is currently adapting? we roll forward happily Filming is not expected to be completed until 2039.

Arguably the director’s most iconic score – and one of the most iconic of all time – is the soundtrack to his classic party comedy bewildered and confusedincludes songs by legendary artists such as Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and Bob Dylan to capture the historical context of the mid-1970s.

Black Sabbath’s ‘Paranoid’

Black Sabbath’s classic heavy metal song “Paranoid” plays as O’Banion and Benny appear to attack Hirschfeld and his friends. All were scattered, and the seniors decided to focus on Hirschfeld.

They pinned him to the wire fence, slapped him in the face (though not as badly as they slapped Mickey), then gave him a beer and sent him away.

“Rock And Roll All Nite” by Kiss

The last day of the school year had been planned to throw a big party at Pickford’s house, but his parents knew about it and he had to cancel it. Instead, Woodson plans to hold a beer sale in the woods.

As people approached the beer counter, Kiss’s “Rock and Roll All Nite” played in the background. It was a perfect fit for Pickford to reveal his Kiss member figurines.

“Sweet feelings” by Aerosmith

from bewildered and confused The film revolves around the characters’ quest to win tickets to Aerosmith, and it’s fitting that the film’s opening credits feature one of the band’s biggest hits, “Sweet Emotion”.

The song continues with a brief montage of what all the main characters do at the beginning of the day: Benny takes out her paddle before a freshman beats it, Michelle rolls a joint as she and Pickford pull into the school parking lot.

“Mr. Nice No Longer” by Alice Cooper

Mitch’s sister asks the seniors to be a little gentler with him, but they decide to make him worse than the other freshmen. These guys waited outside the baseball field where Mickey was pitching, and then caught him as he walked out.

With Alice Cooper’s song “No More Mr. Nice Guy” playing on the soundtrack, Mickey leans over the hood of a car and is rowed nonstop in slow motion.

Bob Dylan’s “Storm”

The catchy rhythms of Bob Dylan’s “The Hurricane” are perfectly matched with the wonderful rhythms of Wooderson, Pink and Mitch entering The Emporium in slow motion.

The song itself deals with a very serious topic. The film follows middleweight boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, who is unjustly convicted of two murders at a similar billiards hall in Paterson, New Jersey.

“Hitchhiker” by Edgar Winter Group

As night fell and people drove out to meet, Edgar Winter’s “Free Trip” set the stage for hours of partying and booze.

The charm of the film is that it captures the youthful spirit of high schoolers with their whole lives ahead of them, and this 1973 boogie hit captures that spirit perfectly.

“Slow Travel” by Fogart

Foghat’s “Slow Ride” is the last track on the album bewildered and confused, so it’s a song that carries an unfortunate burden when filming. It’s one of the film’s many narratives, as Mickey returns home from a night of partying, shedding his curious mother, putting on headphones and listening to the Fugate classic.

The song continued to play as Woodson and his passengers traveled along the freeway to Houston to collect their Aerosmith tickets.

“Why can’t we be friends?” through war

War isn’t just “Why can’t we be friends?” beloved classic; there is an irony in using it bewildered and confused. When the senior girls bully the freshman girls, the song is played as a form of membership.

As Darla and the other seniors terrorize the freshmen by coating them with sparkles and spice, the soundtrack poses a very simple question: Why can’t seniors and freshmen learn to get along?

“Tuesday Gone” by Lynn Skinnerd

Linklater is a master at choosing recognizable classics that also fit perfectly into the mood of a given scene. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s use of “Tuesday’s Gone” as the beer bust begins to end is a great example.

When all the bins had been knocked down and everyone started planning breakfast, Skynyrd’s melancholy rhythm effectively captured the bittersweet ending of a good night’s sleep.

“After School” by Alice Cooper

When Ms. Stroud’s students walked out of class to perform the opening guitar solo of Alice Cooper’s “After School”, she warned them that the whole summer “will be filled with riots every two hundred years”.

“After School” is a montage of kids going on summer vacation. Can say, bewildered and confused Montage is a better music video for “School’s Out” than the official music video.