Twenty-five years ago — on February 23, 1999 — Sleater-Kinney’s album The Hot Rock was released. The title track, "The Hot Rock," is a reference to the 1972 action-comedy film of the same name directed by Peter Yates and starring Robert Redford and George Segal.

Sleater-Kinney’s album and song is but one example of the cross-disciplinary influences between music and film. Specifically for today, we’re thinking about songs that reference movies, whether in titles, lyrics, or both. Maybe a film title gets mentioned, or a memorable quote from a film is recast as a song lyric, or well-known characters find their ways into the narrative of a song.

So for today’s 9:30 Coffee Break, what songs that reference movies do you want to hear?

Respond with your song ideas in the comments below.

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Songs Played
Sleater-Kinney – Banned from the End of the World
Wet Leg – Wet Dream
Veruca Salt – Seether
Gorillaz – Dirty Harry
Courtney Barnett – Avant Gardener
R.E.M. – Superman
Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road (bonus)