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I didn't want to highjack Beba's question/thread (which I don't have an answer to), but it made me think about some of the movies I've seen over the years that had old ska/reggae/dub songs in them. So, instead I've created a more specific topic for this.

More recently...

Alfie (2004; Jude Law) - Skatalites - Eastern Standard Time

Broken Flowers (2005; Bill Murray) - Tennors - Ride Do Donkey (Ride Your Donkey)

I remember the 80s movies "Men at work" with charly sheen and emilio estevez and also "water" had reggae soundtracks

grtz!

Coffee & Cigarettes (Jim Jarmusch)

> "Nimblefoot Ska" - The Skatalites

Hi there, I saw Coffee and Cigarretes last week and in that scene there are at least 4 Skatalites tunes I had never heard before. The soundtrack just includes the one Greg mentioned. Anybody knows the others?

Broken Flowers (Jarmusch) also has "El Bang Bang"-Mittoo.
Ghost Dog (Jarmusch)-"Armaggideon time"-W.Williams
Blood Simple (Cohen Brothers)- "Louie Louie"-Toots

Lock, stock & Barrel-"Police and thieves"-Murvin

I watched a film last night with Ken Boothes just another girl, i think it's by ken anyway. Film is Strawberry switchblade, it comes on while this girl is playing with herself with her walkman on!! while some psycho knifeman turns up at the front door.
check new film "johnny was" for wicked reggae soundtrack...

In the UK reggae, or more specifically SKA is constantly used as advertising backing tracks. Sometimes for very unsuitable purposes (by unsuitable I mean to advertise some of Babylon's worst excesses and most serious exploiters)

Off the top of my head...

Kiss of the Dragon (Jet Li)-Don't Blame I-Congos
Ghost Dog (Forrest Whitaker)-Armagideon Time-Willie Williams

Just saw an advert on TV for sandals.com (holidays I think) using "I'm in the mood for love" as the backing track. Sorry, I'm not much on Ska / Rocksteady (even though I love it) so I am not sure who sang that track originally.

Someone is minting it off this old Ska stuff and I doubt it is the guy(s) who wrote / sang / recorded / produced them.

Hi, that song was sung back in 1965 by Lord Tanamo with the Skatalites but was called "I´m in the mood for ska". Tanamo´s vocals are unmistakable. The original "in the mood for love" was written by Dorothy Fields for a movie in 1935 but many people have covered it since then ...

The "Lock Stock and Barrel" scene with Police & Thives by Junior Murvin is absolutely fantastic. It's a short scene where you watch a totally high dude that's walking in a field of ganja. That's just awesome.