Artist you discovered from a song in a movie/TV show

James Gang -- Zachariah

 

Being a Toronto boy with an older brother, I always knew of Rush but didn't pay much attention to them. Then one day, I came home from school, turned on the TV and found the 'Exit Stage Left' concert airing on CBC. I was floored by Xanadu. I was instantly a fan after that.

 

The Muggs



Saw them this first night on the show, and have loved the band ever since.

 

The Velvet Underground's "Heroin" and "Venus In Furs" being used in the film & on the soundtrack of The Doors movie.

 

I'm glad that a lot of people discovered "Making Time" by The Creation in the film
Rushmore before it got recycled into that appalling 'adult diaper' TV commercial.

 

Pete Yorn - "Bandits".

 

Off topic / related, but I was pretty startled to hear The Soft Boys' "I Want To Destroy You" in a Subway sandwich TV ad yesterday. Hopefully Robyn Hitchcock makes some nice coin off of that!

 

Dwight Twilley Band(with Tom Petty) on the Saturday morning variety show Wacko, circa 1976-77.

 

I blinked and missed that one. I'm sure that Hitch can use the dough...oops: unintentional pun.

 

Tom Petty's first TV appearance? Could be.

 

The Blasters had 2 songs("Blue Shadows" and "One Bad Stud") on the Streets Of Fire soundtrack(1984). It was my first exposure to The Blasters and, by extension, Dave Alvin.

 

Not exactly a song in the movie, but Michael Penn from the song "Try" which was on the Boogie Nights DVD.

I was already aware of Warren Zevon, but his performance of "The French Inhaler" on The Larry Sanders Show is what made me really take notice.

 

The "Singles" film soundtrack. I was already very aware of Pearl Jam, AiC, Smashing Pumpkins, etc, but this soundtrack and film introduced me to Screaming Trees.

 

This one made a big impression when it appeared in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street back in the mid-90s:

 

Banana Splits

 

Leonard Cohen-The Future at the end of
Natural Born Killers

The Yahoo!'s-Baby I Love You at the end of
Slither

 

From Dusk til dawn

 

Moby from the Bourne movies.

 

That movie was one fun ride...

 

A Thousand Miles from Nowhere by Dwight Yoakam. A great tune played at the end of a great movie, Red Rock West.

 

Discovered Saint Motel when they were the musical guest on "Undateable".

 

From a commercial - Nick Drake

 

A double from the Lost Boys soundtrack of 1987. Tim Cappello's cover version of The Call's I Still Believe made me a fan of The Call for life.
RIP Michael Been, he was a very talented man.
And the INXS / Jimmy Barnes tune Good Times turned me on to Mr. Jimmy Barnes and in turn Cold Chisel. Still listen to the OST quite often, cool tunes!

 

Sometime around 1967 I heard great music in a TV commercial. It happened to be Cause I'm a man by The Pretty Things who I had never heard of. It took me years to learn it was them.

 

McFly, in the movie Just My Luck with Lindsay Lohan. Watched it few years ago. Great band!
First I thought they were a film creation.^^