What's your favourite piece of "fictional music"?

i hope this hasn't already been posted?
little fat man by bowie.

 

My favorite part of that entire song is the Burl Ives soundalike singer muttering in the background of the playout: "I told you I'd shoot. But you didn't believe me. WHY didn't you believe me?"

 

You fill me with inertia.

 

The albun that was recorded by the band in Almost Famous is actually a really solid piece of rock!

 

From IMDb: "During the first season The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991) episode 'Stimpy's Invention' featured a record, 'Happy Happy Joy Joy,' which contained a variety of spoken-word segments meant to parody some of Ives' albums from the 1960s. When Ives saw the episode, he contacted Ren and Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi and said that he would have been willing to do the voice over work for it."

 

Certainly "Shallow" and "That Thing You Do," both mentioned multiple times, are great examples - two of the best.

But this one is my absolute favorite. From my favorite movie of all-time, Tender Mercies. Robert Duvall brings it home with an understated but devastating delivery in this song of redemption from a reformed honky tonk singer.

 

Start spreading the news, but surely New York New York has to be the best example (technically a theme song but the whole movie is about him writing that song)

 

The Yardb...er I mean the original Spinal Tap, with the full version of Gimme Some Money

 

Redd Kross and friends created the fictitious band soundtrack to 1984 movie 'Desperate Teenage Lovedolls' and it's sequel 'Lovedolls Superstar'. They're lo budget, no acting and great. Based not very loosely on the story of The Runaways with a fictionalised murderous gutter-cat backstory. Both films have soundtrack LPs and I can't recommend them enough...

 

I'm going through the complete Partridge Family series that I have on PVR. My favorite PF tune is "I Woke Up In Love This Morning. Great guitar work kind of makes this tune rock!

 

...and how about "After Dark" by Tito & Tarantula written for and performed in From Dusk Till Dawn:

 

The Blowholes [Syd Straw and Marshall Crenshaw]- "Summer Wind" from The Adventures of Pete and Pete

 

"The Kelly Song" (Cheers TV show)



Smudge's cover version ain't too shabby either:

https://youtu.be/dKLe2vHgjvM

 

How does this qualify?

 

Prepare to cringe...Joe Piscopo performs "Kimberly."

This song is apparently about a real human but it needs to be heard

 

That Thing You Do...

 

Probably something by the band in 'Never Been Thawed'. They pretend to be a Christian group so the local church will let them rehearse there for free. But they're far from it

 

I’ll nominate every early Monkees song from their TV show...

(runs for cover)

 

The whole space premise was "fictional"... Major Tom was never launched into space and he never contacted ground control. There was a recent interesting thread about films which featured fictitious musicians. That and the responses in this thread in general; could be merged. "Fictional music" to my mind implies pieces of music... songs. And upon further reflection... what exactly is "fictional music"? Music in films is music is it not? If a song is not in a film is that to be considered "factual music"? The only truly piece of fictional music might be... John Cage's 4'33".

Just my thought process... how I interpreted your thread.

 

I love this song.

 

Good question, and a great theme for a playlist/CD. The first favourite I thought of was Mitch and Mickey’s “A Kiss at the End of a Rainbow” from ‘A Mighty Wind:’

 

One also covered by Rod Stewart on his first album.