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Post by nonrabbit on Apr 19, 2009 21:26:11 GMT
Apart from the Adam Sandler film (can't remember the name cause I personally suffer when kiddo watches his films!) and an episode of Friends has the band ever been mentioned in any other films or TV programmes?
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Post by steelmonkey on Apr 19, 2009 21:34:11 GMT
Some goofy Dutch or Danish film, with 'waves' in the title, about a guy who gets hurt on an oil rig and then all sorts of existential, profound chaos ensues...mostly around who gets to do his wife while he's paralyzed...had a few measures of Cross Eyed Mary as background music to a scene where a helicopter landed or took off from an oil rig.
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Post by rockisland on Apr 19, 2009 21:48:55 GMT
The Simpsons- the episode is called 'Girls just want to have sums' in the end credits TAAB is played.
Jumanji- Locomotive Breath is being played as background music in one of the scenes.
Anchorman- Where the guy starts playing Aqualung on his flute.
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Post by rebecca on Apr 20, 2009 3:26:34 GMT
Some goofy Dutch or Danish film, with 'waves' in the title, about a guy who gets hurt on an oil rig and then all sorts of existential, profound chaos ensues...mostly around who gets to do his wife while he's paralyzed...had a few measures of Cross Eyed Mary as background music to a scene where a helicopter landed or took off from an oil rig. Breaking the Waves, by Lars von Trier. I have to say, your description is quite, er, regrettable! It's a brilliant movie - and it's completely her story, not his at all (he's barely even a co-star and is nearly a corpse through most of it!) It's a really good use of the song, though, very appropriate considering what she's walking into - or away from, I can't remember. Another one is Moonlight Mile, another brilliant film set in the 70s, where a character falls into a jukebox and something from the Aqualung album comes on. By Brad Silberling, I think his name is, and one of the stars is Dustin Hoffman, one of the many loves of my life.
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Post by rockisland on Apr 20, 2009 8:17:43 GMT
Just thought of another one: School of Rock- Where they show all the different bands on the chalkboard, Tull are listed under prog rock.
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Post by rockisland on Apr 20, 2009 18:59:09 GMT
I forgot about Saxondale. Songs including Velvet Green, Acres Wild and Bouree have been played on that TV programme.
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Post by TM on Apr 20, 2009 20:14:09 GMT
Everybody loves Raymond: Ray was telling a story about he and his brother Robert going to a Jethro Tull concert, back in the 70's. Ray's brother got drunk and was yelling that Bungle in the Jungle was the best song ever.
Armageddon: Owen Wilson telling a shrink that he hates when people think that Jethro Tull is the name of the singer.
Locomotive Breath used in Miller Genuine Draft commercial.
Fly By Night used to open a Saturday afternoon gymnastics event on NBC.
An instrumental montage of Dark Ages and Black Sunday used to open Monday Night Football.
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Post by kc on Apr 21, 2009 16:18:56 GMT
In "Boogie Nights" the instrumental part of "Fat Man" is played. Did not make the soundtrack recording.
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Post by Pantagruel on Apr 28, 2009 16:51:41 GMT
On "Almost Famous" you can hear "Teacher". It's not on the soundtrack album, though. The version is the "soft" one without flute
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Post by fatman on Apr 28, 2009 19:27:54 GMT
On "Almost Famous" you can hear "Teacher". It's not on the soundtrack album, though. The version is the "soft" one without flute Sucky movie, though. Very overrated. Jeff
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Post by ash on Apr 28, 2009 20:27:19 GMT
Not a movie I know but "The blood of the British" on channel 4, Coronach was the opening theme
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Post by Pantagruel on Apr 28, 2009 23:10:20 GMT
On "Almost Famous" you can hear "Teacher". It's not on the soundtrack album, though. The version is the "soft" one without flute Sucky movie, though. Very overrated. Jeff Strongly disagree --- I loved it
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Post by fatman on Apr 29, 2009 4:10:43 GMT
Sucky movie, though. Very overrated. Jeff Strongly disagree --- I loved it The problem for me was that the movie did not accurately recreate the time period. What was shown in the movie by way of drugs, hippiedom, etc. was quite tame compared to what actually went on in the late sixties/early seventies. Also, the fictional band that was the focus of the movie was terrible compared to the great bands of that era. They were a bunch of hacks, really. The movie just did not work as a period piece, and was actually quite lame. I did not understand the great reviews it got. Jeff
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Post by parkbench on May 2, 2009 18:48:00 GMT
Apart from the Adam Sandler film (can't remember the name cause I personally suffer when kiddo watches his films!) and an episode of Friends has the band ever been mentioned in any other films or TV programmes? Party of Five once had a scene where a character is looking for a shared flat - he reads out an advert, and it says "Must be into Jethro Tull!" And there's a film where Locomotive Breath is used - it's a movie set in a northern US/Alaskan town, snowbound - sort of working class drama type of thing with some romance in it. Oh, and there's a sitcom in the UK with Nicholas Lyndhurst in it - he plays a dad living with his ex-mother in law. The main character wore a Jethro Tull T-shirt in one scene I saw. (I don't watch it regularly.) And I'm SURE that when I was a kid in the 1970s/1980s, a bit of Thick As A Brick was used as linking music for educational shows that were shown called "Programs for schools and colleges"... When I first heard TAAB years later, I thought I recognised it.
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Post by rockisland on May 2, 2009 19:31:32 GMT
Oh, and there's a sitcom in the UK with Nicholas Lyndhurst in it - he plays a dad living with his ex-mother in law. The main character wore a Jethro Tull T-shirt in one scene I saw. (I don't watch it regularly.) That program is called 'After you've gone'.
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Post by steelmonkey on May 2, 2009 21:58:11 GMT
That program is called 'After you've gone'.
What? Potty training with Tull in the background...the horror!
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Post by parkbench on May 2, 2009 22:57:19 GMT
That program is called 'After you've gone'. What? Potty training with Tull in the background...the horror! Noo, they were educational shows and documentaries - learning to read and stuff. Words and Pictures. The linking between the shows had some music playing over it.
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Post by oksauce on May 10, 2011 23:13:20 GMT
In 'Life on Mars', there's a scene in which the cops bust a bunch of hippies or something, and they're listening to, I believe, Cross-Eyed Mary
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Post by stevep on May 11, 2011 18:00:13 GMT
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Post by broadsword on Sept 12, 2012 20:58:44 GMT
Just watched a show all about funerals of various types. There was a biker who died, who wasn't overtly religious. The music at his funeral service included Wish You Were Here, True Love Ways and TOTRNRTYTD, now how cool is that.
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Post by nonrabbit on Sept 13, 2012 8:14:30 GMT
Just watched a show all about funerals of various types. There was a biker who died, who wasn't overtly religious. The music at his funeral service included Wish You Were Here, True Love Ways and TOTRNRTYTD, now how cool is that. Very!
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Post by bunkerfan on Sept 13, 2012 16:45:22 GMT
Just watched a show all about funerals of various types. There was a biker who died, who wasn't overtly religious. The music at his funeral service included Wish You Were Here, True Love Ways and TOTRNRTYTD, now how cool is that. The perfect Tull song for any biker's funeral.
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Post by orion12 on Nov 14, 2020 17:04:33 GMT
Locomotive Breath is included in Fargo (TV serie). Nice.
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Post by rredmond on Nov 17, 2020 13:57:24 GMT
Nice, need YouTube links for all of these references!
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Post by orion12 on Nov 18, 2020 12:59:30 GMT
'Locomotive Breath' appeared in the SI-FI serie Supernatural
As well as 'A New Day Yesterday'
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Post by orion12 on Nov 19, 2020 22:36:32 GMT
Also Locomotive Breath appears in Jumanji movie with late Robin Williams.
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Post by rredmond on Nov 23, 2020 14:29:09 GMT
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Post by lancestargrove on Nov 23, 2020 20:38:22 GMT
Jesse Pinkman excitedly requests that his little brother "play some Jethro Tull" after erroneously assuming that his brother's piccolo is a flute on an early episode of "Breaking Bad." www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95YOSPFfK0
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Post by orion12 on Nov 23, 2020 21:39:01 GMT
Love this scene . Armageddon movie (1998)
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Post by orion12 on Dec 13, 2020 17:06:43 GMT
Aqualung tribute at the end is priceless.
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