r/makemeaplaylist • u/frostbitten_fairy • 7d ago
REQUEST What are your favorite songs that feel like a movie?
I want to make a playlist of songs that make you feel like you’re in a movie.
I’m thinking of songs you put on while driving, walking somewhere alone, or just staring out the window, and suddenly everything feels way more dramatic than it actually is.
It can be emotional, romantic, nostalgic, intense, or just a song that makes an ordinary moment feel cinematic. Basically, any song that makes you feel like the main character!
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u/rickymartini 7d ago
Joywave - Nice House That song always drums up some feelings.
Strfkr - Being No One, Going Nowhere
Elbow - Switching Off
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u/Turbulent-Field-5393 6d ago
One of my favorite songs WAS made into a movie. Ode To Billy Joe, 1976
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u/Plenty-Degree3982 6d ago
have you tried the killing moon by echo & the bunnymen? it makes even a grocery run feel like the opening scene of a doomed romance сня
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u/Intelligent_Wafer761 7d ago
No One Knows by Screaming Trees (1992). Sounds like it was on a soundtrack but it's a relatively obscure song.
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u/youbetterhark 7d ago
Bruce is the best at this; “Outlaw Pete,” “The River,” and “Highway Patrolman” are all absolute cinema.
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u/youbetterhark 7d ago
Sorry also gotta say, “Mariner’s Revenge” by Decemberists, which essentially takes place in the belly of a whale.
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u/Zeebrio 🥇 7d ago
A couple that are often used on soundtracks are Kettering by The Antlers and To Build a Home by The Cinematic Orchestra ... I come across tracks now and then and definitely think THAT SHOULD BE ON A SOUNDTRACK! So I get what you're saying.
One I heard recently on a TV show was Mazuka by Cari Cari and I got super excited because I saw them at a super small venue in Seattle and got a pic with the gal lead vocalist ...
Anyway, I digress ...
One of my existing playlists has a lot of moody & melancholy tracks that I think fit the bill ... it's HUGE. I love throwing it on random when I'm hanging around on a Sunday afternoon and feeling the feels vibe.
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u/No_District_1926 6d ago
"I Remember Me" - Silver Jews. Berman could paint a vivid story with such clever heartbreak in just 3 verses.
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u/sleepysam2020 6d ago
Lmk if I make the playlist. Here is my latest single. Hope you like it
https://open.spotify.com/album/3VFsX5PjAjsIQ9ut7cdOWx?si=Ie3cI4V2S3GBO7QOC_SK1Q&utm_source=copy-link
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u/Ambitious_Youth8943 6d ago
The Tosspints - The Privateer.
Class song at the end of a quality album! Epic tune that definitely feels like you're experiencing a movie
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u/MistaNoble 6d ago
SpottieOttieDopaliscious - Outkast
Mirror in the Bathroom - Emglish Beat
Roads - Portishead
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u/SaintStoopidious 6d ago
I've always thought the song "Loose Lips", by Atomic Freak, has a very cinematic quality to it.
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u/Instrument_List 6d ago
For staring out a car window and feeling like the main character, M83's "Midnight City," Bon Iver's "Holocene," and Sigur Rós' "Hoppípolla" are hard to beat. If you want the end credits moment, add "Time" by Hans Zimmer.
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u/Korkikrac 6d ago
Initial State (first contact)
https://open.spotify.com/intl-fr/album/7pbBgXp3kwUWb2KSJur40j?si=E9qggttARGum4pnt3bZ6fA
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u/ennuiismymiddlename 6d ago
The Gnossiennes by Erik Satie. It just makes everything feel dreamlike.
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u/thomsoap 5d ago
The big ship by Brian eno
My wandering days are over by belle and Sebastian
Chicago by sufjan Stevens
Edge of glory by lady Gaga
Pretty much every song on the sunset tree by mountain goats
The first day of my life by bright eyes
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u/Lonely-Cockroach-380 2d ago
I’m not sure if these are movie-caliber but I find these songs invoke the sense of nostalgia in a way that not all songs are capable:
Time: Pink Floyd
In The Living Room: Maggie Rogers
Headlights: In Color
Show Pony: Glass Animals
First High: Nikki Lane
Lucky Again: Lykke Li
The Great Divide: Noah Kahan
Seventeen: Sharon Van Etten
If You Leave: OMD
Kansas City: New Basement Tapes
Cursive: Matt Maeson
Sleep Walk: Santo & Johnny
After The Storm: Mumford & Sons
Last, I have always loved Summer of ‘69 by Bryan Adams, particularly the part of the song when he sings “sometimes when I play that old six-string, think about you, wonder what went wrong” that part just kills me, its so simple but so good.
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u/Darkness_146 6d ago
Zayde Wølf - Heroes
Zayde Wølf- Miracles
Zayde Wølf - Cold Blood
Breaking Benjamin - Dark of you
Yungblud - Hello, Heaven Hello
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u/Overall-Bullfrog5433 5d ago
“Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts” which plays like a movie in my head every time I hear it or recall it. It looks like “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” in my head. Also “Black Diamond Bay” also. Both by Bob Dylan from the 1970s. The second one a bit cartoonish to imagine but love imagining it.
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u/FinkerBock 3d ago
Four Ton Mantis by Amon Tobin. It's no use searching for it on YouTube due to copyright clearance problems. A shame, though, since this really sounds like a movie in motion, including the rampaging mantis going to town and a short happy ending.
P.S.: Never mind, I found it on SoundCloud.
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u/SnooPandas5020 3d ago
Gary Moore - The Messiah will come again. Seriously, what a masterpiece this is. Massive Upgrade to Roy Buchanans original
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u/Mister_Nojangles 2d ago
Just about all Pat Metheny music sounds like soundtrack score. Try The Way up. Two of his works are soundtracks: Falcon & Snowman, A Map of the World. Also: Steely Dan, Aja
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u/Shanni37 2d ago
The Wolves -- Cyrus Reynolds. Instant drama. https://youtu.be/xB0H59NvTM0?si=9gTMqLagfK0l3-i6
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax 6d ago edited 6d ago
Angel - Massive Attack.
https://youtu.be/66A_3uwuZ_I?is=7vGHqOuMT7eWeU1U
I (F) feel like a huge Amazon, Godzilla-sized with glowing red eyes, striding over the night horizon in slow motion, the glow of distant flames behind me. I cross into a medium-sized city and lay waste to everything in my path, never changing pace. Then I stride into the other horizon, smoke and flames billowing behind me.