Marty's Favorite Song
Anyone see The Departed? It's the first movie in which Nicholson sports a dildo, and the umpteenth (okay, third) time Martin Scorcese scores with "Gimme Shelter." EW asks the director about it.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: You've used it before in GoodFellas and Casino. What is it with you and that song?Fair enough. Here, from Paint It Black: The Compilation Of Rolling Stones Cover Tracks is Grand Funk Railroad's take. To paraphrase Homer Simpson, we recommend if you like Mark Farner's wild, shirtless vocals, the bong-rattling bass of Mel Schacher, and the competent drum work of Don Brewer.
MARTIN SCORSESE: I guess I'm repeating myself. [Laughs] The riff at the beginning of ''Gimme Shelter'' is dangerous. You know something's going to happen. Also, there is no shelter in this film. Nobody has shelter. When I was thinking of the music for this film, I was sitting in a traffic jam on 57th Street. And I saw a beat-up car with a guy behind the wheel with long hair screaming along to ''Gimme Shelter,'' slamming his fists on the steering wheel, and I went, ''That's it!''
Grand Funk Railroad - "Gimme Shelter" (MP3)
OK, let's go get some cookies.
Posted at 4:02 PM
Tags: Rolling Stones
That's not grand funk railroad. Incidentally, grand funk railroad do gimme shelter on that cd.
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Ever heard the Hawkwind version? Double/triple-whoa.
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i love that he uses the the van morrison/roger waters live version of comfortably numb in the film as well.
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Yeah Ian, uploaded the wrong song by accident. Fixed now.
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thanks, that grand funk railroad song is good, but then again I think I'm the only one who likes their cover of the loco-motion
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The Hellacopters one is rather good, too.
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The way that he used Gimme Shelter in the opening was great. That with Nicholson's voice-over perfectly set the stage for the rest of the film.
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Woah, thanks for pointing out that was a dildo. I was a little freaked out.
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that movie kicked some serious ass.
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I don't care if he uses it every five minutes, as long as he keeps making movies!
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Hey Mr. Stereogum,
How about you post the Merry Clayton version of "Gimme Shelter." I'm jonesing bad to hear it, but her record is out of print.
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this was also the first scorcese flick to use a rap song, namely "Theifs Theme" by Nas.
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My fav use of Gimme Shelter remains Adventures in Babysitting.
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that is a hilarious Rosie Perez.
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'scuse me, sports a dildo?
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