Wes Anderson’s Best Needle Drops

5. Nico: “These Days”

It’s the scene that launched one million Halloween costumes: Richie Tenenbaum waits for his escort from his days on the circuit, his sister, Margot. As standard, she’s late — however nicely definitely worth the delay as she will get off the bus in her ever-present fur coat and raccoon-rimmed eyes, to the heart-stopping musical cue of Nico’s “These Days.” (Listen on YouTube)

6. The Beach Boys: “Old Folks at Home/Old Man River”

Several Beach Boys songs are used to nice impact in “The Fantastic Mr. Fox,” however none as stirringly as “Old Man River,” which soundtracks a heavenly second on the finish of the movie when the animals discover themselves in a grocery store. “Get enough to share with everybody,” Mr. Fox instructs, “and remember, the rabbits are vegetarians and badgers supposedly can’t eat walnuts.” (Listen on YouTube)

7. Françoise Hardy, “Le temps de l’amour”

In “Moonrise Kingdom,” from 2012 and set in 1964, younger Sam and Suzy run away collectively and try and reside out their very own feral model of maturity on an island. Among their possessions is a conveyable report participant for 45 RPM singles, that means they’ll soundtrack their very own lives. Just earlier than the awkward beachside dance that leads to their first kiss, Suzy places on Françoise Hardy’s 1962 single “Le temps de l’amour,” an achingly excellent alternative for a 12-year-old making an attempt on an air of sophistication like a pair of too-big excessive heels. (Listen on YouTube)

8. The Rolling Stones: “Ruby Tuesday”

As it’s utilized in an important scene in “The Royal Tenenbaums,” this early Stones basic casts such a rosy, romantic glow that you simply virtually neglect that you simply’re rooting for Richie Tenenbaum to finish up along with his adopted sister. (Listen on YouTube)

9. The Kinks: “This Time Tomorrow”

Like the Beach Boys in “Fantastic Mr. Fox,” generally an Anderson movie will function a number of songs from a single artist. Anderson’s fifth function, “The Darjeeling Limited,” conjures its Indian setting by utilizing instrumentals from the movies of Satyajit Ray, although its placement of a number of songs from the Kinks’ 1970 album “Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One” — together with the sweetly bleary “This Time Tomorrow” — function reminders that the movie is filtered by way of a Westerner’s sensibility. (Listen on YouTube)

10. The Who: “A Quick One, While He’s Away”

Yet one other top-tier Anderson montage, from “Rushmore”: a battle of petty acts of revenge between Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) and Blume (Bill Murray), given an anarchic grandeur because of this almost nine-minute epic by the Who. Fun reality: While the model that seems on Rushmore’s official soundtrack is from the Who’s unequalled 1970 live performance album “Live at Leeds,” the model used within the movie comes from the storied 1968 BBC particular and eventual reside report “The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus.” (Listen on YouTube)