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Since you had the good grace to reblog my post with another example (thanks, by the way!), I will now return the service by reblogging your post.

As a huge music fan, there's one part about the 1998 Godzilla movie that feels even more bonkers to me than any of the choices in the film itself. So the soundtrack to that movie had some good songs, but the big radio single for it was "Come with Me" by Puff Daddy featuring Jimmy Page.

So here, they had this big single for the Godzilla soundtrack, and it sampled a classic rock song from the 1970s... but the song they sampled was "Kashmir" by Led Zeppelin? Huh??

Now, I love me some "Kashmir," but what the heck does it have to do with Godzilla? The movie doesn't have an eastern vibe to it (ironically enough), and it's not set in the desert or India or anything. If Diddy was going to sample a classic rock song from the '70s... I mean, "Godzilla" by Blue Öyster Cult is literally right there.

I dunno. Out of all the bizarre baffling choices in that movie, this one doesn't get talked about enough. I gotta wonder if Diddy wrote the song separately and it wasn't intended for the movie, because none of the lyrics reference the movie either. Just something that was on my mind.

Last night I watched Roland Emmerich's bastardization of Godzilla.

It really can't be overstated how far Matthew Broderick had fallen from his 80s heights. And Harry Shearer didn't even bother hiding his Simpsons heritage.

And Godzilla looks nothing like Godzilla. He looks like some rejected Jurassic Park dinosaur.

And the Japanese play virtually no role outside the beginning where Godzilla attacks a fishing boat.

Americanization at its absolute worst.

So early on but forever a fave episode. This was so high on the sickly sexy scale 😉

Plus bonus Darla and awesome use of BÖC!

Been listening to some Blue Cloyster Cult. First CD I ever got.