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Happy New Year! We are kicking off 2026 with a deadly fall and a sliced off ear! That's right, movie magic music is back, and this time we’re talking about the most haunting use of a song in a movie. Brace yourself for spoilers! 

SONGS

Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: P.I.M.P. (2008)

Stealers Wheel: Stuck in the Middle with You (1972)

EXTRAS

P.I.M.P. Scene from Anatomy of a Fall 

Stuck in the Middle With You Scene from Reservoir Dogs

50 Cent: P.I.M.P. (2003)

Anatomy of a Song: A Reading of P.I.M.P. in Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall (Dr. Gemma Blackwood)

Pitchfork Review of 55 

Rolling Stone: Quentin Tarantino on Five Key Soundtrack Picks, From “Reservoir Dogs” to “Inglourious Basterds"

Hip to be Square Scene in American Psycho

Instrumental Song that Could Have Been a Radio Hit (where today's podcast theme idea was formed)

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