Music On Film - Snatch

There are times when an average song meets an okay movie and the sum of their parts becomes something special. Never has this been more true than in the final fight scene in 'Snatch' which used Oasis' 'Fucking in the bushes' as it's backing track. The opening track on Oasis' fourth studio album 'Standing on the shoulder of giants', 'Fucking in the bushes' was an almost throwaway instrumental to open the album, featuring a few samples from Murray Lerner's 1991 documentary, 'Message to love - Isle of Wight 1970' and a nice tight guitar line it was used as a walk on track in their subsequent tour, not even bothering to play it live themselves seemed to indicate the unimportance of the song to the band as well.

When it was first released I would often skip this song on the album eventually skipping the whole record. But then I saw 'Snatch', Guy Ritchies follow up to the relativly successful 'Lock stock & two smoking barrels'. Now don't get me wrong I like 'Snatch' as a whole but this scene was awesome and in the end a pivotal moment in the film. Preceded, in fact almost introduced, by a killer line from Alan Ford's Bricktop, the music and images gel instantly with the initial rowdy jostling on the way to the ring and the swaying rhythm of the fight itself. I also like the way it fades in and out of the scene to finally return with, literally, the knockout punch and then both scene and song descend into a chaotic mess.

I love it

Room for everybody here
Yes, all are welcome
Yes indeed, I love them
Fun, Nice, Life, Youth, Beautiful
I'm all for it