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Song of the Day #6,427: ‘This Woman’s Work’ – Kate Bush

Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

My next selection is a late addition. I couldn’t resist adding this clip to the mix when I caught up with M3GAN 2.0 last week. The sequel to 2022’s horror comedy M3GAN shifts to sci-fi action and doubles down on the camp, resulting in a goofily enjoyable popcorn flick and one great scene.

In the first film, a much deadlier version of the M3GAN doll sings Sia’s ‘Titanium’ to the child she is tasked with protecting. In the sequel, a revived (and less lethal) M3GAN shows off her vocal chops to the girl’s aunt/adopted mother Gemma, played by Alison Williams.

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Song of the Day #6,426: ‘My Love’ – Petula Clark

Petula Clark held the #1 spot on Billboard’s Hot 100 the week of February 8, 1966, with ‘My Love,’ enjoying its second of two weeks in the pole position.

Clark wasn’t a fan of the song after recording it and asked the studio not to release it as a single. They ignored her wishes and ‘My Love’ ended up as her second #1 hit in the States, following 1964’s ‘Downtown.’

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Song of the Day #6,425: ‘Lisbon Antigua’ – Nelson Riddle and His Orchestra

Throwing back to the week of February 7, 1956, we find a trio of repeats atop the Billboard Hot 100: The Platters’ ‘The Great Pretender,’ Dean Martin’s ‘Memories Are Made of This,’ and Kay Starr’s ‘Rock and Roll Waltz.’

In fourth place that week was another kind of throwback, to the sort of songs that populated the chart in the early 50s. ‘Lisbon Antigua’ is an instrumental track conducted by Nelson Riddle, based on a 1930s Portuguese tune called ‘Lisboa Antiga.’

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Song of the Day #6,424: ‘Beware of Darkness’ – George Harrison

Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Writer/director Zach Cregger’s Weapons opens with a synopsis of its setup narrated by a young schoolgirl. She describes the disappearance of a classroom full of children from a third grade classroom in the small town of Maybrook, Pennsylvania.

The rest of the film will follow the perspectives of people affected by the event, including the teacher and a parent of one of the missing kids. Like Cregger’s Barbarian (2022), Weapons is a gripping mystery with big scares and big laughs.

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Song of the Day #6,423: ‘Dirty Work’ – Steely Dan


Continuing a look at my favorite movie music scenes of 2025…

Paul Thomas Anderson has always had a gift for the perfect needle drop, whether it’s the wall-to-wall 70s and 80s pop hits of Boogie Nights, Shelly Duvall’s plaintive ‘He Needs Me’ in Punch-Drunk Love, or Neil Young’s gorgeous ‘Journey Through the Past’ in Inherent Vice.

He does it again a few times in One Battle After Another but the one that sticks with me the most comes after the film’s extended prologue when we jump ahead 16 years.

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