The Soundtrack Band of the Year

Sound Effects guest-blogger David Beard follows up on his recent posting about the Kinks with this update:

After our piece on the Kinks' big celluloid year so far, alert reader Michael Raphael points out a fourth movie featuring the music of Ray Davies and the boys this year.

In the just-released Laura Linney-Phillip Seymour Hoffman film "The Savages," according to Raphael, the Kinks' 1968 song "Sitting by the Riverside" plays at the point where Linney's married boyfriend drives to visit and takes her away for an afternoon. The song, he notes correctly, was on the "Village Green Preservation Society" album, which was sampled also in the British comedy "Hot Fuzz.''

Hmmm, that scene sounds like it called for "Waterloo Sunset'' to me.

For those keeping score, beyond "Fuzz'' and "The Savages,'' the other two Kinks-chronicled movies this season (so far): "The Darjeeling Limited'' and "Juno.''