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-> ''"[[Music/TheAnimals They call...the rising sun]]..." The melody changed, the volume increased. A sonic calamity, Serge turned: "What happened to God's soundtrack?" Back at the comet, Rachael leaned through the driver's window ... She twisted a radio dial. "What the hell are you doing?" Yelled Serge. "This music sucks." She came back out of the window. A driving bass beat shattered the peace."[[Music/GoodCharlotte I Just wanna live!]]..."

-> ''"[[Music/TheAnimals They call...the rising sun]]"... The melody changed, the volume increased. A sonic calamity, Serge turned: "What happened to God's soundtrack?" Back at the comet, Rachael leaned through the driver's window ... She twisted a radio dial. "What the hell are you doing?" Yelled Serge. "This music sucks." She came back out of the window. A driving bass beat shattered the peace."[[Music/GoodCharlotte I Just wanna live!]]..."

-> ''"[[Music/TheAnimals They call...the rising sun]]"... The melody changed, the volume increased. A sonic calamity, Serge turned: "What happened to God's soundtrack?"Back at the comet, Rachael leaned through the driver's window ... She twisted a radio dial. "What the hell are you doing?" Yelled Serge. "This music sucks." She came back out of the window. A driving bass beat shattered the peace."[[Music/GoodCharlotte I Just wanna live!]]..."

Music can convey a lot more than just what's in the lyrics, so matching this song with that character, while a bit of a cheat, is a fantastic way to convey a lot about a character in not a lot of time. This also does wonders to convey a [[HiddenDepths deeper side]] to a character that can easily be considered one-dimensional. A mousy librarian suddenly takes on a wilder angle when their iPod is blaring Music/JoanJett and the Blackhearts.

** A few examples: PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Jesse Pinkman likes club-banger hip-hop. PsychopathicManchild Todd has a fondness for cheesy yacht rock, underscoring how [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm and chipper]] he is while committing heinous acts. Smart-but-eccentric Gale Boetticher can be spotted singing along to Italian jazz and show tunes (memorably, he also has a karaoke video of himself singing "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Music/PeterSchilling). And Walt enjoys SoftRock such as America and Boz Scaggs, demonstrating that for all his attempts to remake himself into a hardened criminal, he's still a conventional, suburban middle-aged man at heart.

** Giles is a fan of {{classic rock}} like Music/{{Cream}}, Music/TheWho, Music/LynyrdSkynyrd, Music/DavidBowie, Music/TheVelvetUnderground and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers The Bay City Rollers]].

** Giles is a fan of {{classic rock}} like Music/{{Cream}}, Music/TheWho, Music/LynyrdSkynyrd, Music/DavidBowie, Music/TheVelvetUnderground and The Bay City Rollers.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': At the beginning of the movie, Peter Quill's on a dead world and enters a ruin that wouldn't seem out of place for an AdventurerArchaeologist... and then he turns on an old Walkman and starts dancing through the place to "Come and Get Your Love" without a care in the world, even kicking away some of the local vermin. Peter's Walkman and mixtape of classic pop songs are reminders of Earth, and specifically his mother, who had died from cancer the night he was abducted. The sequence is also used to demonstrate Peter's (and by proxy, the movie's) irreverence, and the movie's trailer used "Hooked on a Feeling" to set the same tone.

** A few examples: PrettyFlyForAWhiteGuy Jesse Pinkman likes club-banger hip-hop. PsychopathicManchild Todd has a fondness for cheesy yacht rock, underscoring how [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm and chipper]] he is while committing heinous acts. Smart-but-eccentric Gale Boetticher can be spotted singing along to Italian jazz and show tunes (memorably, he also has a karaoke video of himself singing "Major Tom (Coming Home)" by Music/PeterSchilling).

* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' lampshaded the contrast with Dan Ayckroyd as a TheSeventies radio deejay doing an AM and an FM show simultaneously, switching back and forth between mics and changing his voice from an excited high-pitched jabber on AM to a laid-back low-pitched murmur on FM.

* ''Film/WhipIt''. Razor drives up playing "Hold On" by Music/WilsonPhillips in his Dune Buggy, wearing clothes that mark him as a refugee from TheEighties.

* ''[[Creator/TimDorsey Serge A. Storms]]'':

* ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'': The ApocalypticLog that Master Chief finds indicates that [[OldSoldier Sergeant Johnson]] has a love of classic rock not shared by most of his troops.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Harris, a recurring character who works for Pawnee's animal control department, is a huge fan of the jam band Music/{{Phish}}, and boasts about seeing 300 of their concerts. He's also a huge stoner, which is stereotypical of Phish's fanbase. Harris' love of Phish was [ActorAllusion based on that of his actor]], Harris Wittels, who was a devoted fan who had really seen that many concerts.

* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': Harris, a recurring character who works for Pawnee's animal control department, is a huge fan of the jam band Music/{{Phish}}, and boasts about seeing 300 of their concerts. He's also a huge stoner, which is stereotypical of Phish's fanbase. Harris' love of Phish was based on that of his actor, Harris Wittels, who was a devoted fan who had really seen that concerts.