Overuse of music?

This movie has one of my favorite soundtracks of all-time.

However, every now and then the music is too obtrusive. Example: the scene before Billy commits suicide, he phones Luke, and plays his guitar and sings, and at the same time Sympathy for the Devil is playing. It's a mess, they could pause the song (Sympathy... ) a little bit until Billy stops playing his own song, and pick up where they left off.

Like I said, I love the music on this movie, but sometimes dialogue and songs are overlapping, in my opinion.

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Not only did they overuse it, but the selections were extremely unimaginative. Every single song was a so g associated with the time period in an almost iconic way and therefore the whole soundtrack came across as boring and stereotypical. They are the type of songs which are so huge that they cause a complete distraction to the scene.

It wasn't quite as bad when it was done in Forrest Gump just because a big part of the movie was the portrayal of time periods. So, in that case it was used as a device to put the audience into context of each scene. It wasn't necessary to constantly remind the audience of the time setting in this movie.

I liked it a lot. The soundtrack itself, its usage, the abundance, but especially how songs were plastered on top of the film, sometimes across several scenes, though de-amplified (?) as if to make them an integral part of the diegesis. It's an aesthetic device common to documentaries and home movies - and it feels right at home here, given the lifelike tone of so many scenes (ostensibly non-scripted or built on editing). And well, at least no good songs are cut-off due to plot design, as so often happens in the movies.

I'll bet she's still got that silver dollar.