Music
Gummo's soundtrack paints a wide canvas of American pop-culture, ranging from Madonna's "Like a Prayer", from Almeda Riddle's field recording of the traditional children's song "My Little Rooster", to the stoner metal of the California band Sleep. Other popular songs include Buddy Holly's "Everyday" and Roy Orbison's "Crying" which closes the film, and is directly referenced in the dialogue.
Metal bands such as Absu, Burzum, Bathory, Bethlehem, BrujerÃa, Eyehategod, and Spazz are also featured. Korine later showed interest in black metal subculture in his 2000 visual series The Sigil of the Cloven Hoof Marks Thy Path.
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