While there is not really a “good guy” in Reservoir Dogs, Michael Madsen as Vic “Mr. Blonde” Vega is easily the most despicable character – made abundantly clear when he tunes the warehouse radio to K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the ‘70s (playing “Stuck in the Middle with You”) and proceeds (off camera) to giddily slice off the ear of captured cop Marvin Nash (Kirk Baltz).
He is about burn the helpless man alive before Mr. Orange (Tim Roth) wakes up and unloads his clip into the psychopath, at which point Stealers Wheel’s best-known hit inexplicably cuts off (maybe a bullet hit the stereo?). The song’s “wrong place, wrong time” theme speaks to Marvin’s situation quite perfectly, but in a much darker way than the Scottish rock band may have intended.