Memorable Closing Credit Songs (Films)

[Pashnish Ewing]

I heard U2's "In Gods Country" on the radio today and it made me think of the movie Three Kings, and how much I enjoyed the transfer from last scene to end credits. I guess this post is to ask what "last scene/closing credits" songs have genuinely added to your enjoyment of a movie? I have a short list:

Three Kings, "In Gods Country", U2
American Pie, "One Week", Bare Naked Ladies
Clueless, "Tenderness", General Public
Private Parts, "No Rain", Blind Mellon

I figured if there were any other people who pay attention to this kind of thing, they could be found here on the SDMB. If not, I hope this thread moves off of the first page quickly so the failure of my first OP doesn't haunt me for the next few days each time I log in.

Pash

[lieu]

Blind Faith's "Find My Way Home" in Fandango.

[John Carter of Mars]

There were two or three songs played through the closing credits of Oh Brother Where Art Thou that made it worth while sitting there and watching the lengthy credits roll by.

[Jeremy's Evil Twin]

"We Don't Need Another Hero", Tina Turner, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

[broccoli!]

"it's a long road" from the Rambo credits

[lieu]

Originally posted by lieu
Blind Faith's "Find My Way Home" in Fandango.

Sorry, that's "Can't Find My Way Home".

[middleman]

Never fear. A good topic is a good topic regardless of posts. And this is a good topic.

# 1 all time choice I Will Always Love You from Bodyguard
Season of the Witch in To Die For
I'm A Believer in Shrek
Pretty Woman from Pretty Woman
Build me up (Buttercup) from Something About Mary
As Time Goes by from Sleepless in Seattle
We Are Family from the Birdcage
Somewhere Over the Rainbow from You've Got Mail
Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid??? Raindrop Keep Falling on My Head??

[rayniday]

Lara Fabian-The Dream Within from Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within

[5-HT]

The Pixies "Where is my mind" from Fight Club

[DaveX]

Damn, 5HT beat me to it.

I always thought that song was a perfect ending for that show.

[Agrippina]

I always found the mice singing the theme song, If I Had Words, at the end of Babe oddly entertaining.

[gallows fodder]

Bruce Springsteen's "Dead Man Walking" at the end of Dead Man Walking and David Bowie's "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" at the end of Seven.

[Pashnish Ewing]

Does anybody remember the song at the end of To Die For? I remeber the scene, Illeana Douglas was ice skating on the pond where Nicole Kidman's body was frozen/buried (I think), but I can't remember the song. Anyone?

Watsonwil -
I can't believe I had forgotten about There's Something About Mary. Possibly the most I've laughed during closing credits. The Birdcage/We are Family was also a great one.

Pash

[teela brown]

"Gayane Ballet Suite" at the end of Aliens. This piece was also played during the scenes which showed the everyday life on board the spaceship for Dave and Frank in *2001, A Space Odyssey*. It's a haunting, sad piece which I have yet to be able to dig up anywhere other than on the soundtrack of *2001*.

[middleman]

Originally posted by Pashnish Ewing
Does anybody remember the song at the end of To Die For? I remeber the scene, Illeana Douglas was ice skating on the pond where Nicole Kidman's body was frozen/buried (I think), but I can't remember the song. Anyone?

Watsonwil -
I can't believe I had forgotten about There's Something About Mary. Possibly the most I've laughed during closing credits. The Birdcage/We are Family was also a great one.

Pash

Look back in my post. I got it. Season of the Witch!

[CalMeacham]

(You've got to Have ) Friends sung by the still-not-yet-well-known Bette Midler at the end of The Last of Sheila, circa 1972. An unexpectedly nice ending to one of the best and most convoluted mystery movies ever.

[Fretburner]

"New World" by Bjork at the end of Dancer in the Dark. Beautiful end to a beautiful (but sad) movie.

[The Red Menace]

The end of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet with Radiohead's "Exit Music (For A Film)". As far as I know, the song was written specifically for the movie and it really fits the somber tone of the movie's ending.

[half a person]

Simple Minds "Don't You Forget about Me" from the Breakfast Club.

[Fionn]

"Paint It, Black" at the end of Full Metal Jacket

[middleman]

Originally posted by half a person
Simple Minds "Don't You Forget about Me" from the Breakfast Club.

I take it back. This is the #1 all time answer.

[Spoke]

What? No mentions for "One Tin Soldier" from Billy Jack?

[kunilou]

muttermutter young punks. . .

As the Doomsday bomb triggers nuclear explosions round the world at the end of Dr. Strangelove. . .

"We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when!"

[DPWhite]

A couple are unforgettable:


The End Apocalypse Now
Always Look on the Bright Side Life of Brian

[Oblong]

Goodfellas: My Way-Sid Vicious
Reservoir Dogs: The Coconut Song

[drillrod]

"It can't rain all the time" by Jane Siberry from The Crow.
Haunting.
Of course, The Crow is one of those movies I may take just a tad too seriously.

[MrVisible]

drillrod, I was just about to say that. I've been a Jane Siberry fan for years, and hearing that when I first saw The Crow gave me a near-fatal case of goosebumps.

If you remember the Al Pacino fiasco Sea of Love, you'll probably remember the ending credit song; Tom Waits covering Sea of Love. Only reason to see the movie, IMHO.

[Slithy Tove]

Originally posted by pugluvr
"Gayane Ballet Suite" at the end of Aliens. This piece was also played during the scenes which showed the everyday life on board the spaceship for Dave and Frank in *2001, A Space Odyssey*. It's a haunting, sad piece which I have yet to be able to dig up anywhere other than on the soundtrack of *2001*.

I've got that on CD, which identifies it as "Invention" by Aram Kachaturyan (it also has his ubiquitous "Saber Dance," required music for spinning dinner dishes on dowelsticks; and his "Spartacus," which was used extensively in the Hudsuscker Proxy).

[yosemite]

I second "Don't Forget About Me" From "Breakfast Club".

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (? IIRC - I know it's Barber, anyway) from "Alien".

brocolli! wrote:

"it's a long road" from the Rambo credits

Written by my favorite film composer, Jerry Goldsmith! (He did the original "Planet of the Apes", "LA Confidential", "Omen" and about a million others.) Dan Hill sang the song, melody by Goldsmith. (Great score, BTW. All the "Rambo" scores are great. However, I've never seen any of the films, except for the original "First Blood", which I saw once.)

[custard dragon]

[The End Apocalypse Now]

IIRC, The End is not strictly the closing credits song. An audio montage plays over the napalm attack and the closing credits.

[Michele in SoCal]

Originally posted by CalMeacham
[i]...The Last of Sheila, circa 1972. An unexpectedly nice ending to one of the best and most convoluted mystery movies ever.

I agree!

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I also agree with many of the choices in the previous posts.

Here's one not yet mentioned: Mark Knopfler's "Theme from Local Hero" during the closing credits of that marvelous movie with Burt Lancaster and Peter Reigert.

[yosemite]

Originally posted by Michele in SoCal

Here's one not yet mentioned: Mark Knopfler's "Theme from Local Hero" during the closing credits of that marvelous movie with Burt Lancaster and Peter Reigert.

I agree so much! Thank you for reminding me of that one! I have a Knopfler CD, and whenever I hear that piece, I am taken back to that film, and think of Reigert sitting, all lonely in his cushy apartment in Texas, missing all his new friends back in Scotland (?). What a great film, what a great score.

[Shayna]

Not the greatest movie of all time, but I'll never forget how I started bawling when the credits rolled and the song "Nature Boy" (by Nat King Cole) started playing at the end of "Untamed Heart." <sniff, sniff>

[waterj2]

Underworld's "Born Slippy" in Trainspotting
The Top Gun theme (or was it "Danger Zone" they used for the closing credits? Either way)

[Pashnish Ewing]

I've never seen it, but I'm surprised no one has mentioned An Officer and a Gentleman, "Love Lift us Up (Where we Belong)."

Also, it's been a while since I've seen it, but I think An American Werewolf in London ends with CCR's "Bad Moon Rising."

Pash

[Oblong]

Bad Moon Rising plays when the guy turns into the werewolf during the film. It may play at the credits too.

[Labdad]

"Busload of Faith" by Lou Reed at the end of "True Believer." (1989) Great ending to a great flick!

And while it's not a closing film credit, one of "The Sopranos" episodes last season closed with "Show Me the Money," by Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. It was perfect.

[reveille]

i agree with oblong...harry nilsson, "coconut", at the end of Reservoir Dogs

[Spoke]

Originally posted by Pashnish Ewing
Also, it's been a while since I've seen it, but I think An American Werewolf in London ends with CCR's "Bad Moon Rising."

Pash

Nah. It ends with "Blue Moon."

Twilight Zone - The Movie ends with a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. Was it "Bad Moon Rising?"

[glee]

Pashnish Ewing,
good 1st thread!

I liked that Bryan Adams number* at the end of 'Prince of Thieves'.

And how about TV programs - the Who doing 'Who are you?' over the credits of CSI (a jolly fine program, with science and plots!)


*it shows how old I am that I can't remember the title**

**as this is the SDMB, it'll take about 5 minutes for someone to post the answer

[Labdad]

Originally posted by spoke- Twilight Zone - The Movie ends with a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. Was it "Bad Moon Rising?"

I think it was "Midnight Special." I know the scene: John Lithgow is all trussed up in a straight jacket and put into an ambulance. Dan Ackroyd is the driver, and pops a casette in the tape player. Lithgow smiles and says, "I LOVE Creedence" just before Ackroyd says, "You want to see something REALLY scary?"

[plnnr]

That's Vera Lynn doing "We'll Meet Again" at the close of "Dr. Strangelove." If you've listened to "The Wall" you'll remember the song "Vera" - "Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?" "We'll Meet Again" was very big in England during WWII.

"Oh La La," by the Faces, closed "Rushmore" IIRC. That one worked pretty well.

Did "Rock Around The Clock" play over the credits to "Blackboard Jungle?" If so, that takes the cake. That blew the lid off the whole damn thing.

[gobear]

"Sympathy for the Devil," Guns n' Roses, Interview with the Vampire--it was such a perfect choice to end the movie on an evilly triumphant note as the revived Lestat drives off with the newly bitten Christian Slater.

"Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting--Mournful tune appropriate for the end.

"That's the Hell of It" from Phantom of the Paradise
"Good for nothing, bad in bed
Nobody loved you, you're better off dead"--Great stuff!

[Pucette]

I was profoundly moved by the closing song for The Professional - Sting's The Shape of my Heart.

[Pucette]

Oh and as an added thought - I've always thought Depeche Mode's Little 15 would be another perfect ending song for that movie...

[Lightnin']

I'm kind of ashamed to admit this.

Have you seen Legally Blonde? It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be... and at the end, there was a song that really got my toes a-tappin'.

[/b]Perfect Day[/b], by Hoku. Yes, Hoku- whose last name is Ho. (Heck, if my last name was Ho, I think I'd drop it, too.)

As in DON Ho. Tiny Bubbles Don Ho.

She's his daughter.

She's also a babe. Britney ain't got nothin' on Hoku.

_{God I'm so embarrassed.}

[Geek Mecha]

Heh.

At the end of "Rock Star", they played "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

[Gatopescado]

Neil Young's performance at the end of "Philidelphia" nearly brought me to tears! (and i'm a tough-guy-non-crying-type-he-man-thing)

the michael mcdonald song at the end of the south park movie is funny enough to make you wet yourself if you pay attention to the words

we'll met again at the end of dr. strangelove is classic

get right back (very cheesy song, i know) at the end of slapshot leaves you feeling like things may just work out for the poor charlestown chiefs (i love that movie-- strother martin immitating someone jerkin off can make you laugh at a funeral!)

[Tuckerfan]

Julia by the Eurythmics at the end of 1984. I have to choke back tears everytime I hear it.

[cw]

Originally posted by Ballybay
"Paint It, Black" at the end of Full Metal Jacket

Most definately, and also Guns and Roses "you could be mine" from Terminator 2.