# Memorable Closing Credit Songs (Films) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2001, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781 "2001-10-01T16:36:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/21 "2001-10-01T21:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/22 "2001-10-01T21:22:52Z")
What? No mentions for “One Tin Soldier” from **Billy Jack**? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/23 "2001-10-01T22:02:07Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/24 "2001-10-01T22:29:09Z")
A couple are unforgettable: The End Apocalypse Now Always Look on the Bright Side Life of Brian ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/25 "2001-10-01T22:39:37Z")
Goodfellas: My Way-Sid Vicious Reservoir Dogs: The Coconut Song ---
**Author:** ![drillrod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@drillrod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drillrod)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/26 "2001-10-01T22:52:16Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/27 "2001-10-01T23:23:06Z")
**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. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/28 "2001-10-01T23:36:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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). ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/29 "2001-10-02T02:25:14Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![custard\_dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@custard\_dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/custard_dragon)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/30 "2001-10-02T02:39:08Z")
[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. ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michele_in_SoCal)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/31 "2001-10-02T03:11:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by CalMeacham \* > \*\*\*… **The Last of Sheila** , circa 1972. An unexpectedly nice ending to one of the best and most convoluted mystery movies ever. \*\* I agree! * * * 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. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/32 "2001-10-02T04:01:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/33 "2001-10-02T04:15:05Z")
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.” \ ---
**Author:** ![waterj2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@waterj2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waterj2)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/34 "2001-10-02T04:59:02Z")
Underworld’s “Born Slippy” in _Trainspotting_ The _Top Gun_ theme (or was it “Danger Zone” they used for the closing credits? Either way) ---
**Author:** ![Pashnish\_Ewing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@Pashnish\_Ewing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pashnish_Ewing)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/35 "2001-10-02T13:13:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Oblong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c0e974/32.png) [@Oblong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oblong)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/36 "2001-10-02T13:18:18Z")
Bad Moon Rising plays when the guy turns into the werewolf during the film. It may play at the credits too. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/37 "2001-10-02T13:41:52Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![reveille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8c91f0/32.png) [@reveille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reveille)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/38 "2001-10-02T13:52:22Z")
i agree with oblong…harry nilsson, “coconut”, at the end of Reservoir Dogs ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/39 "2001-10-02T14:22:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*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?” ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781/40 "2001-10-02T14:42:37Z")
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 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memorable-closing-credit-songs-films/84781.md?page=3)