I take it back. This is the #1 all time answer.
What? No mentions for “One Tin Soldier” from Billy Jack?
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!”
A couple are unforgettable:
The End Apocalypse Now
Always Look on the Bright Side Life of Brian
Goodfellas: My Way-Sid Vicious
Reservoir Dogs: The Coconut Song
“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.
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.
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).
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:
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.)
[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.
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.
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.
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>
Underworld’s “Born Slippy” in Trainspotting
The Top Gun theme (or was it “Danger Zone” they used for the closing credits? Either way)
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
Bad Moon Rising plays when the guy turns into the werewolf during the film. It may play at the credits too.
“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.
i agree with oblong…harry nilsson, “coconut”, at the end of Reservoir Dogs
Nah. It ends with “Blue Moon.”
Twilight Zone - The Movie ends with a Creedence Clearwater Revival song. Was it “Bad Moon Rising?”
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