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Best and Worst End Credits Songs

Gaith

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You know the kind - those songs that are written specifically for their movies, and play over the end credits. (I.E., not Bond-style title songs, nor songs played during the movie itself a la Ghostbusters.) What are your best/least favorite? Here's some of mine...


Best

Lord of the Rings - "May it Be", Enya; "Gollum's Song", Emiliana Torrini; "Into the West", Annie Lennox): what's to say? Each of these is wonderful, and the perfect coda to their films.

Mission Impossible II - "I Disappear", Metallica: I'm not a heavy-metal guy at all, but I love this song. Badass.

Terminator 3 - "The Current": Perfectly captures the existential angst of John Connor while simultaneously rocking.

The Bourne movies - "Extreme Ways", Moby - I love how the siren-y synthesizer sounds echo the sirens Bourne's always running from. The original version is great, but the Ultimatum remix is even better.

The Mummy Returns, "Forever May Not Be Long Enough", Live - sure, it's total schlock, but I like it anyway, because it's fun, and the faux Egyptian/Middle Eastern touches give it something of a unique sound.

And then, who could possibly forget...

Life of Brian, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"!


Worst

The Golden Compass - "Lyra", Kate Bush - oh, man. So much fail. The lyrics are awful, break the fourth wall, and violate the book's spirit. The music is even worse.

Dragnet, the rap - Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd rap about what just happened. So hideous it was discussed in the Siskel and Ebert review.


I'm sure I'll think of others, but that's not a bad start there...
 
From memory:

well I'm here tonight to rap about your rights, cause right now your in trouble!
You ain't said nothin' at all, you got two calls and ya better make'em on the double!
 
It's a score, not a song with lyrics, but the loud techno end credits music to Event Horizon sure take you out of everything the movie was trying to accomplish.
 
Aragorn said:
It's a score, not a song with lyrics, but the loud techno end credits music to Event Horizon sure take you out of everything the movie was trying to accomplish.
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While utterly horrendous, that actually isn't score...it's a song by the group The Prodigy. But, yeah, it was pretty much anti-the-movie. Who the hell's idea was that?

I liked Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" at the end of...IRON MAN.

Also k.d. Lang's "Surrender" at the end of TOMORROW NEVER DIES.
 
Yeah, "Surrender" is awesome. And while I don't blame anyone for not loving the Avatar song, it's too innocuous to be despised - imho. :)
 
I've heard that Surrender was originally going to be the title theme, but instead it ended up at the end credit theme. Which is interesting since a lot of the film's music uses that instead of Sheryl Crow's theme. Then again, same is true of the Pretenders's songs for The Living Daylights.

On the topic of Bond, I wasn't really thrilled with Goldeneye's ending song, "Experience of Love" or something like that.

License to Kill's "If you Asked me to" became pretty popular for a while if I recall correctly.
 
Mike Farley said:
Aragorn said:
It's a score, not a song with lyrics, but the loud techno end credits music to Event Horizon sure take you out of everything the movie was trying to accomplish.
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While utterly horrendous, that actually isn't score...it's a song by the group The Prodigy. But, yeah, it was pretty much anti-the-movie. Who the hell's idea was that?
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Paul Anderson, of course. It's easily the best film he's made, and still, he manages to fuck it up with moves like that.
 
Whofan said:
I've heard that Surrender was originally going to be the title theme, but instead it ended up at the end credit theme. Which is interesting since a lot of the film's music uses that instead of Sheryl Crow's theme.
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The two songs were originally intended to be the other way round, with Sheryl Crow's song (originally titled Until that Day) over the end credits, but Crow had a better agent, who got a better deal at the last minute

Then again, same is true of the Pretenders's songs for The Living Daylights.
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Ah, now that's cos (as reported widely in the movie press at the time) John Barry *really* didn't get on with A-Ha...
 
Gaith said:
Lord of the Rings - "May it Be", Enya; "Gollum's Song", Emiliana Torrini; "Into the West", Annie Lennox): what's to say? Each of these is wonderful, and the perfect coda to their films.

Mission Impossible II - "I Disappear", Metallica: I'm not a heavy-metal guy at all, but I love this song. Badass.

The Bourne movies - "Extreme Ways", Moby - I love how the siren-y synthesizer sounds echo the sirens Bourne's always running from. The original version is great, but the Ultimatum remix is even better.

The Mummy Returns, "Forever May Not Be Long Enough", Live - sure, it's total schlock, but I like it anyway, because it's fun, and the faux Egyptian/Middle Eastern touches give it something of a unique sound.

And then, who could possibly forget...

Life of Brian, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"!
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All of those (though I prefer the Supremacy version of Extreme Ways), and I'd add Original Sin from The Shadow, I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You from Mask Of Zorro, and, yes, Everything I Do from Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves.

Mention should be made of Power Station's We Fight For Love from Commando - but I've no idea whether it should be in best or worst!
 
I don't think "Extreme Ways" was made specifically for The Bourne Identity (18 came out a month before the movie, and it isn't even on the soundtrack), so it wouldn't count.

Most of my favourites have already been mentioned, but I do like "Eclipse (All Yours)" from Eclipse.
 
Lonemagpie said:
Mention should be made of Power Station's We Fight For Love from Commando - but I've no idea whether it should be in best or worst!
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Both, of course. Much like Commando itself.

I liked David Bowie's "Heart's Filthy Lesson" at the end of Se7en.

And I know this is going to earn me a chorus of hoots and catcalls, but I actually liked "My Heart Will Go On"--when I heard it at the end of Titanic. I got tired of it pretty quickly, though.
 
Best: "Can't Take It In" by Imogen Heap for the end of Chronicles of Narnia: TLWW
 
Rambo: First Blood Part II had some dreadful song at the end. Oddly, I kinda like the song at the end of First Blood.
 
Guys, I'm talking end credits songs, not themes, opening credits or otherwise.


Huh, didn't know that about "Extreme Ways". Go figure...
 
Snakes on a Plane - "Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)", Cobra Starship

Utter shite.


The 80's were by far the worst offender for crappy "made for the film" tie-in songs in the opening or end credits. Especially when it came to horror films. "Fright Night" is one that springs to mind, from the film of the same name. The Freddy films had some absolute shockers, too.
 
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Gaith said:
You know the kind - those songs that are written specifically for their movies, and play over the end credits. (I.E., not Bond-style title songs, nor songs played during the movie itself a la Ghostbusters.) What are your best/least favorite? Here's some of mine...


Best

Lord of the Rings - "May it Be", Enya; "Gollum's Song", Emiliana Torrini; "Into the West", Annie Lennox): what's to say? Each of these is wonderful, and the perfect coda to their films.

Mission Impossible II - "I Disappear", Metallica: I'm not a heavy-metal guy at all, but I love this song. Badass.

Terminator 3 - "The Current": Perfectly captures the existential angst of John Connor while simultaneously rocking.

The Bourne movies - "Extreme Ways", Moby - I love how the siren-y synthesizer sounds echo the sirens Bourne's always running from. The original version is great, but the Ultimatum remix is even better.

The Mummy Returns, "Forever May Not Be Long Enough", Live - sure, it's total schlock, but I like it anyway, because it's fun, and the faux Egyptian/Middle Eastern touches give it something of a unique sound.

And then, who could possibly forget...

Life of Brian, "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"!


Worst

The Golden Compass - "Lyra", Kate Bush - oh, man. So much fail. The lyrics are awful, break the fourth wall, and violate the book's spirit. The music is even worse.

Dragnet, the rap - Tom Hanks and Dan Akroyd rap about what just happened. So hideous it was discussed in the Siskel and Ebert review.


I'm sure I'll think of others, but that's not a bad start there...
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For me worst songs were, that were creepy for me;

LIL WAYNE – “LOLLIPOP” 2008 on Rolling Stone’s list of the 100 Best Songs of the year, and is the single most downloaded song of the 2000s.

R KELLY – TRAPPED IN THE CLOSET

NELLY & TIM MCGRAW – OVER AND OVER

and good songs were;

Lady Gaga - Dance In The Dark

Taio Cruz - Dynamite

Neon Trees - In The Next Room

The Maine - Inside Of You
 
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