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Best Opening and Closing Songs in Film: Readers' Edition
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'Blue Velvet,' Bobby Vinton
'Blue Velvet'
MORE OPENING SONGS: David Lynch's 1986 film 'Blue Velvet' is your standard mystery -- that gets stranger, more twisted and perverted by the scene. Before college student Kyle MacLachlan (aka Agent Cooper of 'Twin Peaks') returns to his hometown and is instantly thrust into its secret, seedy world of psychotic criminals with violent fetishes, his father has a stroke to the happy, all-is-well 1963 pop hit by Bobby Vinton. The signature Lynch-ian distortion kicks in to the extreme close-up of a well-kept lawn, revealing sinister, swarming insects underneath. Voila! The tone is set.
'Everybody's Talkin,'' Harry Nilsson
'Midnight Cowboy'
Harry Nillson's 1966 tune has a real wanderin' feel to it, fittingly, because Joe Buck is on his way to New York City! Eventually. Watch this scene before this robust, naive Texan makes it to the Big Apple, parties with Warhol "superstars" and becomes a certain sort of an escort -- earning 'Midnight Cowboy' the only Best Picture Oscar awarded to an X-rated film.
'Waiting for the Miracle,' Leonard Cohen
'Natural Born Killers'
The opening to Oliver Stone's 1994 take on a Quentin Tarantino screenplay seems to go through as many ass-kicking songs as Juliette Lewis's gleeful murderess and her manic man go through discourteous truck stop cafe patrons in one memorably violent scene. The intro also features some of the most erotic grind-dancing to ever accompany a Leonard Cohen song (on film, anyway).
'Call Me,' Blondie
'American Gigolò'
Debbie Harry stepped in when Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks rejected the offer to compose a song for Paul Schrader's 1980 flick of mystery, murder and male prostitution. It's one of Blondie's most memorable tracks and oh so fitting for speeding down a highway in a convertible whilst fashionably dressed. If you've never sung along to this tune in a moving vehicle, we don't know what's wrong with you.
'Born to Be Wild,' Steppenwolf
'Easy Rider'
Directed by Dennis Hopper in 1969, 'Easy Rider' is one of America's first, true independent films, and it brims with '60s countercultural Americana. Before this 1968 Steppenwolf classic got killed via overuse in commercials for things that have little to do with motorcycles, wild hippies and epic road trips, it was a true rebel anthem.
'Sympathy for the Devil,' Guns N' Roses
'Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles'
MORE CLOSING SONGS: Neil Jordan's 1994 adaptation of Anne Rice's cult-classic book ends with a scary twist -- a freaking 200-year-old vampire hiding in the back seat of the journalist's car! Cue Guns N' Roses cover of the Rolling Stones track, appropriately influenced by another lit hit: Mikhail Bulgakov's 'Master and Margarita.'
'If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out,' Cat Stevens
'Harold and Maude'
Hal Ashby's early-May-late-December romance film from 1971 features dozens of dramatic, feigned suicides from young protagonist Harold. Spoiler alert: When his wrinkly beloved deliberately dies, off he speeds cinematically to Cat Stevens' softly self-destructive ditty 'Trouble' -- and the car heads right off a cliff. Just when you think that's it, the end, cue the sweeping shot up the bluffs and some twangy banjo. Damn it, Harold! You did it again!
'Extreme Ways,' Moby
'The Bourne Ultimatum'
It's Paul Greengrass' third installment in the saga of the former CIA assassin/amnesiac on the run! Matt Damon drops into the East River. Is he dead? Can it be? No sequel? There's nothing as comforting as a "happy" ending to the most sampled drum break from Melvin Bliss, this time reproduced by Moby.
'Bittersweet Symphony,' The Verve
'Cruel Intentions'
Roger Kumble's 1999 adaptation of the saucy 18th-century French novel 'Dangerous Liaisons' turns seductive, manipulative, upper-class socialites into seductive, manipulative, upper-class high-school students in New York City. Fatboy Slim, Placebo and Blur scored the flick, and very '90s drama ensues. In the end, the victorious heroine takes off in her deceased flame's Jaguar while the Verve's smash hit plays.
'My Heart Will Go On,' Celine Dion
'Titanic'
Here it is: James Cameron's 1997 hype-tastic cry-along, featuring Celine Dion's 1997 cry-tastic hype-hit. Because you asked for it. Over and over. And over and over again. So there! Break out the tissues.
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August 04 2011 at 8:53 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyCorny as it sounds
Watch the opening to My Best Friend's Wedding.
I can't stand Robert's in anything, and the original song is no standout, but this is very well done.
How about The Doors and "The End" in Apocalypse Now.
July 28 2011 at 4:51 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey're mostly good, but I think Celine Dion sounds like a sack of wet cats being tortured.
July 27 2011 at 10:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWell, for once I actually agree with most of the choices. The others I simply never heard about.
July 27 2011 at 3:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyBest closing song: "The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing, OR 'Till You Come Back To Me Again' by Garth Brooks from Frequency.
July 27 2011 at 7:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyKelly's Heroes....Burning Bridges.
July 27 2011 at 7:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAn excellent song for an excellent movie. I loved the song so much I bought it as a 45 single, done by the Mike Curb Congregation.
July 27 2011 at 7:29 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe Beatles song "A Hard Days Night" in the movie "A Hard Days NIght" is the best opening and closing song and all in one film.
July 27 2011 at 5:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
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