My Perfect Final Songs in Film
part one of the series: https://youtu.be/EUIq2u8FrXM
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Hello, folks — here’s part two of Favorite Needle Drops in Film! In this video we’re discussing Elliott Smith’s role in shaping the sound and feel of Good Will Hunting (Between the Bars, Say Yes, No Name #3, Angeles, and Miss Misery), how Sufjan Stevens did the same for Call Me By Your Name (Mystery of Love, Futile Devices, and Visions of Gideon), and how Ween were chosen as the beautiful end of The Spongebob Squarepants Movie.
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@Zanzibarbarian88
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Good video, but I gotta say… I feel like "needle drop" refers to previously-known songs. So songs written specifically for a film, I don't really consider those "needle drops." But hey, like you said, it's a fuzzy term.
@whirlxd
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Analyse at the end of The Prestige hits so hard
@mattjohnson5737
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Punkrocker at the end of Superman is my personal favorite
@andrewburgemeister6684
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Livin' Thing by Electric Light Orchestra playing at the end of Boogie Nights is one I really love, it really resonates with the film's themes of finding and losing familial love even in a dysfunctional and unconventional found family and how love is a precious and fragile thing ("It's a livin' thing, it's a terrible thing to lose. It's a givin' thing, what a terrible thing to lose.")
It's perfect in how it starts playing in the final frames right after we get a glimpse of Dirk Diggler's (Mark Wahlberg) claim to fame, where he then does karate moves to pump himself up, before heading out the door and closing it shut right as the main bars start playing with the text "Written and Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson" appearing.
@DillonMinasian
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
loved this and would love more !!
@CoolBombEdits
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
“Fifty on our foreheads” from the end of Bad Batch 2016
@ICarntSpeel
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Mrs Robinson in the graduate is also peak
@ICarntSpeel
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Only living boy in New York in garden state is peak
@James-wz5qo
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
I wish you would have played the needle drop songs longer. Could really not get a feel for how they made perfect sense. Maybe a Youtube time constraint but it did not allow me to feel or learn as much as I had wished in how they truly are so perfect.
@Catsmakemeselfconscious
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
miss misery wasn’t actually written for the movie elliott literally just lied and said it was, he was gonna give it to mary lou lord because he didn’t like it
@MeuRefrigerador
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Ok, so hear me out.
"Susanne" by Weezer at the end of Mallrats.
@bojanjovin
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Hail Boognish
@Asadbuffalo12
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Though there are many one of my personal favorites has always been paint it black at the end of full metal jacket. Phenomenal song choice to end a phenomenal movie.
@joethoms999
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
I love Mayonaise in the final episode of the show beef
@Cannondorf64
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine in Lost In Translation is so damn good
@steveporter3161
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
I think my favourite end credit needle drop is Sister Ray by the Velvet Underground played at the end of Brick
@nachiiitoooywea
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Born Slippy by Underworld – Trainspotting
@pallavisrivastava8795
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Dark Netflix has amazing needle drop moments
@rustomire
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Trouble leading to If You Want To Sing Out, Sing Out from Harold and Maude… from needle drop to diagenic/needle drop. Pitch perfect ending to a fantastic film.
@alexdelsocorro781
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Only You by the flying pickets playing at the end of Fallen Angels. Still my favorite ending of all time
@Taylose6
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Just here for the Ween (great video, brother)
@hunter12555
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
That SpongeBob looks good I may need to check it out
@MrBurnHollywood
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Fight Club – Where is My Mind? (Pixies)
Full Metal Jacket – Paint It Black (The Rolling Stones)
Goodfellas – I Did It My Way (Sid Vicious)
Black Hawk Down – The Minstrel Boy (Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros)
The Crow – It Can't Rain It All the Time (Jane Siberry)
@mrtom2854
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
My favourite movie needle drop has always been Kim & Dave's 'Nobody Knows' at the end of Vanishing Point.
My absolute favourite needle drop, however, is actually from a TV show: Radiohead's 'Exit Music (For A Film)' at the end of the Black Mirror episode 'Shut Up & Dance'. One of the very few times a piece of media has left me in tears.
@SIL3N7_PANIC
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Not a movie, but the Sting needle drop at the end of Arcane is something else. Also the Guns for Hire needle drop is insane.
@PencilFan-hj3lo
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
The Batman and Something in the way, both times it plays but heavy on the ending version where the original score gets mixed in.
@peytonic_empire
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
The entirety of The Blues Brothers and American Pop
@Jojooooooo
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
How can you talk about exit music for a film without including exit music (for a film)
@roky1310.
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
How dare you not include the end song of Transformers (2007) when Optimus prime is giving the end speech and Linkin Parks "What ive done" plays in the background?!
We are here
We are waiting
WHAAAAAAT IVEEEEEE DOOOOOONE
@mangopoo8
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
É preciso dar um jeito, meu amigo in Ainda Estou Aquí (I'm still here). Simply wonderful.
@timvankeulen7462
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Frankie goes to Hollywoods 'the power of love' at the end of 'all of us strangers' Is still one of my favourite needle drops
@stuckonvenuzz
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
There is two of the BEST needle drops ever in The Bear
Love Story by Taylor Swift
The context just talks for itself
And the gorgeous Let Down by Radiohead at the end just makes for the perfect finale
@Naticandus
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
I cried with The Man Comes Around at the end titles of Logan
@Sasha-ir2qc
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
"dog days are over" in guardians of the galaxy is one of my faves
@neonf5957
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
Ocean Man!!! Spongebob movie
@JerryAtrick2429
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
All Summer Long at the end of American Graffiti is a stroke of genius.
@nisargar-db9bg
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
I watched Good Will Hunting a few months ago and I swear the Elliot Smith songs took my breath away!
@marrobertx
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
The Pixies' "Where is my mind" at the end of Fight Club?
@teddycruz_collection
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
This was made for the soundtrack, but “this is a life” playing in “everything everywhere all at once” never fails to make my eyes well up.
@rebeccag8589
June 4, 2026 at 5:50 am
The end of All of Us Strangers with the song Power of Love was absolutely perfect and so moving. That was my favorite movie of 2023 and the music was part of that. I think that's my favorite recent needle drop end of a film.