Mitch and Mickey - A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow

Great song from "A Mighty Wind"

Category:

Music

Tags:

• A Mighty Wind
• Mitch and Mickey
• Christopher Guest
• Spinal Tap
• Waiting for Guffman

[fahs]

Is it wrong to actually LIKE this song? Knowing that the movie was a spoof and all, it is just so pretty

[MatthewMuhammad]

Not at all! This is a really good song.

[llriv]

This song is so absolutely, utterly, and undeniably cheesy....and yet somehow they make it work. Kudos.

[MatthewMuhammad]

Lol, I know

[beavis4play]

great picture.......did you take it?

[MatthewMuhammad]

Thanks. Unfortunately, I didn't capture that amazing picture.

[kokennut]

I love this movie and all the songs! I don't care what anyone says!!! 

[CecilyHeron]

I think if we didn't know it's a bit of satire we'd not bat an eyelid and enjoy it shamelessly, acknowledging it as a great little song. Let's be honest, so many folky songs from the 70s are just as trite/cringey if we listen to the lyrics. We've all seen on TV so many sweet young musicians from those times with badly-combed hair, singing about distant lands, fair maidens, a few analogies thrown in about love spanning the breadth of an ocean. But I love it all, cheesey or not!

[MrBobbybrus]

"The Mighty Wind" is of course a mockumentary, a spoof, a take-off, but on the other hand it isn't. It a true to life representation of what probably could have been and is comical only in the sense that it portrays characters that are not far removed from real people we all know. We must believe these characters must be fairly close to actual people and actual performers. Even though they do not exist, and never did, we might still wish they had and do. The music is powerful and evoking.

[FromMidnightOn]

Tap into America!

[smartalek1]

@chrisparsonlives "i like how nobody notices that this song is about apocalypse"

Huh.

Spose that could be because...

...it isn't?

Or anything like it?

P'raps you're thinking of REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"?

[Jakeqc]

@MatthewMuhammad fuckin' a

[rgaleny]

people are not their images. in life we do few things consistently competently. In the movie theirlives were nothing to sing about. yet, out of the chaos they made something beautiful. as with a flower from a cactus. it's alright to like this song. there is a time for the sentimental thing it represents. it's a pretty song and a thing of beauty is a joy forever. people sing along to it. and it sounds like it belongs to the folk era.

[londondendy]

i simply love this song

[NothingSacred27]

Thanks for the clip, I wish I had seen this live!

"Is it wrong to love these songs?" God, no.

This movie is best defined as as satire by a group of people who genuinely love the music they are making. That's why the songs are so well written and performed.

[AutoPilate]

Ah, the best kind of parody... the kind that pokes fun, by definition, of course, but also demonstrates the good things of what it mocks.

Put simply: this song not only spoofs romantic folk songs, but it IS a romantic folk song in its own right. And it's... beautiful.

Brilliant!