The best use of music in a TV Show. (CONTAINS TV SPOILERS)

Dman001

I was just watching this Scrubs clip and I thought how much the song How To Save A Life by The Fray added emotion to the clip. I thought it was one of the best uses of music in a TV Show. So, is there any other TV Show clips that has a good use of music?

Wompa1

I really liked the use of that song in that clip..always think of it when I hear the song.

I really liked when Futurama used Connie Francis I will wait for you for a clip at the end of an episode about Frys old dog. When he decides not to bring him back to life because he lived a long time after Fry got frozen, so he says he would have forgotten about him a long time ago. Then theres a scene with the dog standing outside where he use to work and keeps progressing with him there until he eventually dies. Very sad, especially for a cartoon!

shenanigans1982

At the credits.

Armin_Tamzarian

'Don't Stop Believing', in the final moments of The Sopranos - FTW.

Journey rule...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM

Armin_Tamzarian

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

'Don't Stop Believing', in the final moments of The Sopranos - FTW.

Journey rule...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM

never seen the ending.. watched about 30 seconds of that, thought better of it and stopped it

brummytom

Scrubs wins hands down;

The ending of the episode 'My Philosophy'; the patient dies (she says she imagines dying being like a Broadway musical):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcsrnT7Tv1o

Or the one where Dr Cox realises Ben's dead, the music fits in perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rirPLLYBys

Armin_Tamzarian

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never seen the ending.. watched about 30 seconds of that, thought better of it and stopped it

Go ahead and watch it mate, it honestly won't make a difference.

My name is URL

Damn, I wish The Sopranos was still on

Paddo81

The chart music used in Reeling in the Years on RTE is sometimes very good in that it perfectly captures what went on in the year..............and its music from that year.............if ya get me.

laoisforliam

No show comes close to the sopranos for music off the top of my head

Moonlight mile -The Stones
Thru and Thru - The Stones
Im not like everybody else - The kinks
Livin on a thin line - The Kinks
Oh Girl - The Chi lites
Wrapped in my memory - Shawn Smith
dont stop beliving - journey
So many more as well.

The wire also uses some great songs in its season ending montages

Step by step - Jesse winchester
Im alright - Steve Earle
Fast Train Solomen Burke
I walk on gilded splinters - Weller
Body of an american - the pogues is also used throughut the series

Tyler MacDurden

*Flashes Nerd ID*

I remember getting the shivers watching this, especially when the shot pans out above the wheel of the galaxy and zooms back down to show how close the fleet is to... ah, just watch it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2H6Lx-Fkjc

Sanjuro

They always chose the right song for the right scene in Six Feet Under. But in the finale, they outdid themselves and created one of the greatest finales in television.

ilovemybrick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUPDYXQUtw

Just epic.

GA361

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYDhAmjmxYk

and www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZ-QU4iDds
The theme doesn't kick in untill about 4.50 in this one

osnola ibax

laoisforliam wrote: »

No show comes close to the sopranos for music off the top of my head

Moonlight mile -The Stones
Thru and Thru - The Stones
Im not like everybody else - The kinks
Livin on a thin line - The Kinks
Oh Girl - The Chi lites
Wrapped in my memory - Shawn Smith
dont stop beliving - journey
So many more as well.

sopranos also used kid a by radiohead on the end credits for one episode, not nerdy enough to remember which one, but I do remember thinking how class it sounded

cooker3

Lost
/end thread

ScholesyIsGod

Don't Stop Believin' was used in Scrubs as well before they used it in Sopranos. Scrubs has to be one of the best shows for using good music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23vyRRBJo9k

Holsten

Better than the last episode....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2DShC4GhVc

Rowley Birkin QC

ilovemybrick wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaUPDYXQUtw

Just epic.

Excellent.

Why did it have to end?!

Basq

Sanjuro wrote: »

They always chose the right song for the right scene in Six Feet Under. But in the finale, they outdid themselves and created one of the greatest finales in television.

QFT.. stunning!

mardybumbum

Intro to Sanford and Son

Basq

I've always loved the intro and theme tune to "Rescue Me':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0xt3eOLdac

Always gets ya pumped!

laoisforliam

laoisforliam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVznnoptsmM

Snowie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbe3CQamF8k

this song was on a sex scene on a program can't remember which but........ :cool:

top gear editor seems to have a good take on what to play like his taste similier to mine...

used this song once or twice beautiful peace of music..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM0puiA4c3w

magic roundabou

watching the west wing snip brought back how brillent that program was , will have to dig out and rewatch it again

Tchaikovsky

Body of An American by The Pogues, used in The Wire... brilliant:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVEwpYt0EwE

neaideabh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhiAOyh-NNs

I'm sorry... this one is waaayyy better than the last episode of the soprano's or the one up above already making that claimm (the christening)

Conor108

No question

thomond2006

Although it wasn't a TV show, the soundtrack for the LOTR trilogy was really special.

Ross_Mahon

dr.bollocko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYpBoYa4pno

STBR

Last 5-6 minutes of the very last episode of Prison Break.

Definitely one of the best.

You kind of have to have watched at least the last episode to get it properly though.

A lot better if you've watched every one for the past YEARS.

Cicero

80s Miami Vice and Phil Collins-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIc8LxcXFk0

Overheal

40 minutes of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-m2Y5_zj6M

It can never be understated that Joss Whedon is brilliant.

truecrippler

Damn, I read this as The best use of magic in a TV Show.

GirlatdRockShow

hallelujah sung by rufus wainwright in the episode of the o.c. when marissa died,so sad:( and i didn't even really like the program!

Basq

Whoa whoa whoa.. some massive spoilers here!

:eek:

Fintomiginto

I have to say the best soundtrack Ive heard in a long time is the
one on "Celebrity Masterchef!"

Some great tunage

entropi

I'll agree with Scrubs having a really good soundtrack, my current choice is the theme tune to Sons of Anarchy...gotta love it:D

Basq

Oh.. and the theme tune to 'True Blood' is superb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wet5OM7RR8Q

EDIT: Not a bad screenshot used either!

is it just me or are there ditties in that basquille? :P

tennessee time

seacht on tg4 - use of yeah yeah yeahs song maps in the first episode.... brilliant

ScumLord

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

'Don't Stop Believing', in the final moments of The Sopranos - FTW.

Journey rule...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT7nYbCSvM

God I hate that song, everyone involved in promoting that song should be shot I don't care what they did or how good it was. It actually makes me want to scream whenever I hear it. I've gotten up and left places I hate it that much.

basquille wrote: »

Oh.. and the theme tune to 'True Blood' is superb:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wet5OM7RR8Q

EDIT: Not a bad screenshot used either!

Beat me to it.

G_R

not a tv show but at the end of Veronica Guerin i think the fields of athenry is a really good choice of music...


and to the person who posted the west wing clip.....i now HAVE to go and watch the whole thing again now...thanks:D

Dman001

Another Scrubs one. Not the best one but still good all the same:

consultech

I like a lot of the ones that have been mentioned. Scrubs in particular have had some very poignant song choices.

Mine would be the end of episode 2 of Hatton/Pacquaio 24/7. It's "The birth and death of the day" by Explosions in the sky. One of the most "epic" songs I've ever heard. Starts from about 3.50 in.

I think it perfectly captures the emotion behind Floyd Mayweather Senior's relationship with his son, and the role of the trainers as they leave their fighters alone to battle, as well as the struggle of the fighters' training regimes.

I was so amped up for this fight because I am such a big Ricky Hatton fan, was very disappointed when he got knocked d fook out, but this episode had me gaggin for the fight before it happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTuSxqEB1gM

mle1324

All the 80s music that was used in Ashes to Ashes:)

Joe Cool

I'm gonna go for the scene in Freaks & Geeks where Sam Weir gets to dance with Cindy Sanders to the song 'Come Sail Away' by Styx.

grumpytrousers

not the conventional use of music in a show...

background, the lads have all been dumped and need cheering up...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcJdgHhQDL4

DarkJager

Absolute perfection:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvrqertQxe8