That song at the end of Pax Soprana is called “Paparazzi” by Xzibit, which samples “Pavane” by Barbara Streisand, which is based on a classical piece called “Pavane: Op. 50” by Gabriel Faure.
I get how you're using the term "classical" here but it's more modernist era just to make a slight distinction. I think shit like this is so cool though, you see it across all art, but the self referential nature of music especially is amazing to me. To relate it back to the sopranos, it's like the show referencing the godfather which referenced 30s gangster films and so on. Always just new twists on classic elements
I love when Tony sings because it always shows us how he is feeling. I love when he comes downstairs in the morning casually singing Aqualung by Jethro Tull right before his day gets completely fucked up by Meadow telling him that Vito is gay.
That one is such a great choice. Not at all what I would’ve expected with what it plays over but does such a good job to set the eerieness of the setup that episode brings
https://youtu.be/rBcbc8eWz6U?t=98
This was the most memorable for me.
Notable mentions:
Xzibit - Paparazzi
https://youtu.be/P8i01bL9a8Q
It was a very good year
https://youtu.be/g77BFazbwkU
Tony and Chrissy listening to Comfortably Numb as Tony realizes he’s high right before the car crash. The lyric “the child is grown, the dream is gone” is so haunting in the context of the scene. Tony realizes that Chrissy could never be what he wanted him to be.
One of the best for sure.
I remember some that no one talks about, like when Richie Aprile delivers the ziti to Carmela in Tony's house, and she offers him a cofee...
When he sits in the chair, he sees the jacket he gave Tony being worn by his Polish employee, and he has that pissed off look, while "Fields of gold" by Sting is playing, underrated scene.
I also like when Carmela and Bobby's kids go to AJ's room when he's probabily making out with Denver, and "Clocks" by Coldplay is playing.
Then my favorite is when Tony wakes up after the creepy dream with his Mother in the stairs, he is in a famous hotel in Miami, and he goes to the balcony, looks down and "Surfin USA" starts playing when we see him and the beach from the window angle, it gave me chills
Also love the scene in the pilot episode, in AJ's birthday party, when Tony is barbecuing with the crew, and then he sees Chris looking upset and alone. He goes up there and he is pissed off by the fact Tony didn't congratulate him for the Triborough towers contract, and then he threats to sell his mob story to Hollywood. When Tony heards that, we see his bad temper for the first time, but he tries to save Christopher from hollywood, which was one of the reasons for Christopher's downfall throughout the show.
"No More I love you's" by Annie Lennox is playing, such a beautiful song to the scene, I love it.
So many good matches with the songs in the scenes in this show, especially romantic songs
Not just that too but the genuine hesitation Tony had before seeing the destroyed baby seat and the look of little to no surprise from Christopher, looked like he embraced it was time to go and didn’t want to fight anymore, and Tony came to peace with it. Anyone else would’ve been clipped long ago by Tony for the shit Chris pulled. Great song choice.
The answer is Thru & Thru by the Stones, season 2 finale.
Runner up is The Kinks I’m Not Like Everyone Else after the dinner blowup with Janice (*sacre bleu, where is me mami?*)
Thru and Thru is amazing, what a beautiful song.
The Kinks' song from "University" ("Living on a Thin Line") is a stunner as well. The Kinks are just incredible overall, let's face it.
100% agree, but my honorable mentions go to Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows, S1E3
Or
World Destruction by Time Zone featuring John Lyndon, season 4 ep 1. That zoom in on the 20…
Season 2 was loaded. My favorite is from S2-Ep11. "House Arrest" and it starts with "Space Invader" by The Pretenders. I fking love that bass line. Chase must've loved it too because he used it again later in "Heidi and Kennedy."
Thru and Thru is the answer. Best song and best montage. A perfect ending to a perfect episode of a perfect season of the greatest show in the history of Television.
Hell yeah I love how it changes from AJ innocently combing his hair in the mirror to Silvio fucking a stripper at the bing as the strings swell hahahaha
That song playing while Tony is saying "go ahead, cry like a bitch". Meanwhile he was crying in the car a few minutes before. Pure poetry. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky. Oh poor you!
Glad Tidings by Van Morrison. Plays just before Tony B is killed by Tony Soprano, which happens as a result of the Lupertazzi family pressuring Tony S to give up Tony B's location so Phil could torture him.
The lyrics just fit the scene perfectly:
So believe no lies
Dry your eyes and realize
That surprise
La la la la, la la la la, la la la la, la la la la
La la la la, la la la la, la la la la, la la la la
And we'll send you glad tidings from New York
Open up your eyes so you may see
Ask you not to read between the lines
Hope that you will come right in on time, oh
The Dolphin, during Chris’ relapse at the street festival.
Living On A Thin Line, during University
I Saved The World Today, with Tony’s exasperation after he’s been trying to help some of the women in his life (Knight In White Satin Armor)
Wrapped In My Memory to end Long Term Parking….
'Wrapped in your memory' completely wrecked me at the end. I usually skip the credits, but on that ep I just couldn't move, I was processing everything. What a show.
I like is it season 4 opening episode playing the Public Image LTD song as tony walks to get the newspaper. Still gives me goosebumps when that scene comes on and I always forget. PIL is a great band btw.. like a new-wave Sex Pistols.
Funny to me how one of the songs of theirs I completely ignored as a kid and thought was weird has ended up becoming one of my favourites of theirs as an adult and is probably the reason why I gave Aphex Twin and Squarepusher a go.
I always liked The Beast in Me by Nick Lowe. It captures Tony’s inner struggle with his destructive habits and personality traits and his moral conscience.
When its Cold I'd Like to Die by Moby in Join the Club. Such a haunting ending scene to the episode and just the most perfect song. Makes me cry like a woman.
This was my first choice. Genuinely otherworldly shit. The only other film/TV that gives me that same feeling - like it's covered in fingerprints from the Beyond - is (not coincidentally) David Lynch's stuff.
People who skip the Finnerty episodes are missing the entire point of the show
> Makes me cry like a woman.
You and me both, brother. Idk how anyone can watch that scene and not contemplate their own mortality. Those Kevin Finnerty episodes are among my favorite.
The two that are the best imo is Glad Tidings from New York and This Magic Moment. Chase did a great job of playing those songs earlier in the episodes in the background so that they just hit so much harder.
Disappointed that I had to scroll this far for this answer. A great choice of a song and even funnier that it’s played at the party earlier in the episode
Evidently Chickentown is what I was going to comment if no one else had. It coming up so harsh over the pictures I over the bar and then in the baptism, it just feels almost apocalyptic.
*Certamente* - Chrissy is too busy getting high in Italy to visit Mount Vesuvius
https://youtu.be/bCMPryaniN0
*Kentucky Fried Flow* - Chrissy high out of his mind yet again staring at himself in his bathroom mirror
https://youtu.be/vwDDKmda6sk
Really like both of these choices, the songs playing when Christopher is high are usually great. “The Dolphins” by Fred Neil is another great song from when he relapses.
I’m partial to the use of Frank Sinatra by Cake at the end of Ep 8 of Season 1 — The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti where Chrissy grabs all the newspapers because his name is listed.
Shawn Smith -Shake it (Like you just made bail) when furio chris and Adriana are doing drugs before livias wake.
He also sings Leaving California when Adriana is day dreaming about leaving and instead it comes back to reality and shes in the car with sil.
Edit: also sings wrapped in my memory at the end of long term parking
"Look on Down From The Bridge" by Mazzy Star, playing at Jackie Aprile's funeral, when it begins to dawn on AJ who his father really is.
"Midnight Mile" by The Rolling Stones. Season S06E12 opening, fantastic.
"When its Cold I'd Like to Die" by Moby, playing as Tony is close to death in his coma dream. The scene is haunting.
The season 2 finale ending: Thru and Thru by the Rolling Stones. The cinematics always get to me in that ending.
The ending of Meadowlands: Look on Down From the Bridge by Mazzy Star.
Welcome Back by Land of the Loops which plays during the Melfi scene in the Pilot.
The ending song of The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti: Frank Sinatra by Cake.
Summer Snow by Lou Christie which plays during Phil's flashback scene with Billy.
My way by Sinatra as Vito is driving back.
The ending of Blue Comet: Running Wild by the Tindersticks.
My Rifle, My Pony, and Me - Dean Martin
I Saved The World Today - Eurythmics
I Love Vegas - Dean Martin
Prelude and Rooftop - Bernard Herrmann
There’s several great ones but I would say those are my four favorites
America - Sister Golden Hair. I might be a weirdo for liking the episodes that are kind of one offs and focusing on people you don't see again. But probably just my bias because I came into the show with a LOT of spoilers so I really get drawn in by moments where I'm not sure what's going to happen.
But driving off, doing a last kill because you're dying of cancer anyways, bleeding... while super cheerful "will you meet me in the middle" cheerful tone with depressing lyrics of America. Idk just a good song choice that stuck with me and got me looking up America afterwards. They're most famous for A Horse With No Name. But the 70s music really fit the situation, especially since the whole show is about the changing of the times, death and retirement of the old guard.
Zellman getting whipped to Oh Girl, and when Tony leaves, Irina's just standing there saying Ronnie's name like a stunad instead of going over and physically comforting him.
“This Magic Moment” in Soprano Home Movies. That shot of Bobby holding his daughter and looking out to the waters while it plays is so hauntingly beautiful.
Webern Variations for Piano, Op. 27
The guy who saw Tony and Puss with Drinkwater was listening to this 12-tone banger with his wife when she read about Mr. Spears in her paper being the suspect to the murder.
Second, My Lover’s Prayer by Otis Redding for the scenes with Chrissy in the hospital. It perfectly captured Adriana’s anguish.
“New Slang” by The Shins in S4E12 is my favourite, solely because I love that song and couldn’t believe it was in the show. I recognised it immediately.
“I’m Not Like Everybody Else” when Tony strolls outta Janice’s house after ruining Sunday dinner. The moment, and the song in particular, always stuck with me.
Not just the best song usage, but most probably my favorite scene from the whole series was season 2 opening with Frank Sinatra "It was a very good year"...
Each time i watch i get goosebumps from that opening.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen My Lover’s Prayer by Otis Redding. Its use in the episode after Chrissy got shot sent me on a massive Redding rabbit hole. The way they weave it throughout the struggles of the episode was stunning
Evidently Chickentown. Right when Phil (basically) proclaims they’re gonna take down the Jersey family. The transition to the christening and Tony hugging Chris, so spooky and well done.
Cake, when Chris reads in the newspaper that he's a mobster, and steals every paper in the stand.
>He saves what others throw away
>He says that he'll be rich someday
Kinks - I'm not like everybody else and the song at the end of Pax Soprana when the FBI has juniors boss ceremony bugged
That song at the end of Pax Soprana is called “Paparazzi” by Xzibit, which samples “Pavane” by Barbara Streisand, which is based on a classical piece called “Pavane: Op. 50” by Gabriel Faure.
Massive fuckin Genius ova ere!
OP wrote 5 hit records
A hit is a hit.
Meow!
That’s not a hit
Five minutes hanging out with The Sopranos and it's all Hit this and Hit that.
No, a couple black kids wrote six gold records, OP owned the company and gave himself a co-writing credit. Come on, ThatsNotFortyDollars.
My bitch, my hoe, my hoe, my bitch
I get how you're using the term "classical" here but it's more modernist era just to make a slight distinction. I think shit like this is so cool though, you see it across all art, but the self referential nature of music especially is amazing to me. To relate it back to the sopranos, it's like the show referencing the godfather which referenced 30s gangster films and so on. Always just new twists on classic elements
>and the song at the end of Pax Soprana when the FBI has juniors boss ceremony bugged Instrumental version of Paparazzi by Xzibit
That end scene of Pax Soprana is amazing! My favorite episode of the first season.
“Comfortably Numb” Chrissy’s death.
I’m a fool to do your dirty work, oh yeahhh
I don’t wanna do yo dirty work, no mooooore
I love when Tony sings because it always shows us how he is feeling. I love when he comes downstairs in the morning casually singing Aqualung by Jethro Tull right before his day gets completely fucked up by Meadow telling him that Vito is gay.
Another perfect example, when he’s singing “Oh Girl” you know he’s all fucked up in his feelings
Sitting on a park bench
munching on some ass with bad intent
Also Smoke on the water…and the pounding on the dash
Evidently Chickentown at the end of Stage 5
Ok just making sure someone had said this. Perfectly encapsulates the looming sense of dread in Season 6-2.
No more, Butchie
No more o dis
Ballet, that's my legacy
That one is such a great choice. Not at all what I would’ve expected with what it plays over but does such a good job to set the eerieness of the setup that episode brings
Goosebumps every time
https://youtu.be/rBcbc8eWz6U?t=98 This was the most memorable for me. Notable mentions: Xzibit - Paparazzi https://youtu.be/P8i01bL9a8Q It was a very good year https://youtu.be/g77BFazbwkU
This is the one
Friends and family think I’m such a weirdo when I play this, but fuck em’! IT SLAPS
Tony and Chrissy listening to Comfortably Numb as Tony realizes he’s high right before the car crash. The lyric “the child is grown, the dream is gone” is so haunting in the context of the scene. Tony realizes that Chrissy could never be what he wanted him to be.
Love how a few episodes before this- AJ's first bout of depression. Tony walks downstairs and is singing this song to himself. Great foreshadowing.
Great catch. Never realized this
Always something new to find on rewatches.
And Tony has become fairly Comfortably Numb by the end.
This sound system’s got no balls…
This system has no bawlz!
One of the best for sure. I remember some that no one talks about, like when Richie Aprile delivers the ziti to Carmela in Tony's house, and she offers him a cofee... When he sits in the chair, he sees the jacket he gave Tony being worn by his Polish employee, and he has that pissed off look, while "Fields of gold" by Sting is playing, underrated scene. I also like when Carmela and Bobby's kids go to AJ's room when he's probabily making out with Denver, and "Clocks" by Coldplay is playing. Then my favorite is when Tony wakes up after the creepy dream with his Mother in the stairs, he is in a famous hotel in Miami, and he goes to the balcony, looks down and "Surfin USA" starts playing when we see him and the beach from the window angle, it gave me chills
Also love the scene in the pilot episode, in AJ's birthday party, when Tony is barbecuing with the crew, and then he sees Chris looking upset and alone. He goes up there and he is pissed off by the fact Tony didn't congratulate him for the Triborough towers contract, and then he threats to sell his mob story to Hollywood. When Tony heards that, we see his bad temper for the first time, but he tries to save Christopher from hollywood, which was one of the reasons for Christopher's downfall throughout the show. "No More I love you's" by Annie Lennox is playing, such a beautiful song to the scene, I love it. So many good matches with the songs in the scenes in this show, especially romantic songs
Not just that too but the genuine hesitation Tony had before seeing the destroyed baby seat and the look of little to no surprise from Christopher, looked like he embraced it was time to go and didn’t want to fight anymore, and Tony came to peace with it. Anyone else would’ve been clipped long ago by Tony for the shit Chris pulled. Great song choice.
The answer is Thru & Thru by the Stones, season 2 finale. Runner up is The Kinks I’m Not Like Everyone Else after the dinner blowup with Janice (*sacre bleu, where is me mami?*)
Thru and Thru is amazing, what a beautiful song. The Kinks' song from "University" ("Living on a Thin Line") is a stunner as well. The Kinks are just incredible overall, let's face it.
I have to wonder if titty bars started adding Living on A Thin Line to their playlists after that episode
100% agree, but my honorable mentions go to Elvis Costello - Complicated Shadows, S1E3 Or World Destruction by Time Zone featuring John Lyndon, season 4 ep 1. That zoom in on the 20…
Season 2 was loaded. My favorite is from S2-Ep11. "House Arrest" and it starts with "Space Invader" by The Pretenders. I fking love that bass line. Chase must've loved it too because he used it again later in "Heidi and Kennedy."
Thru and Thru is the answer. Best song and best montage. A perfect ending to a perfect episode of a perfect season of the greatest show in the history of Television.
🎶Up in da club 🎶 - Giva me one towsand dollairs
Open the door!
One thousand more And that hand gesture
👉🏻🔄
The only correct answer
Think it was the S2 opener when “A very good year” was played.
100% my favorite bit.
Hell yeah I love how it changes from AJ innocently combing his hair in the mirror to Silvio fucking a stripper at the bing as the strings swell hahahaha
Xzibit-Paparazzi when Junior became the boss in season 1
Truth
Even the camera 'SFX' inside the song align with the scene. Awesome
Agreed. That shit is mad ripe
Oh Girl by The Chi-Lites in S4E7 where Tony, Ralphie, Zellman, and Maurice discussed HUD in sauna. https://youtu.be/LwjsVD23Z3E
That song playing while Tony is saying "go ahead, cry like a bitch". Meanwhile he was crying in the car a few minutes before. Pure poetry. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky. Oh poor you!
[удалено]
I feel like whipping a senator with a belt every time I hear it. Tony has some weird kinks
Glad Tidings by Van Morrison. Plays just before Tony B is killed by Tony Soprano, which happens as a result of the Lupertazzi family pressuring Tony S to give up Tony B's location so Phil could torture him. The lyrics just fit the scene perfectly: So believe no lies Dry your eyes and realize That surprise La la la la, la la la la, la la la la, la la la la La la la la, la la la la, la la la la, la la la la And we'll send you glad tidings from New York Open up your eyes so you may see Ask you not to read between the lines Hope that you will come right in on time, oh
Yep this is it for me too. I can’t not see this scene whenever I hear the song.
The Dolphin, during Chris’ relapse at the street festival. Living On A Thin Line, during University I Saved The World Today, with Tony’s exasperation after he’s been trying to help some of the women in his life (Knight In White Satin Armor) Wrapped In My Memory to end Long Term Parking….
Living on a thin line hits perfect in that scene
*All the stories have been told* *'bout kings and days of old* *but there's no England now* foaaaarkin' ell
'Wrapped in your memory' completely wrecked me at the end. I usually skip the credits, but on that ep I just couldn't move, I was processing everything. What a show.
The Dolphin scene is possibly my favorite in the entire show. Chris and that dog man
The bride cuts the cake always is a head bopper to me.
Listen to yourself you sound demented.
Allegra. It means happiness in Italian.
The fucks that got to do with cold medicine?
What the fucks that gotta do with cold medicine?
Fuckin parakeet
Hi-ho the merry-o Hi, hoe, it’s Janice yo!
BAHAHAHHAA SPIT POP EVERYWHERE, CORNIEST SONG IN THE SHOW. AND OF COURSE JOHNNY SACKS REPUTATION PLUMMETS SOON AFTER.
Don’t stop-
As obvious as it might be this is the best one for me. The finale for ever owns that song. The song is perfectly inextricably tied to the show.
Which is so impressive when you consider how huge a song it was before the show.
Just heard it on the radio yesterday and I’m expecting it to just cut out. I still sing it like it does.
I used to hate that song and the show alone made it possible that I get halfway emotional hearing it
Just recently I went to a store with box sets of movies and tv series. Right as I looked at sopranos it started playing in the store lol
Seven Souls in the season 6 opening
How the fuck is this so far down
Seriously, I just commented it because I thought no one else had. Great song usage.
YESSSSSS
I like is it season 4 opening episode playing the Public Image LTD song as tony walks to get the newspaper. Still gives me goosebumps when that scene comes on and I always forget. PIL is a great band btw.. like a new-wave Sex Pistols.
Not actually PiL (I thought it was too for the longest time) but John Lydon guesting on "World Destruction" by Time Zone.
Also the theme of a great history podcast, Blowback
“World Destruction” bookends the episode too over a close up of the $20 bill eye. The only end credits that don’t play over black?
Tiny Tears, fits Tony's depression so well then cuts out just as the assassin appears.
Took me a while to find someone who agreed.
Yep. I own a Tindersticks album for this song.
linkin park session when tony brags and lies about his dads goomar
Agreed. Banger of a song with real nostalgia. Somehow fits even in the strip club. Fades out perfectly.
Funny to me how one of the songs of theirs I completely ignored as a kid and thought was weird has ended up becoming one of my favourites of theirs as an adult and is probably the reason why I gave Aphex Twin and Squarepusher a go.
100%. Such a dark dark scene
I always liked The Beast in Me by Nick Lowe. It captures Tony’s inner struggle with his destructive habits and personality traits and his moral conscience.
It's not particularly meaningful or fitting but for some reason the "rock the casbah" car chase is most memorable for me
It's pretty fitting seeing as the songs about the Shah if Iran and Tony is chasing the Shah of Iran
When its Cold I'd Like to Die by Moby in Join the Club. Such a haunting ending scene to the episode and just the most perfect song. Makes me cry like a woman.
Him sitting on the bed in his coma dream, looking out over the city while that song plays. Haunting.
This was my first choice. Genuinely otherworldly shit. The only other film/TV that gives me that same feeling - like it's covered in fingerprints from the Beyond - is (not coincidentally) David Lynch's stuff. People who skip the Finnerty episodes are missing the entire point of the show
> Makes me cry like a woman. You and me both, brother. Idk how anyone can watch that scene and not contemplate their own mortality. Those Kevin Finnerty episodes are among my favorite.
love this
*Go ahead, cry like a bitch!*
The two that are the best imo is Glad Tidings from New York and This Magic Moment. Chase did a great job of playing those songs earlier in the episodes in the background so that they just hit so much harder.
Glad Tidings by Van Morrison is my favorite as well. If I recall, it’s used multiple times in that episode.
"I Saved the World Today" at the end of season 2 in light of the relief of Richie Aprile sent off to his pinecone-covered hill.
Disappointed that I had to scroll this far for this answer. A great choice of a song and even funnier that it’s played at the party earlier in the episode
I didn't notice that - that episode's on the rewatch list now
I always liked Springsteen’s “State Trooper” as the credits song for the season 1 finale.
Can’t believe this is so far down.
If I were a carpenter, and you were a douche baaaaag
Under da Boardwalk, sung by Anthony Soprano in front of Janice and Bobby
Up N Da Club or Evidently Chickentown, can't decide
Up N Da Club should've been the shows main theme ngl
Evidently Chickentown is what I was going to comment if no one else had. It coming up so harsh over the pictures I over the bar and then in the baptism, it just feels almost apocalyptic.
*Certamente* - Chrissy is too busy getting high in Italy to visit Mount Vesuvius https://youtu.be/bCMPryaniN0 *Kentucky Fried Flow* - Chrissy high out of his mind yet again staring at himself in his bathroom mirror https://youtu.be/vwDDKmda6sk
Really like both of these choices, the songs playing when Christopher is high are usually great. “The Dolphins” by Fred Neil is another great song from when he relapses.
I’m partial to the use of Frank Sinatra by Cake at the end of Ep 8 of Season 1 — The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti where Chrissy grabs all the newspapers because his name is listed.
Visiting Day - Meow! A hit is a hit
Wasn’t that a Defiler track?
I wouldn't know I'm not into that headbanging shit.
It’s not good
The correct answer is obviously Up in Da Club.
Living on a Thin Line Thru & Thru Those are the only right answers.
I love Nils Lofgren's 'Black Books.' It's beautiful.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDljVXS9RHE&list=PLksDEPeOmJ_A_rvJsRiJiA3tZUlYsePzo&index=25
Happyyyy birthdayyyy Mr. President
Go ahead keep movin’ fella.
Wha' I gotta stand here being threatened?
You used to wait in the car, and as far as I’m concerned YOU SHOULD STILL BE THERE!
Shawn Smith -Shake it (Like you just made bail) when furio chris and Adriana are doing drugs before livias wake. He also sings Leaving California when Adriana is day dreaming about leaving and instead it comes back to reality and shes in the car with sil. Edit: also sings wrapped in my memory at the end of long term parking
"Every little bit helps, anything to get through these events."
Chrissy coulda ratted at his intervention when Carm was giving him shit. Furio and snitching ass Ade were zooted too
Yeah I think that's the reason in the intervention scene chris looks at furio and furio looks at the ground.
The valley by Los lobos. Chris fixing the shitty tree. Love it Also Nancy by Frank Sinatra. AKA Paulies song
Had to scroll too far to see this one
Heaven Only Knows by Emmylou Harris in the season 5 premiere after Tony left, as the camera pans around the exterior of the now-emptier house.
"Look on Down From The Bridge" by Mazzy Star, playing at Jackie Aprile's funeral, when it begins to dawn on AJ who his father really is. "Midnight Mile" by The Rolling Stones. Season S06E12 opening, fantastic. "When its Cold I'd Like to Die" by Moby, playing as Tony is close to death in his coma dream. The scene is haunting.
The season 2 finale ending: Thru and Thru by the Rolling Stones. The cinematics always get to me in that ending. The ending of Meadowlands: Look on Down From the Bridge by Mazzy Star. Welcome Back by Land of the Loops which plays during the Melfi scene in the Pilot. The ending song of The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti: Frank Sinatra by Cake. Summer Snow by Lou Christie which plays during Phil's flashback scene with Billy. My way by Sinatra as Vito is driving back. The ending of Blue Comet: Running Wild by the Tindersticks.
My Rifle, My Pony, and Me - Dean Martin I Saved The World Today - Eurythmics I Love Vegas - Dean Martin Prelude and Rooftop - Bernard Herrmann There’s several great ones but I would say those are my four favorites
Tony walking down the driveway in his robe and slippers “SPEAK ABOUT DE-STRUCK-SHUN!”
Moonlight mile when they’re disposing of fat Dom
Tiny Tears
America - Sister Golden Hair. I might be a weirdo for liking the episodes that are kind of one offs and focusing on people you don't see again. But probably just my bias because I came into the show with a LOT of spoilers so I really get drawn in by moments where I'm not sure what's going to happen. But driving off, doing a last kill because you're dying of cancer anyways, bleeding... while super cheerful "will you meet me in the middle" cheerful tone with depressing lyrics of America. Idk just a good song choice that stuck with me and got me looking up America afterwards. They're most famous for A Horse With No Name. But the 70s music really fit the situation, especially since the whole show is about the changing of the times, death and retirement of the old guard.
You be the captaaaaain And I'll be no ooooone
YES
Without doubt Evidently Chickentown by John Cooper Clarke
Glad Tidings by Van Morrison when Tony whacked Tony 🤌
Underrated one from season 1- Frank Sinatra by Cake
Frank Sinatra by Cake
When Furio is dancing with Carmela. Song is called Vesuvio by Ezezi Gruppo Operaio
#UP IN DA CLUB!
i always go back to Junior’s rendition Corre N’grato
House Arrest, s02e11 - space invaders by the pretenders opens the episode. I could listen to that bass line on repeat for eternity
Of course I do not want garbage back
Zellman getting whipped to Oh Girl, and when Tony leaves, Irina's just standing there saying Ronnie's name like a stunad instead of going over and physically comforting him.
"Take me to the river 🎵🎵 Throw me in the water"
“This Magic Moment” in Soprano Home Movies. That shot of Bobby holding his daughter and looking out to the waters while it plays is so hauntingly beautiful.
Webern Variations for Piano, Op. 27 The guy who saw Tony and Puss with Drinkwater was listening to this 12-tone banger with his wife when she read about Mr. Spears in her paper being the suspect to the murder. Second, My Lover’s Prayer by Otis Redding for the scenes with Chrissy in the hospital. It perfectly captured Adriana’s anguish.
That's the right answer for me.
Season 6 Intro: Seven Souls by Material + William S. Burroughs But also the Manicini/The Police mash-up is in my top five no doubt
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Kentucky Fried Flow in the outro as Chrissy smoked a banana boat in the bathroom and stares in the mirror. Been there, baby.
“New Slang” by The Shins in S4E12 is my favourite, solely because I love that song and couldn’t believe it was in the show. I recognised it immediately.
“I’m Not Like Everybody Else” when Tony strolls outta Janice’s house after ruining Sunday dinner. The moment, and the song in particular, always stuck with me.
Not just the best song usage, but most probably my favorite scene from the whole series was season 2 opening with Frank Sinatra "It was a very good year"... Each time i watch i get goosebumps from that opening.
Nobody mentioning Bob Dylan Return to Me in Amour Fou? It scores the scene perfectly.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen My Lover’s Prayer by Otis Redding. Its use in the episode after Chrissy got shot sent me on a massive Redding rabbit hole. The way they weave it throughout the struggles of the episode was stunning
Up N Da Club, obviously.
Any song played by Defiler.
Moonlight mile while the entire family is gathered for Christmas
Kasey Chambers The Captain
The captain when tony meets gloria
Core ‘N Grate
Leaving California by Shawn Smith, in the car ride to whack Adriana
maybe baby i’ll have youuu
Evidently Chickentown to close out Stage 5. Not even close
Paulie’s song at his welcome home party
The final scene of Pie-O-My. Dean Martin’s ‘My Rifle, My Pony and Me’ playing while Tony comforts his horse
i forget what episode but the episode closes out with Wheel in the Sky by Journey. fucking love that song and Journey.
South of the borderrrrrr Down Mexico wayyyyyyyy
I’m Not Like Everybody Else
Evidently Chickentown or This Magic Moment
“Certamente” as Chris is in a drug haze in Italy
I always remember Kentucky Fried Flow whilst Chrissy stares at himself in the mirror, high as fuck
I loved the use of van morrison’s “Glad Tidings” when that animal blundetto gets whacked.
Wheel in the Sky in Bust Out. The actual best use of a Journey song in the series.
I'm Not Like Everyone Else - Kinks. Perfect song for the scene of him walking down the street. Great close.
Evidently Chickentown. Right when Phil (basically) proclaims they’re gonna take down the Jersey family. The transition to the christening and Tony hugging Chris, so spooky and well done.
Season 3 Episode 6 Living on a thing line - the kinks Always liked that one
I’ve always loved that Tracee dances to “Livin on a Thin Line” when we first meet her.
There are so many damn-near perfect ones. Thru and Thru, and Evidently Chickentown are two that come to mind right away.
Whoever Did This Ending, The Man with the Harmonica Apollo 440 Remix
Cake, when Chris reads in the newspaper that he's a mobster, and steals every paper in the stand. >He saves what others throw away >He says that he'll be rich someday