3 Song Thursdays

Nathan — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:07:41 +0000

Here in no particular order, are three of my favorite songs that been fully featured in a television show. The episodes didn’t have just 30 second clips, but the director took the risk of playing a song in its entirety, and actually pulled it off.

1. Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy

Smallville Season 6 – “Promise”

I thought this was a great way to open such a pivotal and emotional episode. The lyrics of this song fit so well and helped move the audience quickly into the emotional state of distress that Clark is going through on the day of Lana and Lex’s wedding. I seriously loved this episode and it wouldn’t have been half as good without this fantastic opening track.

2. Colin Hay – Overkill (Acoustic)

Scrubs Season 2 – “My Overkill”

Scrubs continues to be one of the funniest shows on television. Even in their eighth season and with a network change they can hardly create an episode that doesn’t make me laugh. But the reason I own every season on dvd, is not so that I can watch Dr. Dorian dance in a patient room filled with 99 Red Balloons to the Nena song of the same title (although I can’t help but laugh out loud everytime I watch that scene). Rather it is because they are not afraid to tackle some of the more serious and less fun aspects of being in a relationship and working in a hospital. While it is still worth a few laughs, this great opening to the second season is a great example of that.

3. Led Zeppelin – Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

One Tree Hill Season 3 – “The Show Must Go On”

I was really disappointed that I was unable to find a video for this one. I thought it was pretty incredible the way they wrapped up their entire season with this six and half minute song playing in the background. It doesn’t distract from, but rather adds to the dramatic effect of this cliff-hanging closer.

Smallville Thursday

Nathan — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:51:43 +0000

so i am a huge smallville fan. i got addicted to this show the summer before my sophomore year in college and then watched four seasons of it with some of my suite mates that year. if you’ve never seen the show i highly recommend it. it’s got the hero, the cute girl, the drama, the action…it’s basically the best show ever. so i have started rewatching the series with my wife lately and we were watching the one where some girl was being kept in a coma by her psycho uncle, but somehow she had managed to hop over into clark’s dreams while he was asleep. anyway, as i was watching this time, i noticed that everytime that it was a dream sequence a song by r.e.m. was playing in the background, which i thought was rather clever. then i realized that i don’t know anything about r.e.m. other then some random big radio breakthroughs. so i am going to do a little research and see how great this band really is, and then i’ll let you know what i think. but until then here is one of the few that i have and love.

r.e.m. – man on the moon (removed 8/28)

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3 Song Thursdays

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