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Massive Music feat. Kenton Chen :: I Chi Du Dou (Ca Plane Pour...

Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:02:00 -0700

Massive Music feat. Kenton Chen :: I Chi Du Dou (Ca Plane Pour Moi) [Chinese version]

Nothing to add to this except to say… YES.

Featured on Raising Hope, Tarot Cards (Season 2, Episode 13)

tUnE-yArDs :: Gangsta Featured on The Good Wife, Death Row Tip ...

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:24:00 -0800

tUnE-yArDs :: Gangsta

Featured on The Good Wife, Death Row Tip (Season 3, Episode 8)

As much as I loved a lot of songs on the EPs & BiRd-BrAiNs, I’ve found myself listening to w h o k i l l as a whole more than I have those previous releases. That said, I must’ve self-indulged in listening to this particular song set-to-repeat roughly eleventymillion times. (As an aside, Tune-Yards does a stunning version of Yoko Ono’s “We’re All Water” live, which I wish would find its way into becoming a studio recording.)

Zero 7 :: Destiny Featured on Case Histories, Episode 3....

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:56:00 -0700

Zero 7 :: Destiny

Featured on Case Histories, Episode 3. Masterpiece Theatre actually bothered to put up a music page for this show, which is kind of exciting (!!), you know, for Masterpiece Theatre, that is. My favorite version of this song is the live one featured on Sia’s Lady Croissant, I guess because I find the minimal rawness of that recorded performance slightly more affecting? Still, that takes nothing away from how much I’ve enjoyed the studio take that was originally recorded; It suits my mood(s) often enough.

calembours: Scala & Kolacny Brothers - With or Without...

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:00 -0700

calembours:

Scala & Kolacny Brothers - With or Without you

(Downton Abbey, promo Series 2)

And… what’s unsaid via Rich at FourFour

lucette: Downton Abbey | John Lunn | Soundtrack Suite This...

Sat, 24 Sep 2011 11:21:00 -0700

lucette:

Downton Abbey | John Lunn | Soundtrack Suite

This is such beautiful soundtracking to what feels like a really tricky story to encapsulate musically, e.g. carrying the story forward without giving the plot away ahead of time.

I feel vaguely like my grandma these days. At lunchtime at her house during the summer school break, we’d eat bologna/olive loaf/braunschweiger and Miracle Whip sandwiches (on Wonderbread, ALWAYS, but of course) while we watched The Bold and The Beautiful with her in the kitchen. We’d all sit chewing our gluten-overdoses together, gaping up at her tiny 9-inch black & white tv on top of the fridge. Now I and my kids are glued to watching Downton Abbey while eating a weekly supper in front of the living room tv. I’ve skipped a generation, and instead of worrying about becoming my own ma, I’m beginning to sweat becoming my grandma instead.

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside performed I Swear, from...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:50:00 -0700

Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside performed I Swear, from their first full-length release, Dirty Radio, on The Late Show with David Letterman. While this song is not my absolute no.#1 favorite song from the album (my own preferences lean towards Write Me a Letter, and Where Did You Go as singles) the band’s appearance on Letterman provides a good excuse to post a Sallie Ford track. You can download an mp3 of I Swear for free if you visit the US Amazon site.

Also, you should visit the OPB Music site to hear their cover of Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric, just because.

lovesanfris: Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good I always heard this...

Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:20:00 -0700

lovesanfris:

Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good

I always heard this song on King of the Hill and never thought it was real… Learn something new everyday.

The recurring use of “Chuck Mangione” on King of the Hill has to be one the greatest running tv gags of all time.

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Joan as Police Woman :: Flash Featured on Luther, Episode 2...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:41:00 -0700

Joan as Police Woman :: Flash

Featured on Luther, Episode 2 (Series Two)

I hadn’t had a chance to hear anything from her new album yet. Now I have. And it is awesome.

Propellerheads :: History Repeating, featuring Miss Shirley...

Mon, 30 May 2011 10:03:00 -0700

Propellerheads :: History Repeating, featuring Miss Shirley Bassey

Featured on Being Human, Though the Heavens Fall (Series 3, Episode 7)

Emiliana Torrini :: Gun Featured on Luther, Episode 1 (Series 1)

Tue, 17 May 2011 23:36:17 -0700

Emiliana Torrini :: Gun

Featured on Luther, Episode 1 (Series 1)

Massive Attack :: Paradise Circus Featured as theme music in the...

Tue, 17 May 2011 01:05:00 -0700

Massive Attack :: Paradise Circus

Featured as theme music in the title sequence for Luther, Series One.

Brad Paisley :: You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive (composed...

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:53:00 -0700

Brad Paisley :: You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive (composed by Darrell Scott)

Featured on Justified, Bloody Harlan (Season 2, Episode 13)

Paisley really adds a touch of soul and angst to the song that could come across schmaltzy in lesser hands. Just a great version of this song.

Rod’s Song, composed for the Magnum P.I. episode...

Tue, 03 May 2011 21:46:00 -0700

Rod’s Song, composed for the Magnum P.I. episode “…By Its Cover” by Mike Post & Pete Carpenter. (Season 3, Episode 20)

Tons of Magnum, P.I. audio is available on the Magnum Mania! site, including one excerpt I plan to make my ringtone: one of Higgins’ many exclamations of “Oh. My. God!”

Aloe Blacc :: I Need a Dollar Such a great song & a great...

Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:38:00 -0700

Aloe Blacc :: I Need a Dollar

Such a great song & a great voice: he reminds me a little of Bill Withers.

Heard in a Boost Mobile commercial.

Fink :: Sort of Revolution Link is to full album, but song...

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:24:00 -0700

Fink :: Sort of Revolution

Link is to full album, but song available for free on the Ninja Tune XX Compilation [exclusive to Amazon-US Mp3 store]

Featured on Friday Night Lights, Perfect Record (Season 5, Episode 7)

Adam Ant :: Goody Two Shoes “Goody Two Shoes” was...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 08:00:00 -0700

Adam Ant :: Goody Two Shoes

“Goody Two Shoes” was sampled for the end tag on an Easter-themed Target commercial.

This song ignites a dance fever in me like none other; I cannot dance.

To both my credit & shame my dancing is not this,

but it is this:

So then. I make due with genteel toe-tapping.

Computer vs. Banjo :: Give Up on Ghosts Featured on Justified,...

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 08:00:05 -0700

Computer vs. Banjo :: Give Up on Ghosts

Featured on Justified, Debts and Accounts (Season 2, Episode 10)

The Kinks :: King Kong Featured on History Detectives, First...

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:24:00 -0700

The Kinks :: King Kong

Featured on History Detectives, First Movie Studio/Hollywood: Warner’s Lighter/King Kong Camera (Season 2, Episode 4)

Thompson Twins :: If You Were Here Featured on Bob’s...

Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:53:00 -0700

Thompson Twins :: If You Were Here

Featured on Bob’s Burgers, Sheesh! Cab, Bob? (Season 1, Episode 6)

This is the same song played at the end of Sixteen Candles, the soundtrack for which had only ever been released on cassette or vinyl. (There is, if you are interested, a rather complete Amazon guide to building your own Sixteen Candles soundtrack. Here is another list, written to include the multiple platforms the movie’s been released in - Sixteen Candles: Soundtrack.)

Leftover Cuties :: Through It All Featured on Justified, Blaze...

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:04:00 -0700

Leftover Cuties :: Through It All

Featured on Justified, Blaze of Glory (Season 2, Episode 6)

So delicate and charming! Delightful.