I loved cliff martinez’s ost for “the knick” breaking historical accuracy that obviously did the show really well.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts
So many good recs on here. True Detective S1 really nailed it for me though.
Peacemaker! So many good songs from bands I’ve never heard of. Especially Wig Wam and Band-Maid.
The Venture Brothers and J. G. Thirwell.
Cowboy Bebop and Yoko Kanno.
Definitely Bebop!
Scrubs immediately comes to mind, though it’s not a very current reference. I still listen to Colin Hay thanks to these scenes. And this one.
Had to double check myself but that’s the guy from men at work.
The music choices were almost always spot on, exactly matching the tone of the scene
I was sad when I learned the episodes now available on streaming don’t have the same music - apparently the rights expired and they had to change many/all of the songs. I only checked one episode and immediately went back to my low-res, offline copy
I still watch from my old DVD rips even though they’re all standard definition because the music is intact (as far as I’ve ever noticed).
Similar happened with the The State but before there was even a DVD release. When the episodes aired their had access to so much music through MTV that it became a big part of the show. It’s not the same without some of it.
Silicon Valley. The songs they played at the end of every episode were pretty much universally bangers.
As a person with an interest in the history of movies I got throw in The Big Chill. It was the OG film soundtrack, I’m pretty sure it was the first soundtrack to hit the billboard top 10 albums in a time when that meant something and is full of ‘50s & ‘60s bangers.
Smallville always had well curated songs for each episode… at the time some were fairly obscure bands
Remy Zero!
Breaking Bad & Atlanta both had many new discoveries for me. Twin peaks s3 had some amazing music but I was aware of the majority of the artist beforehand
Edit: add Sharp Objects. Amazing sound design and found a few new gems
The Top Gun soundtrack definitely sets the standard.
If we’re doing movies, Pretty in Pink was always my jam.
Grosse Pointe Blank’s soundtrack is absolutely amazing.
Not a show, but Tales From the Borderlands introduced me to Jungle, possibly my favourite music artist right now, as well as a few other gems.
Jungle fuckin rocks
The episode intro with “To The Top” by Twin Shadow is amazing.
CSI Miami had a Papa Roach song I liked a lot better than that cheap knockoff of the original CSI.
Stargate Universe
The outros in Hit Monkey introduced me to a lot of new artists. Here’s a playlist of some of them: Hit Monkey
