March 16, 2006
Listen-Watch TV
I've discovered a handful of great songs this week from TV shows and TV show DVDs and figured I'd share:
- Disarm by The Smashing Pumpkins is the closing song on The Shield Episode 5x10
- Hold on Hope by Guided by Voices is used towards the end of Scrubs Episode 1x22
- Beautiful World by Colin Hay is the closing song on Scrubs Episode 1x24
- Overkill by Colin Hay was used as the opening for Scrubs episode 2x01
Disarm was the perfect accompaniment, both lyrically and musically, to the end of that episode of The Shield. The bells in the song are particularly haunting.
Disarm you with a smile
And leave you like they left me here
To wither in denial
The bitterness of one who’s left alone
Ooh, the years burn
Ooh, the years burn, burn, burn
Hold on Hope has a catchy chorus and fit the montage perfectly: "Everybody's gotta hold on hope, it's the last thing, that's holding me".
I first heard Colin Hay on the Garden State soundtrack (I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You), but apparently he was in the 80's band, Men at Work. At any rate, his solo acoustic stuff is pretty good.