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A few hours ago, a music publicist sent out an email with a subject line containing both the terms “Nick Lowe” and “The Sopranos“; terrified that some sort of series-finale plot-twist would be revealed within, we sent it out to the labs for analysis, only to find that it was actually a reference to a very speculative Wall Street Journal article that guessed which song would wind up as the show’s closing theme (the Journal guesses that Lowe’s “The Beast In Me” will finish things off, as a nod to the first season’s capper).
It would be a fool’s game to try to guess anything that David Chase does at this point, especially when it comes to the show’s music, which has always been unpredictable: There was the Henry Mancini/Police mash-up a few years back; the unearthing of great lost songs from the likes of Nils Lofgren and the Pretenders; and, of course, the theme song, an electronic-blues track by a country-gospel band from Brixton. The tunes have been so unexpected that we were taken aback when–while re-watching the infamous “Pine Barrens” episode–we realized that “Gloria” underscored a scene featuring the Gloria Trillo character. It’s one of the few times the show went for the obvious.
Many of this season’s tracks have been dark n’ limey, including songs from Tindersticks, Roger Waters and, most notably, John Cooper Clarke. So Lowe makes sense. But knowing Chase’s love of the unexpected, not to mention his disain for closure, we’re going to bet on the closing credits being accompanied by “Monster Mash.” And then, for the last time in 8 years, we will laugh at the fact that there’s a guy on the show named John Oates.
“Subdivisions,” as Phil Leotardo pours asbestos-laced concrete over Tony’s body in the dug-out basement in a Carmella-owned real-estate lot.
OR something by Triumph, should Tony do the pouring.
Something Canadian powertrio-ish.
I’m guessing none of them are going to have tickets to see the Bay City Rollers, huh?
@NickEddy: There’s gotta be something going on with that house. There have just been too many references to it this season, and the “this is Carm’s attempt to become independent from Tony, but yet still needs him” symbolism has already been established.
My one hope is that there’s no “previously on…” montage, as they sometimes tip to what will end up on the episode. I’m pretty sure no one watching Sunday night will be like, “The Sopranos? Never heard of it! Get me up to speed.”
And one of the kid’s has gotta die, right? It just seems like they’re the last connection Tony has to actual humanity.
great post for a music blog, keep em coming. maybe some “music of battlestar galactica” later this summer.
I hope it ends with the same song Iron Maiden always puts on as the house lights go up: “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.”
The Peter Gunn theme/”Every Breath You Take” is so good; it and the Bob Dylan “Return To Me” (which I think is a Frank Sinatra song or someone similar) are my two favorite songs the show has featured.
Brian- That is a really interesting theory about the house, I hadn’t considered that.
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
just in time for a new Smashing Pumpkins album, too
Disco Duck
once they ended an early S1 episode with Morphine’s “Buena,” that was it for me.
Would “Love will Tear us Apart” be too much of a cliche?
Definitely perfect.
Well we are all pretty F’ing far off!
What a great song! On any other show at any other time that would have been totally cheeseball.
But dammit they are not any other show at any other time!
Perfect.
I’ll be damned if I haven’t listened to that song at least five times since the finale ended.
Just perfect.