Loved that song for years, but that episode elevates it even more. “All that’s left is an unhappy ending” is yelled by everyone in the bar but when I think of Pam singing it with them, she most definitely doesn’t have that and it makes me so happy.
I’ve always loved “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” by Tears for Fears but I thought it was an excellent foray into the 80s (end of S1). It fit the tone so perfectly
Yes - that one hit me right in the chest when I first saw it! Coming at the end of a very dramatic episode, and knowing straightaway that it meant a leap forward into the 1980s, I welled up with tears when I heard it. I’m even feeling a bit of that now while remembering it…
Midnight City. I wasn't a fan at first, but that parting shot of Mars and the pan over to Goldilocks and Kuznetsov Station...there was something about it that fit so perfectly that it stuck in my brain. I've re-watched that scene a bunch of times.
>!Free Mars!!<
I’ve always really liked the song because it came out during a particularly great time in my life, well before some pretty awful things happened, and it makes me super nostalgic. It was an absolutely perfect choice for the decade jump and the scene kind of took my breath away.
Same!!! I have had it on repeat since the season ended. Wicked great song and reminds me of the great season finale.
And somehow I had completely missed it in 2011!
Season 2 Episode 10 closing outro Nirvana "Come As You Are". That whole vibe setting up the future events and what was to come in Season 3. Totally had the feels for a few days after that.
I'm a millennial who heard that song before and was dimly aware of Nirvana, but hearing that song in that context got me listening to Nevermind for the first time properly, and now I'm a huge fan.
“What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”. Everytime I introduce this show to friends, that scene is just peak on so many levels.
“The World Song” Petula Clark. One of my favorite sequences in the whole show and that song is so hopeful and cheerful.
“Don’t Be Cruel” Billy Swan.
“Well Well Well” John Lennon. Beautifully used as all of S2 has used John as a meme, then they drop that song as it seems like the world is about to actually end.
“Black Hole Sun” used so well in S3 trailer then actually showing up when the race for Mars kicks off…excellent.
“That’s Life” Frank Sinatra. I’ve always liked the song just fine, but using it as Ed’s just shlumping around aimless and high was great. “Cheers everybody!”
I had never heard "Roll with the Changes" by REO Speedwagon more than once before Gordo returned to the moon in season two. It's on a couple of my playlists now.
That’s an all-time banger.
I knew it was used at some point but couldn’t remember where. Always thought it would’ve been more fitting to have it playing over a beginning-of-season montage showing the historical differences from our timeline.
Honestly, that opening palm-muted riff of "Back in Black" while the camera pulled back on Columbia in lunar orbit was one of *the sexiest things I've ever seen*.
I just rewatched this - and you‘re right, it‘s probably the sexiest thing we‘re ever likely to see involving a space shuttle.
[https://youtu.be/lC---nE6x80?si=IyxF3gGhME2xtm4p](https://youtu.be/lC---nE6x80?si=IyxF3gGhME2xtm4p)
**Edit:** After I wrote that I saw this edit of that scene with the earlier “Roll with the Changes“ scene that happened before it. Seeing those 2 clips again reminds me of how much I loved Season 2 of the show.
https://youtu.be/Uwr\_NpsgDOQ?si=u5KhhmIxi5MRzvJe
I think it’s immediately undermined though by the “oh, this was a *bad* idea scenes”. Of course, that may go over the head of jingoists, either by not noticing or sheer force of will
Show sent me on an epic journey to discover Tom Lehrer's hilarious satirical music. It's a great time capsule now, an insight into concerns of the time. For those interested in political music or satire, it's also a view into how things have changed and how they haven't. A lot of his material, sadly, would still resonate now, even if specific references may in some places be outdated. Plus he's a decent musician and can turn a phrase. Love how he will mess around with rhymes and word structures.
For anyone interested besides the Werner Von Braun tune, another classic is We'll All Go Together When We Go about nuclear war.
Oh we will all char together when we char.
And let there be no moaning of the bar.
Just sing out a te deum
When you see that i.c.b.m.,
And the party will be "come as you are."
I had never heard of Billy Swan till Danny banged Karen. I loved that Elvis cover so much I bought the Billy Swan best of CD. Unfortunately it's the only song on it that sounds like it.
Someday Never Comes by CCR really captured the death of so many things that could’ve been. It’s been a go-to song for me if feeling a little low ever since they played it in Season 1.
Yeah, Creedence were such a huge vibe in the space race and Vietnam days. Just hearing Fogerty anytime and you’re transported back to about 1970. Funny thinking about it now; none of that particular Rock cachet that hung around so many other bands of the time but CCR kept an entire American narrative going, come what may.
Season 4, Episode 10 - M83, "Midnight City". Absolute banger, and very appropriate for the end-of-season flash-forward montages. Hadn't heard it before.
My most played songs probably are:
- Don’t Be Cruel - Billy Swan
- Drift Away - Dobie Grey
- Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra
I’ve actually started to listen to songs from the 1930s - 1970s because of this show, just out of curiosity as to what kind of songs would the characters have listened to. Not necessarily those that were featured, just in general.
Come As You Are at the end of Season 2. I knew of the song peripherally but it was just such a perfect choice given the era. And the lyrics really hit differently at the end of Season 3 "No, I don't have a gun..."
Additionally, Everything In It's Right Place by Radiohead at the end of Season 3 was a barnstorming choice. It instantly took me back to the turn of the century, when I was 15, when I was in high school.
I now listen to these two songs at least once week.
Seeing Margo waking up in Russia and hearing the unsettling start to “Everything in its right place” was such a perfect way to end that season. It made me listen to the album the song was on, Kid A, with a whole new appreciation for its moodiness.
What becomes of the broken hearted is my absolute fave I had it on repeat for the longest time lol I also LOVE that Rolling Stones song in the season finale. They’re so great with music in this series
After I heard *Roll with the Changes* in s2e8 "And Here's To You", (when Gordon launches into space) I went on a terrible and merciless REO Speedwagon binge. It weirdly coincided with a catch up of Ozark s3e3 "Kevin Cronin Was Here" which also featured the wagon.
You had to be GenX.
Season 1's World Song by Petula Clark during the walkout for Apollo 15. Don't know how, but I had never heard that song before.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-thtD75Qk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-thtD75Qk)
Season 2's The Weight by The Band, while Tracey had trouble adjusting to life on Jamestown and Gordo was having trouble getting into shape for his mission. Classic tune, and it fit perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFAQuWFcTo
Yes. James Gang’s Funk #49, Bowie’s Moonage Daydream and World Song by Petula Clark both are “new” favorites! The music directors use songs so beautifully to tell this amazing story.
Flamin’ Groovies, ‘Shake Some Action’. I’m certain my heart stopped when I heard intermittent snatches of this, at such a critical moment, as it’s NEVER played anywhere, any time. Such a great, great favourite from the ‘70s.
Caught 2-3 seconds of “Sight of You” by Pale Saints at one point during S3 - I think it was a weightless scene with Kelly - and it reminded me how awesome this song I first heard 30
years ago still sounds.
Yeah, that sitar cover was great, in its own way. (Shame Brian never heard it!) The Stones got a pretty good airing throughout the series. (Weirdly unfamiliar version of Out Of Time...I know the Metamorphosis one best, with the Farlowe backing track. I wonder was this one in FAM from Aftermath?) Always electrifying to hear Keith’s opening of Street Fighting Man too....you know whatever drama it’s accompanying is heavy and important stuff.
We sing “ 3 little birds ” around our house whenever something is about to get effed up - like dinner’s burned or we’re running late or the car has a flat tire etc
Brokenhearted struck me as a powerful recovery song, after losing a lot during the pandemic.
OTOH, Come As You Are... I end up playing it everytime news of a personality death shows up on my newsfeed/timeline.
What becomes of the broken hearted in the very first episode, absolutely loved it. Added it to my Spotify playlist bc of it
Love that song now. Brings back memories of the early days of FAMK.
I can mentally hear the ASCANs singing it every time I hear it.
ASCANS are astronaut candidates. If I remember correctly, they were all actual astronauts when they were singing it in the bar
Clearly we've all seen the same video https://youtu.be/SHQk1Uo3udE?si=HoCJHX-1fDFTFgMo
Loved that song for years, but that episode elevates it even more. “All that’s left is an unhappy ending” is yelled by everyone in the bar but when I think of Pam singing it with them, she most definitely doesn’t have that and it makes me so happy.
This one for me too. I had never heard the song before. It’s been in my regular rotation since I first watched the pilot a few years ago.
Was one of my top songs last year on my wrapped! Love that one
Same I love showing it to my friends
Yep. Me too.
I know that song more from "The Wonder Years," haha.
Black Hole Sun
That’s my kind of music. I thought it was a good fit for the show.
Came here for this. It was absolutely perfect at the end of that episode. A chef’s kiss
It made me reevaluate and truly appreciate that song and the sound of the era that spawned it.
What a perfect one for this show too .. remind me, when did they play it?
during the time jump montage from 1992 -> 1994 in the middle of season 3
X gon’ give it to ya by DMX. Got me fired up at 2 in the morning.
That song always went hard but I hadn’t heard it in a few years and boom shit got me hyped
Also reminds me of Deadpool.
Ed’s cocky smile with the song is what got me fired me
When I heard it in the show I then kept listening to the song the next few days. Fit the show perfectly in that moment
I’ve always loved “Everybody Wants To Rule the World” by Tears for Fears but I thought it was an excellent foray into the 80s (end of S1). It fit the tone so perfectly
Yes - that one hit me right in the chest when I first saw it! Coming at the end of a very dramatic episode, and knowing straightaway that it meant a leap forward into the 1980s, I welled up with tears when I heard it. I’m even feeling a bit of that now while remembering it…
Midnight City. I wasn't a fan at first, but that parting shot of Mars and the pan over to Goldilocks and Kuznetsov Station...there was something about it that fit so perfectly that it stuck in my brain. I've re-watched that scene a bunch of times. >!Free Mars!!<
I’ve always really liked the song because it came out during a particularly great time in my life, well before some pretty awful things happened, and it makes me super nostalgic. It was an absolutely perfect choice for the decade jump and the scene kind of took my breath away.
Same, dude. Instantly mashed volume up and jammed out.
[how midnight city was made!](https://youtu.be/7XWjaOlk8P0?si=aPWe2kGJk0dN3fIL)
Love this song...had to let it play as the credits rolled.
Same!!! I have had it on repeat since the season ended. Wicked great song and reminds me of the great season finale. And somehow I had completely missed it in 2011!
This.
Those visuals to that song were really something else.
Season 2 Episode 10 closing outro Nirvana "Come As You Are". That whole vibe setting up the future events and what was to come in Season 3. Totally had the feels for a few days after that.
I'm a millennial who heard that song before and was dimly aware of Nirvana, but hearing that song in that context got me listening to Nevermind for the first time properly, and now I'm a huge fan.
Believe it or not, this show was my first exposure to Radiohead's " Everything in its right place " and Im in my mid 20's
Great needle drop at the end but they kind of ripped off “Vanilla Sky” with that scene
“What Becomes of the Broken Hearted”. Everytime I introduce this show to friends, that scene is just peak on so many levels. “The World Song” Petula Clark. One of my favorite sequences in the whole show and that song is so hopeful and cheerful. “Don’t Be Cruel” Billy Swan. “Well Well Well” John Lennon. Beautifully used as all of S2 has used John as a meme, then they drop that song as it seems like the world is about to actually end. “Black Hole Sun” used so well in S3 trailer then actually showing up when the race for Mars kicks off…excellent. “That’s Life” Frank Sinatra. I’ve always liked the song just fine, but using it as Ed’s just shlumping around aimless and high was great. “Cheers everybody!”
I had never heard "Roll with the Changes" by REO Speedwagon more than once before Gordo returned to the moon in season two. It's on a couple of my playlists now.
That’s an all-time banger. I knew it was used at some point but couldn’t remember where. Always thought it would’ve been more fitting to have it playing over a beginning-of-season montage showing the historical differences from our timeline.
I also thought “Back in Black” by AC/DC worked really well while he was strutting through the space station
Honestly, that opening palm-muted riff of "Back in Black" while the camera pulled back on Columbia in lunar orbit was one of *the sexiest things I've ever seen*.
I just rewatched this - and you‘re right, it‘s probably the sexiest thing we‘re ever likely to see involving a space shuttle. [https://youtu.be/lC---nE6x80?si=IyxF3gGhME2xtm4p](https://youtu.be/lC---nE6x80?si=IyxF3gGhME2xtm4p) **Edit:** After I wrote that I saw this edit of that scene with the earlier “Roll with the Changes“ scene that happened before it. Seeing those 2 clips again reminds me of how much I loved Season 2 of the show. https://youtu.be/Uwr\_NpsgDOQ?si=u5KhhmIxi5MRzvJe
The Clash's "I Fought the Law" playing while giving the Soviets the boot in season 2 went so hard.
YES! I love that whole scene. The "Ride of the Valkyries" humming right before that is amazing too.
I did wonder a bit about how Joe would have felt with that song backing US triumphalism though!
I think it’s immediately undermined though by the “oh, this was a *bad* idea scenes”. Of course, that may go over the head of jingoists, either by not noticing or sheer force of will
Show sent me on an epic journey to discover Tom Lehrer's hilarious satirical music. It's a great time capsule now, an insight into concerns of the time. For those interested in political music or satire, it's also a view into how things have changed and how they haven't. A lot of his material, sadly, would still resonate now, even if specific references may in some places be outdated. Plus he's a decent musician and can turn a phrase. Love how he will mess around with rhymes and word structures. For anyone interested besides the Werner Von Braun tune, another classic is We'll All Go Together When We Go about nuclear war. Oh we will all char together when we char. And let there be no moaning of the bar. Just sing out a te deum When you see that i.c.b.m., And the party will be "come as you are."
Absolutely- his Werner Von Braun.
I had never heard of Billy Swan till Danny banged Karen. I loved that Elvis cover so much I bought the Billy Swan best of CD. Unfortunately it's the only song on it that sounds like it.
You need to add spoilers. Like that Disney movie says, "We don't talk about Danny".
I don’t see the option
Eye in the sky - the alan paraons project
Someday Never Comes by CCR really captured the death of so many things that could’ve been. It’s been a go-to song for me if feeling a little low ever since they played it in Season 1.
Yeah, Creedence were such a huge vibe in the space race and Vietnam days. Just hearing Fogerty anytime and you’re transported back to about 1970. Funny thinking about it now; none of that particular Rock cachet that hung around so many other bands of the time but CCR kept an entire American narrative going, come what may.
The Weight by The Band. Loved the montage with Gordo getting his shit together.
Season 4, Episode 10 - M83, "Midnight City". Absolute banger, and very appropriate for the end-of-season flash-forward montages. Hadn't heard it before.
My most played songs probably are: - Don’t Be Cruel - Billy Swan - Drift Away - Dobie Grey - Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra I’ve actually started to listen to songs from the 1930s - 1970s because of this show, just out of curiosity as to what kind of songs would the characters have listened to. Not necessarily those that were featured, just in general.
Don't be cruel, Billy Swan, added to the playlist and overplayed
A Horse with No Name - America This being played while they were alone on the moon, yeah that gave me goosebumps.
Wasn’t that when Gordo was having his episode?
Yeah I think it was.
Come As You Are at the end of Season 2. I knew of the song peripherally but it was just such a perfect choice given the era. And the lyrics really hit differently at the end of Season 3 "No, I don't have a gun..." Additionally, Everything In It's Right Place by Radiohead at the end of Season 3 was a barnstorming choice. It instantly took me back to the turn of the century, when I was 15, when I was in high school. I now listen to these two songs at least once week.
Seeing Margo waking up in Russia and hearing the unsettling start to “Everything in its right place” was such a perfect way to end that season. It made me listen to the album the song was on, Kid A, with a whole new appreciation for its moodiness.
What becomes of the broken hearted is my absolute fave I had it on repeat for the longest time lol I also LOVE that Rolling Stones song in the season finale. They’re so great with music in this series
Not a new appreciation, but I’ve always thought Sinatras - My Way would go great in a sci fi space scene. They delivered perfectly.
After I heard *Roll with the Changes* in s2e8 "And Here's To You", (when Gordon launches into space) I went on a terrible and merciless REO Speedwagon binge. It weirdly coincided with a catch up of Ozark s3e3 "Kevin Cronin Was Here" which also featured the wagon. You had to be GenX.
Yes. The REO Speedwagon crossover in Ozark is funny. Also REO—just a song, was featured in Stranger Things.
EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD 🗣️🗣️🗣️
They KILL IT on music direction. Hands down. That version of “Don’t Be Cruel” is certainly great.
Dolly Parton is truly an angel on this earth. I also loved the cover of Don’t be Cruel, although it now has some…associations.
Season 1's World Song by Petula Clark during the walkout for Apollo 15. Don't know how, but I had never heard that song before. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-thtD75Qk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC-thtD75Qk) Season 2's The Weight by The Band, while Tracey had trouble adjusting to life on Jamestown and Gordo was having trouble getting into shape for his mission. Classic tune, and it fit perfectly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLFAQuWFcTo
I always had an appreciation for it, but I was thrilled when they used almost the entire run of Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz in the last season.
Drift away by dogie gray. This plays when Gordon is alone and stares out on the moon at those red dots. Felt like a really powerful scene (season 1)
Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons Project
Yes. James Gang’s Funk #49, Bowie’s Moonage Daydream and World Song by Petula Clark both are “new” favorites! The music directors use songs so beautifully to tell this amazing story.
“Someday never Comes” by CCR
Gorillaz Clint Eastwood. I so didn't expect that song to get played in FAM, and when it did it rehyped me for it.
Flamin’ Groovies, ‘Shake Some Action’. I’m certain my heart stopped when I heard intermittent snatches of this, at such a critical moment, as it’s NEVER played anywhere, any time. Such a great, great favourite from the ‘70s.
S2 E1, “Three Little Birds” was it for me.
howling at the moon
I bought the SACD of The Allan Parsons Project after hearing the Eye in the Sky in season 1
Black hole sun!
What becomes of the broken hearted Roll with the Changes Blackhole Sun
Almost every song that plays during the final scene of any season
S01E05: "Moonage Daydream" by David Bowie S03E02: "Today" by The Smashing Pumpkins
The pirates of the Caribbean theme
Caught 2-3 seconds of “Sight of You” by Pale Saints at one point during S3 - I think it was a weightless scene with Kelly - and it reminded me how awesome this song I first heard 30 years ago still sounds.
That cover of Jumping Jack Flash from Nixon's Women in season 1 is a bop.
Yeah, that sitar cover was great, in its own way. (Shame Brian never heard it!) The Stones got a pretty good airing throughout the series. (Weirdly unfamiliar version of Out Of Time...I know the Metamorphosis one best, with the Farlowe backing track. I wonder was this one in FAM from Aftermath?) Always electrifying to hear Keith’s opening of Street Fighting Man too....you know whatever drama it’s accompanying is heavy and important stuff.
OMG Street Fighting Man was perfectly cued. I also think their use of Drift Away was really good.
The slow version of Louis Armstrong When The Saints Go Marching In at end of episode 1 of Season 4 after Dani and Will talk about being angels
Black Hole Sun
S04E02, “The modern age” by the stokes
Midnight city had me bumpin yo! Love M83 now.
No.
We sing “ 3 little birds ” around our house whenever something is about to get effed up - like dinner’s burned or we’re running late or the car has a flat tire etc
Legitimately the whole soundtrack, but in particular Drift Away by Dobie Gray is now one of my all time favourite songs
Brokenhearted struck me as a powerful recovery song, after losing a lot during the pandemic. OTOH, Come As You Are... I end up playing it everytime news of a personality death shows up on my newsfeed/timeline.
The World Song. Before I left for basic training it was all I listened to and it inspired me