Best TV Show Soundtracks?

[BROCK22]

What is the best TV Show Soundtrack? Any ideas?

Was watching Parenthood and heard some Bob Dylan tunes and other classics. Couldn't really think of other shows with music I actually listen to.

Anyways, I stumbled upon the making of Parenthood's soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21xkq7ujr_o

what do you guys think?

[WyldeMan45]

I listen to the Sons of Anarchy "North Country EP" all the time. But I also have a giant playlist with nearly every song they've used on the show. Music is a huge part of the show, and I love the soundtracks.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Easily Battlestar Galactica for me.

[ts0323]

LOST is so awesome.
The music is epic anytime they have a trek across the island.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by ts0323

LOST is so awesome.
The music is epic anytime they have a trek across the island.

+1 the best soundtrack (score) i have ever heard in a tv show. and rivals 95% of film scores

[joe1515]

True Blood

Sons of Anarchy

[Al_The_Strange]

Among shows:
"Battlestar Galactica" (either one really)
Any "CSI" show (my God, I must have downloaded thousands of songs from all three serieses, and they're all pretty awesome!)
The classic "Star Trek" (and the new ones aren't bad either)

Among cartoons:
"Metalocalypse"

Among anime:
"Bleach"
Any "Bubblegum Crisis" show
"Burst Angel"
"The Cowboy Bebop"
"Excel Saga"
"Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex"
"Hellsing"
"Madlax"
"Noir"
"RahXephon"
"Samurai Champloo"
"Witch Hunter Robin"

What can I say, the Japanese shows have very interesting music!

[Walts Ghost]

For me there are a few that come to mind:

Chuck
Doctor Who
Lost
Scrubs
Smallville

Those shows all have some of my absolute favorite composed music and just use of songs on any shows that I've watched. Especially Scrubs

[Arvin Clone]

Originally Posted by ts0323

LOST is so awesome.
The music is epic anytime they have a trek across the island.

I agree. Michael Giacchino's music is part of the appeal of Lost for me.

[Secretagentnumber6]

You guys are all going new shows. I am gonna kick a blast from the past.

WKRP in Cincinatti.

The show was about a rock station and had some of the best music ever on it. Unfortunately this was the problem with getting it a DVD release and then when it did they had to change a ton of the music, so we may never get it in its original awesome form. Although I guess it is not available as a soundtrack but it would be great if it was.

Music licensing

The show was one of the earliest to extensively use contemporary music by big groups and artists of the time such as The Who, The Rolling Stones, and Elvis Presley.

The show's use of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" was widely credited with helping the song become a major US hit, and the band's record label Chrysalis Records presented the producers with a gold record award for the album Parallel Lines, on which the song appeared. This gold record can be seen hanging on the wall in the "bull pen" where Les, Herb, and Bailey worked in many of the episodes in the second, third, and fourth seasons.

The songs were often tied into the plot of the episode. One of the most popular examples was "A Date With Jennifer", where Les was dressing in the bullpen for his date with Jennifer that evening, with Foreigner's "Hot Blooded" playing on the station's speaker monitor, with Les moving to the music as he was getting ready. This song was cut from the episode on the DVD release and replaced with a generic sound-alike.

Music licensing deals cut at the time of production were for a limited amount of time (approximately ten years). In addition, the show was videotaped rather than filmed because it was cheaper to get the rights to rock songs for a taped show.[citation needed] Once the licenses expired, later syndicated versions of the show did not feature the music as first broadcast, but rather generic "sound-alikes" by studio musicians to avoid paying additional royalties. In some cases (when the music was playing in the background of a dialogue scene), some of the characters' lines had to be redubbed by sound-alike actors. This was evident in all prints of the show issued since the early 1990s, which included its late-1990s run on Nick at Nite.

As a result, production on a WKRP DVD was delayed for years because of the expense of procuring music licenses. It was feared that fans would reject edited versions. However, as was done with many other television series, the DVD release of WKRP in Cincinnati - Season One has much of the music replaced by generic substitutes. In addition, some scenes have been cut or truncated and voice-overs used to avoid using unlicensed musical content.[19] Other scenes that were originally edited for television and thus never before seen were added back into the episodes and give viewers the backstory which further explained a later scene that appeared in the episode. According to TV Guide magazine, creator Hugh Wilson said he was "satisfied" with the final product for DVD release. In Fall 2010, an 18 DVD boxset of the complete series became available. [20]

A 2009 syndication package of the show, however, aired as part of "Outta Sight Retro Nights", a flashback TV block aired Sunday nights on the national WGN America cable TV service with promos voiced by Casey Kasem, which appears to have all of the original music intact according to published references about the original release.[21]

[dncpunke]

Supernatural

[Gieferg]

That's simple - Robin of Sherwood.

[Ray Jackson]

[Toetke]

Originally Posted by Gamma_Winstead

Easily Battlestar Galactica for me.

i must agree here

[ArrestedDevelopment]

Breaking Bad masterfully used some great songs:

America - A Horse With No Name (Breaking Bad / American Hustle Soundtrack) - YouTube

TV On The Radio - DLZ [Breaking Bad OST] [HQ] - YouTube

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Black - starring Norah Jones - YouTube

Badfinger - Baby Blue (Breaking Bad Soundtrack) (HQ) 1080p - YouTube

The Association Windy - YouTube

Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave - YouTube

Breaking Bad Season 3 (2010) Rocket Scientist (Soundtrack OST) - YouTube

Easily the show with the greatest music.

[Hucksta G]

10000000+% The Sopranos

[principehomura]

The Wonder Years
Ally McBeal
Twin Peaks
Friday Night Lights

[Old Bones]

Black Sails

[principehomura]

Originally Posted by Ray Jackson

How could I forget Miami Vice?!

[JamesOttoSweetHeart]

I do like the piano playing that we hear during Everybody Loves Raymond.

God bless you always!!!

Holly