Music on The Sopranos

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The role of music is an important one on the HBO television drama The Sopranos. The show has received considerable critical attention for its effective use of an eclectic array of previously recorded songs.[1][2][3][4] Series creator David Chase personally selects all of the show's music with the producer Martin Bruestle and music editor Kathryn Dayak, sometimes also consulting Steven Van Zandt, who, in addition to portraying Silvio Dante on the show, also serves as guitarist for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.[1] The music is often selected once the production and editting of an episode is completed but on occasion sequences will be filmed to match pre-selected pieces of music.[5]

Stylistically, the music on the show can range from mainstream pop (Britney Spears, The Bangles) to '60s British rock (The Kinks, The Rolling Stones) to classic jazz and soul (Ella Fitzgerald, Ben E. King), often within the span of a single episode.[6]

Contents

The opening credits for each episode consists of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) driving from New York City to his home in suburban Essex County, New Jersey. The musical accompaniment for this segment is a remix of the song "Woke Up This Morning" by the British group Alabama 3 (known in the United States as A3 for legal reasons).

Each episode's closing credits sequence features a unique piece of previously recorded music, with few exceptions. The episode "A Hit Is a Hit" uses a song by the fictional band Defiler, which was featured earlier in the episode. Two episodes feature multiple songs in the credits sequence ("Commendatori" and "Whitecaps"), while one episode ("Full Leather Jacket") has no music at all.

The following is a list of songs used at the end of each episode:[6]

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
1 1 "The Sopranos" "The Beast in Me" Nick Lowe
2 "46 Long" "Battle Flag" Lo Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed
3 "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" "Complicated Shadows" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
4 "Meadowlands" "Look on Down from the Bridge" Mazzy Star
5 "College" "Gold Leaves" Michael Hoppé
6 "Pax Soprana" "Paparazzi" (instrumental version) Xzibit
7 "Down Neck" "White Rabbit" Jefferson Airplane
8 "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" "Frank Sinatra" Cake
9 "Boca" "Buena" Morphine
10 "A Hit Is a Hit" "We're Coming to Defile You" Defiler (fictional group)
11 "Nobody Knows Anything" "Manifold de Amour" Latin Playboys
12 "Isabella" "I Feel Free" Cream
13 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano" "State Trooper" Bruce Springsteen

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
2 14 "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office..." "Time Is on My Side" Irma Thomas
15 "Do Not Resuscitate" "Goodnight, My Love" Ella Fitzgerald
16 "Toodle Fucking-Oo" "Viking" Los Lobos
17 "Commendatori" "Con te partirò" Andrea Bocelli
"Piove" Jovanotti
18 "Big Girls Don't Cry" "White Mustang II" Daniel Lanois
19 "The Happy Wanderer" "The Happy Wanderer" Frankie Yankovic
20 "D-Girl" "Vedi, Maria" Emma Shapplin
21 "Full Leather Jacket" none — only a ventilator and an electrocardiogram are heard n/a
22 "From Where to Eternity" "My Lover's Prayer" Otis Redding
23 "Bust Out" "Wheel in the Sky" Journey
24 "House Arrest" "You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory" Johnny Thunders
25 "The Knight in White Satin Armor" "I Saved the World Today" Eurythmics
26 "Funhouse" "Thru and Thru" The Rolling Stones

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
3 27 "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood" "High Fidelity" Elvis Costello & the Attractions
28 "Proshai, Livushka" "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" Les Paul
29 "Fortunate Son" "Where's the Money?" Dan Hicks
30 "Employee of the Month" "Fisherman's Daughter" Daniel Lanois
31 "Another Toothpick" "Shuck Dub" R.L. Burnside
32 "University" "Living on a Thin Line" The Kinks
33 "Second Opinion" "Black Books" Nils Lofgren
34 "He Is Risen" "The Captain" Kasey Chambers
35 "The Telltale Moozadell" "I (Who Have Nothing)" Ben E. King
36 "...To Save Us All From Satan's Power" "I've Got a Feeling" The Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson
37 "Pine Barrens" "Sposa son disprezzata" (from Bajazet) Cecilia Bartoli
38 "Amour Fou" "Affection" Little Steven and the Lost Boys
39 "Army of One" "Blur" Aphex Twin

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
4 40 "For All Debts Public and Private" "World Destruction" Time Zone feat. John Lydon
41 "No Show" "Kid A" Radiohead
42 "Christopher" "Dawn (Go Away)" Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
43 "The Weight" "Vesuvio" Angelo De Falco
44 "Pie-O-My" "My Rifle, My Pony and Me" Dean Martin
45 "Everybody Hurts" "Take Me for a Little While" Dave Edmunds
46 "Watching Too Much Television" "Oh Girl" The Chi-Lites
47 "Mergers and Acquisitions" "When the Battle is Over" Delaney & Bonnie
48 "Whoever Did This" "The Man with the Harmonica" Apollo 440
49 "The Strong, Silent Type" "Drum Score" Uncredited
50 "Calling All Cars" "Surfin' U.S.A." The Beach Boys
51 "Eloise" "Little Bird" Annie Lennox
52 "Whitecaps" "I Love Paris" (Vegas) Dean Martin
"I Have Dreamed" Fantastic Strings

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
5 53 "Two Tonys" "Heaven Only Knows" Emmylou Harris
54 "Rat Pack" "Undercover of the Night" The Rolling Stones
55 "Where's Johnny?" "Sirius" The Alan Parsons Project
56 "All Happy Families..." "La Petite Mer" Thierry 'Titi' Robin
57 "Irregular Around the Margins" "Chi il bel sogno di Doretta" (from La rondine) Luba Orgonasova
58 "Sentimental Education" "The Blues is My Business" Etta James
59 "In Camelot" "Melancholy Serenade" Jackie Gleason
60 "Marco Polo" "Bad 'N' Ruin Faces
61 "Unidentified Black Males" "If I Were a Carpenter" Bobby Darin
62 "Cold Cuts" "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" The Kinks
63 "The Test Dream" "Three Times a Lady" Commodores
64 "Long Term Parking" "Wrapped in My Memory" Shawn Smith
65 "All Due Respect" "Glad Tidings" Van Morrison

Season # Episode title Song title Artist
6 66 "Members Only" "Seven Souls" William S. Burroughs
67 "Join the Club" "When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" Moby
68 "Mayham" "The Deadly Nightshade" Daniel Lanois
69 "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" "One of These Days" Pink Floyd
70 "Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request" "Every Day of the Week" The Students
71 "Live Free or Die" "4th of July" X
72 "Luxury Lounge" "Recuerdos De La Alhambra" Pepé Romero
73 "Johnny Cakes" "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town" Ray Charles
74 "The Ride" "Pipeline" Johnny Thunders
75 "Moe N' Joe" "Let It Rock" Chuck Berry
76 "Cold Stones" "As Time Goes By" Dooley Wilson
77 "Kaisha" "Moonlight Mile" The Rolling Stones

The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series
The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series cover
Soundtrack by various artists
Released December 14, 1999
Genre Various
Length 54:11
Label Sony
Producer(s) Various
David Chase (exec. producer)
Professional reviews
The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series
The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series cover
Soundtrack by various artists
Released May 8, 2001
Genre Various
Label Sony
Producer(s) Various
David Chase, Brad Grey (exec. producers)
Professional reviews

To date, there have been two official soundtrack compilations released in association with The Sopranos. The first, titled The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 1999, and contains selections from the the show's first two seasons.[7] The second, titled The Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 2001, and contains two Compact Discs of songs from the show's first three seasons.[8]

  1. "Woke Up This Morning" (Chosen One Mix) — Alabama 3
  2. "It's Bad You Know" — R. L. Burnside
  3. "It Was a Very Good Year" — Frank Sinatra
  4. "Gotta Serve Somebody" — Bob Dylan
  5. "Inside of Me" — Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
  6. "I Feel Free" — Cream
  7. "Mystic Eyes" — Them
  8. "State Trooper" — Bruce Springsteen
  9. "I'm a Man" — Bo Diddley
  10. "Complicated Shadows" — Elvis Costello & the Attractions
  11. "The Beast in Me" — Nick Lowe
  12. "Viking" — Los Lobos
  13. "Blood Is Thicker than Water" — Wyclef Jean feat. G & B
  14. "I've Tried Everything" — Eurythmics

  1. "Every Breath You Take"/"Theme from Peter Gunn" — The Police/Henry Mancini
  2. "Battle Flag" — Lo Fidelity Allstars feat. Pigeonhed
  3. "I've Got a Feeling" — The Campbell Brothers feat. Katie Jackson
  4. "The Captain" — Kasey Chambers
  5. "Shuck Dub" — R. L. Burnside
  6. "Affection" - Little Steven and the Lost Boys
  7. "My Lover's Prayer" — Otis Redding
  8. "Certamente" — Madreblu
  9. "Black Books" — Nils Lofgren
  10. "Frank Sinatra" — Cake
  11. "Baubles, Bangles, & Beads" — Frank Sinatra
  12. "Thru and Thru" — The Rolling Stones

  1. "High Fidelity" — Elvis Costello & the Attractions
  2. "Living on a Thin Line" — The Kinks
  3. "Girl" — Vue
  4. "Sposa son disprezzata" — Cecilia Bartoli
  5. "I (Who Have Nothing)" — Ben E. King
  6. "Return to Me" — Bob Dylan
  7. "Make No Mistake" — Keith Richards
  8. "Piove" — Jovanotti
  9. "Space Invader" — The Pretenders
  10. "Tiny Tears" — Tindersticks
  11. "Gloria" — Them
  12. "Core 'ngrato" — Dominic Chianese
  13. Dialogue from The Sopranos

  1. ^ a b Sepinwall, Alan (March 3, 2006). The hits keep on coming. The Star-Ledger. Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
  2. ^ Gross, Joe (January 4, 2000). Sharps & Flats. Salon.com. Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
  3. ^ Ventre, Michael (April 2, 2006). Music another member of the Sopranos’ crew. MSNBC. Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
  4. ^ Browne, David (May 18, 2001). The Sopranos; Peppers & Eggs. Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-02-21.
  5. ^ Biskind, Peter (March 13, 2007). The Family that Preys Together. Vanity Fair. Retrieved on 2007-03-21.
  6. ^ a b HBO: The Sopranos: Episode Guide. Retrieved on 2007-02-20.
  7. ^ Amazon.com: The Sopranos: Music From The HBO Original Series. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.
  8. ^ Amazon.com: The Sopranos - Peppers and Eggs: Music From The HBO Series. Retrieved on 2007-02-27.


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