TV

Well it’s a little obvious to say horror movies rely heavily on music filled with tension to create apprehension for the viewer, so I’m going to talk about tv shows instead. I do have an instance where a tv show got me into a specific band from hearing it on one episode. I’m one of those weird Lost fans, and one episode had The Pixies song Gouge Away in it. It is a very angry song full of raw emotion and it was being played as the main character was very angry and driving around drunk. Anyways, I looked up the song cause of liking it in the episode and now have a lot of The Pixies’s music in my collection. Lots of tv shows will try to feature hit songs. Its hilarious to see old reruns of shows and listen to what was playing in like 1998 or something. Or if you’ve ever seen Cold Case, they do songs that were correct for the time period of the cold case the current episode is about. A few shows like CSI using The Who will use an actual band’s music as their theme song. Because music is apart of our culture, it bleeds into other mediums of entertainment we use regularly like tv and movies.