Music from "Soprano's"

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Anyone watch this show. And could someone tell me the song or artist that was playing in last nights episode when Furio and Carmella dance. As well as when Tony and Carmella get it on. Help.

― Simona (Simona), Monday, 7 October 2002 17:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i don't know but i was psyched that they played "World Destruction" TWICE in the first episode

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 October 2002 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

(Can I make a joke about The Soprano's being a show about a stressed-out New Jersey greengrocer without seeming like a dick grammar pedant? I just think it's a funny idea.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 7 October 2002 18:21 (twenty-three years ago)

(Can I make a joke about The Soprano's being a show about a stressed-out New Jersey greengrocer without seeming like a dick grammar pedant?)

Sorry, no.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 7 October 2002 18:24 (twenty-three years ago)

You're talking about the fourth series, aren't you? You utter, utter bastards.

― Mike (mratford), Monday, 7 October 2002 18:31 (twenty-three years ago)

am i right in thinking that aside from the very beginning and the very end of the show there's no non-diegetic music ("diegetic sound" = something that has a specific source in the story i.e. car-radio, etc) in the Sopranos, ever?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

1st Episode of Season 3 has them switching between "Peter Gunn" and "Every Breath You Take" while the FBI try to sneak into their house to plant a bug.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 7 October 2002 22:34 (twenty-three years ago)

The show messes with that diegetic shit pretty routinely. In the first episode of the new season, there's that scene with airline stewardesses and drugs at the hotel. It has separate music in the bathroom and the bedroom, and it isn't clear whether there are actual sources for these songs (do mobsters carry boomboxes?), or whether they're just hot-wired into the mood of the characters.

Bookending that same episode, "World Destruction" by Afrika Bambaataa and John Lydon plays over the thoughts of Tony (at the start), and then his nephew (at the close). These guys would never know/hear/hear of this song. But it's perfect for their mental noise, right? This is how they see the world coming down around them. 9/11 and all that. Remember, Quasimodo predicted all this shit.

Sorry, haven't yet seen the episode you mean. A friend tapes them for me...

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Noodles I'd forgotten that. It's the exception that proves the rule - that they only use music very deliberately. It's such a welcome contrast to the willy-nilly whatever-deal-we've-made-with-Interscope approach used in other movies etc.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 02:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Christopher hit on his mom in the first episode??

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 03:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, he's smelling her breath for alcohol.

― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:00 (twenty-three years ago)

heh okay I remember now - she says "mouthwash" or something and then in a horrible little snap "don't come in here with that SHIT" as she turns to stir the food

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)

That song is "Vesuvio" by Spaccanoli, Simona. Being Italian I know these things (as well as checking the HBO message board).

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Spaccanapoli, excuse me.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:19 (twenty-three years ago)

By the way, the episode guide at www.sopranoland.com often lists what songs are played in each episode.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't it Arling & Cameron who coordinate the music for The Sopranos?

a slightly bizarre choice.. with some interesting consequences.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"1st Episode of Season 3 has them switching between "Peter Gunn" and "Every Breath You Take" while the FBI try to sneak into their house to plant a bug."

More than switching, it's actually a sort of mashup, isn't it?

― Burr, Wednesday, 9 October 2002 17:01 (twenty-three years ago)

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