Best piece of music used in Breaking Bad

Trick thread as it's clearly Crystal Blue Persuasion, but ymmv

Also there's no way we don't already have a thread for this, so mods feel free to delete this but I couldn't find one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqafnxiBAU0

if the question is best use of a song in the show, my vote is for "negro y azul: the ballad of heisenberg."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icJOkfS7ImA&list=PLAB7240F1A3E5B64A&index=6

one of these 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiQ7S38nKog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VIutG9GXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H5fL6WCf9Y

fever ray - if i had a heart

xpost Yeah, for sure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0HBd_fjfbY

Love that Glen Phillips song they used...

I'm really fond of the use of DLZ, although I love that song anyway.

cooking music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rYZvhqo394

burying money music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYk1iivoiYc

I found this one incredibly arresting, maybe because it's not the kind of music I'd usually come across at all:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thwGvldGluw

Oh I see it's already been posted. Sorry.

WINDY:

http://vimeo.com/20124416

negro y azul: the ballad of heisenberg

^^^

can't be beat imho

Forgot about that TV On The Radio song.

Looks like we have a new winner.

Out of curiosity, what was it? (Won't be seeing the ep for awhile)

Since it's the last piece of music in the entire series, and a sort of climax to it, I'm reluctant to say. But I never would have expected it, and it was beautiful.

i don't think i'd ever heard it before... seemed kind of random at first!

Quartetto Cetra - Crapa Pelada is incredible. I want to hear more stuff like this.

Yes, the last song was great!

el paso was really just wonderful in the last ep, hard to believe they didn't use the song in a prior ep. my brother also just gave me a stack of records last week and when i finished the last episode last night i walked out into my living room and a marty robbins record w/ el paso on it happened to be on top of the stack

Such a shame Blue Crystal Fire by Robbie Basho never got used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYaGChm8RWw

damn that is really beautiful, could've been the finale song

Was just thinking "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" would've been good to end the series on.

Ana Tijoux, obv

Trick thread as it's clearly Crystal Blue Persuasion, but ymmv

I thought it was too on the nose, actually.

What was the sort of epic easy listening number used in one of the cooking montages in S5? Something about seeing for miles? Great track.

xpost They had to do it eventually, and they held off as long as they could.

xp not the who?

Nah, totally different sound, very orchestral. Roughly the same era though I'd guess.

Bit of google-fu and I have it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxf1IFgPH5s

the most memorable song for me, is 'horse with no name'. vaguely recall ww getting in his shitty car and driving along singing either before or after doing something particularly gruesome.

Monkees' "Goin' Down" sequence was pretty epic.

vaguely recall ww getting in his shitty car and driving along singing either before or after doing something particularly gruesome.

It was before he lost his temper with a traffic cop.

oh yea horse with no name was spectacular

also grateful for BB for introducing me to ana tijoux

Trick thread as it's clearly Crystal Blue Persuasion, but ymmv

I thought it was too on the nose, actually.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:05 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

little too on the nose but i thought it was great. there was also something just really sad during that sequence that made it work, walt's dream of an empire finally coming true but it's all just so pointless

I can never know for sure how "Baby Blue" would have hit me if I hadn't known it was coming (and having looked at the clip five years before I ever started the series), but chances are I'd be ranking it alongside anything I'd ever encountered in a movie or TV show. Minus the element of surprise, I'll bump it down to third for Breaking Bad's run. "Crystal Blue Persuasion," second--perfect in every way, including the fact that it actually is about Tommy James' early involvement with crystal meth (the song's Wikipedia entry provides a couple of readings of the song, and doesn't say definitively which one's accurate). I'll got with "Windy" as #1. Came out of nowhere--virtually all music up to that point had been new(-er) stuff that worked fine but was anonymous to me (there were a couple of low-volume minutes of "Green Grass and High Tides" in a bar in one episode)--and floored me.

The video of Gale doing karaoke to 'Major Tom' showed a level of obsession that delighted me.

I enjoyed the pure period camp of that too. (And I should have mentioned "A Horse with No Name." When I was madly speculating on what would be the final Mad Men song, "A Horse with No Name" was one of my 10 picks. If I'd known Breaking Bad had already laid claim to it--I think directors try to avoid using songs that have already been used memorably elsewhere--I would have substituted something else.)

I think directors try to avoid using songs that have already been used memorably elsewhere

Reminds me I need to start a "songs that were in different movies at roughly the same time" thread one of these days.

Back to BB: I never necessarily thought of it as a great music show, but one needledrop I dug was the Pretenders: "Boots of Chinese Plastic" playing over Walt smashing up Walt Jr's Challenger.

Also liked hearing Walt talk up Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs to Walt Jr.

songs that were in different movies at roughly the same time

Very intrigued--I keep track of this stuff pretty closely, and I'm drawing a blank.