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 | From Chad Bowar, your About Music Editor One of the most critically acclaimed TV series of the past several years has come to an end. The series finale of 'Breaking Bad' aired over the weekend, and along with great acting, the show was known for cool music as well. We take a look at some of the musical highlights of the series, along with other musical TV moments. | |
Badfinger's 'Breaking Bad' Song Headed Back To The Charts
Badfinger's "Baby Blue" is headed back to the charts more than 40 years after its initial release thanks to a brilliant use of the song in the finale episode for the hit TV series Breaking Bad. For fans of the series the moment the opening line from "Baby Blue," "Guess I got what I deserved..." is heard will be something they will remember for a long time to come. A day later the song is resting inside the top 20 on the iTunes digital sales chart and could be headed back to the Billboard Hot 100. Streaming numbers are soaring for "Baby Blue" as well.
| Breaking Bad Playlist
A true instant classic, AMC-TV's Breaking Bad broke ground in any number of ways for television drama. But it also mixed AM hits and true obscurities from the '50s, '60s, and '70s into its pivotal scenes as a way of creating social commentary, or at least a new context, for all the bizarre events unfolding in the ABQ; the songs prominently featured in the foreground mirrored the absurdity of the show's conceit -- a world in which the most normal of settings became a background for something completely foreign.
| What Song Is In That Commercial?
Television advertisements are, more and more, turning to oldies songs as soundtracks for their pitch. The following list is designed as a resource for those of you who may have heard a song you didn't recognize in one of these ads, and would like to identify it.
| Top '80s TV Theme Songs
Compiling this list was a rewarding process, mainly because songs written especially for television shows are full of potential for mockery, parody and, of course, measured admiration. Take a trip with me a quarter-century back, to a time when many kids were held hostage by the limitations of non-pay TV but managed to spend countless hours in front of the TV anyway.
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