Tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother used Vampire Weekend throughout the episode.

Track: Oxford Comma (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Album: Vampire Weekend (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Artist: Vampire Weekend

Great episode tonight. Took me about hour and a half to realize the episode would be 2 hours long – and I wasn’t drinking!

Anyway, this episode started off with a bang from my favorite band Radiohead and finished with another fine band the frames. And the episode was quite excellent. Interesting how good it was without any of the other cast. Hopefully the producers take note.

Song: No Surprises (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Album: OK Computer (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Artist: Radiohead

Song: Seven Day Mile (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Album: Dance the Devil (iTunes) | (Amazon MP3)
Artist: The Frames

I expect some good music during tonight’s Chuck season (hopefully not series) finale. I’ll post the music here. Keep checking back…

How awesome was tonight’s episode? I’m wondering about that “To Be Continued…” though.

Christmas TV Lyrics

It’s okay to have scars, they will make you who you are
It’s okay to have fear, as long as you’re not scared of going here
And in the middle of the night, just call if you wanna talk
‘Cause you know that I wanna talk too

It’s not bad of you to think ’bout what might go wrong
But you can’t blame me for secretly hoping that I’ll prove you wrong
It’s okay that I pray that you will miss your flight
And have to stay with me another night

It is brutal, it’s brutal, why can’t you see
It’s brutal, it’s brutal, where have you been
‘Cause we’re far apart and my lonely heart
Finds it hard to get through the night
You pull me out of the dark and now it’s light
You pull me out of the dark and now it’s light

When we’re out in the market and out on the streets
I’ve got a pocket full of problems and a pocket full of seeds
Hoping something good might grow out of this mistletoe
And I won’t have to erase your memory

I like the way that our arguments stop when we fall asleep
And the way that your body feels when it’s wrapped around me
And I’d like it if you made it to mine by Christmas Eve
So you can hold me
And we’ll watch Christmas TV

It is brutal, it’s brutal, why can’t you see
It’s brutal, it’s brutal, where have you been
‘Cause we’re far apart and my lonely heart
Finds it hard to get through the night
You pull me out of the dark and now it’s light
You pull me out of the dark and now it’s light

So come on home, just come on home
Just come on home, just come on home… (repeat)

I did not see the Kutner suicide coming. He was the only likeable character.

The music they used at the end of the show was Lose You (iTunes)from Pete Yorn’s album Musicforthemorningafter (iTunes).

Lose You lyrics (iTunes)

I’m taking a ride off to one side
It is a personal thing.
Where?
When I can’t stand
Up in this cage I’m not regretting.
I don’t need a better thing,
I’d settle for less,
It’s another thing for me,
I just have to wander through this world
Alone.
Stop before you fall
Into the hole that I have dug here,
Rest even as you
Are starting to feel the way I used to,
I don’t need a better thing
(Just to sound confused)
Don’t talk about everyone,
I am not amused by you.
I’m gonna lose you,
Yeah I’m gonna lose you
If I’m gonna lose you,
I’m gonna lose you,
Yeah I’m gonna lose you
If I’m gonna lose you
I’ll lose you now for good

The current LL Bean holiday commercial is using Fountains Of Wayne – Valley Winter Song (iTunes) from their album Welcome Interstate Managers (Amazon MP3)
.

Fountains Of Wayne – Valley Winter Song (iTunes) lyrics
Hey Sweet Annie
Don’t take it so bad
You know the summer’s coming soon
Though the interstate is choking under salt and dirty sand
And it seems the sun is hiding from the moon

Your daddy told you
When you were a girl
The kind of things that come to those who wait
So give it a rest girl
Take a deep breath girl
And meet me at the Bay State tonight

And the snow is coming down
On our New England town
And it’s been falling all day long
What else is new
What could I do
I wrote a valley winter song
To play for you

And late December
Can drag a man down
You feel it deep in your gut
Short days and afternoons spent pottering around
In a dark house with the windows painted shut

Remember New York
Staring outside
As reckless winter made its way
From Staton Island to the Upper West Side
Whiting out our streets along the way

And the snow is coming down
On our New England town
And it’s been falling all day long
What else is new
What can I do
But sing this valley winter song
I wrote for you

I’ve been looking for this commercial music. Looks like it might be Ingrid Michaelson. The commercial is below along with the lyrics. If you know for sure it’s her, please respond in the comments section.

Give just a little of yourself to me
My heart is in the moment
My hands are to here to give to you

The commercial music for the new Samsung Instinct is The Apples In Stereo “Signal in The Sky (Let’s Go)” (iTunes). On a related note – The Apples In Stereo are a buzz in TV commercials – they’ve had at least three. Great band.

Signal In The Sky (iTunes)
Would you like to play a game of hide and seek now?
If you have X-ray eyes please promise no to peek now
Well first we cunt to ten, and then we’ll have some fun now
Or will you fly away before we count one now?

Signal in the sky-oh
That’s when you know that you have to fly-oh
Signal in the sky-oooooohhhhhhh!!!!

Let’s go! You know you have a lot do, ooh
Let’s go! And everything depends on you, oooh

Hey girls, hey girls, come out and play now!
Or do you have to hurry off and save the day now?
Can’t you come over, watch a movie with your friends now?
Or will you fly away before we see the end now?

Signal in the sky-oh
That’s when you know that you have to fly-oh
Signal in the sky-oooooohhhhhhh!!!!

Let’s go! You know you have a lot do, ooh
Let’s go! And everything depends on you, oooh

The 5/5/2008 episode of CSI: Miami used the Hives’ song Tick Tick Boom (iTunes) to open the show. I’ve already said before on this blog, great album.

Tick Tick Boom (iTunes) lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was right all along
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you come taggin’ along

Yeah, exhibit A, on the tray, what you say?
As I throw it in your face
Yeah, exhibit B, what you see? Well that’s me,
I put it back in your place

Yeah, I done it before and I can do it some more
So what you waiting for?

Yeah, I was right all along

‘Cause I have done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was right, you were wrong
Yeah, yeah, yeah, going, going you’re gone

I saw your hesitating, waiting too much
’till it slipped through your hands
and then you stagger to your feet and out the door
’cause there’s not second chance

That’s right!

‘Cause I have done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

Check it

And you come crying to me – but it’s too late
the man you try hard to be – but it’s too late
get your head out the sand – but it’s too late
it’s too late, too late, too late, too late

Oh yeah, but it’s too late
Yeah, but it’s too late
get your head out the sand, it’s too late
It’s too late, too late

You know I’ve done it before and I can do it some more
I got my eye on the score
I’m gonna cut to the core
I’m gonna cut to the core
It’s too late it’s too soon
It’s too late it’s too soon
It’s too late it’s too soon

Or is it?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, boom

Tonight’s episode of How I Met Your Mother closed with a great song from Big Star called “Thirteen” (iTunes). Was really hard to hear the lyrics – tried a few times and finally figured it out.

By the way, I thought Britney Spears was really good (playing herself). Also wondering if this is the titular “Your Mother”. She was at a St. Patty’s day party and left early. It seems pretty obvious – maybe too obvious.

“Thirteen” lyrics (iTunes)
Won’t you let me walk you home from school
Won’t you let me meet you at the pool
Maybe Friday I can
get tickets for the dance
and I’ll take you
Won’t you tell your dad, “Get off my back”
Tell him what we said ’bout ‘Paint It Black’
Rock ‘n Roll is here to stay
Come inside where it’s okay
And I’ll shake you.
Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of
Would you be an outlaw for my love
If it’s so, well, let me know
If it’s “no”, well, I can go
I won’t make you

The end of the Terminator tonight was something else. Very well done – the quality of a motion picture.

Why didn’t the Kester kill Ellison? Because he wasn’t a threat or because he still needs him?

The song used at the end of the finale is Johnny Cash’s “The Man Comes Around” (iTunes)

“The Man Comes Around” lyrics (iTunes)
Opening Introduction (Spoken part)

And I heard as it were the noise of thunder
One of the four beasts saying come and see and I saw
And behold a white horse
Song
There’s a man going around taking names and he decides
Who to free and who to blame every body won’t be treated
Quite the same there will be a golden ladder reaching down
When the man comes around

The hairs on your arm will stand up at the terror in each
Sip and each sup will you partake of that last offered cup
Or disappear into the potter’s ground
When the man comes around
CHORUS
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
Till Armageddon no shalam no shalom

Then the father hen will call his chicken’s home
The wise man will bow down before the thorn and at his feet
They will cast the golden crowns
When the man comes around

Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still
Listen to the words long written down
When the man comes around
CHORUS
Hear the trumpets hear the pipers one hundred million angels singing
Multitudes are marching to a big kettledrum
Voices calling and voices crying
Some are born and some are dying
Its alpha and omegas kingdom come
And the whirlwind is in the thorn trees
The virgins are all trimming their wicks
The whirlwind is in the thorn trees
It’s hard for thee to kick against the pricks
In measured hundred weight and penny pound
When the man comes around
Close (Spoken part)
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
And I looked and behold, a pale horse
And it’s name it said on him was Death
And Hell followed with him.

As requested by Kenny – the music that runs at the end of HBO’s Extras is Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman (iTunes)

Too easy this time – I love Aimee Mann (and her awesome husband Michael Penn). Anyway, this week’s episode began with One from the Magnolia soundtrack.

Aimee Mann on iTunes

And it closed with “All of Me” from the new Radiohead CD – In Rainbows. Cool – this episode featured two of my favorite artists. I wish this was my job – choosing music for shows.

Some good music in tonight’s NBC shows – Bionic Woman and Life.

Bionic Woman
Great song at the end of a not so great episode. I don’t know how I can continue to watch this crap. Anyway, kudos for using an Earlimart song at the end. If you like Elliott Smith, you’ll like Earlimart. The song is called The Little Things (iTunes).

Lyrics
Everyone I know
Is running off somewhere,
But still, the deep blue sea
Is right in front of me.
Well I guess I’ll wish them luck,
When all they need is hell
To keep them on their toes,
Keep them safe and well.

It sounds wrong, it sounds weird
But everything we are is everything we fear.
Don’t forget the little things.
Don’t forget the little things.

Everyone I know
Is running out of love;
Oh and it’s so sad,
It’s the only thing we have.
It’s the only thing we have.
Love’s the only thing we have?

Life
Life is the best new show, and definitely uses great music. Tonight they used LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk is Playing at My House (iTunes)



Lyrics

Daft punk is playing at my house, my house
I’ll show you the ropes, kid, show you the ropes
Got a bus and a trailer at my house, my house
I’ll show you the ropes kid, show you the ropes
I bought fifteen cases for my house, my house
All the furniture is in the garage
Well daft punk is playing at my house, my house
You got to set them up kid, set them up

OK – Life is the best new show on television. Great music too.

Last week’s episode used the Morphine song Buena. Great song, great show.

Lyrics

I hear a voice from the back of the room
I hear a voice cry out you want something good
Well come on a little closer let me see your face
Yea come on a little closer by the front of the stage
I said come on a little closer I got something to say
Yea come on a little closer wanna see your face
You see I met a devil named Buena Buena

ER is re-running stories. Guess that will happen when you’ve been on the air for 100 years.

And the episode ends with Wilco – How to End the Loneliness (iTunes) – (at least they have good taste in music).