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).