Big Little Music

[ElectricBoogaloo]

Feel free to discuss the music used on the show here! I'll start us off with the song used at the end of S1.E4, BMFA by Martha Wainwright, which can be really cathartic to sing at the top of your lungs.

 

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Poetry is no place for a heart that's a whore
And I'm young and I'm strong
But I feel old and tired
Over fired

And I've been poked and stoked
It's all smoke, there's no more fire
Only desire
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are

You say my time here has been some sort of joke
That I've been messing around
Some sort of incubating period
For when I really come around
I'm cracking up and you have no idea

No idea how it feels to be on your own
In your own home with the fucking phone
And the mother of gloom in your bedroom
Standing over your head
With her hand in your head
With her hand in your head

I will not pretend, I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

Oh, I wish, I wish, I wish I was born a man
So I could learn how to stand up for myself
Like those guys with guitars, I've been watching in bars
Who've been stamping their feet to a different beat
To a different beat
To a different beat

I will not pretend, I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

You bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh, you bloody motherfucking asshole
Oh, you bloody motherfucking asshole
Oh, you bloody motherfucking asshole
Oh, you bloody motherfucking asshole
Oh, you bloody

I will not pretend, I will not put on a smile
I will not say I'm all right for you
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are

Edited March 21, 2017 by ElectricBoogaloo

[ozzieink]

Glad to find this topic here. I just finished this episode and realized I've been using Shazam for more songs in this series than any other right now. Usually I find swearing in songs annoying if it goes on too much, but not here. And I never heard of Irma Thomas but they used two of her songs this episode. And I like the little girl making appropriate playlists for her family.

[MeloraH]

My top two music moments have been B52s Dance This Mess Around, which is my favorite song of theirs, and Charles Bradley's version of Changes.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

From S1.E5, Ball and Chain by Janis Joplin. This version was performed live at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967:

[walnutqueen]

On 3/21/2017 at 0:05 AM, ElectricBoogaloo said:

From S1.E5, Ball and Chain by Janis Joplin. This version was performed live at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967:

I almost wore out my TV remote rewinding & replaying this, so thank you - it is something I will NEVER tire of, as is Janis.  Half a century, and my love is still going strong ...

[humbleopinion]

The song that played episode 1 out was Neil Young's "Harvest Moon."

A timeless classic that even though you may not like Neil Yong's distinctive voice, the lyrics and steel guitar haunts you.

 Neil wrote the song in 1993 as a love tune to his wife... Pegi.

Unfortunately, Daryl Hanna broke up their marriage after 36 years in 2014.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/pegi-young-on-life-after-neil-heartbreak-inspired-new-lp-w450733

So that messiness  taints the song to me...

But glad Big Little Lies opens "Harvest Moon" up to new listeners.

[chocolatine]

1 hour ago, humbleopinion said:

Unfortunately, Daryl Hanna broke up their marriage after 36 years in 2014.

Sorry to go off-topic, but I just hate it when a woman is blamed for "breaking up" a man's marriage. Neil Young carries the sole responsibility for choosing to leave his wife for another woman.

[CofCinci]

2 hours ago, chocolatine said:

Sorry to go off-topic, but I just hate it when a woman is blamed for "breaking up" a man's marriage. Neil Young carries the sole responsibility for choosing to leave his wife for another woman.

For real. Neil Young probably slept with lots of Daryl Hannahs over the years.

I love the use of soundtrack on the series but I wish the 6-year-old wasn't so musically sophisticated. 

[humbleopinion]

I stand corrected.

Daryl Hannah is the woman sharing Neil's life after the breakup of the long marriage.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

The Big Little Lies soundtrack is now available on iTunes and amazon.

Track listing:

1. Cold Little Heart – Michael Kiwanuka
2. Victim of Love – Charles Bradley
3. Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole – Martha Wainwright
4. River – Leon Bridges
5. Queen of Boredness – Kinny (featuring Diesler)
6. September Song – Agnes Obel
7. This Feeling – Alabama Shakes
8. Changes – Charles Bradley
9. Straight From the Heart – Irma Thomas
10. Nothing Arrived (Live From Spotify London) – Villagers
11. Don’t – Zoë Kravitz
12. The Wonder of You – Conor O’Brien
13. How’s the World Treating You – Daniel Agee
14. You Can’t Always Get What You Want – Ituana

* Tracks 1-4 and 6-9 are available only on the album. The other tracks you can buy individually.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

FYI - all the songs used on the show are listed on TuneFind so if there's a song you're looking for that isn't on the soundtrack, check there!

[Razzberry]

Interesting that they've used Neil Young twice in the show.  Since he also lives in the area, Kelley probably knows him.

[humbleopinion]

I am not a fan of the whispery singing in "you Can't Always Get What You Want" but the musicians accompanying the singer are terrific.

If the BLL sound track had the final song as an instrumental, it would be okay by me.

Go back and listen to the arrangement mentally erasing the singer.

[PamelaMaeSnap]

On March 25, 2017 at 4:14 PM, humbleopinion said:

The song that played episode 1 out was Neil Young's "Harvest Moon."

A timeless classic that even though you may not like Neil Yong's distinctive voice, the lyrics and steel guitar haunts you.

 Neil wrote the song in 1993 as a love tune to his wife... Pegi.

Unfortunately, Daryl Hanna broke up their marriage after 36 years in 2014.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/pegi-young-on-life-after-neil-heartbreak-inspired-new-lp-w450733

So that messiness  taints the song to me...

But glad Big Little Lies opens "Harvest Moon" up to new listeners.

LOVED LOVED LOVED this ... and literally the day before I watched this episode, Mr. Snap was working with two vocalists who have a show coming up this weekend who were singing this in harmony and I just stopped working (home office upstairs, his studio downstairs directly below me) to listen. 

I just bingewatched this whole thing over two days/nights (I am working only sporadically so it seems like a good time to catch up on all the good stuff I've missed), prompted not just by its Emmy domination but especially by the fact that it won the first-ever Emmy for music supervision (Little Snappy works in that industry so I am always interested) ... and I give the MS a HUGE thumbs-up. Outstanding job. 

Favorite moments for me, other than "Harvest Moon," were Irma Thomas' "Anyone Who Knows What Love Is" (from the small world department, the B-side of that single was "Time Is On My Side" -- yes, THAT "Time Is On My Side" -- which was released around the same time as the Stones' version and was co-written by a longtime friend and collaborator of Mr. Snap) and Zoe Kravitz' "Don't."

[livelovehbo]

Klangstof just released a version of Cold Little Heart after posting videos of a meeting with HBO last week... Does a new version of the theme song mean there is a new season with a new cast too? Listen here: http://smarturl.it/klangstof-cold

I think it could be very possible...