Really enjoying the Breaking Bad spinoff/prequel. Very fine, subtle scoring and choice needle drops, like this one in the pilot:
In the episode it coincides with a great sequence...I won't spoil it. It's just so great to be watching something fun that has good music and then want to hear the music!
I've been enjoying the show a lot, and REALLY been enjoying the score by Dave Porter. I frankly never really noticed the score in Breaking Bad, but every episode of Better Call Saul so far has had a stand-out cue, usually for a montage sequence. Good stuff.
It's just so great to be watching something fun that has good music and then want to hear the music! Lukas
I haven't seen Better Call Saul yet (need to get around to finishing Breaking Bad first) but I wanted to chime in and agree with this part. That's exactly how I felt while watching Penny Dreadful and Outlander, two current shows with amazing music.
I love the show too, but then again I was a hardcore fan of BREAKING BAD to begin with. This is more humorous in tone, but I'm fine with that. I especially love Saul's office in the beauty parlor. So tiny and poorly, but at the same time so cozy. I think I could stay there forever.
Holy mother of '76 that's excellent! I dunno if anyone remembers a sequence from BB where Mike let some metallic balloons off into some power lines and proceeded to go totally badass, but I got chills when the music kicked in! Hoped without luck that the piece would have made it on to one of the two Cd's released. Anyway, the piece featured the weird combination of those monks in a monastery vocals blended with a blacksploitation funk groove. Totally blew me away!
Thanks Lukas! I had no idea this was by Beastie Boys. Ran over to Cd Trader in Tarzana and snagged a copy of "The In Sound From Way Out!". Funkin' great Cd!
I'm just now catching up on this show, last night watched the Five-O episode. Without giving anything away, the scene where Mike does a little clandestine "home" work was scored with some very cool music. At first I thought it was something original but later discovered it's a song called 'Tune Down' by Chris Joss from 2009. I've never heard of Joss but today at work I've been listening to his albums on Spotify, very good stuff. He makes music that sounds like soundtrack music but isn't. I read he draws inspiration from the likes of Quincy Jones, Lalo Schifrin & John Barry. Right up my alley.
Thanks for the reminder on Joss, listened to some of his music a while ago but neglected to save him in my Spotify lists. I love the Shook album Milestones as well (LK's first post).
