The Sopranos / Music
The music from The Sopranos , an American television series , was selected by David Chase , the series' creator, together with music producer Martin Bruestle and music editor Kathryn Dayak, with Steven Van Zandt assisting him in some cases . Stylistically, the music spectrum of the series ranges from mainstream pop to oldies and classic rock to jazz, soul and hip-hop.
Opening credits
The opening credits of each episode show Tony Soprano ( James Gandolfini ) driving from New York to New Jersey and ending with his arrival at his family home in North Caldwell . The song Woke Up This Morning by the British music group Alabama 3 can be heard as background music in the Chosen One Remix.
Credits
A song can be heard in the credits of almost every episode, but it is not used in the previous episodes. In the tenth episode of the first season A Hit is a Hit, however, the song by the fictional band Defiler is used, which can already be heard during the course of the episode. In the credits of the three episodes Bella Italia , Whitecaps and Der Himmel über Paris , several songs can be heard at once, while in the two episodes Giving Makes Joy and The Sopranos Strike Back no music at all is used.
Below is a list of the songs that are played at the end of an episode:
season 1
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Tony in crisis | The Beast in Me | Nick Lowe |
| 2 | 2 | Relatives and other enemies | Battle flag | Pigeonhed |
| 3 | 3 | The deal | Complicated Shadows | Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
| 4th | 4th | Tony's move | Look on Down from the Bridge | Mazzy Star |
| 5 | 5 | trip to the past | Gold Leaves | Michael Hoppé |
| 6th | 6th | Tony's nightmare | Paparazzi (Instrumental Version) | Xzibit |
| 7th | 7th | father and son | White rabbit | Jefferson Airplane |
| 8th | 8th | Tony freaks out | Frank Sinatra | cake |
| 9 | 9 | Moralists | Buena | Morphine |
| 10 | 10 | A hit is a hit | Song unknown | Defiler (Fictional Band) |
| 11 | 11 | Who is the rat | Manifold de Amour | Latin playboys |
| 12 | 12 | The beautiful Isabella | I feel free | Cream |
| 13 | 13 | Hard and hearty | State trooper | Bruce Springsteen |
season 2
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14th | 1 | A man went to the psychiatrist | Time is on my side | Irma Thomas |
| 15th | 2 | Relationship without resuscitation | Goodnight My Love | Ella Fitzgerald |
| 16 | 3 | Richie reports back | Viking | Los Lobos |
| 17th | 4th | Bella Italia | Con te partirò | Andrea Bocelli |
| Piove | Jovanotti | |||
| Certamente | Madreblu | |||
| 18th | 5 | Big girls don't cry | White Mustang II | Daniel Lanois |
| 19th | 6th | The big game | The Happy Wanderer | Frankie Yankovic & His Yanks |
| 20th | 7th | Sponsorships | Vedi, Maria | Emma Shapplin |
| 21st | 8th | Giving is fun | Only a ventilator and an electrocardiogram can be heard | - |
| 22nd | 9 | Cursed for all eternity | My lover's prayer | Otis Redding |
| 23 | 10 | With one's back to the wall | Wheel in the sky | Journey |
| 24 | 11 | House arrest | You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory | Johnny Thunders |
| 25th | 12 | A quick end | I Saved the World Today | Eurythmics |
| 26th | 13 | A friend has to go | Thru and thru | The Rolling Stones |
season 3
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 1 | Visit from the FBI | High fidelity | Elvis Costello & The Attractions |
| 28 | 2 | Farewell, little Livia | I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles | Les Paul |
| 29 | 3 | Always trouble with the offspring | Where's the Money? | Dan Hicks |
| 30th | 4th | employee of the Month | Fisherman's Daughter | Daniel Lanois |
| 31 | 5 | Marked by death | Shuck Dub | RL Burnside |
| 32 | 6th | One of the worst kind | Living on a Thin Line | The Kinks |
| 33 | 7th | The Kennedy cult | Black books | Nils Lofgren |
| 34 | 8th | The climber | The captain | Kasey Chambers |
| 35 | 9 | Tony in the snake pit | I (Who Have Nothing) | Ben E. King |
| 36 | 10 | Greetings from Santa Claus | I've got a feeling | The Campbell Brothers with Katie Jackson |
| 37 | 11 | Lost in the snow | Sposa son disprezzata (by Geminiano Giacomelli , from Vivaldi's opera pasticcio Tamerlano / Bajazet ) | Cecilia Bartoli |
| 38 | 12 | Between happiness and glory | Affection | Little Steven and the Lost Boys |
| 39 | 13 | Cold as death | Blur | Aphex Twin |
Season 4
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | Guilty remains guilty | World Destruction | Time Zone feat. John Lydon |
| 41 | 2 | Meadow fights - who loses? | Kid A | Radiohead |
| 42 | 3 | Christopher | Dawn (Go Away) | The Four Seasons |
| 43 | 4th | Weight problems | Vesuvio | Spaccanapoli |
| 44 | 5 | Run, Pie-O-My, run! | My Rifle, My Pony and Me (from Rio Bravo ) | Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson |
| 45 | 6th | Remorse | Take Me for a Little While | Dave Edmunds |
| 46 | 7th | When you watch too much TV | Oh girl | The Chi-Lites |
| 47 | 8th | Pleasure, suffering and vice | When the battle is over | Delaney & Bonnie |
| 48 | 9 | Perpetrator: unknown | The Man with the Harmonica | Apollo 440 |
| 49 | 10 | Chris is finished | Drum score | unknown |
| 50 | 11 | To all units! | Surfin 'USA | The Beach Boys |
| 51 | 12 | At Eloise | Little Bird | Annie Lennox |
| 52 | 13 | Whitecaps | I Love Paris (Vegas) | Dean Martin |
| I have dreamed | Fantastic strings |
Season 5
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | 1 | Two Tonys | Heaven Only Knows | Emmylou Harris |
| 54 | 2 | Advice pack | Undercover of the Night | The Rolling Stones |
| 55 | 3 | Where's johnny | Earth, wind, water | Mitch Coodley (The Metro Music Production Library) |
| 56 | 4th | All happy families | La Petite Mer | Thierry 'Titi' Robin |
| 57 | 5 | Dangerous games | Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La rondine ) | Luba Orgonasova |
| 58 | 6th | Bitter lessons | The blues is my business | Etta James |
| 59 | 7th | The woman from the past | Melancholy serenade | Instrumental |
| 60 | 8th | Marco Polo | Bad 'N' Ruin | The Faces |
| 61 | 9 | Old sorrow, young happiness | If I were a carpenter | Bobby in it |
| 62 | 10 | Cold cuts | I'm Not Like Everybody Else (Live) | The Kinks |
| 63 | 11 | An endless dream | Three Times a Lady | Commodores |
| 64 | 12 | For long-term parkers only | Wrapped in My Memory | Shawn Smith |
| 65 | 13 | With all due respect | Glad Tidings | Van Morrison |
Season 6
| No. (total) |
No. (season) |
Episode title | Song name | Interpreter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66 | 1 | Member for life | Comes love | Billie Holiday |
| 67 | 2 | What remains is hope | When It's Cold I'd Like To Die | Moby |
| 68 | 3 | The dreamer and the parasites | The Deadly Nightshade | Daniel Lanois |
| 69 | 4th | black and white | One of these days | Pink Floyd |
| 70 | 5 | Do you still take Tony seriously? | Every day of the week | The Students |
| 71 | 6th | Live free or die | 4th of July | X |
| 72 | 7th | Luxury lounge | Recuerdos de la Alhambra | Pepe Romero |
| 73 | 8th | Johnny Cakes | I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town | Ray Charles |
| 74 | 9 | A feast for a saint | pipeline | Johnny Thunders |
| 75 | 10 | Contaminated sites | Let it rock | Chuck Berry |
| 76 | 11 | The sky over Paris | Home | Persephone's Bees |
| As Time Goes By (from Casablanca ) | Dooley Wilson | |||
| 77 | 12 | Kaisha | Moonlight Mile | The Rolling Stones |
| 78 | 13 | Soprano Home Movies | This magic moment | Ben E. King and The Drifters |
| 79 | 14th | Goodbye Johnny | Evidently Chickentown | John Cooper Clarke |
| 80 | 15th | The good old times | Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing) | Benny Goodman Orchestra |
| 81 | 16 | The hunt for happiness | Goin 'down slow | Howlin 'wolf |
| 82 | 17th | Men and their crises | The Valley | Los Lobos |
| 83 | 18th | Kennedy and Heidi | Minas De Cobre (For Better Metal) | Calexico |
| 84 | 19th | The big nothing | Ninna Ninna | Lullaby / Pia Calamai |
| 85 | 20th | A deadly hobby | Running Wild (Extended Instrumental) | Tindersticks |
| 86 | 21st | The Sopranos strike back | No song - only silence can be heard | - |
Alternative music in Europe
The version of the series that was broadcast in Europe contains partially different music tracks than the original American version. The music was replaced for licensing reasons and is identical for all European synchronizations. The unchanged original pieces of music are included on the English 5.1 soundtrack of the European DVD editions (but not in the 4: 3 version of the first season, which only contains the modified soundtracks).
Music soundtrack for the series
To date, two official albums with music for the series have been released. On the one hand The Sopranos (1999) with music from the first two seasons and on the other hand The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs (2001) with music from the first three seasons. Also released with Music You Heard on the Sopranos (2004) and Bada Bing! Music Heard on the Sopranos (2007) two more albums with music from the television series.
Official soundtrack
The Sopranos
The Sopranos - Music from the HBO Original Series was released in the United States on December 19, 1999 (in Germany on December 20, 1999) as a CD by Sony Music Entertainment and is distributed by Columbia. The sound carrier contains 14 tracks and has a total running time of 54 min 11 s. David Chase was executive producer .
- Track list
- Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix) - Alabama 3
- It's Bad You Know - RL Burnside
- It Was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
- Gotta Serve Somebody - Bob Dylan
- Inside of Me - Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
- I Feel Free - Cream
- Mystic Eyes - Them
- State Trooper - Bruce Springsteen
- I'm a Man - Bo Diddley
- Complicated Shadows - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- The Beast in Me - Nick Lowe
- Viking - Los Lobos
- Blood Is Thicker than Water - Wyclef Jean feat. G&B
- I've Tried Everything - Eurythmics
The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs
The Sopranos - Music from the HBO Original Series was released in the United States on May 8, 2001 (in Germany on June 18, 2004) as a double CD on Sony Music Entertainment and is distributed by Columbia. The sound carrier contains 25 music tracks as well as a dialogue from the series and has a total running time of XXX min XXX s. Executive producers were David Chase and Brad Gray .
- Track list CD 1
- Every Breath You Take / Theme From Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini & The Police
- Battle Flag - Pigeonhed
- I've Got A Feeling - The Campbell Brothers With Katie Jackson
- The Captain - Kasey Chambers
- Shuck Dub - RL Burnside
- Affection - The Lost Boys
- My Lover's Prayer - Otis Redding
- Certamente - Madreblu
- Black Books - Nils Lofgren
- Frank Sinatra - Cake
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads - Frank Sinatra
- Thru And Thru - The Rolling Stones
- Track list CD 2
- High Fidelity - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
- Living On A Thin Line - The Kinks
- Girl - Vue
- Vivaldi: Sposa Son Disprezzata - Cecilia Bartoli
- I Who Have Nothing - Ben E. King
- Return To Me - Bob Dylan
- Make No Mistake - Keith Richards
- Piove - Jovanotti
- Space Invader - The Pretenders
- Tiny Tears - tindersticks
- Time Is On My Side - Irma Thomas
- Core N 'Grata - Dominic Chianese
- Bonus Track - Dialogue from "The Sopranos" (English)
Other soundtrack releases
- 2004: Music You Heard on the Sopranos
- 2007: Bada Bing! Music Heard on the Sopranos
Other music used
The series' creators have incorporated many locally relevant performers into the series. Not all of the performers heard in the series came on one of the official soundtrack albums. Classical pieces by Beethoven , Luciano Pavarotti , Emma Shapplin and even Al Di Meola are also missing from the soundtrack albums. Some of the lesser-known performers include The Hues Corporation and The Trammps, as well as the rock group Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned.