WHEN memories of TV dramas fade to black, the music can bring them back.
Here comes a handy time capsule of “some of the biggest songs from the most popular TV series of all time”.
The focus is on Scandi-noir, US crime series and our own thrillers: dark deeds with deliciously dark, nerve-tingling tunes to match from Breaking Bad’s title theme to Julee Cruise’s Falling, the floaty, spooky one from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks.
Wallow awhile in all this gloom with its shards of black humour from Nick Cave’s Red Right Hand to The Handsome Family’s Far From Any Road; be inspired to discover more of Hope Sandoval (from Massive Attack’s Paradise Circus) and Emily Barker (Pause from Shadow Line and Nostalgia from Wallander); and agree that Placebo’s Running Up That Hill, from Daybreakers, is a truly grand, if creepy cover. “Let the darkness embrace you,” urges Ian Rankin in his sleevenotes, and wonder, “Whatever happened to Julee Cruise?”.
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