{"id":41646,"date":"2023-11-13T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=41646"},"modified":"2023-11-12T18:06:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T05:06:39","slug":"evocative-music-from-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2023\/11\/13\/evocative-music-from-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Evocative Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when watching a TV series or film, whether short or long, a song used in the show will strike a particular chord and stay with me. Perhaps not quite the <em>&#8220;&#8230;melody that haunts you night and day&#8221;<\/em>, but creating a positive recollection of what I&#8217;ve viewed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m being careful to say positive here, because if negative it would be an earworm! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few that have struck that chord in recent times.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>With or Without You<\/em><\/strong> (U2) as played at a funeral in <em><strong>Sex Education<\/strong>, <\/em>Season 4:<\/p>\n<p>Note: I&#8217;ve chosen this clip because the sound quality is better, but being from <em>Sex Education<\/em> there are a few (fleeting) graphic images near the end. It makes sense if you&#8217;re watching or have watched the show, but could be disconcerting for those that haven&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sex Education - With or without you\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XEcgqE1Fo64?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I also loved the use of Van Morrison&#8217;s <strong><em>Days Like This<\/em><\/strong> in the <strong>Modern Love<\/strong> episode, <em>On A Serpentine Road, With the Top Down<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dIFSj5O-pM4<\/p>\n<p>Last but not least, the great <em>What&#8217;s Up?<\/em> by Four Non-Blondes, from the &#8216;karaoke scene&#8217; in <strong><em>Sense 8<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Whats UP, 4 Non Blondes (Sense8)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1f6OKZXYpVg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when watching a TV series or film, whether short or long, a song used in the show will strike a particular chord and stay with me. Perhaps not quite the &#8220;&#8230;melody that haunts you night and day&#8221;, but creating a positive recollection of what I&#8217;ve viewed. I&#8217;m being careful to say positive here, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41646"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41657,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41646\/revisions\/41657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}