Music on The Sopranos
The Music of The Sopranos, a U.S. television series, chose David Chase, the creator of the series, along with the music producer Martin Bruestle and music editor Kathryn Dayak, sometimes Steven Van Zandt him advice and support. Stylistically, the music ranges spectrum of the series of mainstream pop, oldies and classic rock to jazz, soul and hip hop.
- 4.1 Official Soundtrack 4.1.1 The Sopranos
- 4.1.2 The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs
Leader
The opening credits of each episode shows Tony Soprano ( James Gandolfini ) on his journey from New York to New Jersey and ends with his arrival at his family home in North Caldwell. As background music, the song Woke Up This Morning of the British music group Alabama 3 in the Chosen One Remix is heard.
Credits
In the credits of each episode almost hear a song that even previously, however, is not used in the episodes. In the tenth episode of the first season of a hit but a hit is the song of the fictional band Defiler is used, which can be heard already in the course of the episode. In the credits of the three episodes Bella Italia, Whitecaps and The sky over Paris are the same number of songs to listen to while in the two episodes of The Sopranos and pleasure to give fight back, no music will be used.
Below is a list of the songs that are played at the end of an episode:
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Alternative music in Europe
The version of the series, which aired in Europe, includes some other songs than the original American version. Replacing the music was made for licensing reasons and is done the same for all European synchronizations. The unaltered original pieces of music are on the English 5.1 soundtrack of European DVD releases include (but not in the 4:3 version of the first season, which only contains the modified soundtracks).
Music soundtrack to the series
To date, two official albums were released with music for the series. For one, The Sopranos (1999) with music from the first two seasons on the other The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs (2001) with music from the first three seasons. In addition, published by Music You Heard on the Sopranos (2004) and Bada Bing! Music Heard on the Sopranos (2007) two more albums with music from the TV series.
Official soundtrack
The Sopranos
The Sopranos - Music from the HBO Original Series appeared in the United States on 19 December 1999 ( in Germany on 20 December 1999 ) CD by Sony Music Entertainment and distributed by Columbia. The recordings contains 14 tracks and has a total running time of 54 min 11 s executive producer, David Chase.
The Sopranos - Peppers & Eggs
The Sopranos - Music from the HBO Original Series appeared in the United States on May 8, 2001 ( in Germany on 18 June 2004 ) as a double CD with Sony Music Entertainment and distributed by Columbia. The recordings contains 25 songs and dialogue from the series and has a total running time of min XXX XXX s executive producers were David Chase and Brad Grey.
More Soundtrack Publications
- 2004: Music You Heard on the Sopranos
- 2007: Bada Bing! Music Heard on the Sopranos
More used music
The creators of the series have included many locally relevant artist in the series. Not all to be heard in the series performers came on one of the official soundtrack album. Even classical pieces by Beethoven, Luciano Pavarotti, Emma Shapplin and even Al Di Meola missing on the soundtrack album. Some of the lesser known artists are Hues Corporation, The Trammps and the rock group Gideon Smith & the Dixie Damned.