Thanks to its pre-closing-credits appearance on The Sopranos, Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin'” is racing up the charts: The song is currently No. 30 on the iTunes’ “Top Songs” list, right between Bone-Thugs-n-Harmony and T.I.; and the band’s Greatest Hits album is No. 54 on Amazon.com (make sure you buy the remastered version, so you can hear all the crisp snare on “Only The Young”!). Meanwhile, keyboardist Jonathan Cain tells the AP the band had no idea how the song was going to be employed:
Cain, who has a 13-year-old and twins aged 11, said the songwriters are careful about how they license the song, and have resisted several advertising campaigns. They debated its use in the film “Monster” with Charlize Theron but, in the end, “she’s too cute to say no to,” he said.
If you happened to miss last night’s Sopranos finale, then you’re out of luck: The series’ resolution is front-page news for the New York Times, and it’s popping up seemingly every few seconds on certain cable-news networks. But just in case you were watching the Tony Awards–or, in the case of some our readers, winning Tony Awards–we’ll save our discussion for after the click-through.
A few hours ago, a music publicist sent out an email with a subject line containing both the terms “Nick Lowe” and “The Sopranos”; terrified that some sort of series-finale plot-twist would be revealed within, we sent it out to the labs for analysis, only to find that it was actually a reference to… More »
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Thanks to Loudersoft for posting this MP3 of “Evidently Chickentown,” the 1980 punk-rant from John Cooper Clarke that appeared on last night’s episode of The Sopranos (the song played just as [REDACTED] was being [REDACTED]). More »