Be sure to check out the section in our True Blood Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the finale episode, “Save Yourself,” which aired last Sunday, August 26, 2012. This season we certainly have had a great a variety of music in each episode and we congratulate Gary C. and all the writers who chose each song.
There are several songs with that title: blues-rocker Jonny Lang, Americana singer-songwriter James McMurtry, indie rocker Sharon Van Etten, thrash metal legends Overkill, guitar-god Michael Schenker and noted True Blood fan Snoop Dogg all have songs by that name.
So it was something of a surprise when the song turned out to be by ’90s industrial rockers Stabbing Westward. Many of the musical decisions on the show go to Music Supervisor Gary Calamar, but that wasn’t the case with this selection. “That one was picked by Alan Ball and he was very happy with it, so I left it alone,” Calamar tells CBS Local.
Yea, we guessed correctly this week on the music speculation for this episode with our choice of the song, and of artist. I am loving this song and think it really fit well with the episode.
Here’s a video of Stabbing Westward-”Save Yourself” (Album Cover)
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of True alSeason 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from True Blood’s Eleventh episode, “Sunset” which aired last Sunday, August 19, 2012. Wow, I had no idea that Stevie Wonder had done a song called “Sunset.” I was totally fooled this time. Once again, I have been surprised by Gary Calamar’s choices!
The songs featured in this episode were:
Episode 5.11 – Sunset
Introitus Requiem
by Crucial Music
Corporation
“Cars, Bars and
Guitars” by The Go Getters
“Little Girl
Wantered Off” by Derrick Stout
“Rodeo Queen” by Gayle Lynn
“Not Another Song
about California”
by Grant Langston
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of True Blood Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from True Blood’s tenth episode, “Gone, Gone, Gone” which aired last Sunday, August 12, 2012. We guessed correctly this week on the music speculation for this episode with but we thought it was the Everly Brothers not Carl Perkins.
I must say that we love being surprised by Gary Calamar’s choices!
Be sure to check out the section in our True Blood Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the nineth episode, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World,” which aired last Sunday, August 5, 2012. We guessed correctly this week on the music speculation for this episode with our choice of the song, but not the artists. We, of course thought it was the Tears for Fears version, but the title song was done by a new girl punk band, Care Bears on Fire..
Here’s a video showing a portion of the Care Bears on Fire version of the song:
The songs featured in this episode were:
Episode 5.09 – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
“Fake Blood” by Pezzner
“First One in The Car“
by The WallFlowers
“Ain’t Life Hell” by Hank Cochran & Willie Nelson
“Miss McCloud’s Reel” Courtesy of APM Music Library
“Square Dance” Courtesy of APM Music Library
“Acrobatica” by Losers
“Walk to Georgia” by Grant Langston
“Everybody Wants To Rule The World” by Care Bears on Fire
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the eighth episode, “Somebody That I Used to Know,” which aired last Sunday, July 29, 2012. We guessed correctly this week on the music speculation for this episode with our choice of Elliott Smith, although it was highly expected to be the Goyte song.
Read the post about how the Elliott Smith version got chosen over the Goyte song.
As all True Blood fans know, each episode is always titled after a song chosen by it’s music supervisor Gary Calamar in consultation with the writers. We enjoy trying to guess which song it will be when the title for each episode is revealed during the filming of each season.
For episode 8, Somebody That I Used To Know”, Shadaliza was very sure that it would the song by Gotye. She was so sure, in fact, that she put it in print prior to the episode airing. I told her that although that could be it, I knew that Gary Calamar wouldn’t pick such a popular tune for True Blood. And, in our music speculation for this episode, we posted the Goyte song, but we also posted the one that was used by Elliott Smith, thanks for our friend from our affiliated site Skarsgårdnews.com.
However now, Shadaliza is somewhat vindicated because we learn below that the version she chose, was the original song that was intended for the episode. Read about it below:
So, we agree that the latest episode’s title — “Somebody That I Used To Know” — led fans to expect that the song of the same name, by breakout artist Gotye, would be used over the end credits. That song, which sounds more like Peter Gabriel’s ’80s material than anything in the pop music today, topped the U.S. singles charts earlier this year, has been covered on American Idol and The Voice, and was used on an episode of Glee. It turns out that sometimes a song can get too big for its own good.
True Blood Music Supervisor Gary Calamar told CBS Local, “Actually, when Mark Hudis first wrote the episode, he had the Gotye song in mind. At that point the song was new and just starting to become popular. By the time we got to post production on the episode the song was hugely huge. I think it’s great, but once a song has been featured on Glee it’s no longer right for True Blood end credits.” Luckily, there was an easy “plan B”: “I knew this great song by Elliott Smith with the same title. We gave it a try and it worked beautifully.” The late singer/songwriter Elliott Smith released the song on his 2000 album, Figure 8.
Here’s the chosen song by Elliott Smith:
A more familiar artist whose music was used on this week’s episode was blues legend Howlin’ Wolf. For a steamy scene that featured (female) fan favorite Alcide (Joe Manganiello) shirtless and “getting it on” with fellow werewolf Rikki (Kelly Overton), Howlin’ Wolf’s “Smokestack Lightnin’” played in the background. Right after the scene, “Alcide” began trending on Twitter (it was a good week, social media-wise, for the show: “Hoyt” and “Godric,” also characters on the show, were trending during and after the episode as well).
Calamar tells CBS Local, “We tried a few things over the love scene, but when we cut in Howlin Wolf’s blues classic ‘Smokestack Lightning’ we all knew this was the one to capture the wild sexuality of Alcide and Rikki.” True Blood has previously used covers of Wolf’s “Howlin’ For My Baby” and “Evil” on the show. “Smokestack Lightnin’” is one of his most well known songs, and has been covered by The Yardbirds, The Animals and The Grateful Dead, among others.
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the seventh episode, “In the Beginning,” which aired last Sunday, July 22, 2012. We guessed correctly this week on the music speculation for this episode with our choice of K’Naan.
The songs featured in this episode were:
Episode 5.07 – In The Beginning
“I Can’t Help Fallin in Love” by Willie Aron and Joey Peters
“Nobody Nowhere”
by The Jezabels
“You Light Up My Life”
by Willie Aron and Joey Peters
The title of Season 5′s episode 11 has been changed yet again.
The original title of the 11th episode was “Finally.” Then, it was changed to be ”Song of the Dead Faerie.” Well, it’s been changed for a third time to it’s new title of“Sunset.”
I wonder why the changes, and what signifigance the new title has? The synopsis for this episode so far is: Bill slips into religious fervor; Sookie seeks insight from the faerie Elder.
Since the title of the episode is always a song title, below are possibilities for the song to end this episode. Below are some possibilities for this episode. I tend to think it might be Exit 10 based on the lyrics, but I sort of like Nitin Sawhney, so I’m favoring her.
What do you think? Tell us in the comments section below.
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the sixth episode, “Hopeless,” which aired last Sunday, July 15, 2012. We missed on the music speculation for this episode, not knowing it would be Percy Mayfield.
Be sure to check out the section in our Episode Guide devoted to the music for each episode of Season 5. To see it, go to the Season 5 Episode Guide: Music. This guide is updated weekly with the songs featured in each episode after it airs.
Below are the songs from the fourth episode, “Let’s Boot ‘n Rally,” which aired last Sunday, July 8, 2012.We missed on the music speculation for this episode since the song is brand new and was written by Gary Calamar himself and just recorded by Iggy Pop and Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino.
Great song Gary!
The songs featured in this episode were:
Episode 5.05– Let’s Boot and Rally
“Let’s Make Santa
Clause Happy”
Didipop
“Rescue”
Echo and the Bunnyman
“Undertow(NIC) Remix” Warpaint
“Let’s Boot And Rally”
Iggy Pop with Bethany Cosentino
