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The Wire Season Two

Husky25 said:
When I first watched the series, I noticed the music of Season Two. Tom Waits performs the opening theme, "Way Down in the Hole" (He wrote the original.), and Steve Earle (featured later on) performs the season ending montage song, "I Feel Alright." The music in general reflects the theme of the individual seasons.
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Yea, they used a different recording every season.

Season 1 - Blind Boys of Alabama
Season 2 - Tom Waits
Season 3 - The Neville Brothers
Season 4 - DoMaJe (a group of Baltimore youths)
Season 5 - Steve Earle
 
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meyers7 said:
Yea, they used a different recording every season.

Season 1 - Blind Boys of Alabama
Season 2 - Tom Waits
Season 3 - The Neville Brothers
Season 4 - DoMaJe (a group of Baltimore youths)
Season 5 - Steve Earle
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A-Dub plays with a couple Neville Brothers quite frequently. Great guys.
 
I'll admit that Tom Waits has done some hard livin' and that has certainly affected his voice, but his songs have been sampled or outright covered over 160 times (121 covers, including The Eagles, Patti Smythe, Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Joe Bonamassa, among others). His early stuff is softer on the ears, while his newer music is...let's just say...eclectic. He's been quoted as saying (paraphrase) that he would more likely find his instruments in a hardware store than a music store.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
HAHAHAHAHAHA yeah the song is brutal in S2. Are you not skipping the opening credits at this point?
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I will be going forward. Only two episodes in, but it's awful. The song, I mean.
 
Spartacus said:
I will be going forward. Only two episodes in, but it's awful. The song, I mean.
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Through 2 episodes I'm not terribly interested in the season yet.
 
McNulty is as awesome as the song is bad. The Prince of Tides.

--- Calling it after 2 because I'm sick. I'm enjoying the season a lot so far.
 
CTMike said:
Through 2 episodes I'm not terribly interested in the season yet.
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No? I like how they changed it up instead of creating a new drug lord every season. Kinda give the Avon-Stringer Team time to land on their feet before the story returns to their competition with McNulty.

Plus, McNulty makes me laugh. Getting an superjohn at the idea of his old boss being f-----ked over? That's good petty vindictive shiiiit Spartacus approves of.
 
Spartacus said:
No? I like how they changed it up instead of creating a new drug lord every season. Kinda give the Avon-Stringer Team time to land on their feet before the story returns to their struggle with McNulty.
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Probably more of an overall obersevation than a season 2 specific one. Wondering if thr bar was set unrealistically high. But it hasn't drawn me in like a Breaking Bad, GoT, Westworld... I would just call it good not great.
 
CTMike said:
Probably more of an overall obersevation than a season 2 specific one. Wondering if thr bar was set unrealistically high. But it hasn't drawn me in like a Breaking Bad, GoT, Westworld... I would just call it good not great.
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I'm with you on that.
 
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superjohn said:
Wow, you guys have horrible taste. It's the same song and The Blind Boys of Alabama and Tom Waits are awesome.
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I hate music to begin with. Probably why I hate A-Dub so much.
 
Spartacus said:
I hate music to begin with.
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CTMike said:
Probably more of an overall obersevation than a season 2 specific one. Wondering if thr bar was set unrealistically high. But it hasn't drawn me in like a Breaking Bad, GoT, Westworld... I would just call it good not great.
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It's not a show that is interested in you liking it, I think. There are rarely cliffhangers, often episodes end thematically--or somewhat arbitrarily--rather than based around major plot points. It's just there to tell it's story, whether you give a Spartacus or not.

The metaphor I give people is that a show like Breaking Bad is a dog--it needs your attention, please please please; The Wire is a cat. It's gonna do you thing. Pay attention or don't.

In that way, though, I think it's a much more subtle and nuanced show than something like Breaking Bad. It's also a show where each Season tries something different. Season 3-4 is peak, so that's where you'll really figure out if it fits in your pantheon or not.

The expectations were certainly unreasonable. But I watched it for the first time after it became a myth, and ultimately thought it came close to, or met, those expectations. I think it's the best, most well-developed, thoughtful TV show I've ever seen. It'll never be Breaking Bad or GoT because that's not in its DNA, and yet its patience and devotion to storytelling itself--rather than viewership--is why I think it transcends those shows.
 
tzznandrew said:
It's not a show that is interested in you liking it, I think. There are rarely cliffhangers, often episodes end thematically--or somewhat arbitrarily--rather than based around major plot points. It's just there to tell it's story, whether you give a Spartacus or not.

The metaphor I give people is that a show like Breaking Bad is a dog--it needs your attention, please please please; The Wire is a cat. It's gonna do you thing. Pay attention or don't.

In that way, though, I think it's a much more subtle and nuanced show than something like Breaking Bad. It's also a show where each Season tries something different. Season 3-4 is peak, so that's where you'll really figure out if it fits in your pantheon or not.

The expectations were certainly unreasonable. But I watched it for the first time after it became a myth, and ultimately thought it came close to, or met, those expectations. I think it's the best, most well-developed, thoughtful TV show I've ever seen. It'll never be Breaking Bad or GoT because that's not in its DNA, and yet its patience and devotion to storytelling itself--rather than viewership--is why I think it transcends those shows.
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Good explanation. I'll keep on it. :)
 
tzznandrew said:
It's not a show that is interested in you liking it, I think. There are rarely cliffhangers, often episodes end thematically--or somewhat arbitrarily--rather than based around major plot points. It's just there to tell it's story, whether you give a Spartacus or not.

The metaphor I give people is that a show like Breaking Bad is a dog--it needs your attention, please please please; The Wire is a cat. It's gonna do you thing. Pay attention or don't.

In that way, though, I think it's a much more subtle and nuanced show than something like Breaking Bad. It's also a show where each Season tries something different. Season 3-4 is peak, so that's where you'll really figure out if it fits in your pantheon or not.

The expectations were certainly unreasonable. But I watched it for the first time after it became a myth, and ultimately thought it came close to, or met, those expectations. I think it's the best, most well-developed, thoughtful TV show I've ever seen. It'll never be Breaking Bad or GoT because that's not in its DNA, and yet its patience and devotion to storytelling itself--rather than viewership--is why I think it transcends those shows.
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I think it's just a matter of preference. I like The Wire a lot more than Breaking Bad. I also think The Wire is the best show in television history.

Some people agree, others disagree.
 
Ratings wise the wire was a disaster when it was first aired the whole series through. and that was WITH a sopranos lead in.

Wire is like Bob Dylan in that it takes people years to catch-up to the genius of his last album. And then he makes a new one and the whole cycle repeats.

What's really crazy and why this show will be timeless is that while the surface stuff like the technology on the show is already an anachronism I find the social commentary to be even more relevant every time I watch it. No different than " the times they are a changing " is as relevant today as it was in 1963.

True art, The best art, always has that timeless quality that transcends creation period.
 
CTMike said:
Omg it's awful.
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What if I told you that the singer (and original writer) of the season 2 opening theme and the singer of the song below are the same person (FYI Shiver Me Timbers was featured in The Perfect Storm with George Clooney and Mark Walberg.)?

 
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