Needle Drop
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POSTED August 31, 2022
Needle Drop: How Breaking Bad Made an 80s Hit Sound Sinister
Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" was a silly good time until Walter White heard it.
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POSTED July 21, 2022
Needle Drop: Six Songs That Apple Commercials Taught Us to Love
When iPods and MacBooks were popular enough to create pop stars.
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POSTED June 6, 2022
Why Kate Bush's Stranger Things Revival Is Even More Impressive Than It Seems
The Netflix-fueled resurgence of "Running Up That Hill" is breaking all kinds of precedents.
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POSTED May 23, 2022
Needle Drop: When This Is Us Made Us Happy to Sing the Blues
How a slow jam anchored one of the show's all-time best episodes.
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POSTED May 18, 2022
Needle Drop: The Time So You Think You Can Dance Introduced Us to Lady Gaga
Gaga's pop breakthrough "Just Dance" found its perfect audience in the summer of 2008.
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POSTED May 10, 2022
Needle Drop: The Time Seinfeld Made Us Cry
How Green Day helped the least emotional show of the 90s get sentimental for two whole minutes.
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POSTED April 27, 2022
Needle Drop: 12 Times Girls Chose the Perfect Closing Music Cue
Lena Dunham's HBO series made a habit out of great closing credits songs.
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POSTED April 12, 2022
Needle Drop: The Greatest Music Cue in All of My So-Called Life
How a then-decade old Violent Femmes song brought an exhilarating high to the angsty teen drama.
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POSTED April 5, 2022
Needle Drop: General Hospital Did As Much For Early 80s Pop Music As MTV
Over and over, the soap's super couple turned forgotten songs into chart-topping hits.
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POSTED March 28, 2022
Needle Drop: When Grey's Anatomy Taught Us "How To Save A Life"
Ellen Pompeo and co. accidentally birthed a blockbuster hit 16 years ago this month.