PEARL JAM Music All Over 'Cold Case' Season Finale

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PEARL JAM Music All Over 'Cold Case' Season Finale - Apr. 28, 2009

According to The Pulse of Radio, PEARL JAM's music will be featured exclusively during the two-part sixth season finale of the CBS television series "Cold Case", with part one airing on Sunday, May 3 and the conclusion airing the following Sunday, May 10, both at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. A total of 16 songs from the band will be woven through the two episodes, with the final track choice yet to be announced. This is the first time that PEARL JAM has allowed its music to be used so extensively in a TV series, and also marks the first time that "Cold Case" has used music from one artist in more than one installment of the show.

The episodes are titled "The Long Blue Line" and "Into the Blue", and follow an investigation into the murder of the first female cadet at a local military school.

Co-executive producer Greg Plageman, who also co-wrote the shows, said in a statement, "We're thrilled to have PEARL JAM's music in not only one, but two, of our episodes. It's also a great fit with the team's murder investigation of a trail-blazing female cadet."

Previous episodes of "Cold Case" have used the music of John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, NIRVANA, Johnny Cash, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Tim McGraw, U2 and Bob Dylan.

PEARL JAM will hit the road this summer, with a headlining slot at San Francisco's Outside Lands Festival already confirmed for late August. The band also continues to work on its ninth studio album. A documentary about the group, directed by Cameron Crowe, is also in the works.

brainofe

Pearl Jam Follows Vince Neil Over the Fourth Wall, Features Sixteen Songs on Cold Case
by Mike Burr

This time the grunge revolution happened in reverse. A week after Motley Crue performed an illusion shattering version of "Dr. Feelgood" on Bones, Pearl Jam has announced that not one, but sixteen, of their songs will be featured on the two-part season finale of Cold Case. This marks the first time the band has been heard in a television series since a small piece of "Yellow Ledbetter" was used in the finale of Friends. Given the premise of the show, where a team of investigators look into closed investigations, most of the songs featured will come from the band's 1991 debut album Ten. The story isn't at all grunge-centric, though; it features the trials of the first girl admitted at a strict military school, which in the end is probably similar to the hazing Pearl Jam faced trying to break into the Seattle scene.

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/pearl-jam ... ll-/28536/

HermanBloom

They're wrong; Come Back was used in Friday Night Lights in 2007

brainofe

nathanastin wrote:

They're wrong; Come Back was used in Friday Night Lights in 2007

Yea and "Long Road" was used in an episode of Scrubs once a while back.

mattcoz

brainofe wrote:

nathanastin wrote:

They're wrong; Come Back was used in Friday Night Lights in 2007

Yea and "Long Road" was used in an episode of Scrubs once a while back.

Ahh yes, I remember that now.

Cosmo

I guess I'm too early for the 'Pearl Jam Sell-outs' messages.
I'll check by later.

Dissidentman

I'll tune in just for the music...

Ute Lew

I think its cool PJ will be exposed to an entirely different audience, I will be watching. Plus the spot called them "One Legendary Band", that was cool!

hopethatuchoke

dissidentman wrote:

I'll tune in just for the music...

So let me get this straight.....you aren't going to tune in to watch the tv show. You are going to tune in to hear music you have owned for years?

BeerBaron

The description of the episode on my PVR says it is a "2005 case" ... I thought the whole idea of Cold Case was that the featured music in each episode was from the time that the murder being investigated happened???

LukinFan

Is this show any good? Is PJ fan's of it? I wonder why they choose Cold Case to do this

LukinFan

brainofe wrote:

nathanastin wrote:

They're wrong; Come Back was used in Friday Night Lights in 2007

Yea and "Long Road" was used in an episode of Scrubs once a while back.

and "Yellow Ledbetter" was on th series finale of Friends

B-Rye

And Nothingman was used wonderfully in Californication (ep Title: In Utero)

uglybabo

BeerBaron wrote:

The description of the episode on my PVR says it is a "2005 case" ... I thought the whole idea of Cold Case was that the featured music in each episode was from the time that the murder being investigated happened???

"The choice of Pearl Jam, Johnson said, was more a question of attitude than era, since the episodes, which include scenes shot last month in Philadelphia, deal with the parallels between the cadet's experiences and those of "Cold Case's" Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris).

"Kate's journey is very similar to Rush's journey, and in a sense, to Pearl Jam's journey," Johnson said. "It's the first time we've really told Lilly Rush's origins story."

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainm ... _pick.html

The case in 2005 allows her to examine why she became a cop, so maybe the music will focus on her past.

BeerBaron

uglybabo wrote:

BeerBaron wrote:

The description of the episode on my PVR says it is a "2005 case" ... I thought the whole idea of Cold Case was that the featured music in each episode was from the time that the murder being investigated happened???

"The choice of Pearl Jam, Johnson said, was more a question of attitude than era, since the episodes, which include scenes shot last month in Philadelphia, deal with the parallels between the cadet's experiences and those of "Cold Case's" Lilly Rush (Kathryn Morris).

"Kate's journey is very similar to Rush's journey, and in a sense, to Pearl Jam's journey," Johnson said. "It's the first time we've really told Lilly Rush's origins story."

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainm ... _pick.html

The case in 2005 allows her to examine why she became a cop, so maybe the music will focus on her past.

Thanks

Vedder_Girl77

I've never seen this TV show before but I have my DVR set for Sunday night. I hope this show is good.