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What shows had particularly good song selections, that introduced you to artists you might otherwise have never discovered?

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Letterkenny introduced me to Japanther, Black Mountain, DZ Deathrays, and a bunch of other bands that would never hit my recommendations on any streaming services.

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Scrubs immediately comes to mind, though it's not a very current reference. I still listen to Colin Hay thanks to these scenes. And this one.

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- The music choices were almost always spot on, exactly matching the tone of the scene
  
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  I was sad when I learned the episodes now available on streaming don't have the same music - apparently the rights expired and they had to change many/all of the songs. I only checked one episode and immediately went back to my low-res, offline copy
  
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- Had to double check myself but that's the guy from men at work.
  
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Dark on Netflix

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Silicon Valley. The songs they played at the end of every episode were pretty much universally bangers.

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Dark

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Not a show, but Tales From the Borderlands introduced me to Jungle, possibly my favourite music artist right now, as well as a few other gems.

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- Jungle fuckin rocks
  
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- The episode intro with "To The Top" by Twin Shadow is amazing.
  
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The Venture Brothers and J. G. Thirwell.

Cowboy Bebop and Yoko Kanno.

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- Definitely Bebop!
  
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Breaking Bad & Atlanta both had many new discoveries for me. Twin peaks s3 had some amazing music but I was aware of the majority of the artist beforehand

Edit: add Sharp Objects. Amazing sound design and found a few new gems

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The Top Gun soundtrack definitely sets the standard.

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- If we're doing movies, Pretty in Pink was always my jam.
  
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  Grosse Pointe Blank's soundtrack is absolutely amazing.
  
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Smallville always had well curated songs for each episode.. at the time some were fairly obscure bands

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- Remy Zero!
  
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Definitely Arcane for a start. I'll probably think of others later.

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Stargate Universe

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I loved cliff martinez's ost for "the knick" breaking historical accuracy that obviously did the show really well.

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Peacemaker! So many good songs from bands I've never heard of. Especially Wig Wam and Band-Maid.

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Rick and Morty

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The Bear has an awesome soundtrack

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The Americans. Whoever did the soundtrack for that show was amazing. Really great 80s music.

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- Agreed on The Americana
  
  Justified introduced me to modern gangsta crossover folk music
  
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Sons of anarchy

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- Katey Sagal's cover of Bird on a Wire is one of most extraordinary things ever recorded. Tears every time.
  
  Songs of Anarchy is pretty brilliant all around.
  
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- Sons of anarchy had some really good cover versions of songs (or a specific song I don't remember)
  
  It was very good but rubbed me the wrong way for some weird random reason
  
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As a person with an interest in the history of movies I got throw in The Big Chill. It was the OG film soundtrack, I’m pretty sure it was the first soundtrack to hit the billboard top 10 albums in a time when that meant something and is full of ‘50s & ‘60s bangers.

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Everything from Jody Hill / Danny McBride: Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, Righteous Gemstones all have amazing soundtracks.

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- Righteous Gemstones has some great music. Not really into country or gospel either, but they found a few winners that work for me.
  
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CSI Miami had a Papa Roach song I liked a lot better than that cheap knockoff of the original CSI.

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The outros in Hit Monkey introduced me to a lot of new artists. Here's a playlist of some of them: Hit Monkey

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Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts

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So many good recs on here. True Detective S1 really nailed it for me though.

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Final Space. They had a fairly unknown artist make masterpieces for them.

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detroiters has some good motown, soul & punk songs.

this is a great question!

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Supernatural and Kansas

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Breaking Bad and Stargate Universe both come to mind. Also, a couple from House M.D.

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Killing Eve. I got into so many artists only from the soundtrack.

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Lucifer

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True Blood

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Sharp Objects Ep 2 Intro and another one by The Acid that I can’t recall which episode it was in.

Ep 2 end credits of Chainsaw Man had Zutomayo and while I believe I’ve heard of them before in passing, that song made me actively listen to them.

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The show was kinda lame, but Shrill had a pretty rocking soundtrack

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The soundtrack for euphoria was amazing- in context anyway, been meaning to look some of it up.

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