00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for songs whose popularity faded
00:13over time, only to find resurgence through memorable moments on hit TV shows. That doesn't
00:18include title sequences that turned tunes into theme songs. Some key plot points are covered,
00:24so a spoiler warning is in place.
00:30Number 10. Make Your Own Kind of Music, Lost. Cass Elliott's breakout after the Mamas and
00:38the Papas' breakup was fittingly an anthem about independence.
00:41Nobody can tell ya there's only one song worth singing.
00:48Make Your Own Kind of Music would be her biggest solo single, but still had a disappointing run.
00:5436 years later, the lost season 2 episode, Man of Science, Man of Faith, opens with Desmond Hume
01:01going about his morning routine in a bunker, whilst blasting Elliott on vinyl.
01:06But you've gotta make your own kind of music.
01:11The stylish juxtaposition of an eerie montage and a lively song, not only made for a standout scene in the acclaimed TV series.
01:19It's recurring use of make-your-own-kind-of-music helped secure a late-60s pop staple for new generations to embrace in their own special way.
01:32Number 9. Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, Twin Peaks.
01:37Julie Cruz owes much to composer Angelo Bottle-Amenti and filmmaker David Lynch, who wrote her debut album Floating Into the Night.
01:45Unfortunately, it didn't hit much beyond the dream-pop crowd.
01:49Tell your heart that I'm the one.
01:55Lead single, Falling Enchanted Viewers of Lynch's Twin Peaks, as its opening theme.
02:00But the spotlight literally landed on Cruz with her cameos as a singer at the Roadhouse.
02:05In the season 2 episode, Lonely Souls, the patrons are so moved by Rockin' Back Inside My Heart that Audrey Horn mouths the lyrics to Bobby Briggs.
02:13This rather blatant promotion boosted the album enough on the charts for that track to be later released as a single.
02:20Though it's permanently associated with Twin Peaks, Cruz had finally won the hearts of the mainstream.
02:33Number 8. I Think We're Alone Now, The Umbrella Academy.
02:37Tiffany's cover of Tommy James and the Shondells was one of the defining pop songs of the 1980s.
02:42Children's the end. That's what they say when we're together.
02:49I Think We're Alone Now didn't generate much nostalgia with later generations, but clearly meant a lot to the superheroes on the Umbrella Academy.
02:57The first episode features Luther Hargreaves playing the song throughout their mansion headquarters, where each lead dances in a separate room.
03:04That's what they say when we're together and watch a new play.
03:11This gives the traumatized family a break from processing the death of their adoptive father, who isolated them.
03:17As they embrace their individuality, while sharing a moment of joy, Tiffany's saucy teen anthem becomes poignant symbolism.
03:23The permanently popular I Think We're Alone Now finally entered the viral age, as if anyone was ever alone in dancing to this cross-generational classic.
03:39Number 7. Breathe Me, Six Feet Under.
03:50Despite instant acclaim, Sia's Breathe Me only found commercial mileage in alternative markets.
03:56Help, I have done it again.
04:01Then it was selected to score the last scene of the last episode of HBO's Six Feet Under, Everyone's Waiting.
04:08I have been here many times before.
04:15Claire Fisher plays the powerfully emotional anthem as she drives out of Los Angeles, against flash-forwards to the heart-wrenching deaths of every main character on the show.
04:24This rounds out what is considered one of the most moving series finales of all time.
04:28Ouch.
04:29Since then, Breathe Me has become a platinum hit that helped propel Sia's rise to mainstream pop stardom.
04:41It's sure to take your breath away, with or without its tear-jerking place in TV history.
04:46I love me.
04:53Number 6. Goo Goo Muck, Wednesday.
04:56The cramps brought Ronnie Cook and the gay lads into the mainstream, but their Psycho Billy interpretation of the hyper-obscure Goo Goo Muck was still very niche.
05:05Well, when the sun goes down and the moon comes up.
05:09Luckily, a quirky homage to both 80s goth culture and 60s B-movies is the perfect niche for Netflix's Addams Family spin-off.
05:20I turned into a teenage Goo Goo Muck.
05:24The season 1 episode, Whoa, What a Night, is highlighted by Wednesday Addams dominating Nevermore Academy's Raven Dance, but staying deadpan throughout her zany routine to the cramps.
05:37The scene became such a viral sensation that it played a major role in the overall popularity of the show Wednesday.
05:51It certainly took Goo Goo Muck from an 80s cult curiosity to a danceable sleeper hit in the 2020s.
05:57Number 5. Chasing Cars, Grey's Anatomy.
06:05From the phrase How to Save a Life to Tegan and Sarah's Where Does the Good Go, Grey's Anatomy has popularized countless songs across two decades.
06:13We'll do it all, everything.
06:20But we've never forgotten the season 2 finale Losing My Religion.
06:23The Snow Patrol album Eyes Open had been out for less than a month when Chasing Cars played over the aftermath of a patient's shocking death.
06:36This helped cement the British rocker's global status when the single was released shortly thereafter.
06:41Chasing Cars climbed the charts, swept awards, and had the honor of being the last performance on the long-running BBC music showcase Top of the Pops.
06:59Even if its success is only partly attributed to Grey's Anatomy, it announced the show as a sought-after music platform.
07:05Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
07:12Number 4. In the Air Tonight, Miami Vice.
07:15The launch of MTV sustained the mainstream popularity of Phil Collins' eerie chart-topper In the Air Tonight at least throughout 1981.
07:24I can feel it coming in the air tonight.
07:30Of course, one can argue that the launch of NBC's Miami Vice three years later formally made it a part of TV history.
07:43The pilot episode, Brothers Keeper, defines this procedural's unique neo-noir style with Crockett and Tubbs' chilling odyssey to confront a drug lord at night.
07:53The cool, suspenseful use of In the Air Tonight is so ingenious that later films and shows have rarely played it outside of direct homage.
08:09And yet, the song continues to haunt pop culture right alongside Miami Vice as emblematic of 80s sleekness at its absolute coolest.
08:17Number 3. Running Up That Hill. Stranger Things.
08:27The soundtrack is obviously key to the 80s nostalgia surrounding Netflix's Stranger Things.
08:33It doesn't hurt me.
08:36Do you want to feel how it feels?
08:39A ballad as haunting as Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill is used to more dramatic effect throughout season 4,
08:45as Max Mayfield listens to it repeatedly to mitigate depression.
08:53That's particularly the case in Dear Billy,
08:56in which Max removes her headphones to enter the Upside Down and confront the trauma-driven demon Vecna.
09:03Her narrow escape to an orchestral remix of Running Up That Hill is considered one of the most intense set pieces of the whole show.
09:10It's also directly linked to a viral revival of the song in pop culture.
09:23Having licensed the song only because she's a fan of Stranger Things, Bush is now back on top.
09:29Number 2. Baby Blue. Breaking Bad.
09:40You gotta love Breaking Bad's musical throwbacks, right to the bitter end.
09:45The series finale, Felina, culminates with a mortally wounded Walter White looking upon a batch of his signature blue meth as police close in.
09:53The peppy Badfinger classic Baby Blue scoring this tragic sequence is oddly fitting for the grandiose redemption and downfall of Heisenberg.
10:07The celebrated drama's final scene was bound to be historic, but so too was its impact on the already beloved final needle drop.
10:15Billboard reported a 3,000% sales increase on the already evergreen single just in the week after the episode aired.
10:27Now, Baby Blue's legacy is secured even more deeply and much more positively than Mr. White's.
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10:54Number 1. Don't Stop Believin'. The Sopranos.
10:57Made in America is one of the most polarizing TV finales ever, with a most ironic song choice.
11:03Just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.
11:10The Sopranos concludes with Tony Soprano playing Journey's Don't Stop Believin' on a restaurant jukebox while waiting for his daughter, Meadow, to join the family.
11:18He took me now to drink up and leave me there.
11:24The sequence's delicate pacing conveys the paranoia surrounding mob life.
11:28But as Tony hears the door flying open, everything, well, stops.
11:33Whatever viewers thought of this infamous cut to black, they praised the use of music.
11:38I went ahead and ordered the show for the tape.
11:40Don't Stop Believin'.
11:43This settled Journey's classic anthem into 21st century pop culture, before a cover on Glee turned it into something of a nuisance.
11:50With Don't Stop Believin''s relentless airplay, however, we take for granted what our favorite shows can do for our favorite songs.
11:59What are some other TV scenes and soundtracks stuck on replay in your head?
12:03Crank it up in the comments.
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