by philipchevron Sun May 18, 2008 12:40 pm
Guest wrote:Ah this is definitely one of the greatest Amercian Tv Shows, right up there on my list with The Sopranos and NYPD Blue. I have watched all 3 series on dvd so far, 4th one out in March, there's also a great opening sequence in one of the episodes that's set to transmetropolitan, v.funny.
I fucking love this show!
They used "Body Of An American" at a Policeman's Wake scene in the 3rd series and it is a truly inspiring piece of television. The music is played from a cassette deck behind the bar, a very deliberate action [none of the music in this TV show is "incidental"] and all the cop's colleagues sing along with it in lusty, full-throated celebration of the guy's life. It is all the more poignant because the Cop who is waked, Detective Ray Cole, was played by Robert F. Colesberry, who was also the clearly beloved executive producer of
The Wire [his name remained on the credits years later] until he died shortly before the third series started filming, giving an added real-life dimension to the scene. I have to say that the sight of a Baltimore bar full of cops/actors of Polish, Irish and African-American ethnicity (just for starters) singing along with what happens to be one of my personal favourite Pogues songs, had me blubbing like a baby the first time I saw it. McNulty is singing
my song?? Kima is singing
my song??!!
Ever since, when there was a cop's Wake on
The Wire, "Body Of An American" appeared, though more briefly, the ritual having already been implanted in the viewer's mind. David Simon, the show's creator, co-producer and chief writer, has noted: "It's not a tradition in Baltimore, but it should be."
You will never quite see America the same way again after you watch
The Wire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVznnoptsmM[quote="Guest"]Ah this is definitely one of the greatest Amercian Tv Shows, right up there on my list with The Sopranos and NYPD Blue. I have watched all 3 series on dvd so far, 4th one out in March, there's also a great opening sequence in one of the episodes that's set to transmetropolitan, v.funny.
I fucking love this show![/quote]
They used "Body Of An American" at a Policeman's Wake scene in the 3rd series and it is a truly inspiring piece of television. The music is played from a cassette deck behind the bar, a very deliberate action [none of the music in this TV show is "incidental"] and all the cop's colleagues sing along with it in lusty, full-throated celebration of the guy's life. It is all the more poignant because the Cop who is waked, Detective Ray Cole, was played by Robert F. Colesberry, who was also the clearly beloved executive producer of [i]The Wire[/i] [his name remained on the credits years later] until he died shortly before the third series started filming, giving an added real-life dimension to the scene. I have to say that the sight of a Baltimore bar full of cops/actors of Polish, Irish and African-American ethnicity (just for starters) singing along with what happens to be one of my personal favourite Pogues songs, had me blubbing like a baby the first time I saw it. McNulty is singing [i]my[/i] song?? Kima is singing [i]my [/i] song??!!
Ever since, when there was a cop's Wake on [i]The Wire[/i], "Body Of An American" appeared, though more briefly, the ritual having already been implanted in the viewer's mind. David Simon, the show's creator, co-producer and chief writer, has noted: "It's not a tradition in Baltimore, but it should be."
You will never quite see America the same way again after you watch [i]The Wire[/i].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVznnoptsmM
