Ecstasy of Gold at the end of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.

TV is getting good at matching music to intended emotional beats.

But it's almost becoming overdone, with an industry of new music acts almost entirely catering to TV.

Walking Dead and Breaking Bad are awesome at matching music to the scene.

For TV...House always had good soundtracks to set the mood for different episodes.

Truth. And honestly, so did Scrubs.

Again, it's the music supervisors. Season Kent and Alex Patsavas are two of the best supervisors out there.

This "cottage" industry of music supervision has basically come into being due to less jobs and possibilities for talented people working in the music industry.

Instead of doing A&R, signing and developing bands, music supers are listening to music and placing it in TV shows and film.

I can't tell you how many Berkelee grad's I've worked with in the past year that know every song ever recorded from about 1948 to 2013. It's pretty amazing.

You're referring to score, which is completely different from song placement or "soundtrack".

Again, score.

I met and hung out with Jan (Scrubs composer) a few years back at an event. He's as odd as the music he creates.

No I was referring to song placement...use of music that was not written for that particular TV show...REM "Everybody Hurts"...Warren Zevon "Keep Me In Your Heart"...Curtis Mayfield "Superfly"...etc.

Oh, yeah, that's Gary Calamar. He's awesome.

And to give credit where credit's due.....even though I never really watched "House"....I believe the opening credits are Massive Attack's "Tear Drops"

And yes, Massive Attack is amazing.

Yeah, it is Massive Attack and yes they are

The new Dallas used a few Johnny Cash songs in scenes that fit perfect.

I love the music in that movie.

Greatest movie ever, I got to see it at a theater that was playing it one weekend only back in 2006, there were people everywhere dressed up like all the different gangs, I was dressed in regular clothes because I'm a boring normal dude.