THE MUSIC OF LOST

Will anyone ever hear the song, Moonlight Serenade, and not have this picture in the back of your mind?

I will always think of Kate whenever I hear Patsy Kline.

LOST is brilliant with it’s use of music. Music is a part of our everyday lives whether we realize it or not. The way TPTB have carried this over to LOST is genius. They have included so many genres of different music, modern rock, classical, children’s songs, drinking songs, and even reggae and gospel. Some of my personal favorites, which I have on my mp3 player include Shambala by Three Dog Night, Ride Captain Ride by The Blues Image, Make Your Own Kind of Music by Mama Cass Elliot, Downtown by Petula Clark and I Shall Not Walk Alone by the Blind Boys of Alabama.

I also wanted to include shout outs to DriveShaft and Geronimo Jackson. What an amazing addition to the mythology of this show. These bands help expand and tie together the story lines and add an extra flair to draw you into the story even more. I have Dharma Lady on my mp3 and a Geronimo Jackson tee shirt.

If is isn’t enough that TPTB have spent time adding all this music we were familiar with before we ever watched LOST, they hire a brilliant musician to compose LOST’s own original soundtrack. Michael Giacchino’s music touches our hearts and adds to our character’s adventures each week. I’ve read that JJ Abrams liked the soundtrack to Medal of Honor, a video game, which Giacchino composed and got in contact with him. Giacchino composed for Alias and has continued his relationship with JJ Abrams, working on LOST and Star Trek too. He uses a unique blend of strings, piano, percussion, and harp, played classically as well as unconventionally, plus the unorthodox sounds of trombones to achieve the sound we have come to recognize as the LOST soundtrack. The Life and Death theme is by far the easiest to recognize and has to be my favorite. Spiritseeker has mentioned that she is able to play it by ear, which is wonderful. For those of us not so talented, there is sheet music online which you can download and pick out on your favorite instrument. Giacchino has also developed themes for the different characters. One of my favorite character themes belongs to Ben. My other favorite themes include Sawyer and Juliet’s theme, used heavily in LaFleur and the soundtrack to the phone call in The Constant.

I have two question for you to answer today. First, what is your favorite music in LOST? And without looking it up on Lostpedia, when did we hear Moonlight Serenade for the second time in LOST?