they just took hbo offa my stolen cable
haha - ours, too. we're having a bit of a crisis over this.
― lauren, Saturday, 10 November 2007 00:12 (sixteen years ago) link
i knoooow - channel 65 where u go wtf i miss u dan marino!
― jhøshea, Saturday, 10 November 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
eh those shits are too big for sendspace - what site allows 300mb+ files?
― jhøshea, Saturday, 10 November 2007 13:44 (sixteen years ago) link
megaupload.com. Thanks very much for even trying! It's not the end of the world if I have to wait for a DVD though, so don't waste hours over it. tvt0rr3nts has it, but it wants to bust my balls before I download anything.
― caek, Saturday, 10 November 2007 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I've been sitting on this news for 2 months and it's been torture to have to keep it under wraps, but the official announcement is finally here:
Greetings, Wire Fans...
After years of anticipation, The Wire Soundtrack will finally be released on January 8th, 2008, on Nonesuch Records. We are currently in the very final stages of production of the record, and I can say without reservation that the project is everything I always hoped it would be. It turns out David Bither and Bob Hurwitz at Nonesuch are huge Wire fans, and they have given us incredible support and creative freedom to do the record the right way. It includes many of the show's most important musical signatures, including several versions of Way Down In The Hole, all of the season-end montage songs, a great selection of Baltimore club and hip-hop, The Pogues, Stelios Kazantzidis, a selection of dialog scenes from the show, and the theme music "The Fall" which I composed and so many have asked for over the years. It also includes a gigantic deluxe booklet stuffed with photographs, and liner notes by David Simon, George Pelecanos and Jeff Chang.
I will post more details and a full track list in the near future on my blog, The Ten Thousand Things. Until then there's a bit more info at the Nonesuch blog here:
http://journal.nonesuch.com/journal/2007/11/nonesuch-to-rel.html
I wanted to send this out directly, as so many people have asked me for information about the music over the last few years. And in case you were wondering, Season 5 is finished and continues the tradition we have all come to expect from The Wire; the season premiere will be Sunday January 6th.
Here's looking forward to January!
Cheers,
Blake Leyh Music Supervisor, The Wire
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ bl✧✧✧@blakel✧✧✧.c✧✧ www.blakeleyh.com www.tenthousand.org
And here is the announcement on the Nonesuch site:
Nonesuch to Release Music from Five Years of "The Wire"
Nonesuch is pleased to announce the January 8, 2008, release of the first soundtrack from the critically acclaimed, Peabody Award–winning HBO series The Wire. That's two days after the series kicks off its fifth season. It also marks the first time music from the David Simon–created show has ever been collected and released as an album.
The Wire: " ... and all the pieces matter" will include several versions of the show’s opening theme song—Tom Waits’s “Way Down in the Hole”—as performed by The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Neville Brothers, and DoMaJe, a group of Baltimore teenagers. To listen to DoMaJe's take on the song, click here.
The disc will also feature a number of tracks from the Baltimore club and hip-hop scene that have never appeared on a major label release, including Rod Lee’s “Dance My Pain Away,” Tyree Colion’s “Projects,” Diablo’s “Jail Flick,” Mullyman’s “The Life, the Hood, the Streetz,” and “What You Know About Baltimore?” by Ogun featuring Phathead.
Other songs include “Oh My God” by Michael Franti, “I Walk on Gilded Splinters” by Paul Weller, “The Body of an American” by The Pogues, “I Feel Alright” by Steve Earle (who also has an acting role on the series), Solomon Burke’s “Fast Train,” and the show’s closing theme, “The Fall,” composed by The Wire music supervisor Blake Leyh.
Some of the most memorable dialog from the program’s five years will also be included on the record. The CD booklet will feature essays by the author and series writer George Pelecanos and the noted hip-hop journalist Jeff Chang.
Over the course of four seasons, The Wire has developed a portrait of Baltimore through the themes of education, the war on drugs, the decline of the working class, and the role of political leadership in addressing urban problems. The Wire will use its fifth and final season to examine mass media’s impact on the city.
Slate has had this to say about the series:
... surely the best TV show ever broadcast in America ... No other program has ever done anything remotely like what this one does, namely to portray the social, political, and economic life of an American city with the scope, observational precision, and moral vision of great literature.
The first three seasons of The Wire are currently available on DVD; the fourth season will be available beginning December 4, 2007—a month before the fifth and final season’s premiere on HBO. You can pre-order Season Four now at the Shop at HBO.com.
For more information on the series, visit HBO.com.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh awesome. I might buy season 4 even though it's already on my hard drive, watched and rewatched. (This is the part where I would usually say that it's my favorite season, but I will refrain.)
― kenan, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 15:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm waiting for the inevitable complete series boxset.
― Leee, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/news/story/0,,2209888,00.html
^ profile of bunk as he puts on "waiting for godot" in the 9th ward
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 03:37 (sixteen years ago) link
five new promos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVB-d7tWIII http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPflEzVBSq0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uMd2HCcQ_c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIsYWcHbwLU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwhryZsvU6E
― antexit, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:39 (sixteen years ago) link
- *Barack Obama* tells *TV Guide* that his favorite TV character of all time is *"SpongeBob SquarePants, because SpongeBob is the show I watch with my daughters." ** *His favorite TV shows of all time are * M*A*S*H* and *The Wire.*
if it wasnt already clear that we neeeeeeed this man to be president, well there it is.
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:41 (sixteen years ago) link
man, that makes me smile for real.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
LET MCNULTY BE MCNULTY
― milo z, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
oh this season is gonna run deep
(lol mcnulty leaning on the pay phone talking on his cell)
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:18 (sixteen years ago) link
omar explosions
― cutty, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I just started watching season 3 on HBO on demand. Never seen it before. Two episodes in and I'm sold. I'm also pretty lost, but getting the hang of it. HBO's running seaon 4 on demand starting in december, so, oh shit, I guess I won't be able to watch all of season 3 by then!
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
knuckle down -- it can be done.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:31 (sixteen years ago) link
wau @ obama wire shoutout
― sleep, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
it can be done. easily. i just rewatched the first season, for the hell of it, in a matter of days. i fucking love this show.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
last I checked S3 will be On Demand until December 10th (at least from my cable provider). i'm in the middle of rewatching S2 via Netflix, and will probably just rent S3 next too, since I want to hear the commentaries and other DVD stuff you can't get On Demand. i doubt i'll squeeze in the first four seasons before S5 starts, but i might try.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:36 (sixteen years ago) link
can't do it! I'm working today, working all day tomorrow. Even if I start watching at 7pm fri, I could only get 3 or 4 episdoes further before they switch to season 4! MAYBE just maybe it'll be on demand a bit into december. I have to say, the recap at the beginning of season 3 was hilarious, so confusing.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i watched 1-4 in about a month so you can definitely do all of 3 before 4 starts on demand, dan! i believe in you!
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
dan - are you planning on sleeping??? that's your problem, right there!
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:39 (sixteen years ago) link
the real problem here is: i don't have cable, much less hbo. how am i going to watch season 5!?
― tehresa, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:43 (sixteen years ago) link
dan: dvds tehresa: torrents
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:51 (sixteen years ago) link
and dan u should really start from the beginning - so much more rewarding
not to mention that if you get through season 3 you'll see some stuff that you wont want to have seen when watching season 1
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
that's true, but at the same time, if you were going to pick up on the show at any point other than the beginning, S3 is probably the best place to start.
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
haha, carcetti, you know he's about to do something really heinous
am i the only one who's sick of the constant 'mcnulty is a drunk asshole' stuff? that is by far my least favorite part of the show
― daria-g, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:58 (sixteen years ago) link
otm i was psyched when mcnulty went away last season f mcnulty
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Having Mcnulty around is worth is for the once-per-season utterance of "What? What the fuck did I do?"
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i think i actually fast-forwarded through parts of season 2 that were all about him, and maybe season 3 as well, i mean, string, d'angelo were so much more interesting and then they keep spending time on mcnulty, drunk, AGAIN (and usually without bunk to at least make it funny)
― daria-g, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
the time when he crashed his car twice was kinda funny tho
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
that was great
― sleep, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
drunk assholes are very irritating but also true to life.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
yah i guess he is supposed to be a douche and he is a douche soo...
but i get the impression that the writers find him charming
― jhøshea, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:55 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgacB9NeQDE
warning warning first minute or two spoil the Omar promo up there
― milo z, Thursday, 29 November 2007 21:59 (sixteen years ago) link
B-b-but the brothel bust! "Spot on it!" OMGz!
― Leee, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Season 4 out next week!!
― leavethecapital, Thursday, 29 November 2007 22:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a letter last night saying mine had been mailed. TAKE THAT NOCKOES!
― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 November 2007 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
u guys all mad, mcnulty rules though i do wish they'd cut back on the too-frequent MCNUTTY BE DRUNK & FUCKIN AGIN sequences. def hope nutty isn't out completely in s4 (which i haven't seen yet!)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 30 November 2007 01:20 (sixteen years ago) link
less McNulty than ever in S4, but there's at least some nice character development to his eternal fuckup archetype. i can see people liking him less than other characters or thinking he's too trad/cliche compared to the rest of the show, but fast-forwarding through all his scenes? what the fuck.
― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 30 November 2007 03:48 (sixteen years ago) link
that's truly bizarre.
― s1ocki, Friday, 30 November 2007 16:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Complete-Fourth-Season/dp/B000QXDJLI
three short "prequel videos"
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
season 4 out on dvd...today?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 20:46 (sixteen years ago) link
FYI for those that don't want to mess with torrents, I've been using a site called Tape It Off the Internet. They archive links to where shit is available for streaming online. I'm slowly getting through all of S4 that way.
It's actually pretty cool. The gf has a Wii, and I have it connected to our wireless network, and there's a browser on the Wii. So I just pull up TIOTI on the Wii browser and full-screen it, and voila, it's like having a slightly grainy DVD of my favorite show.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only had time to watch like, one more episode of Season 3. I'm thinking of giving up and just starting w/ a DVD of season 1, maybe find it used or something, I don't belong to a vid store. Maybe somebody will lend to me.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
start @ beginning 100x enjoyment video store memberships are free homie the world is yrs
― jhøshea, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 21:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I hated the Prop Joe one, and to a lesser degree the Omar one. I'm sure there are traces of Prop Joe's future in his childhood, but I don't buy him as a hard-bargaining 10-yo business man, and I don't buy Omar as an infant high-moralled bad-ass.
That's what I liked so much about S4 ... it didn't make each kid's trajectory seem so inevitable. Just a twist here and a twist there and maybe things turn out differently for each of them.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:10 (sixteen years ago) link
FYI for those that don't want to mess with torrents, I've been using a site called Tape It Off the Internet.
― Leee, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Totally.
Of the four, I might have predicted what happened to Michael and Randy...but probably not to any great degree of specificity.
I cannot WAIT for Season 5. This show just absolutely rules.
― B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I kind of agree with Poly, but I thought the kid in the Prop Joe one was just fantastic.
Anyway, they're pretty inessential. It'd be nice if they show up on DVD, but not a big deal if they don't.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 4 December 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link