This week we talk about Season 1, Episode 21 “Love and Daisies and Troubadours”

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Gilmore Girls: Complete Soundtrack, including the songs from this episode:

Songs that are featured in this podcast (and are referenced in Season 1, Episode 20 of Gilmore Girls):

• Blue Man Group
  • Reference:
  • LORELAI: You are not sleeping through this.
    RORY: Through what?
    LORELAI: The freaking Blue Man Group is outside our house!
• Peter Frampton
  • Reference:
  • RORY: I miss the old me too.
    LANE: And I’ve been feeling bad for the new Rory.
    RORY: Well she’s staging a comeback.
    LANE: And may it be more successful than Peter Frampton’s.
• Blur & Nico
  • Reference:
  • RORY: You swear? On the life of the lead singer of Blur?
    LANE: On the soul of Nico, I swear to you that I have not seen Dean with another girl.
• “Honey Don’t Think” by Grant-Lee Phillips | Purchase music from Grant-Lee Phillips
  • As Rory and Lane walk through the Square, we hear the troubadour playing this song.
• “Swan Lake, Ballet Suite, Op. 20: I. Scène (Lake in the Moonlight)” by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Purchase music from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Miss Patty’s ballerinas dance to this song as Lorelai walks toward the diner.
• “Sadness Soot” by Grant-Lee Phillips | Purchase music from Grant-Lee Phillips
  • This is the song the troubadour plays when he is interrupted and annoyed by another musician who is playing guitar and whistling just across the street
• “One Line” by PJ Harvey | Purchase music from PJ Harvey
  • The song that immediately follows the fan-favorite line “I love you, you idiot.”
• “How to Dream” by Sam Phillips | Purchase music from Sam Phillips
  • During the scene when Lorelai arrives at the inn to find 1,000 (guys, let’s clear this up right now, it was absolutely more than 1,000) yellow daisies.
  • Here’s the Netflix teaser that also used this song:
• “Our Little Corner of the World” by Yo La Tengo | Purchase music from Yo La Tengo
  • This is the song at the end of the episode when Rory and Lorelai meet in the middle of the street to share happy news with each other.
  • We heard another cover version of this song during the closing of the pilot episode as well.

I am pictured holding my copy of Chris Staples’ Golden Age (2016, Barsuk Records).

Spinning in Stars Hollow

This week I’ve added 3 songs to the season 1 Spinning In Stars Hollow playlist. Check back next season as I build a new Spinning In Stars Hollow playlist for Season 2:

• “Crazy Rhythms” by The Feelies | Buy music from The Feelies
  • For fans of Yo La Tengo
• “Only You” by Portishead | Purchase music from Portishead
  • For fans of PJ Harvey
  • Here’s the video directed by Chris Cunningham
• “Hepburn in the Summertime” by Chris Staples | Purchase music from Chris Staples
  • For fans of the Town Troubadour, Grant-LeePhillips

Please, if you like what you hear, support these artists and buy their music.

The Gilmore Girls Soundtrack theme music was provided by Scott Holmes. A big, big thanks to Scott for sharing his great talent.