So Jack's a Pixies fan
On last week's finale of Lost, we confirm something very valuable: Jack Shepard has the coolest musical taste of any of the Castaways. (You probably don't want to continue with this post if you haven't seen Thursday's show yet.)
At about 3:50 in the video above, we find Jack in the car headed back towards the funeral home listening to the Pixies' "Gouge Away." In last year's finale, he was shown (driving to that same funeral home earlier that day) listening to Nirvana's "Scentless Apprentice." It's a subtle thing, but it's an awesome character point that Jack would be into '90s alt-rock.
Over at Lostpedia, they've got a database of what music has been used when in the show. Much of it is '50s rock and roll, because a lot of the diegetic sound is sourced from the record player in the hatch, and that's the kind of music the Dharma Initiative stocked it with. But we can see that Sharon, for example, was into Dave Matthews Band (makes sense) and Hurley had brought his Damien Rice CD with him to the island ... this was one of my favorite devices that the show used when it first started; each episode (or many of the episodes, it's been a while) ended with a standard musical montage, but music we were hearing was actually what Hurley was listening to on his CD player. Until the batteries ran out.
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