Friday Night Lights (television soundtrack)

Friday Night Lights is the soundtrack for the television series Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights (TV series)
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, a program inspired by the film of the same name.

Although post-rock

Post-rock

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band Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies," and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows...

wrote most of the film's soundtrack, the music for the television series was a more accessible affair, with bands such as The Killers and OutKast

OutKast

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featuring on it. One Explosions in the Sky track did appear on the soundtrack album, however, with "First Breath After Coma" (from their album The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

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) becoming the album closer.

Track listing

"Devil Town" - Tony Lucca
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"Read My Mind" - The Killers (Like Rebel Diamonds mix)
"I Turn My Camera On" - Spoon
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"Idlewild Blues" - OutKast
OutKast
Outkast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast...
"Everything I Do" - Whiskeytown
Whiskeytown
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"Rewind" - Stereophonics
Stereophonics
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"Keep Us Together" - Starsailor
Starsailor (band)
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"Big Big Kid" - Jibbs
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"So Divided" - …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
"Goodbye" - Drive-By Truckers
Drive-By Truckers
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"Dead Man's Will" - Calexico/Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine
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"Storm" - José González
José González
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"I Remember" - Chris Brokaw
Chris Brokaw
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"First Breath After Coma" - Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals, what they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies," and their enthusiastic and emotional live shows...

Track listing

See also