The Bear

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Re: Chicago soundtrack.

You do get Wilco, Andrew Bird, Serengeti and Mavis Staples. Might not be the Chi town everyone on here loves but pretty iconic Chicago music.

I do think someone needs to email their music editor and tell them that placing Tortoise on a show would be shooting fish in a barrel and we'd all be better for it.

Edit: oh shit when you email tell them that after an emotional scene where Carmy throws a ten gallon of tomato sauce into the walk in and storms out to put on "Treason" by Naked Raygun.

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Gramsci wrote: Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:19 am I agree on season two having a different tone. To me it was better and worse at the same time. I thought they dropped the ball on Carmy but upped the game on the others. Richy worked I thought, as they kind of slow burned his inner life from episode 1.

One thing I think the show messes up is the music. A bit of Wilco… make Chicago music The Thing. You could have easy swapped out New Noise for a TJL tune. Every time Pearl Jam kicked off it really grated. They tried to make music a character in the show, but fucking REM… I realise there’s an inbuilt bias here but Chicago alternative and jazz as a “character” would have been so easy.
Yet, very believable (Pearl Jam) as being the musical taste of a cook, or any white middle class food service or retail worker I’ve met.

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Dan Sullivan, Chicagoan, who played with Songs:Ohia for a time and put out ace records as Nad Navillus, and is currently spanking his plan in Arriver, has become a great carpenter, with some really interesting furniture design.

Story goes something like he got the call asking about supplying something for season 2 of The Bear, and when he explained he doesn't do props, they were like 'no, we want to commission you to fit out a full restaurant', which was pretty awesome. Nice to see them giving business locally.

Also does a mean line in guitars now.

https://www.navillusguitars.com/
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The best parts of the show are the parts that aren't driving a plot at all but just letting the characters get more flushed out. Sugar has weirdly become one of my favorite characters. I kinda wish they would get rid of the tweedle dee / tweedle dum combo cause they are loud and annoying and serve zero function, for whatever reason they get more screen time than anyone else on the show. It's a good show but it feels like it should be wrapping it up sooner than later, I smell a shark and they are all poised to jump.
Was Japmn.

New OST project: https://japmn.bandcamp.com/album/flight-ost
https://japmn.bandcamp.com/album/numberwitch
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Kniferide wrote: Tue Jul 02, 2024 12:18 pm I kinda wish they would get rid of the tweedle dee / tweedle dum combo cause they are loud and annoying and serve zero function, for whatever reason they get more screen time than anyone else on the show.
YES. Also I've seen that neck tat dude in interviews and he's part that VICE tv food bro culture. No thanks.
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