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Some dramatic ambient music.





If this sounds familiar ........ this is why.


In popular culture[edit]
Most notably, Explosions in the Sky's music is heavily featured in the Friday Night Lights movie and television show. It is a common misconception that the band wrote and recorded the television show's theme song. Instead, it is an original composition by W. G. Snuffy Walden. Music by Explosions in the Sky has been used in several television programs and commercials: "The Birth and Death of the Day" for the BBC documentary Lost Land of the Jaguar, All the Real Girls, Shopgirl, One Tree Hill, Love the Beast and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, as well as various songs for the PBS documentary The Street Stops Here. A number of One Tree Hill episodesare named after the band's songs.

  • The song "It's Natural To Be Afraid" is featured in the narrative sports documentary series 24/7, "Mayweather vs. De La Hoya", and was also used in the season 8finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "For Gedda (Part 1)".
  • The song "Catastrophe and the Cure" is used during the intro to Get Collins, an Irish documentary on Michael Collins and the film Kaboom by director Gregg Arakiin which the male lead is also given a signed copy of All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone as a birthday gift.
  • In 2009, the song "First Breath After Coma" is used for the introduction of feature presentations on the television network, Versus. The song is also used in the trailer for the documentary Focus, directed by Steve Hwang. "First Breath After Coma", along with "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean", were featured in the 2010 film Kalamity.
  • The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" is shortly featured in Michael Moore's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. It is also featured in the 2008 film Sleepwalking.
  • The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the films Friday Night Lights, The Big Empty, Love Happens, the TV series Prisoners' Wives and the documentary Gideon's Army.
  • The song "A Poor Man's Memory" is featured in the TV show Blue Mountain State.
  • The song "Glittering Blackness" is featured in the film Ghosts of Girlfriends Past.
  • The song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" is featured in the film Lunopolis.
  • The song "So Long, Lonesome" is featured in the 2010 film Last Night.
  • The song "An Ugly Fact of Life" was featured in the film adaptation of The Kite Runner.
  • The song "Human Qualities" is featured in the 2012 film This Means War.
  • The song "Trembling Hands" is featured on the 2012 video game Major League Baseball 2K12.
  • The song "First Breath After Coma" is used for an Adidas commercial featuring Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose, the end of the television series Doctors, the 2005 Israeli film Close to Home and in the first episode of John Bishop's Australia.
  • The song "The Birth and Death of the Day" is used in the final scene of the mountain biking documentary Life Cycles
  • The song "Waking Up" was featured in the film Lone Survivor.
  • The song "Postcard From 1952" was used in the episode "Chicago" of Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways, and a snippet of the song is used in the Welcome to Night Vale episode "The September Monologues".
  • The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" was used in the teaser reveal of Street Fighter V.
  • Along with David Wingo, Explosions in the Sky wrote the entire soundtrack to the 2013 comedy-drama film "Prince Avalanche", starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. The idea itself came when the band proposed working on a film with director David Gordon Green.
  • The song "Remember Me as a Time of Day" was used in the 2015 film Me and Earl and the Dying Girl.
  • Their song "The Birth and Death of the Day" was used at the end of the 2015 mountaineering documentary Meru.
  • Their song "Logic of a Dream" was used in the trailer of the 2016 film Deepwater Horizon.
  • Their song "The Ecstatics" was used in the 2017 film Power Rangers.
 
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