Radio.com sat down with True Blood music supervisor Gary Calamar last night to talk about the music for last night’s episode You’re No Good. Calamar spoke both about the title track and some of the music in the episode.
For the scene where Nicole (Jurnee Smollett) and her friends encounter the werewolves for the first time, he asked a San Francisco area band called L’Avventura to lend a track to the episode called “7 Discos of the World,” which is what was playing in the car the group drove up in:
“They write amazing songs and have a super cool sound. We wanted something that these hipsters would be listening to on their quest for werewolves.”
As for the title track, Calamar was going to use a version of You’re No Good by Major Lazer but it didn’t end up fitting the episode. So he found another version by the French band the Plastiscines:
“I believe it was producer Brian Buckner that suggested this classic song after we all watched the episode in a spotting session. Everybody loved the idea and I went on a hunt for the right version for the show. We checked out the Van Halen and Linda Ronstadt versions. I loved the original Betty Everett version very much, but we ended up choosing a super cool garage version from the French band the Plastiscines. It’s great! We had used another one of their songs, “Bitch,” in season five. I seem to have a soft spot for the young female garage rockers. In the past we’ve used the Runaways and Care Bears on Fire.”
Source: Radio.com- “‘True Blood’ Music Recap: ‘You’re No Good’ – But The Plastiscines Are”
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