Dr. Vogel: “Did you try to stop the beating? “
Anthony Jr.: “I’m one individual, what could I do? “
*Spoilers* Don’t read if you didn’t see last nights episode.
The antepenultimate episode began with AJ reluctantly waking up to Chamillionaire’s “Ridin’ Dirty” and then went all downhill from there. Although no one died, it was an incredibly depressing and dark episode with lots of haunting Bergman-esque silence. AJ’s attempted suicide was heartwrenching and the Soprano family’s complex reaction were equally painful to watch.
Although the HBO website has the haunting song used at the end of the episode listed as “Ninna Ninna,” we’re pretty positive, it’s “Ninna Nanna,” a song taken from an Alan Lomax field recording collection of Italian folk songs. and would love to know either way. We can’t compare and contrast at the moment. The episode is not online yet. It was nice to see Peter Bogdanovich again last night.
We could be wrong
Update: We just watched again. We were wrong, though perhaps totally not off base. The song we have posted is not even close. However on closer inspection to the Sopranos ending, we’re pretty sure the song is still “Ninna Nanna,” not “Ninna Ninna,” and this might be a different version of what we believe is a traditional Sicilian folk song and possibly a lullaby (which would make sense given the context of the final shot; it’s just not the song we posted). Curiously enough, the “music” section of this 84th Sopranos episode was de-linked today from the main episode page. Done on purpose? A mistake? Hard to say the original page is still here. Update: this was fixed. Why was it down? No clue, HBO has still not made any link available to the song used in the episode. We have found it here.
Download: “Chamillionare – Ridin’ Dirty”Download: Unknown – “Nina Nanna”