What's your favourite use of music in an episode?

Renegade, and the song Dean and then Sam started singing on the way to the "final" showdown with Lilith at the end of S3, which I am totally blanking on.

Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive," Perkins.

Okay, to prove that I can, I'm going to do a top five. I think ten might kill me, frankly.

• In A Gadda Da Vida (I just can't get over Jensen's face as he looks at the SWAT team--he's just so marvellous at playing not!Dean. It's smoking hot and gets me every time)
• Beautiful Loser (I am so sad about Dean/Lisa. I think he...not sold out, not compromised, but definitely sacrificed a big part of himself. He was doing something very important to Dean, providing and being the backbone of a family unit, and that's the beautiful part of it, but he wasn't being true to himself, and that's the loser. Also, the drinking. Always with the drinking)
• Renegade (Total gut punch here. It's a brilliant Victor moment without Victor being in the frame--you understand just how fucked the boys are from here on in, and that they've finally got a nemesis--not just an enemy or an antagonist, but a good and proper nemesis, and the best they ever had)
• Spirit In The Sky (It's such a boppy pleasant song, but really spooky and ominous with the religious overtones in a post S4 Supernatural world. And over the abandoned town in Good God Y'all? Even worse. I also like how it was worked in as playing on the car radio)
• O Death (Because he's badass like that. I'll forever associate the brush off of his shoulder with the haunting vocals)

Honourable mention goes to Smoke On The Water for all its uses.

Oh man, I totally missed the last two, and I even meant to put "O Death" on there. You totally win at this game.

O Death

this this so very much this. I cannot think of another song or scene in the entire series run that gives me such Supernatural chills.

You totally win at this game.

::fist pump::

Here's a question I totally can't answer: if you were going to pick signature songs for any of the main or recurring characters on the show, what would you pick?

I feel I just don't know enough music to answer that question. The best I can come up with is "Behind Blue Eyes" for Sam, and it irritates me because his eyes aren't blue.

Oooh, I'll have to think about that one for a bit. I can totally do it, it's just narrowing it down to one that's hard.

Although my instinct is to say right off that Dean's would be "House of Wolves," by My Chemical Romance.

Lyrics:

Well, I know a thing about contrition, Because I got enough to spare. And I'll be granting your permission, 'Cause you haven't got a prayer. Well I said hey, hey hallelujah, I'm gonna come on sing the praise. And let the spirit come on through ya, We got innocence for days!

Well, I think I'm gonna burn in hell, Everybody burn the house right down.

And say, ha What I wanna say Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave. Tell me I'm a bad man, Kick me like a stray. Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave.

(S-I-N, I S-I-N S-I-N, I S-I-N S-I-N, I S-I-N S-I-N, I S-I-N)

You play ring around the ambulance, Well like you never gave a care. So get the choir boys around you, It's a compliment, I swear. And I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down, I wanna hear you sing the praise, I said, ashes to ashes, we all fall down, We got innocence for days!

Well, I think I'm gonna burn in hell, Everybody burn the house right down.

And say, ha What I wanna say Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave. Tell me I'm a bad man, Kick me like a stray. Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave.

You better run like the devil, 'Cause they're never gonna leave you alone! You better hide up in the alley, 'Cause they're never gonna find you a home! And as the blood runs down the walls, You see me creepin' up these halls. I've been a bad motherfucker Tell your sister I'm another Go! Go! Go!

And I said, say, What I wanna say Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave. Tell me I'm a bad man, Kick me like a stray. Tell me I'm an angel, Take this to my grave.

Tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad man. Tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad man. Tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad man. Tell me I'm a bad, bad, bad, bad man. So get up! So get out! S-I-N, I S-I-N!

MCR's Mama also puts me in mind of the boys.

I should really format those lyrics, but ugh. Do not want.

Sam is hard! It's tempting to say the Dead's "Friend of the Devil," though it doesn't *really* fit.

"O Death" was probably the most impressive artistic use of music on the show, but I'd have to go with the two songs I like the most that have featured prominently: "Can't Find My way Home" and "Beautiful Loser." (And the use of the latter makes me sad that they didn't use "Shame on the Moon" in "Heart," as it's my favorite Seger song. And sometimes my favorite song, full stop.)