Sweet but never saccharine, it suits the dancing-in-the-moonlight ambience of the scene perfectly. They were never employed better than when poor infatuated teenager Kimmy Breland played the group’s gorgeous love song “Only You” to “Jim,” the hipster weed-dealer alter ego Philip employs to gain access to her CIA father’s house. Along with Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac, and Roxy Music (don’t touch that dial, music fans!), Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet’s synth-soul duo Yaz - that’s Yazoo to us Yanks - were one of The Americans’ go-to artists. Yaz, “Only You” (Season 3, Episode 4) / Pink Floyd, unspecified (Season 3, Episode 6) But the chemistry between future IRL couple Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, the bravado behind repurposing a soundtrack standout from Risky Business and Miami Vice (the pilot episode of Miami Vice, no less!), and, of course, the sheer sparse strength of the song itself made this sequence a well-deserved talking point in the series’ early, buzzworthy days.ĩ. True, the execution is comparatively broad in light of the show’s later subtlety and austerity it’s hard to imagine a “sex and death, am I right, people?” musical montage in season six. Virtually all of The Americans’ signature sonic and subject-matter staples are present in the pilot episode’s use of Phil Collins’s immortal air-drumming smash. Thoughtful use of Big ’80s music, doubling as references to Big ’80s dramas. Emotionally charged moments in parked cars at night. Phil Collins, “In the Air Tonight” (Season 1, Episode 1)Įxplicit sexuality.
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