I understand it was a popular song in the 1980s, my lost decade for music, but I’m familiar with it from the soundtrack to something I’ve watched many times. What am I thinking of?
Opening myself up here to ridicule for not recognizing the obvious, but I’d swear on a stack of bibulous uncles that I never heard the song outside of this movie or TV series.
Maybe Glee? https://youtu.be/iZgqtV1eDYg?si=G7ZD6WKWMByiX6j7
It was used in “The Stand,” (1999 version)
It was used in The Stand miniseries, but popular before that.
Mean Girls?
imdb.com doesn’t list credits by song, but all of Neil Finn’s soundtrack credits including the OP’s song are here
From Wikipedia, “‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ was prominently featured in the 1994 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Stand and in the Netflix series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story in which the song was also referenced in the episode of the same name.”
I’ve never seen any of those things.
Slithy Tove’s link covers a ton of other bases: Smallville, American Dad, Miami Vice…
It was used in the TV show The Americans. I believe it was Season 6.
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That’s it. I’ve watched that series at least five times. Thanks.
Since the OP’s question has apparently been answered, I’ll point out for anyone who doesn’t know that the song is originally by Crowded House, from 1986. If I remember correctly it was that band’s first single.
The band Sixpence None The Richer released a cover of the song in 2003.
Technically their fourth single: the first one, “Mean to Me,” was only released in Australia, then the next two (“World Where You Live” and “Now We’re Getting Somewhere”), while released internationally, didn’t chart in the U.S. “Don’t Dream It’s Over” reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard chart.
(Also, for music nerds, Crowded House was essentially a spin-off from the New Zealand-based new wave band Split Enz; after that group broke up, two of its members formed Crowded House as a new project.)
I remember hearing all three of those songs on the radio and/or MTV, but I can’t be sure about which order.
I think I have also watched it at least 5 times. One of my favorite shows.
First thing I thought of when I read your post.
Do you remember when it was heard? My guess would be late in the final season, just based on the sad tone of the song.
Season Six Episode one - Dead Hand.
It was a montage setting up all the changes from Season Five.