And all the bouncy piano stuff would represent recappers pounding on their keyboards. There are no lyrics, but the high-pitched clarinet intro would represent the cries of all the fans that the show is over. People loved Walt’s blue meth “all across the land” while Hank kept trying and failing to tackle Heisenberg.ġ4. As a result, the song charted in the UK for the first time, reaching.
#My baby blue song breaking bad series#
In 2013, it was featured in the series finale of the television show Breaking Bad. The song was written by Pete Ham, produced by Todd Rundgren, and released on Apple Records. “ Go Big Blue (the New York Giants Song)” About Baby Blue 'Baby Blue' is a song by the Welsh band Badfinger from their 1971 album, Straight Up. You wandered down an open road and you kept goingĪbout to die, Walt sees his reflection in the meth tank and asks, “What happened to you, Walt?” “I became super great at cooking meth,” he replies. We sure had a lot of fun with all of this kingpin stuff! Walt was all about his vocation, stroking his precious cook tank right up until his last breath. Not even scouts and bombers galore, by which we mean Nazis. Air Force in this example and no one could stop him. With scouts before and bombers galore, Hey! “Souls of men dreaming of skies to conquer Old people shouldn’t do meth, and if they do, they definitely shouldn’t snort it. “If you’d live to be a grey-haired wonder, “ Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (the U.S. “Then he started into dealing with slavesĦ. Remember the “What’s my name?” scene? Also, to play Walter, Bryan Cranston had to study a lot of “lines” and delivered them to Anna Gunn’s “face.” It’s as if Dylan were in the Breaking Bad writers’ room. I muttered something underneath my breath Getting kicked out of the house by Skyler, many threats by Gus, getting Hank killed: nothing but dues-paying thanks to the tangly blue meth. “Lord knows I’ve paid some dues getting through Which isn’t meth, but a band called “Crazy Meth” would be too on the nose.)įor a couple of hours, on a beautiful day” (Side note: Neil Young played with Crazy Horse, and people get crazy when they’re on “horse,” slang for heroin. Walt could’ve lived out a life of nebbishness, but he decided to become a drug “king.” And then he was a national story and everyone will remember him. “the blue”) and into the death game (a.k.a. “ My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)” by Neil Young And he shouldn’t have hid in New Hampshire for so long, because his family needed closure and Jesse was trapped as a meth-making slave.Ģ. The song felt like a wildly appropriate closer for a crime epic centered around blue meth, what with the opening lyric “Guess I got what I deserved” and the refrain “the special love I have for you, my Baby Blue.” It seems like an obvious choice, but there were countless other obvious “blue” options (Except for Eiffel 65’s “Blue,” which should never be an option): As Joni Mitchell sings, “Blue songs are like tattoos.” Here are fourteen other “Blue” songs that could have perfectly capped the entirety of Breaking Bad, give or take an episode.ġ. ( Spoiler Alert, etc.) Last night’s Breaking Bad ended with Walt lying on the lab floor, dead, with Badfinger’s “Baby Blue” playing.
Walter White (Bryan Cranston) - Breaking Bad _ Season 5, Episode 16 - Photo Credit: Ursula Coyote/AMC
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