In appreciation of the music that inspired the writing, here is the track listing for the series now titled "Broken Open," in chapter order, spanning more than a decade of music appreciation, from the radio of a beat-up Toyota Camry to a first-generation iPod to Limewire downloads to Spotify to an iPhone 12 named for a piece of fictional technology introduced in 1966.
Without music, television is just a series of awkward silences.
Broken Open - Cold War Kids, Mine Is Yours
Full of Grace
"Full of Grace" – Sarah McLachlan, Surfacing
"Mercy" – Alanis Morissette and Salif Keita, The Prayer Cycle
"Ask Me How I Am" – Snow Patrol, When It's All Over We Still Have to Clear Up
"White Rabbit" – Jefferson Airplane, The Worst of Jefferson Airplane
"Home" – Foo Fighers, Echoes, Silence, Patience, & Grace
"One Step Closer" – U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
"In These Times" – Joan Armatrading, Lovers Speak
"Winter" – Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes
"Can't Give Everything" – Lili Haydn, Place Between Places
"Where'd You Crash and Burn? (Mashup)" – Savage Garden vs. Fort Minor (Ministry of Mashed Sound/Envision)
"Dream About Flying" – Alexi Murdoch, Time Without Consequence
"Cradlesong" – Rob Thomas, Cradlesong
"Sweet Chariot" – Charlotte Martin, On Your Shore
"Maybe Next Year" – Meiko, The Hotel Café Presents…Winter Songs
"Feel So Different" – Sinéad O'Conner, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
"To Heal (And Restore Broken Bodies)" – Underworld, Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace
"Better Days" – Goo Goo Dolls, Better Days
+ Bonus Track: "Can't Help Falling In Love" – Elvis, Blue Hawai'i
Walk On
"Walk On" – U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind
"1000 Oceans" – Tori Amos, To Venus and Back
"Give a Man a Home" – Ben Harper, Give a Man a Home
"One Night" – Goo Goo Dolls, Something for the Rest of Us
"Just Like Starting Over (John Lennon Cover)" – The Flaming Lips, Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur
One for the Ages
"One for the Ages" – Jed Whedon, History of Forgotten Things
"The Book of Love (The Magnetic Fields Cover)" – Peter Gabriel, Shall We Dance
"Happiness" – The Fray, The Fray
"Parachute" – Guster, Parachute
"No Envy, No Fear" – Joshua Radin, Simple Times
"All My Mistakes" – Teitur ft. Tarira, Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace
"Full Moon Cigarette" – Gran Bel Fisher, Full Moon Cigarette
"Princes Familiar" – Alanis Morissette, Alanis Unplugged
"Never Gonna Leave This Bed (Acoustic)" – Maroon 5, Hands All Over
"Desire" – Ryan Adams, Demolition
+ Bonus Track: "For Once In My Life" – Stevie Wonder, For Once In My Life
"Cry" – James Blunt, Back to Bedlam
"Colorblind" – Counting Crows, This Desert Life
"Say Anything" – Tristan Prettyman, Cedar & Gold
"Thank You" – Dido, No Angel
"Amazing Grace (Cover)" – Sean McConnell, Faces
"One Diamond, One Heart" – The Smashing Pumpkins, Oceania
"Za Dobra Stara Vremena" – Novi Fosili, Za Dobra Stara Vremena
"Nesanica" – Toše Proeski, The Best of 2
"Pale Horses" – Moby, Wait for Me
"This Is the New Year" – Ian Axel, This Is the New Year
"Never Going Back Again" – Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
"Madame Lonely Heart (Mashup)" – Alain Bashung vs. Yes (Mighty Mike), Mild Things
"Wake Up" – Yoav, Charmed and Strange
"Daughter" – Pearl Jam, Vs.
"Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel Cover)" – Disturbed, Immortalized
"Heroes" – David Bowie, Heroes
+ Bonus Track: "ER Theme" – James Newton Howard