Music plays an important role on the FX television drama The Shield . Stylistically, the music ranged from hip hop (Master P) to mainstream pop (Duran Duran) to rock (Kid Rock) to country music (Johnny Cash), often within a single episode. Each continuing season had promotional music as well.
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description | |
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Pilot | ||||
Track 1 | Megatrax | Ponle Cadera | At the beginning of the chase, when Booty puts drugs inside the mouth row. | |
Track 2 | Maraca | Descarga Total | Strike Team running through the store for Booty hiding his drug stash. | |
Track 3 | Moby | Graciosa | David Aceveda meeting with Terry Crowley at the park to put him undercover. | |
Track 4 | Tha Mexakinz | La Plaga | Vic Mackey and Shane Vendrell visiting Miguel Esteana and making him lose the charges against them. | |
Track 5 | Monster Magnet | God Says No | Vic meets Fred for information about the missing girl | |
Track 6 | Los Lobos | Maricela | Vic visits Connie and forcefully requests Dmitris bankroll. | |
Track 7 | Stevie Wonder | Higher Ground | While Vic is grilling at his house, Terry is talking with him. | |
Track 8 | Stephen James Edwards | Melisma Alleluia | Aceveda, Dutch and Claudette rescuing the young child. | |
Track 9 | Kid Rock | Bawitdaba | End montage. | |
Track 10 | BZ | Fantastic Planet | Danny and Julien talking in the patrol car while driving in the deleted scene | |
Our Gang | ||||
Track 1 | Cage | A Crowd Killer | Terry Crowleys condition announced outside of the hospital | |
Track 2 | Mike Jimenez & Daniel Indart | Dámelo | Aceveda sees his colleague from the Department of Justice to talk about what went down with Terry Crowley. | |
Track 3 | United States Air Force Reserve Pipe Band | Amazing Grace | At Terry Crowley's and 2Time's funeral monologue. | |
Track 4 | Bernie Marsden | Highway 45 | In Vic's flashback with Terry in the clubhouse. | |
Track 5 | The Urbanites | Rock Tha Spot | Danny & Julien take Marlon Demeral for questioning. | |
Track 6 | Bernie Marsden | Like Lightnin Strikin | Strike Team playing cards, Terry describing himself as Gene Simmons. (Mackey's flashback) | |
Track 7 | Paul Lenart & Bill Novick | Kansas City Feel | Strike Team visit Van Bro on the street for information. | |
Track 8 | Peyote Asesino | Perkins | Gang association arresting scene. | |
Track 9 | India Arie | Promises | End montage of David Aceveda and Vic making eye contact. | |
The Spread | ||||
Track 1 | Young Dre | Dance With the Devil | Strike Team busts into Virgil's apartment to find Derek Tripp. | |
Track 2 | Flight 180 | Sunday Jack | Dutch & Claudette, with SWAT bust in a house and find their sperm collector. | |
Track 3 | Matt Anthony | Pinched In | Vic Mackey saves a baby from a crackhead. | |
Track 4 | Delinquent Habits | Que Vuelva | End montage. | |
Dawg Days | ||||
Track 1 | Out of Order featuring Lil John Show A Lil Mo | Twerk That Thang | ||
Track 2 | Artifacts | Wrong Side of da Tracks | [Instrumental] Kern's girl announces something in the microphone. | |
Track 3 | Copywrite | Tower of Babble (feat. Smut Peddlers) | In the club before the shooting and T-Bonz arriving. | |
Track 4 | Tame One, Copywrite, J-Zone, Cage, Mr Eon & Skillz | All Stars Air Max 95 Remix | [Instrumental] The shooting starts in the shake club between Kern and his rival T-Bonz. | |
Track 5 | Los Corales | Ese Es Mi Amigo | David Aceveda and his husband Aurora visit the politician rally to find new contacts. | |
Track 6 | Abby Dobson | Deeply | Vic and Lem visit Kern Little's music studio. | |
Track 7 | SX-10 | Heart of a Rebel | Vic and Lem arrive and investigate a street shootout. | |
Track 8 | Los Pinguos | Alegria | Dutch and Claudette run after the migrant worker as he escapes through a small hole in the fence. | |
Track 9 | Zamp Nicall | The Streets of Iran | As Danny Sofer exits the bar and is threatened at gunpoint by one of Rondell's guys. | |
Blowback | ||||
Track 1 | Seda Garibyan | Hyots Aghunak | At the beginning where Vic and Ronnie arrive to the apartment and place a wiretap. | |
Track 2 | 3rd Root | Wah Wah | Lem and Shane talk about Rondell's drugs. | |
Track 3 | SX-10 | Caught Up In The System | Strike Team preps for the bust in the club house. | |
Track 4 | Haissmavourk Choir | Yerg Votnlvai [1] (Hymn for the Washing of the Feet) | Margos guys snorting drugs before the take down. | |
Track 5 | Trailer Park Casanovas | Beer (feat. El Vez) | Shane arrives at Amy's place. | |
Track 6 | Push | The Flute Song | Vic and Shane meet officer Hoffman in the cafe for information about their missing SUV. | |
Track 7 | Project 86 | Rebuttal | Vic has a knife pointed at the guy in the store and asks him about their missing drugs. | |
Track 8 | Jason Darling | One By One | Julien Lowe visits Tomas. | |
Track 9 | Bernie Marsden | Ballad of Joliet | End of the episode where Dutch rolls by his car seeing Vic kiss Danny. | |
Cherrypoppers | ||||
Track 1 | Zamp Nicall | Under the Midnight Sun | Vic meets Connie on the street and asks about his case he is working on. | |
Track 2 | Lee Jung-Hyun | Crazy | Strike Team visits Korea Town bar for suspects. | |
Track 3 | Jim Blake | Forbidden Fruit | Vic enters the sex club just before the stage curtains open. | |
Track 4 | Mozart String Serenade No.13 | Eine Kleine Nachtmusik KV525 Second Movement | Man in the mask is undressing underage Sun Lee. | |
Track 5 | Gregg Montante | Night In The City | Strike Team and the uniformed officers sweep the illegal sex club. | |
Track 6 | Buckcherry | Whiskey In the Morning | Vic meets Kurt, the alleged cherry popper movie maker. | |
Track 7 | Cardia | Love Loss | Ending montage of Dutch sitting at Danny's porch and her inviting him to dinner. | |
Pay in pain | ||||
Track 1 | Los Pinguos | Fumaza | Beginning of the episode at the shooting range. | |
Track 2 | Danny Wood | Get Away | Vic and Shane sit in the car, Shane finds the book about autism in from his car and making a racist joke about it. | |
Track 3 | Bernie Marsden | Heartbreaker | Julien Lowe asking Tomas if he even has a long-term plan to get his life together. | |
Track 4 | La Maraca | Arte Mixto | Vic asks H'aime the description of the shooter. | |
Track 5 | Stephen Edwards | Montfort | Dutch and Claudette at the sidekicks house asking her to come to the station. | |
Track 6 | Dislocated Styles | Fire in the Hole | Vic talks to Suzanne Klassen outside of her front yard. | |
Track 7 | Mariachi La Estrella | Amor No Te Vayas Mariachi | At the store when Vic asks Shane if SID check the blood pool. | |
Track 8 | Gerard McMahon | Sugar Fine | Dutch going back to the sidekick asking for the message. | |
Track 9 | Mogwai | Take Me Somewhere Nice | Ending scene with Julien and Tomas, when Vic abruptly breaks into the apartment. | |
Cupid and Psycho | ||||
Track 1 | SX-10 | Erase Me | One of Fran's boyfriends charges the other one, Julien & Danny arrive to scenery. | |
Track 2 | Lootpack | Laws of Physics | Hooper can painted Fran's door, Julien & Danny try to make peace. | |
Track 3 | Sam Black Church | We Got the Youth | Vic and Claudette visit the campus. | |
Track 4 | The Soul Brothers Six | Where You Gonna Find Another Fool | Danny gives Fran some advice about men. | |
Track 5 | The Magnetic Fields | All My Little Words | End montage. | |
Throwaway | ||||
Track 1 | Brujeria | Cuiden a los Ninos | Trucking is getting hijacked at the beginning. | |
Track 2 | Kinto Sol | Como Secundaria | Vic Mackey meets with the tattoo artist for his sketch. | |
Track 3 | Julieta Venegas | Salvavídas | Lem secures Tigre's place. | |
Track 4 | Julieta Venegas | Voluntad | Lem at Tigre's place talking with her about his haircut. | |
Track 5 | Cage9 | Nacionabisom | Curtis Lemansky confronts Hector with punches. | |
Track 6 | Conejo | Lets Ride | Strike Team robs the evidence truck. | |
Track 7 | Kinto Sol | El Capitan | Strike Team raiding Hector's house. | |
Track 8 | Julieta Venegas | Fe | End montage, Lem cuddling with Tigre. | |
Dragonchasers | ||||
Track 1 | Zach Tempest | Anthem | Beginning montage in the strip club. | |
Track 2 | Goleta | Satelitte | Playing at the van, when Lem and Shane getting to listen Ronnie's wiretap. | |
Track 3 | Goleta | Sing Along | Shane getting a strip from Tulips, and suggestion from her to go outside. | |
Track 4 | Erinn Williams aka Hunter | I Am King | Dutch talks to Shawn at his car mechanic garage. | |
Track 5 | Mogwai | Helicon 1 | Connie recovering from her recent intoxication, escapes from Ronnie's watch. | |
Track 6 | Hedder | Pull You Into Me | Dutch sitting into his car at the end of the episode. | |
Carnivores | ||||
Track 1 | SX-10 | Punk Ass | Shane and Ronnie go out on the streets for information of Rondell's drug competition. | |
Track 2 | Pagliacci & Mario Lanza | Vesti La Guibba | Acaveda enters the Maureen place for the first time after many years have passed. | |
Track 3 | Lee Hee Hee (이가희) | Mill (밀) | Dutch and Claudette are at the store questioning the store owner and asking to give out the evidence. | |
Track 4 | Daniel Indart | Los Parranderos | Julien chasing a kid with a gun at the birthday party. | |
Track 5 | Goldo | All I Really Want | Dutch and Claudette with SWAT raid the apartment of home invasionist boys. | |
Track 6 | The Royal Philharmonic | Casta Diva | David Acaveda visiting Maureen, hoping she will finally recant her story about the rape allegations. | |
Track 7 | Luther Guitar Junior Johnson | I'm Gone | At the end of the episode, Dutch and Claudette being in the crime scene. | |
Two days of Blood | ||||
Track 1 | Jesus Alejandro El Nino | Como Te Gusta (Remix) | In the beginning when the guys are drunk and elevated by their cocks fighting in the pit arena. | |
Track 2 | DJ Curse, Soulstice | Superfunk 2000 | Street corner drug deal goes very wrong. | |
Track 3 | Henri Yonet | Mystery | Acaveda and Claudette question the witness woman about the grove murders. | |
Track 4 | Delinquent Habits | Freedom Band | Vic interrupts gang hangout. | |
Track 5 | Tony Cook | Teeny Bopper | Danny Sofer and Julien Lowe respond to Dukeys garage sale. | |
Track 6 | Maraca | Pa'Gozar Pilón | Shane bird wins the first fight in the night. | |
Track 7 | Steve Reynolds | Even Now | SWAT raids an apartment including Acaveda and Claudette. | |
Track 8 | Xocoyotzin Herrera | Esperanza | Shane is inside cockfighting arena, his bird is losing out. | |
Track 9 | Bobby Byrd | On the Move | Dukey gets arrested. | |
Track 10 | Rumblefish | Statistic(Roy Mayorga mix) | Riot breaks out at the end of the episode. | |
Circles | ||||
Track 1 | Project 86 | Spill Me | Danny & Julien get ambushed, early in the episode. | |
Track 2 | Conejo | Planet Los Angeles | Vic and Shane chase a alleged witness of the shooting to the alleyway. | |
Track 3 | Transultra | From Out | Comes from the alleyway when Vic blasts through the fence and starts talking to the boy. | |
Track 4 | Push | Eddie's Thing - 1987 | Vic meets with Tio in the street. | |
Track 5 | Transultra | O'Chanko | Vic and Shane approach the door where Sonny's junkie dad is living at. | |
Track 6 | Ill Nino | Nothing's Clear | Acaveda and the whole department of the Barn chase the drive by shooters. | |
Track 7 | Jaya the Cat | Cultifornia | Danny & Julien visit a woman who made an emergency call. | |
Track 8 | Coldplay | Trouble | Ending montage with Vic having a mental breakdown. | |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 1 | |
P.J. Bloom, Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description | |
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The Quick Fix | ||||
Track 1 | Whitehouse | Quentan Que El | Plays at the beginning of the episode, gang setting up the murder execution. | |
Track 2 | Donatella | Under the Moon | Vic breaks into the apartment on the information Gordie gave him about his wife. | |
Track 3 | Dilated Peoples, Lootpack | Long Awaited | Vic brings Alvarez in the rival hood to sweat him for information. | |
Track 4 | Muffy | Overthrown | Passing car near Dannys apartment, when she is laying down and Vic putting his clothes on. | |
Track 5 | Francisco Javier Gonzalez | El Indio Y El Vaquero | Strike Team arrives to Mexico. | |
Track 6 | Richard Cottle | Gypsy Fire | Strike Team move in to bust Navarro near the restaurant. | |
Track 7 | Julianne Richards | Get To You | Maya comes back home, Claudette runs to her. | |
Track 8 | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Blue on Black | Ending scene with Acaveda and Vic. | |
Dead Soldiers | ||||
Track 1 | Kinto Sol | No Muerdas la Mano | Armadillo's gang hanging out and getting inked in the beginning of the episode. | |
Track 2 | Los Pinguos | Mi Manera de Amarte | Strike Team visits Armadillo's house in the early morning to ask about his whereabouts. | |
Track 3 | Nawal Al Zoghbi | Ghib An Aynaya | Julien and Danny inspect the apartment where the woman complained the smell coming from. | |
Track 4 | Supervision | Baby | Danny Sofer confronts the armed man Zayed Al-Thani. | |
Track 5 | Whitehouse | Cuentan Que El | At the end. | |
Partners | ||||
Track 1 | Tantric | Breakdown | Opening to the episode and credits running. | |
Track 2 | Jade Esteban Estrada | Bella Morena | Dutch talking at the crime scene where the guy found the amputated arm near the trashcan. | |
Track 3 | Zamp Nicall | Fifty Second Street | Dutch asks Marcy and Bob to come to the police station to give statements about the missing girl with amputated arm. | |
Track 4 | Gil Bernal | Easyville - 1954 | Vic and Joe Clarke are talking in the cafe. | |
Track 5 | Outlawz, Jayo Felony | Rockin (feat. Jayo Felony) | (Instrumental) When Vic and Joe Clarke arrive near apartment building and Fleetwood comes throwing cash at Clarke. | |
Track 6 | Zamp Nicall | Faces in The Crowd | Claudette and Dutch visit Bob and Marcy again. They are about to drive out of the parking garage. | |
Track 7 | Black Toast music | Down With Me | Vic and Joe Clarke catch Taylor Orrs on the street. | |
Track 8 | Debemos Creer | Bye Sami | Vic visits his former partner Joe Clarks apartment. Joe rants about his lawsuit. | |
Track 9 | F.Y.N.E | Make Ya Head Pop Off | Fleetwood sits into his car and drives off. | |
Track 10 | Diana Lee | My Man | Shane forces a confession out of Fleetwoods girl. | |
Track 11 | Michael Penn | Whole Truth | Shane walks in the hospital room. Visibly upset Dutch walks into washroom. | |
Carte Blanche | ||||
Track 1 | Geddin Ug'Lee | Extreme | Taylor Orrs is having his van sale near the curb of the street. | |
Track 2 | Tresspasser | Bad Medicine | Vic wants information from the store owner who owned the jewels. | |
Track 3 | The Rhythm Machine | The Kick | Vic and Shane catch the guy on the store who knocked off his Armenian partner. | |
Track 4 | Narine Shahbazian | Broyi Broyi | Vic shows Alex Esnik the missing jewels in the bar lounge. | |
Track 5 | John Fiddy, Helen Welch, Orchestra John Fiddy | Everytime We Meet | Vic takes a motel room at the end of the episode. | |
Greenlit | ||||
Track 1 | North Mississippi Allstars | Drinking Muddy Water | Strike Team clubhouse playing cards in the beginning. | |
Track 2 | Universal Production Music | East Coast Strut | Claudette is in the store questioning the storekeeper. | |
Track 3 | Slim and The Soulful Saints | Fish Head | Dutch & Claudette are questioning witness about Earl. | |
Track 4 | Santana | Corazón Espinado (feat. Maná) | Shane discussing money train with Lem and Vic and Ronnie in other car seeing Enrique walking to the spot. | |
Track 5 | Kinto Sol | Que Risa Me Da | Enrique gets busted undercover and Strike Team raids the house. | |
Track 6 | Tha Mexakinz | Phonkie Melodia | Vic chokes Eduardo with a towel for Armadillos location. | |
Track 7 | Whitehouse | Cuentan Que El | Coming from the house at the end of the episode. | |
Homewrecker | ||||
Track 1 | Campagnia D'Opera Italiane | Medamina! (Don Giovanni) | Coming from Gordies car stereo when talking to Vic. | |
Track 2 | Babaloo | Trabalengua | Vic and Shane question the pimp. | |
Track 3 | Ill Harmonics | Take Two (Call Me In the Morning) | Aceveda and Julien stop a kid on a bike and talk to him. | |
Track 4 | Click Tha Supah Latin | 4 My People | Julien is in the duty with Aceveda, they recover the boys bike Aceveda accidentally stole. | |
Track 5 | Dragbeat | Pure Dirt | Connie is taken hostage, Vic enters the apartment to negotiate. | |
Track 6 | Radio Mundial | Me Voy | Aceveda and Julien return the bike to the rightful owner. | |
Barnstormers | ||||
Track 1 | Daryl Hall & John Oates | Rich Girl | In the beginning, Lem keeps imitating/singing this song. | |
Track 2 | Tree | Subdued | Coming from the apartment when Vic & Shane make a deal with Leith. | |
Track 3 | James Speer | It Would Seem | Dutch rips up the evidence bra for his case in the car. | |
Track 4 | Road Kings | Gunslinger | In Shane's car stereo when he's going to meet Herk with Tulips. | |
Track 5 | Pete Droge | I Can't Help from Crying Sometime | At the end, Vic finds Ronnie on his apartment kitchen floor. | |
Scar Tissue | ||||
Track 1 | Pete Droge | I Can't Help from Crying Sometime | Ronnie Gardocki being hauled away at the beginning on the stretcher. | |
Track 2 | Stoic Frame | Demonios | Leashed dog attacks Shane at the backyard. | |
Track 3 | V1RT7U4L | Sin Oxigeno | Strike Team breaks into another territory with one guy working on the truck and another one in the front. | |
Track 4 | Las Quince Letras | Sueno Purepecha | Inside Armadillos building when he sees strike team block all his exit/entrances. | |
Track 5 | Flogging Molly | If I Ever Leave This World Alive | End montage. | |
Co-Pilot | ||||
Track 1 | Black Uhuru | Justice | Vic and Shane question Ringo. | |
Track 2 | Grupo Imperio | Quiero Ver | Danny & Julien get breakfast from the food truck and notice a bloody female victim | |
Track 3 | B Dastardly | I-Witness | Danny & Julien arrest Karlton Johnson. | |
Track 4 | Roy Wootton | I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside | Vic and Shane listening to the wiretap they put on Connie to be sure she is safe putting drugs under the sink. While camera shows the carousel. | |
Track 5 | The Neckbones | Gangstafied | When Strike Team searches for drugs Connie planted under the sink and arrest the guy afterwards. | |
Track 6 | Grupo Imperio | Enamórate | ||
Track 7 | Dave Anderson | Cool Guitar Blues | End of the episode with Terry Crowley end montage joining in with the Strike Team, Lem coming off from shower and Julien seeing his naked butt. | |
Coyotes | ||||
Track 1 | Chucho Merchan | Funba Rumba | Some Latino women brawl on the street and Julien commands one of them to spit out the knife. | |
Track 2 | Simon Stokes | Jungle Music | Gilroy is in the bar drinking. | |
Track 3 | Mariachi La Estrella | Dorado | Plays very shortly from the coyotes van when he arrives to the drop off point with the migrants. | |
Track 4 | Element | Superkollider | Claudette and Dutch search for Nancy in the dark building. | |
Inferno | ||||
Track 1 | Fanny Grace | Fade Away | Beginning of the episode, Julien chases a suspect into a clothing store. | |
Track 2 | Onyx | Bring 'Em Out Dead | Kern wants to bring Vic and his team into his drug game. | |
Track 3 | Jasz | Take It to Da Flo | Tavon asks the manager if they could get inside Froggers apartment. | |
Track 4 | Sam Sneed | 2 Tha Floor | Strike Team raids Froggers apartment, coming from stereo. | |
Track 5 | Kelis | Mafia | Vic, Shane visit Kern for to tell they can't be part of his business and they still owe him for the tip for Dante Fell. | |
Track 6 | Angela Johnson | No Better Love | Vic visits Kern again, admitting his mistake with earlier business model they had with Rondell. | |
Track 7 | Map of Wyoming | Hilltop | In the end of the episode Corrine visits Vic about the lawyer he hired for the custody case. | |
Breakpoint | ||||
Track 1 | Orchestra Heinz Kiessling | Martini Genie | Julien visits Tomas in the cafe for the last time with his counselor. | |
Track 2 | Unida | Thorn | Vic and Shane check up the sex store. | |
Track 3 | Grahame McLean, Pat Lee, Stephan North | Eensy Weensy Spider | Corrine is bathing Meghan in the bathtub when Vic has to break into the house setting off the alarm. | |
Track 4 | Michael Melvoin | Sunflower | Playing in the restaurant when Claudette chats up with Chief Bankston. | |
Dominoes Falling | ||||
Track 1 | Daniel Ash | Trouble | Vic and his team visit Radiohead. | |
Track 2 | Grand Drive | Firefly | Ronnie enters Armenian money site with the garbage truck. Shane and Lem waiting inside preparing to go out. | |
Track 3 | Littles, Big Noyd | Ghetto Starzz (feat. Big Noyd) | Tavon plays faked Russian roulette with the gun on the suspect. | |
Track 4 | Cabula | Poder de la Mujer | Vic and Tavon at the fairy searching for the shooter. | |
Track 5 | Nailah Porter | The Scene | Plays when Julien and her wife Vanessa doing chores. | |
Track 6 | Live | Overcome | End montage of the episode. | |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 2 | |
P.J. Bloom, Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description |
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Playing Tight | |||
Track 1 | Rupert Holmes | Escape (The Piña Colada Song) | At the beginning, Strike Team on the stakeout. |
Track 2 | Kameil Madison | Rock Ya Body | At Kern's club; Vic and Shane come to ask about the guns. |
Track 3 | Gargantua Soul | Rat Pack | Lem and Shane listen to the wiretap they left on Kern Little's, Lem notices a car passing by with music on. |
Track 4 | Spider Harrison | Beautiful Day | Vic meets up with his guys at the crime scene. |
Track 5 | Kings of Leon | Holy Roller Novocaine | Vic taking some of the money train cash at the end of the episode, Shane buying the Lexus for Mara. |
Blood and Water | |||
Track 1 | Bermudez Triangle | Cu-Cu-Cumbia | Vic and Shane meet Garza near fast food place. |
Track 2 | Paco | Maria | Julien Lowe and Tommy Hisk arrive to a fresh crime scene. |
Track 3 | Phaser | Sway | Shane having a talk with Mara about Vic and their relationship. |
Track 4 | Volovan | No Quieres Venir | Dutch and Claudette at the barber shop questioning the woman. |
Track 5 | Tattoo Ink | La Quemazon | Coming from Garzas drug lab. |
Track 6 | Willie Nelson | Nothing I Can Do About It Now | Strike Team at the bay, ending montage. |
Bottom Bitch | |||
Track 1 | St.John | Crack in the Street | Hooker talks to Tavon, Strike Team is working their regular john's sting. |
Track 2 | Karry Walker | Fillmore | Tavon and Shane get solicitated by queen prostitute Cocoa. |
Track 3 | Dispatch | Here We Go | Tavon and Shane try to run down the metal door, before Coco tries to flush the drugs. |
Track 4 | Jonny Lang | Long Time Coming | Vic is talking to Farah at the end. |
Track 5 | Mudhoney | Inside Job | Shane is having a small engagement party in his place with Mara. |
Streaks and Tips | |||
Track 1 | Chucho Merchan | Ahead on Points | A lady is spying from the curtains while strike team approaches Danny's apartment. |
Track 2 | Sam Black Church | New God Science | Deena arrives with the guy. Setup for the Strike Team to bust in. |
Track 3 | James Speer | Already Gone | Shane and Tavon are talking before the fight. |
Track 4 | Addison Groove Project | Canopy | Tavon hits the ground through the vans windshield with his head injury, passing car has this song on. |
Track 5 | Billy Squier | The Stroke | At the end, the Decoy Squad stripping because of the lost bet. |
Mum | |||
Track 1 | Los Violadores | 1, 2, Ultraviolento | Strike Team arrives to the Alvarado Corridor to sweep speedracers gathering around all over the place. |
Track 2 | Spigga | Papa Knows | Vic forces a bong inside Juan Lozano's throat. |
Track 3 | Greencastle Homer, Terran Eve | You and Me | Claudette calms down Luanne who holds a gun in her hand. |
Posse Up | |||
Track 1 | Deltron 3030 | 3030 | Vic arrives near drug crib to investigate for a suspect. |
Track 2 | Honkeyball | So Called Friends | Julien and Vic arrest the guy who killed Tommy's family. |
Track 3 | The Vienna Chamber Ensemble, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Ave Verum | At the house, Vic argues with Corrine about seeing Owen. |
Track 4 | Andy Stochansky | Everest | Vic tells the Strike Team the marked bills list is in Aceveda's safe. |
Safe | |||
Track 1 | Banda La Estrella | El Chino y el Alacran (feat. Xocoyotzin Herrera) | Strike Team take Otilio to questioning from the streets. |
Track 2 | John Eddie | Place You Go | At the end, David Aceveda goes to his cousin about his assault, coming from the garage. |
Cracking Ice | |||
Track 1 | The Sheila Divine | Black River | Vic and Lauren have sex early in episode. |
Track 2 | Joseph Charles, Stephen McIntosh | Maybe Young | Vic and Shane visit Desirae at the hair salon. |
Track 3 | James Speer | Already Gone | Danny and Dutch in the car noticing the practicing cuckhold mastrubating near the window. |
Track 4 | Baby Bash | Feelin Me | Playing in the background when Lil Syke and Trish begin to have sex while she is undercover. |
Track 5 | Phaser | Sway | Played during end montage while Shane gives Mara an engagement ring. |
Slipknot | |||
Track 1 | Dudley Perkins | Washedbrainsyndrome | Vic comes to Twizzy to offer him to give up the priest killer. |
Track 2 | Dudley Perkins | Yo' Soul | Vic takes Twizzy's guns from the table. |
Track 3 | Steve Earle | Ashes to Ashes | Plays during ending montage, the Decoy Squad clearing out of the Barn and Strike Team raiding Russians on the compound. |
What Power Is... | |||
Track 1 | M-16 | Sentimientos Rotos | Aceveda ON the watch of Juan Luzano in the beginning. |
Track 2 | Blue Mountain | Riley and Spencer | On Shane's car stereo just before Mara calls about her mom wanting more money. |
Strays | |||
Track 1 | Los Reyes Del Bajo Mundo | Y Por Que | Trick escapes Strike Teams custody. A random car passes by aftermath with that song on. |
Track 2 | The Sheila Divine | Dramatica | Shane asks Mara to go to Vegas to get married. |
Track 3 | Jimmy & The Hillisbillys | Anything | Vic and Lauren snuggling in the bedroom. |
Riceburner | |||
Track 1 | The Peasants | Forty Lines | Ronnie notices Shane's wedding ring, comes from clubhouse. |
Track 2 | Ziroq | Pobre Corazon | Dutch is questioning a witness with Claudette in a store. |
Track 3 | Opeat Got | Belief (신념) | Vic and Shane break into Tracy's illegal credit card theft operations room. |
Track 4 | Deux (듀스) | Forever (힘들어) | Strike Team goes through a store front before breaking into a video game room. |
Track 5 | Korean Folk Music Ensemble | Shinawi | Strike Team goes back to Tracy, Vic is about to arrest her but changes his mind. |
Track 6 | Kim Kwang Jin | Solveig | At the house when Vic catches Kim. |
Track 7 | Gordie Sampson | Hangin' By a Wire | Vic and Corrine talk about their custody time. |
Fire In The Hole | |||
Track 1 | Brown Eyez | Woe | Lem notes to Vic that they never should have taken the money, coming from nearby apartment complex. |
All In | |||
Track 1 | Ween | It's Gonna Be a Long Night | Strike Team is shaking down a group on the street. |
Track 2 | Meliah Rage | Barely Human | Strike Team halts the half empty gas truck. |
Track 3 | Nune Yesayan | Tamam Ashkharh | Margos stabs Sosi, while strike team pinpoints his location in the building. |
On Tilt | |||
Track 1 | Rokk | Patience | At the store, Danny and Julien talk with Robert Huggins. |
Track 2 | Harout Pamboukjian | Te Atcheres | Near the beginning, Strike Team busts into a house. |
Track 3 | Dwight Yoakam | The Back of Your Hand | Coming from Shane's car stereo when he leaves at the end of the episode. |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 3 | |
Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description |
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The Cure | |||
Track 1 | Jesus Alejandro El Nino | Rebulu | The beginning montage of serving the warrant. |
Track 2 | Jimmy and The Hillisbillys | Lets Hillisbilly | Officer Scooby struggles with the aggressive dog in the apartment. |
Track 3 | Master P | Ooohhwee (feat. Markita) | Captain Monica Rawling asks T-Gun to turn around at the cafe. |
Track 4 | Graham MacLean, Pat Lee, Stephan North | Skip To My Lou | Monica Rawling is comforting the found crying boy. |
Track 5 | Lars-Luis Linek | Hope | Vic beats up the father who beat his kid on the garage sting tape. |
Track 6 | Tech-I-La | Tus Besos | Was playing shortly when Vic was tackling the rape suspect of that child. |
Track 7 | Doctor Ross | Good Thing Blues | Vic and Shane are talking inside Dead Eye's house. |
Grave | |||
Track 1 | Mary Love | More Love | In the beginning, Army and Shane entering the sex shop. |
Track 2 | Christian Padovan, Stephane Huguenin, Yves Sanna | The Other Day | Shane talks to Army to pocket the drugs for by busts at sex shop. |
Track 3 | Funkhouse With Candy | Tenderness | Antwon Mitchell and some of his crew help to build the wreck center when Vic pays a visit about his case. |
Track 4 | Laurie Burgess | Best in Me | The boy runs into the store swallowing the drugs, while Strike Team follow him. Music comes from store. |
Track 5 | Dropkick Murphys | Amazing Grace | At the end of the funeral; Aceveda packing up his office and Rawling setting hers up. |
Bang | |||
Track 1 | Mr Badwrench | Gasoline | Vic, Ronnie and Lem meet up in the bar to discuss Shane's shady dealings with Antwon. |
Track 2 | Mikal Raymo | Lay Down | Plays on the pornographic video for the TV set. |
Track 3 | PM The New Blues Revival | Virginia-Highland Walk | Vic, Shane and Army visit Terrence Ross in his video editing studio. |
Doghouse | |||
Track 1 | Dahlia | Forget This Place | Aceveda smoking in the bar lounge and chatting with high class escort Sara. |
Track 2 | Stoic Frame | Otro Caido En El Callejon | Vic & Ronnie chase the rapist to backyard. |
Track 3 | Dahlia | Live in Light | David Aceveda meets Sara escort woman at her house. |
Track 4 | Grant Lee Buffalo | Demon Called Deception | End montage of Vic taking a huge look around at the Barn. |
Tar Baby | |||
Track 1 | Duran Duran | Hungry Like The Wolf | Played in Dutch's car as he sings to it, unaware that he's being recorded for the sting project. |
Insurgents | |||
Track 1 | Les Choeurs de L'Armée Rouge, Boris Alexandrov | Katioucha (Катю́ша) | Ronnie is talking with Vic about the recent wiretap on the russian cab in the club house, song emits from earphones. |
Hurts | |||
Track 1 | Vivian Ann Romero, Ernesto J.Bautista & Rodney Alejandro | The Shield Theme | Julien and Danny stop a passing car, noticing the weed smell. |
Track 2 | And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead | Will You Smile Again For Me | Plays during end montage of Vic walking outside of rain and Shane trying to contact his CI. |
Cut Throat | |||
Track 1 | Alice In Chains | Nutshell | Played at the start of opening credits, while Vic is driving to meet Monica Rawling. |
String Theory | |||
Track 1 | Juan Del Castillo & Daniel Indart | Somos Mexicanos | Officers having a lunch in the beginning, including Danny, Julien with Scooby and Carl having a chat. |
Back In The Hole | |||
Track 1 | Jose Leon | Quiero Bailar Contigo | Lem pays a visit to Bettario at his house with Emolia Mendez seeing the drugs Lemansky takes with him. |
A Thousand Deaths | |||
Track 1 | Vivian Ann Romero, Ernesto J.Bautista & Rodney Alejandro | The Shield Theme | Vic & Shane stakeout the judge. |
Track 2 | Crazy Anglos | Rushing In | Guys come in to the carwash where Billings is and shoot the nearby driver. |
Track 3 | Santino | Para Abajo Y Para Arriba | Vic visits Gusano with the Strike Team and says to stay away from Emolia and her kid. |
Judas Priest | |||
Ain't That A Shame | |||
Track 1 | Liza Carbe & Jean-Pierre Durand | Yo Te Traigo Amor | Strike Team is at Beneas store. |
Track 3 | Cheap Trick | Ain't That a Shame | Ending montage during the bar celebration and memorial, Monica Rawling drinking her beer at home. |
Track 4 | Roc Raida featuring Paradime | The Shield Theme (X-Ecutioners Remix) | Remix playing during Season 4 ending credits |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 4 | |
Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description |
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Extraction | |||
Track 1 | Livin Out Loud | Come On Baby | Strike Team talk to a store clerk. |
Track 2 | Coldplay | Til Kingdom Come | End montage. |
Enemy of Good | |||
Track 1 | Harry Hayward | I'll Never Be Happy Again | Coming from Vic's car stereo at the beginning of the episode. |
Track 2 | Barrio Latino | No Quiero Tu Amor | Emits from Emolias house when Vic is talking to her about Doomsday. |
Track 3 | Stoic Frame | Sensacion De Placer | Strike Team returns to Doomsday's house where they tied him up. |
Track 4 | The Marvels | Hate Myself | Coming from the apartment complex, when Julien and Tina try to control intoxicated men. |
Track 5 | Enzo & Su Clan | Pa'l Salvador | Strike Team arrest Doomsday at the diner. |
Jailbait | |||
Track 1 | Los Panchos | La Mucura | Julien & Tina arrive on the scenery to a big man laying on a woman. |
Tapa Boca | |||
Trophy | |||
Track 1 | St. John | Who You Leavin' Wit | Strike Team entering the strip club. |
Track 2 | 22-20s | Devil In Me | Strike Team loading their weapons and preparing for the sting. |
Rap Payback | |||
Track 1 | Madison Smartt Bell & Wyn Cooper | Anything Goes | End montage of Kavanaugh watching down on the Strike Team from upper office. |
Man Inside | |||
Track 1 | Siop | Glass House | Coming from drug addict car stereo, when arriving to the wrong house. |
Kavanaugh | |||
Track 1 | Jane Fuller | Gonna Cause Trouble | Emits from the diner, when Jon Kavanaugh is talking to Emolia. |
Smoked | |||
Track 1 | The Hangmen | Blue Light | Coming from the Smitty's store, when Strike Team visits him about taking Lem's bail. |
Of Mice and Lem | |||
Track 1 | St. John | Shake Ya Thang | Lem is having send off at the strip club with Strike Team just before the plans change. |
Track 2 | The Roues Brothers | Roadhouse USA | Just before end montage song starts to play, there is a short scene of the bartender with that on the radio. |
Track 3 | The Smashing Pumpkins | Disarm | End montage. |
Post Partum | |||
Track 1 | Dirty Rig | Two | Lem can not stand the crying kid near the trailer park, he runs to help him. |
Track 2 | Marta Gomez | Pececito de Agua | Emits from the store when Strike Team visits Aldo at the shop. |
Track 3 | El Imperio | Controversiales | Strike Team raiding one of Guardo's stash houses. |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 5 | |
Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description |
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On The Jones | |||
Track 1 | Johnny Cash | I Hung My Head | Opening titles; Strike Team meets up and pays their final respects to Lem; End credits. |
Track 2 | The Robins | One Kiss | Strike Team investigates an apartment, just the moment when Ronnie describes the guys drug addiction. |
Track 3 | Laurent Lombard | Disco Pop Love | It comes from porn mag store. |
Baptism By Fire | |||
Track 1 | El Imperio | Nena | Vic Mackey arriving near the gates of Santi's crib. |
Track 2 | Raza Pesada | El Maloso | Vic requesting Rocha's location at Santi's crib. |
Back To One | |||
Track 1 | Dirty Rig | GTO | Ronnie, Dutch and Billings raid a meth house and question the woman. |
Track 3 | Bobby Rivas | Soy Guanaco Salvadoreno | Shane is talking to Vic over the car, watching over the trash bin over the street to watch when Guardo arrives. |
Track 4 | Melingo, Luciano Supervielle, Marcelo Gamboa, Contra Las Cuerdas | Miles De Pasajeros | Vic Mackey is invading Guardo's hiding place. |
Track 5 | A Flock of Seagulls | I Ran (So Far Away) | Coming from Dutch's car stereo while going to his place with Tina Hanlon. |
The New Guy | |||
Track 1 | Ron Smooth | Any Otha Day | Vic and Hiatt talk to Moses on the street. |
Track 2 | TRU | Drama | Julien stopping the car with shooting victim laying on it. |
Haunts | |||
Track 1 | G-Stack | Get It Done | Vic approaches Moses to talk about Shanes beating. |
Track 2 | Dex Elliot Sanders | Paralized | Vic and Ronnie talk to Tilli at the yard. |
Track 3 | Drive-By Truckers | 18 Wheels of Love | Shane feeling guilt about Lem and snorting oxycotton in his car. |
Track 4 | Del Castillo | Mi Carino | Emits from the soccer field when Strike Team is making contact with Romero. |
Chasing Ghosts | |||
Track 1 | Dirty Rig | GTO | During the raid on Snell’s apartment. |
Exiled | |||
Track 1 | Rosita | Mariachi La Estrella | Strike Team entering the cafe, who Romero told to raid. |
The Math of Wrath | |||
Track 1 | Ghazaryan | Adanayi Voghperke | At the beginning of the episode, Diro doing some sewing work. |
Track 2 | Celldweller | Own Little World | Diro Kesakhian is listening to this from her headphones on the way to the bus. |
Track 3 | Luny Tunes, Noriega and Baby Ranks | Motivate al Baile | Playing in front of Santi's compound. |
Track 4 | Hillisbillys | Got The Feeling | Coming from Shane's car stereo when he is getting carjacked by the armed guys. |
Track 5 | Ritchie Lo | Never Ending Dreams | Corrine, Tina and Danny enter the shop that will be closed down to grab some Gucci bags. |
Recoil | |||
Track 1 | El Imperio featuring Shaeyla | Basilamos | Vic, Hiatt and Julien want Xavier for questioning. |
Track 2 | El Maloso | Verde, Blanco y Rojo | Vic convincing Santi to wait for another day of retribution for San Marcos murders. |
Track 3 | Jesus Alejandro El Nino | A Comer | Vic, Hiatt, Ronnie and Julien in the bar looking for the suspect. |
Track 4 | The Brand New Heavies | Boogie | Hiatt is having sex with Tina Hanlon, Dutch awkwardly gets setup for this by his partner detective Billings. |
Spanish Practices | |||
Track 1 | Donald Stuart Seigal | Early Warning | Passing car on the street has a radio on, while Vic was writing a note about the limousine he was following. |
Track 2 | Skripture | Interview - Respek | Emits from the gangbangers porch. |
Track 3 | Mariachi La Estrella | No Te Rajes | Coming from the street when Vic is about to arrest a boy who is about to initiate a shooting. |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 6 | |
Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
Episode title | Artist | Song title | Scene description |
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Coefficient of Drag | |||
Track 1 | Social Distortion | Reach For the Sky | Opening montage of Shane going into his apartment. |
Track 2 | Enzo Villaparades | Ritmo del Sol | Shane finds the Zadofian apartment but hides from Vic and Ronnie. |
Track 3 | Tech-I-LA featuring Qbanito | Adicted to You | Outside the apartment, Shane hears two gunshots from Ronnie. |
Track 4 | The New Latin Faction | Hija Cubana | Radio playing at Pezuela's construction site; Vic talks about the blood lines at Kerney street. |
Track 5 | Stephane Huguenin, Yves Sanna | Pretty Girls | On the radio in the apartment where Corrine and her kids stay. |
Track 6 | The Dunes | Sunflower Eyes | Emits from Mara' and Shane apartment when Corrine comes to her at night. |
Track 7 | Standing Shadows | Get Together | Vic & Ronnie meeting Shane at the end of the episode discussing the bloodshed. |
Snitch | |||
Track 1 | Magic featuring Suga Bear | Ball Like Us | Vic and Shane visit Moses at his crib. |
Track 2 | 504 Boyz, Master P | Wanna Live Like Us | [Instrumental] Strike Team enters the hair salon to make the arrest. |
Track 3 | Master P featuring Currensy | Let Em Go | Strike Team leaving from Spook Street, while the crowd going crazy. |
Money Shot | |||
Track 1 | Paul & Price | When The Pushing Starts | Tina Hanlon undercover with at Devin's adult entertainment office. |
Genocide | |||
Track 1 | Juan Zarate | Aqui Estoy | (Instrumental) Julien finds Rios location, Strike Team are heading to the house of his for the raid. |
Game Face | |||
Track 1 | Master P | Anything Goes | Julien rushes in with Burnout to the big factory guns withdrawn. |
Track 2 | Quintaine Americana | Something Went Wrong | Dutch comes into Rita's apartment and confronts his son Lloyd about the assumption of his killings. |
Animal Control | |||
Track 1 | Porcupine Tree | My Ashes | Shane talking to Mara in the end of the episode. |
Bitches Brew | |||
Track 1 | ? | ? | Other rap song playing when Vic and Shane visit escort woman at her apartment. |
Track 2 | Sean Coleman | What Cha Gone Do | Plays shortly when Julien and Ronnie pass by the apartment building while chasing Two Man. |
Track 3 | ? | ? | Another rap song playing shortly after Strike Team gets out of the car to chase Two Man. |
Track 4 | Shidee Thompson, Charlene Gilliam, Edgard Jaude & Rafael Torres | Hoop Looters | (Instrumental) Strike Team chases Two Man, Ronnie jumps him, Vic taking his money stack. |
Parricide | |||
Track 1 | Drive-By Truckers | A Blessing and a Curse | Opening titles, Shane preparing his murder plan. |
Track 2 | TRU | Point 'em Out | Vic Mackey and police arrest Damon Leaks. |
Moving Day | |||
Track 1 | Chucho Merchan | Finger Snap | Dutch visits Rita and trying gett into Loyd's past life as a teenager. |
Party Line | |||
Track 1 | Michael Mazochi | Tonight | Ronnie and Vic visit Mara's mother in the middle of the night. |
Petty Cash | |||
Track 1 | ? | ? | Song at the lounge when Vic visits Beltran. |
Possible Kill Screen | |||
Track 1 | Los Lonely Boys | My Way | Shane getting into a fight in the apartment. |
Family Meeting | |||
Track 1 | X | Los Angeles | Opening credits; Vic driving to meet Ronnie. |
Track 2 | Robbie Nevil | Livin The Dream | At the store, Shane is buying flowers and pens. |
Track 3 | Los Rams De La Sierra | En El Baile | At the warehouse, Vic and Ronnie sneak up on Beltran and his protection crew. |
Track 4 | Concrete Blonde | ...Long Time Ago | End credits montage. |
Music supervisors | Music editor |
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Season 7 | |
Ray Espinola Jr., Evyen Klean | Zamp Nicall |
The Shield: Music from the Streets | |
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Soundtrack album by Various Artists | |
Released | September 5, 2005 |
Genre | Various |
Label | Lakeshore Records |
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As of 2012, one official soundtrack compilation had been released. The Shield: Music from the Streets was released in 2005, [1] and contains selections from the first four seasons. Unofficial soundtracks on the Internet compiled by fans include tracks featured in episodes that were not included on the official soundtrack.