As promised, my "Best of The Sopranos" soundtrack. Once again, as a courtesy to those who (despite belief) didn't watch the show, I'll hide the track listing behind a [+/-].

There's YouTube links for nearly all of the songs inside, but watch out for (relatively minor) spoilers: management will not be held responsible.

1. "Woke Up This Morning (HBO Mix)" (A3) The version that opens the show is almost impossible to find, and all the other versions stink. Ultimately I had to gank a proper version of the song off YouTube using Firefox's Get Video extension and SUPER. But it's mine now.

2. "American Girl" (Tom Petty). This, from "Join the Club", plays in the background as Carmela talks to Tony in his coma (in one of Edie Falco's best scenes).

Here it is live from 1979.

3. "Take Me for a Little While" (Dave Edmunds). Credits song for "Everybody Hurts" from season four (the one where Artie Bucco attempts suicide).

4. "Coffee & TV" (Blur). One of two songs from "Pine Barrens." It's not especially pivotal—I think it's shown on the TV AJ's watching—but it's a good song. YouTube's got the video.

5. "Living on a Thin Line" (The Kinks). Credits song from "University," in which Ralphie kills his stripper goomah. YouTube.

6. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Bobby Darin). Credits song from "Unidentified Black Males" from season 5 (an episode where not much happens; the major event is Finn spotting Vito in the parking lot of the construction site). Jaimee and I have been joking about this song for years, so of course it had to go on.

Behold Bobby Darin live.

7. "Love Hurts" (Nazareth). Carmela sings this during the karaoke sequence in "Sopranos Home Moves." YouTube.

8. "Oh Girl" (The Chi-Lites). This is the song that Tony, melancholy over Irina's moving on, sings along with in the car in a classic sequence from season 4, before he ultimately forces his way into Zellman's apartment and attacks him with a belt. I was hoping the clip from the Sopranos would be on YouTube, but no dice; here's a video anyway.

9. "Don't Bring Me Down." (Eric Burdon & The Animals). This is from "Down Neck" in season one, though sadly I don't remember what's happening on the screen at the time. YouTube.

10. "Gotta Serve Somebody" (Bob Dylan). From "House Arrest" in Season 2 (the episode in which Junior gets his finger stuck in the garbage disposal, one of the series's all-time top-ten most tense moments). Here's Dylan live in 1980.

11. "State Trooper" (Bruce Springsteen). I think this is the only Bruce song they ever used, though I may be wrong about that (and Chris makes a pretty blatant reference to "Born to Run" in "Long Term Parking"). This is the song that closes out season one. YouTube has only covers.

12. "Comfortably Numb" (Pink Floyd). Referenced twice in the last five episodes; it's the song Tony is singing as he walks down the stairs at the beginning of "Walk Like a Man" and the song Chris puts on the radio right before the car accident in "Kennedy and Heidi." YouTube clip from The Wall.

13. "More Than a Feeling" (Boston). Apparently this song is playing while Tony has a panic attack in "House Arrest." YouTube.

14. "All Right Now" (Free). This is one of the songs that plays while Tony and Chris reconnect in season 6a's "The Ride." YouTube.

15. "I'm Not Like Everybody Else" (The Kinks). The credits song for "Cold Cuts" from season 5, as a triumphant Tony leaves Janice's house after causing her to explode with anger. Great song. Here's just a taste from YouTube.

16. "I Saved the World Today" (The Eurythmics). Credits song from "Knight in White Satin Armor," the second-to-last episode of season two. Hey, hey, I saved the world today...

17. "Gloria" (Van Morrison). The other song from "Pine Barrens," playing over an image of (who else?) Gloria Trillo. Apropos of nothing, I should mention that I saw Tom Petty in concert when he was using this song to close his live shows in the late 1990s, and it was one of the most fun versions of any song I've ever heard. G-L-O-R-I-A...

18. "High Fidelity" (Elvis Costello & The Attractions). Credits song from the first episode of season three, "Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood," over the image of the lamp the FBI has bugged (ultimately futilely) in Tony's basement. YouTube.

19. "Glad Tidings" (Van Morrison). In one of my favorite montages in the show's history, this song plays at the end of season five, as a bear-like Tony emerges from the woods. YouTube has completely failed me here.

20. "Don't Stop Believin'" (Journey). Obviously. Here's Family Guy to take us home.