Alabama 3 - Alabama 3/A3's Music in TV and Film

Alabama 3/A3's Music in TV and Film

• A remixed version of "Woke Up This Morning" plays during the opening credits of the HBO television series The Sopranos.
• A part of "M.I.A" by the band is played in the 2004 film The Football Factory as the Chelsea firm travel up to Liverpool for an away match.
• A snippet of "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" can be heard at the beginning of the first episode of the third season of The Sopranos as Tony Soprano walks down the drive way to get his morning newspaper.
• "Mansion on the Hill" featured on the Kurt Russell/Kevin Costner film 3000 Miles to Graceland.
• "Too Sick to Pray" plays on the radio in the film Gone in 60 Seconds.
• "Peace in the Valley" is featured in the film A Life Less Ordinary.
• A shortened alternate version of "Woke Up This Morning" can be heard for nearly 50 seconds in The Simpsons episode "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge", while Fat Tony and his gang are on the ride to the Simpsons' house. The sequence is a parody of the opening sequence of The Sopranos. "Woke Up This Morning" is also in the later Simpsons episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer", which guest-starred Sopranos regulars Michael Imperioli and Joe Pantoliano.
• "Sister Rosetta" from Exile on Coldharbour Lane can be heard in the film Barnyard.
• Rapper Nas sampled "Woke Up This Morning" for his 2001 hit "Got Ur Self A...."
• "Woke Up This Morning" was also used in an episode of BBC series Top Gear, in which the team were driving through Alabama.
• "Mao Tse Tung Said" features in the first episode of the second season of Torchwood.
• The song "Ain't Goin' to Goa" is featured in the motion picture Definitely, Maybe.
• The closing scene to first season Criminal Minds episode titled "Won't Get Fooled Again" (10/05/05) plays "The Night We Nearly Got Busted".
• A snippet of "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness" features in the film Some Voices.
• The band is featured in the documentary We Dreamed America. The film, which explores the influence of American country music on British artists, features three songs by the band.
• Episode four of the BBC Three series Being Human features "Too Sick to Pray" at its opening and "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlife" at its end. The songs were omitted from the DVD release of the episode due to copyright issues.
• Rob Spragg (as Rob Love) wrote and recorded the theme to Welsh TV series Y Pris. He and John Hardy won the Best Original Music Soundtrack award at BAFTA Cymru 2008.
• "Mansion on the Hill" is used on the opening credits of 2009 mockumentory Good Arrows, written by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh.
• On the Region 4 DVD release of season one of the Sopranos, the music video to "Woke Up This Morning" is included as a special feature: it is incorrectly credited as being performed by "Alabama 5".
• The song "The Night We Nearly Got Busted" got featured on the Soundtrack of the MMO Game All Points Bulletin.
• "Mansion on the Hill" features in the sixth episode of the ABC television series Carpoolers.