What's That Song When Jack Rides in His Truck in Last Season's 'Lost' Finale?

Posted on Jan 30th 2008 3:00PM by Kim Davis
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'Scentless Apprentice,' by Nirvana

It's been roughly eight months since last season's finale of ABC's Golden Globe and Emmy award-winning drama 'Lost.' A mind-bending two-hour ride, that final episode was punctuated with flashes into the future -- a welcome deviation from the show's flashback format -- in which we see the show's hero (or is he the antihero?), Jack, in full-on self-destructive mode back in the real world. He feels guilty about leaving the island, is relentlessly lonely and is ... well, in a word, lost.

In one of the episode's few glimpses into the future, we are introduced to a new Jack -- one who has traded hope wrangling and morale maintenance for activities more along the lines of pill-popping, growing a beard and driving recklessly.

Cue beloved '90s grunge icon Kurt Cobain. No, really. While lumberjack Jack barrels down the street toward (of all things) a funeral parlor, none other than Nirvana's 'Scentless Apprentice' rages from his car stereo. Off 'In Utero,' the band's final studio album, the song seems like a no-brainer for this scene, considering Jack looks and acts like Cobain's long-lost cousin. And the lyrics only perpetuate the loner mystique: "Go away - get away, get a-way."

Non-score musical moments like this are rare in this series and are limited to character-initiated, story-serving purposes, which, along with the musical director's relatively obscure choices, make these moments all the more interesting. We waved a symbolic goodbye to "normal life" when Hurley's Discman runs out of batteries midway through Joe Purdy's 'Wash Away' in Season One. There was the uber-creepy use of "Mama" Cass Elliott's 'Make Your Own Kind of Music' in the Season Two premiere, when the audience is introduced to life underground with Desmond. And who could forget the way Three Dog Night's 'Shambala' augmented the beer-fueled joyride Hurley, Sawyer and others took in the DHARMA van last season?

Season Three's finale will air again tonight at 9PM ET to prep all of us 'Lost'-heads for tomorrow night's highly anticipated Season Four premiere.

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