Mad Men - David Carbonara - The Carousel

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Enjoy!

[stephenmontgomery]

This song has haunted/enchanted me for so many years. Truly one of the best moments in television history. I’m 46, I’ve lived a rich though sometimes difficult life, and there are so many places I ache to go again. This song is an absolute masterpiece for bringing that all to the fore, and it’s comforting to see that there are so many out there who are touched by it too.

[XiangYu]

Came here for boozy, 50's style advertising agency inspiration music... Came out with an Don Draper-level existential crisis

[DoodlePoodle]

When I first watched this episode when it originally aired, this song in particular stuck with me for a long time. Now, several years later, I'm starting the series over and heard this again. Then searched like mad to find it. I'm so shocked to have discovered it! What great music - and to go along with such a powerful scene. It's almost too perfect.

[ladyreverie]

God I love Mad Men. Before I watched it when people talked about it I had this idea it was just this drama about the 60s, but it's so DEEP and human. One of my absolute favourite series ever. Deserved every Emmy it was ever nominated for.

My favourite episode is the one with the Cuban Missile Crisis and everyone thinks they're going to die.

[beanutgames]

1:30 perfectly encapsulates the wistful feeling of nostalgia looking back on childhood.

[TheStuport]

We had A Carousel and every Holiday Dad would cart it out of the closet and we as a family would sit around and relive our memories laughing and smiling and even shedding a few tears for those who had already left to go to Heaven....when I saw this scene in "Mad Men" my heart swelled with Love....I shall forever be grateful ....Cheers Everyone

[MinamuTV]

Beautiful. One of the best scores for any TV show I've ever heard.

[asterio]

The 1:39 minute is what you are looking for, but give the whole song a shot...it's awesome.

[patriciaprimakov]

Incredibly moving scene. "In Greek, Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound..."

[tharkun]

I taught an English Composition course a few months ago, and I asked my students to take a position on which of two authors captured nostalgia more effectively in their short stories. I opened the class with this scene from Mad Men. The question turned into a paper assignment for them; since then, however, I have listened to this track every day before my class comes into the room.  

It's wonderful. 

[tonimoroni]

Not wishing to sound ghoulish, but I'd have this played at my funeral ... it feels like a lifetime encapsulated in a single piece of music. It's quite lovely.

[LepeczynLCN]

It would be so perfect to end the series with this song.

[sebastianblack]

4:21 is where it's at. Entire piece is beautiful, but the way Carbonera brings the theme back is the feels.

[SickTwistedQueen]

Don Draper's speech about the Carousel made me cry.

This song makes me think of moving to a new house with my family on a summer day, to a beautiful one that looks like a miniature castle made of wood. The house has no furniture, but it is filled with the sunlight flooding in from large windows that show a view of flowery hills as the backyard. Then the rain begins to fall, but is beautiful...

Also, 1:38 - 2:10 reminds me of that Silent Hill song, "Promise (Reprise)" somehow.

[DoodlePoodle]

I had a notification on my other comment that I made 4 years ago, so I went to this video. I hadn’t thought of this song at all since then - so I listened to it again and read the comments. Wow, it put me to tears again! What a moving, powerful song/scene. Makes me want to re-watch the series again now.

[ge.bottaro]

Absolutelly mesmerising. One of the best scenes of all the series i've ever watched.

[donjohnson]

Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.

The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.

It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.

[dkiperman]

"Good luck at your next meeting."

[King_Nero_]

The closing music to one of the best episodes(To those who think young S2 ep1) in one of the best series in television history.

[chaaaargh]

there really is something almost haunting but enchanting about this song. i've just started watching mad men after hearing about it for many years (the jury is still out on if i love it yet lol), but this song and especially the scene it plays in was very beautiful. what a shame this isn't on spotify.