MAD MEN
MUSIC FROM THE SERIES VOL. 1
MANHATTAN RECORDS
Dim the lights and grab a cocktail - Kickface Boy

After being bombarded with reality shows and sitcoms that last all but two weeks, it is refreshing to find something on television that you can actually watch. A period piece set in 1960s New York, one of the things that really holds MAD MEN together is the music. Using a combination of lounge, standards, and bubble gum pop, every song sends you back to a time when it was acceptable to have a drink at the office and where women were expected to be in heels and pearls at all times. It was an era of class, sophistication, and hopelessness. A false sense of happiness and security living out the "American Dream" in the suburbs with two kids in your white picket fence. With all the brilliant music on the show, I only wish that they had made this a two disc set. A great mix of lounge and Brill Building pop, this is what you listen to while enjoying a martini and relaxing in the lounge.

Music from Mad Men Series 1 is at fine music stores everywhere, and Series 2 of the Golden Globe winning series is on A&E as we speak!
 

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