Better Call Saul - Big Rock Candy Mountain

From Season 4, Episode 7 "Something Stupid"
Song is Big Rock Candy Mountain by Burl Ives

[@MCPOSJ117films]

It’s almost like an inside joke, because the meth in the show was all rock candy, so they’re figuratively constructing the big rock candy mountain.

[@mattmarzula]

It would be a cave though.

[@tumsantacid1315]

@@mattmarzula the mountain analogy is referring to the large amount of meth that will be made in the lab during breaking bad the cave analogy works for the lab itself though!

[@jstone98]

Goodness these two shows surely knew how to make a good montage. Thanks

[@theamazingmeh1759]

A laundromat. A meth lab. A tomb. Two in the ground, with another foot in the grave. What was built for a empire, decayed into a colossal wreck.

[@concorde__]

🙄

[@elgamerico]

Walt fuckin' Whitman ova here 😁

[@megaboner690]

​@@elgamericoalways with the scenarios

[@yolomcswaggens9482]

@@theamazingmeh1759 Walt the "time bomb" indeed. Took everyone else with him. Jesse barely got out.

[@awizardwithwords994]

Man, where the HELL do they find all these random bangers that no one has heard of? I swear there's at least 10 or so songs from BB and BCS that I now listen to regularly because of the shows.

[@avocado7947]

Burle Ives. True it's been a while since I've listened this song; fits well with scene

[@fatcat1]

Random to you!

[@RJ-vf5lk]

Oh brother where art thou begins with the original version of this song loved it since I was a kid. The original version of this is probably close to 100 years old by this point.

[@timestamp2525]

This is my alarm song 😭❤ This and "Sun, shine on me today" from BB

[@trippietoadie1296]

Ignorant people think others know as much as they

[@jesseroybowins4159]

the buuuuuuuuuuuzzzzing of the bees. that gets me every time

[@PeteOfDawn]

As soon as the song started I was like “Wait a minute is that Sam the Snowman” and yeah it totally is. That’s the same person who sung and narrated the old Rudolph special

[@Baelor-Breakspear]

I thought it was Pete Seeger for a quick second. I knew Pete Seeger he was a good man and a true inspiration. Not enough people know who he is.

[@PeterT-i1w]

he is called the Snowman because he deals cocaine

[@jameshudson3651]

Burl Ives

[@nh142891]

Such a perfect song for this scene. This show goes deep.

[@tomastuma5866]

Ziiiiieeeegler

[@akovalev1999]

what’s he up to man what’s he doin

[@PerMortensen]

You know how many Werner Zieglers there are in Germany? 27. 26 now, according to Mrs Ziegler.

[@Pretzel829]

Wernerrrrr

[@samueljett7807]

Hadn't heard the song since I was a kid, was nice to hear it again in BCS :)

[@LanceGraveley]

Does anyone wonder how they got all the heavy construction (and later meth producing equipment) down there? Was there a second hole?

[@METALMAN4Wii]

They used Rock Candy for the Meth for Breaking Bad which is funny.

[@pplive7824]

you can thank Dave Porter for picking this song

[@lugie69]

Thomas Golubic was the music supervisor, the guy who picks the music.

[@slippinjimmy8116]

quite a lot of planning went into this

[@alfiecollumbell9740]

music in this episode 😍

[@shotgun_shaun]

I saw Primus last month and Les randomly went into a Burl Ives impression and I wanted them to cover this song so bad

[@Jake227-em2gn]

First time watching Better call Saul loving it! Vince Gilligan really does pick some great music.

[@johnlewisbrooks]

Lol big rock candy mountain...a meth reference lol.

[@supernoodles91]

Perfect montage, so glad the scene with dialogue of Mike giving Werner the marzipan (the devils creation!🤮) was dropped!

[@jmadventures9830]

why the bucket of that skid steer up in the air like that come on man

[@farixxx5555]

A true labour song fits with the scene

[@PapaMike23]

All right, guys, you do know that there's no actual Candy Mountain, right

[@lasseheld6564]

Need this version but clean

[@ofp8574]

What do you mean exactly? The song existed before the show.

[@karlleewhite610]

Gopher, Mike?

[@peterschorn1]

Would've gone with "Drill, Ye Terriers, Drill!"

[@Oliepolie]

imo the Harry McClintock version is better

[@Ritu284]

Fact: it was not recommended by KZbin. You searched for it.

[@idkbro6195]

Fact: it was recommended

[@mpac3602]

Same here 😂

[@JJ-rm7jw]

False

[@charleslarson5983]

Uh… the fuck kind of stupid ass comment is this? no it wasnt

[@charleslarson5983]

dumbfuck, it was recommended

[@guy4835]

Gilligan massively overestimated the fans' interest in the logistics of how the laundromat meth lab was built

[@haanis5458]

I loved that part. Shows how far Mike's morals have fallen since he started working for Gus

[@DaBaconator8461]

I thought it was interesting. It was one of my big questions from BB

[@keithberjeron763]

I personally thought it really added to the story. It aided in character development, answering questions from BB, threw in a huge conflict. It wasn't so much about the physical construction, so much as the building of an empire by a powerful criminal. It actually makes his death seem anticlimactic by comparison, with how much work and manipulation went into his empire. Not to glamorize the life or the decisions that were made. I can't fathom the paranoia and the pressure he was under the whole time.

[@mattmarzula]

To attempt to deconstruct how a story is told in such a pedestrian way shines a light on your level of intelligence. A very dim light.

[@yolomcswaggens9482]

@guy4835 TF are you on about? Speak for yourself. It was absolutely fascinating to me and an essential part of literal world building for the story as far as I'm concerned.

[@TheRunningSongs]

Real ones discovered this song on O brother Where art Thou, but this is still really cool!!

[@StarWarsMoments]

I've known this song since the '70s, squirt.

[@TheRunningSongs]

@@StarWarsMoments Hey that’s actually really cool! I met a dude once who talked about people like, woody gurthie, Harry McClintock, cliff carlise and such. He was so down to earth and humble.