Music

This page tracks the composers, theme music, soundtrack leads, and standout songs connected to What About Brian.

Series Music Credits

  • Notable Music Note: Theme song: Calling All Friends by Low Stars. Colin Hay songs are also used in several episodes.

Find the Music

Songs by Episode

Tunefind currently lists the songs below. Some entries are community-added and may need later confirmation, but this gives the page a real episode-by-episode music trail instead of a placeholder.

Season 1

E1 | Pilot

  • Stuck In a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of by U2 (community-added entry)
  • All out of Love by Air Supply (community-added entry)
  • Chocolate by Snow Patrol (community-added entry)
  • American Girl by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, (community-added entry)
  • Baba O’Riley by The Who (community-added entry)
  • Spitting Games by Snow Patrol (community-added entry)
  • Late In the Evening by Paul Simon (community-added entry)
  • Calling All Friends by The Low Stars (community-added entry)
  • Wait for Love by Matt White (community-added entry), Scene with jessica
  • Upside Down by Jackpot (community-added entry)

E2 | Two In Twenty-Four

  • Waiting for My Real Life to Begin by Colin Hay (community-added entry)
  • Satellite by Steve Reynolds (community-added entry)
  • Mainstay by AM (community-added entry)
  • Playing the Game by AM (community-added entry)
  • City of Love by Persephone’s Bees (community-added entry)
  • move it by Adam Hamilton (community-added entry)
  • In a Perfect World by Octoberman (community-added entry)

E3 | Moving Day

  • You Belong to Me by The 88 (community-added entry)
  • Prodigal Son by Ashton Allen (community-added entry)
  • Beautiful World by Colin Hay (community-added entry)
  • Over My Head (Cable Car) by The Fray (community-added entry)
  • Collide (Chris Lord-Alge Mix aka Radio Edit) by Howie Day (community-added entry)
  • 3 by Emily Roller (community-added entry)

E4 | The Importance Of Being Brian

  • Don’t Wait Up by Colin Hay (community-added entry)
  • Straight Up by The Stepbrothers (community-added entry)
  • My Best Friend’s Girl by The Cars (community-added entry)

E5 | Sex, Lies and Videotape

  • More Than a Feeling by Boston, (3:40) while driving in car
  • Take It from Me by The Weepies, (10:20) Marjorie and Brian’s girlfriend talk
  • The Lizard Song by Etienne de Rocher, (12:50) stake-out following failed attempt at golf
  • Wires by Athlete, (36:10) – Stakeout leads to something
  • Take My Hand by James Kakande (community-added entry)
  • Straight Up by The Stepbrothers (community-added entry)
  • Waiting for My Real Life to Begin by Colin Hay (community-added entry)
  • Don’t Wait Up by Colin Hay (community-added entry)
  • Face in the Crowd by Deirdre Fellner & The Whole of Soul (community-added entry)
  • Save room for our love by John Legend (community-added entry)

Season 2

E1 | What About Second Chances

  • Calling All Friends by Jude (community-added entry)
  • If I Fall by Aqualung (community-added entry)
  • Arms Of A Woman by Amos Lee (community-added entry)
  • Brass In Pocket by Pretenders
  • No Time by J.J. Cale (community-added entry)
  • Blue Mind by Alexi Murdoch (community-added entry)
  • Thinking About You by Ivy (community-added entry)

E2 | What About The Wedding

  • Not Going Home by The Elected (community-added entry)
  • Calling All Friends by Jude (community-added entry)
  • Safe In Your Arms by Beth Orton (community-added entry)
  • I Know by Jude (community-added entry)
  • Timebomb by Old 97’s (community-added entry)
  • Heaven by Los Lonely Boys (community-added entry)
  • Girl Why Don’t You? by Madness (community-added entry), Brian stuck in traffic

E3 | What about Denial

  • Cry On Demand by Gomez
  • Over by Julie Mintz (community-added entry)
  • Square One by Tom Petty
  • A Face in the Crowd by Kathleen Edwards
  • This is War by Ben Kweller (community-added entry)

E4 | What About the Fish

  • Love Loss Hope Repeat by Carbon Leaf (community-added entry)
  • A & B Song by Tom McRae (community-added entry)
  • Home Soon (The Cherry Song) by Suzie Ungerleider (community-added entry)
  • Human Remains by Tom McRae
  • Can’t Go Halfway by The Harmonettes (community-added entry), Phone calling
  • I Feel Just Like a Child by Devendra Banhart (community-added entry), Brian waking up
  • Home Soon by Sarah Harmer (community-added entry), Ending

E5 | What About Angelo’s Ashes

  • All Will Be Well by The Gabe Dixon Band
  • It Don’t Matter to the S by Rosie Thomas
  • We’ll Meet Along the Way by Hem
  • All Will Be Well by Nick Glennie-Smith (community-added entry)
  • All Will Be Well by The Gabe Dixon Band (community-added entry), Adam decides to train for a marathon and Nicole spreads Angelo’s ashes

E6 | What About What Was Supposed to Be

  • Better Man by James Morrison
  • Waste by Phish
  • Dancing With Myself by Nouvelle Vague
  • Pillows & Records by Highwater Rising (community-added entry)
  • Pillows & Records by Aidan Hawken
  • Turn out the Light by The New Amsterdams (community-added entry)
  • Pick Up The Pieces by Gomez (community-added entry)
  • Best Laid Plans by Mark Stoney (community-added entry)

E7 | What About First Steps

  • World by Five for Fighting (community-added entry)
  • Take a Chance On Me by ABBA (community-added entry)
  • In The Morning by Razorlight (community-added entry)
  • Simon Simone by The Figgs (community-added entry)
  • Consolation Prizes by Phoenix (community-added entry)
  • I Still Love You by Glen Phillips (community-added entry)

E8 | What About Secrets

  • Go Easy Now by The Hellacopters (community-added entry)
  • Chances by Athlete (community-added entry)
  • Breakdown by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (community-added entry)
  • Song for a Winter’s Night by Sarah McLachlan (community-added entry)
  • I Don’t Care What You Call Me by David Ford (community-added entry)
  • Heartbreaker by Matt Wertz (community-added entry)
  • Save Room by John Legend (community-added entry)

E9 | What About True Confessions

  • It Makes Me Happy by Anna Laube (community-added entry)
  • It Makes Me Happy by Billy Hines (community-added entry)
  • It Makes Me Happy by Lee Cave-Berry (community-added entry)
  • Makes Me Happy by Drake Bell (community-added entry)
  • Close I’ve Come by Ben Lee (community-added entry)
  • Brighter Discontent by The Submarines (community-added entry)
  • Poor Little Sugar by The Honeydogs (community-added entry)
  • All ‘Cause of You by The 88 (community-added entry)
  • Only Got One by Frou Frou (community-added entry)
  • Sly by The Cat Empire (community-added entry)

E10 | What About the Tangled Web

  • Today by Jeremy Larson
  • Ooh La La by Goldfrapp
  • Gotta Have You by The Weepies
  • Looking At the World from the Bottom of a Well by Mike Doughty
  • I’ll Take You There by The Staple Singers (community-added entry)
  • Brian’s Song by Michel Legrand & The Flemish Radio Orchestra (community-added entry)
  • Sofa Song by The Kooks (community-added entry)

E11 | What About the Exes

  • Hide Another Mistake by The 88 (community-added entry)
  • Whether You Fall by Tracy Bonham
  • I’m Not Sorry by Test Your Reflex
  • Smile by Lily Allen (community-added entry)
  • Put Your Records On by Corinne Bailey Rae (community-added entry)

E12 | What About Marjorie

  • Think I’m In Love by Beck (community-added entry)
  • More Than You by Jeremy Larson (community-added entry)
  • Wondering Where You Are by Tyrone Wells
  • New Shoes by Paolo Nutini
  • Go Up to Go Down by Gabriel Mann (community-added entry)
  • We’re All In This Together by Ben Lee (community-added entry)
  • Don’t You Think It’s Time by Bob Evans (community-added entry)
  • Wait for Love by Matt White (community-added entry), Brian comes home to no one

E13 | What About the Lake House

  • Forgiven by Michael Lord (community-added entry)
  • Girlshapedlovedrug by Gomez (community-added entry)
  • Tomorrow Is a Long Time by Nickel Creek (community-added entry)
  • Unknown by Mayfly (community-added entry)
  • We Can Take Care of Each by gina kaz (community-added entry)
  • Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) [Single Version] by Icicle Works & The Icicle Works (community-added entry)
  • Best Days by Matt White (community-added entry)
  • The Hit Parade by Unkle Bob (community-added entry)
  • Say That You Want Me by Erik Grant Bennett (community-added entry)

E14 | What About Finding Your Place

  • Blister In The Sun by Violent Femmes (community-added entry)
  • Can’t Breathe by Keith Varon (community-added entry)
  • Waiting by Social Code (community-added entry)
  • You Were In The Air by The Microphones (community-added entry)
  • Ay Vaadi… Chi Poya by S. P. Balasubramanyam & Chitra (community-added entry)

E15 | What About Temptations

  • Hollywood Hills by Will Dailey (community-added entry)
  • Sugar So Sweet by Tyrone Wells
  • Stolen by Dashboard Confessional (community-added entry)
  • Dirty Laundry by Bitter:Sweet (community-added entry)
  • Jezebel by Two Hours Traffic (community-added entry)
  • Shoot the Runner by Kasabian (community-added entry)
  • Would You…? by Touch & Go (community-added entry)
  • Where Do We Go by Talib Kweli, (community-added entry)
  • Promiscuous by Nelly Furtado (community-added entry)
  • Tired by Derby (community-added entry)

E16 | What About Strange Bedfellows

  • Let It All Out by Relient K (community-added entry)
  • Girls by Eleni Mandell (community-added entry)
  • You Will Always Be the Same by Ryan Adams (community-added entry)
  • Shout by Ross Copperman (community-added entry)
  • Fireworks by Threes & Nines (community-added entry)
  • More Than a Feeling by Ingram Hill (community-added entry)
  • Right Here Right Now by Justin James (community-added entry)
  • Good Excuse by John Butler Trio (community-added entry)

E17 | What About All That Glitters

  • Only One by Household Names
  • Someday in New York by Cooper Thomson (community-added entry)
  • Cliche by New English (community-added entry)
  • Lady of Mine by Josh Kelley (community-added entry)
  • Whistle for the Choir by The Fratellis (community-added entry)

E18 | What About Secret Lovers

  • Sweet Pea by Amos Lee (community-added entry)
  • Closer by Joshua Radin
  • Discotech by Young Love (community-added entry)
  • Will You Be My Girlfriend by Force M.D.’s (community-added entry)
  • Red Balloon by Alexis Harte (community-added entry)
  • Something Unusual by Holiday (community-added entry)
  • What to Say by MoZella
  • Sugar So Sweet by Tyrone Wells (community-added entry)
  • When I’m With You by Chris Pierce (community-added entry)
  • In The Morning by Razorlight (community-added entry)

E19 | What About Calling All Friends

  • It’s My Life by Bon Jovi, (1:25) as the guys finish playing basketball
  • Shout Out Loud by Amos Lee
  • All I Need by Mat Kearney
  • Stay by Jude
  • Miracle Drug by AC Newman, (4:00) – "We’re on TasteyDay.com"
  • All You Have to Do Is Ask by Tom Warnick & the World’s Fair (community-added entry)
  • Love Love Love by Jude (community-added entry)
  • Mayday by The Callahan (community-added entry)
  • Don’t Ever Let Me Go by New England (community-added entry)
  • Eliza by Will Dailey (community-added entry)