Patrick Carney feat. Ralph Carney - BoJack Horseman (Main Title Theme)

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

Music

4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2016

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

BoJack Horseman is a Netflix original series, an animated comedy about a washed up 90s sitcom star who's trying to figure out his life and career without drowning in self-loathing and existential despair. It won the 2016 Critics Choice award for best animated series. The theme song for the show was created by Patrick Carney, who is one half of The Black Keys, and his uncle, Ralph Carney, a multi-instrumentalist who has worked artists like Tom Waits, St Vincent, The B-52s, Galaxie 500, and a lot more. But the track wasn't written for the show, originally; it was just something that Patrick and Ralph made without knowing what it was for. In this episode, the two break down how the song was created, and how it went from their long-distance collaboration to become a TV theme song.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece,
0:05.0	tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.7	I'm Rishikesh Herway.
0:13.9	Bojack Horseman is a Netflix original series, an animated comedy about a washed up 90s sitcom
0:19.1	star who's trying to figure out his life and career without drowning in self-loathing
0:23.4	and existential despair.
0:24.9	It won the 2016 Critics Choice Award for Best Animated Series.
0:29.2	The theme song for the show was created by Patrick Carney, who's one half of the black
0:32.9	keys, and his uncle, Ralph Carney.
0:35.2	A multi-instrumentalist who was worked with artists like Tom Weitz, St. Vincent, Galaxy
0:39.7	500, and a lot more.
0:41.7	But the track wasn't written for the show originally.
0:43.9	It was just something that Patrick and Ralph made without knowing what it was for.
0:47.5	In this episode, the two of them break down how the song was created and how it went
0:51.2	from their long-distance collaboration to become the main title theme.
1:03.2	I'm Patrick Carney, the drummer for the black keys, and I produced and co-wrote the theme
1:09.0	song to Bojack Horseman with my uncle, Ralph.
1:12.6	This is Ralph Carney.
1:14.2	The uncle of Patrick Carney, I played some instruments on that Bojack theme.
1:19.8	We've been sending stuff back and forth to each other since I was a teenager.
1:23.8	He used to send his sets back when you were like 16 or something.
1:26.6	Those are hilarious.
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