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The Emmy-winning restaurant comedy-drama The Bear has drawn praise for its diverse soundtrack – featuring everyone from Genesis to Radiohead to Taylor Swift – and on season three, which premiered yesterday, Eddie Vedder makes his solo debut with a cover of The Beat/The English Beat‘s Save It For Later.
It showed up in a teaser trailer earier this month, with Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri‘s characters getting ready to open up the doors on their new restaurant. In the past, Vedder has performed the tune with Pearl Jam, including it in a Better Man live medley; this also marks its first appearance as an official recording.
NME gave the series a four star review and said of the soundtracks: “Musically, the first few episodes hold back on the show’s traditional juicy needle-drops, although Radiohead’s ‘Nice Dream’ plays (a second appearance for the British band in the show). But as later EPs drop, so do the tracks, including a glorious use of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’. Meanwhile, The Rolling Stones’ ‘Mixed Emotions’ dominates the fifth episode ‘Children’, as the staff of The Bear collectively panic when a photographer from the Tribune arrives to take a snap of the restaurant for a review that’s already been written, right under their noses.”
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