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8''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' is a fantastic show already, but even more so if you're a fan of ClassicRock. A helpful list of all songs from all episodes can be found [[http://tunesonthetube.com/My%20Name%20is%20Earl.htm here]], and it's an amazing list.
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10* Music/DeepPurple's "Highway Star" set during a drag race? Oh yeah.
11* Music/{{Queen|Band}}'s "Fat Bottomed Girls" accompanies a montage of Earl mocking Joy's pregnancy weight.
12* Music/{{REM}}'s "End of the World as We Know It" when Earl and friends believe that they're the last people alive on Earth.
13* Music/LynyrdSkynyrd's "Freebird" shows up. And "Simple Man". "Free Bird" is playing during the episode "Two Balls Two Strikes," and "Simple Man" plays when Earl has a crisis. The car breaks down but he sets out on foot to cross an item off the list.
14* Music/BobDylan's "Just Like a Woman" playing while Joy has a BSOD moment, realizing her awfulness is harming her kids, so she stays away so they can have fun. It's a touching moment and the song is the cherry on top.
15%%* {{RATT}}'s "Round and Round" as Earl deals with Sweet Johnny and his EasyAmnesia.
16* "House of The Rising Sun" plays as Earl is going to jail for Joy. It's a bleak DownerEnding to the second season (which is considerably DarkerAndEdgier than the first anyway), but the music adds an emotional touch.
17* "Burnin' For You" plays while the gang is trying to bring Earl out of his coma in Season 3. It becomes a moment of both Heartwarming and Funny when the gang all sing along, knowing Earl loves classic rock.
18* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel's "America" plays when Lloyd, an honest man who had became a hermit due to an Earl's scam in the past, finally fulfills his dream of starting a road trip across America.
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