"Hollywood and Vines"

Album

Lost (Original Television Soundtrack)

Track length

1:52

Track type

Adventure Track

Episode title

"Pilot, Part 2"

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Featured in episode(s)

"Pilot, Part 2"
"Exodus, Part 1"
"Exodus, Part 2"
"Abandoned"
"Through the Looking Glass, Part 1"
"Through the Looking Glass, Part 2"
"Cabin Fever"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
"Follow the Leader"
"The Incident, Part 1"
"The Incident, Part 2"
"The End"

©2006 Varèse Sarabande and Michael Giacchino

"Hollywood and Vines" is an orchestral piece on the Season One soundtrack. It plays during jungle treks throughout the series and is heard at least once each season, including every finale but one. The piece features a heavy bassline in the low strings while violins play a melody in counterpoint.

Main appearanceEdit

Sawyer reads his letter and sees some of the survivors going on a hike. He joins them. The survivors climb a hill. Sayid and Boone help Shannon with a particularly steep bit.

Full list of appearancesEdit

"Hollywood and Vines" and its variations play during the following scenes.

• The survivors begin their trek to pick up a radio signal. ("Pilot, Part 2")
• The survivors trek to the Dark Territory. ("Exodus, Part 1")
• Sayid and Charlie run to the pillar of smoke. ("Exodus, Part 2")
• The tailies scale a mountain, carrying Sawyer in a stretcher. ("Abandoned")
• The survivors leave camp for the radio tower. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • Jack tells Naomi he's a doctor. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • The survivors resume their journey. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • Ben lets Alex accompany him to the radio tower. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • Jack checks on the satellite phone. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
  • The trek continues. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 1")
• Jack talks to Danielle about the radio tower. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
  • The trek continues. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
  • They reach the radio tower. ("Through the Looking Glass, Part 2")
• Sayid leaves the Kahana in the Zodiac. ("Cabin Fever")
• Sayid returns to the Island on the Zodiac raft. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 1")
• Daniel returns to take the second group on the Zodiac. ("There's No Place Like Home, Part 2")
• The Man in Black (as Locke) leads the Others to Jacob. ("Follow the Leader")
• The journey continues. ("The Incident, Part 1")
  • They reach the statue. ("The Incident, Part 2")
• Jack tells Kate the island's the one thing he hasn't "screwed up". ("The End")
  • Jack's group treks to meet the Man in Black. ("The End")
  • They reach him. ("The End")

CameosEdit

This piece makes a cameo appearance during act IV of the pilot episode of another J.J. Abrams show Fringe. Michael Giacchino also composes music for the show.

Sheet musicEdit

VariationsEdit

Variations on the theme from "Hollywood and Vines" appear in "Fly By Dire", "Flying High", "Early Mourning Mystery", "The Good Shepherd", "JACK FM", "Just What the Doctor Ordered", "Kate Makes a Splash", "An Other Dark Agenda", "The Only Pebble in the Jungle", "Nadia on Your Life", "Sawyer Jones and the Temple of Boom", "The Stick With Me Speech" and "Timecrunch".

Title significanceEdit

The title references the music style - cinematic scores - and the setting - a jungle. "Hollywood and Vine" is also the famous Los Angeles intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street.