Would you mind recommending some OTH music + scenes/episodes they are in?
sure, i’ll do a big masterpost of some of the best songs/music moments/songs that I really like that feature in the show here to make it easy!
season 1:
1x01 // Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional (Peyton driving her car/Lucas running with the basketball, they are both listening to this song)
1x07 // She Will Be Loved - Maroon 5 (Lucas and Peyton kiss, Lucas says ‘I want everything with you’ and Peyton freaks out)
1x08 // Dare You to Move - Switchfoot (Nathan throws rocks at Haley’s parents’ window and Nathan kisses her)
1x15 // Come On - Ben Jelen (Lucas wakes from his coma and Peyton goes to visit him at his house)
1x15 // Elsewhere - Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley performs for Nathan for the first time)
1x22 // More Than Anyone - Gavin Degraw (Nathan and Haley kiss in the rain; this is also Nathan and Haley’s wedding song, heard in 3x22)
1x22 // Run - Snow Patrol (ending CODA, but most memorably Lucas finds out that Haley and Nathan had sex/got married)
seasons 2-9 under the cut!
season 2:
2x05 // Collide - Howie Day (the gang finish dare night, Nathan and Tim play NBA live)
2x06 // Let Me Fall - Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley plays live at TRIC)
2x22 // Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World (Jake drives away on his motorcycle and Peyton cries) - this also plays in 2x03 but I’m not 100% sure of the scene
season 3:
3x03 // Always Love - Nada Surf (Lucas and Haley write their predictions for the year)
3x09 // For Blue Skies - Strays Don’t Sleep (Nathan asks Haley to stay the night)
3x13 // Missing You - Tyler Hilton (Nathan runs out to his car in the storm to find all the newspaper clippings of Haley on tour, he says that he was proud of her)
3x13 // Here Comes a Regular - The Replacements (Ellie dies, this is her favourite song)
3x15 // The Mixed Tape - Jack’s Mannequin (a basketball game, most memorable moment is when Lucas asks for Nathan to pass him the ball, he ducks at the last minute and it hits Chris Keller in the face)
3x15 // Halo - Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley performs for the Friends with Benefit concert at TRIC)
3x16 // God Bless the Child - Michelle Feathersone (Keith talks to Jimmy, then Dan shoots Keith)
3x17 // How to Save a Life - The Fray (Nathan and Haley return home to find Brooke has made Haley’s wedding dress with Karen’s dress material)
3x21 // Coffee and Cigarettes - Michelle Featherstone (Rachel cries in the car over Cooper)
3x23 // Babe I’m Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin (Rachel and Cooper crash the limo into the bridge and Nathan dives into the water to save them)
season 4:
4x09 // Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez (Lucas and Peyton kiss at the state championships)
4x10 // Non-Believer - La Rocca (Haley and Nathan listen to the heartbeat of their baby after Haley’s accident)
4x20 // Times Like These - The Foo Fighters (Haley makes her valedictorian speech)
4x21 // Lightning Crashes - Live (Brooke picks up Haley’s speech)
4x21 // They’ll Never Know - Ross Copperman (Jamie is born)
4x21 // Wannabe - Spice Girls (Haley, Peyton, Brooke, Rachel and Shelley all dance at the party)
4x21 // Within You - Ray LaMontagne (the gang all go to the rivercourt and play girls v boys basketball)
season 5:
5x03 // All We Are - Matt Nathanson (Lindsey visits Peyton’s office)
5x07 // Stay Away - The Honorary Title (Peyton tells Lucas that she still loves him and they kiss)
5x09 // Wish You Were - Kate Voegele (Mia plays a song while they are stuck in the library)
5x17 // Hallelujah - Kate Voegele (ending CODA of the episode)
5x18 // Lovesong - The Cure (this song isn’t actually played, but the lyrics Peyton’s paints on the rivercourt for Lucas come from this song)
5x18 // Feel This - Bethany Joy Lenz ft. Enation (Lucas calls ‘someone’ from the airport and asks them to marry him in Las Vegas)
season 6:
6x12 // Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds (Julian walks in on Brooke ‘doing the Molly Ringwald dance’ in clothes over bros)
6x18 // Never Say Never - The Fray (ending CODA)
6x23 // Sweet Silver Lining - Kate Voegele (Lucas and Peyton’s first dance as husband and wife)
6x24 // War Sweater - Wakey!Wakey! (Lucas takes Peyton to the hospital, Peyton gets operated on)
season 7:
7x01 // Quicksand - Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley sings this in the studio for the opening of S7)
7x07 // I and Love and You - The Avett Brothers (ending CODA)
7x10 // Down - Jason Walker (Brooke tells Julian that she isn’t pregnant)
7x11 // Your Love is a Song - Switchfoot (ending CODA)
7x13 // We Belong - Bethany Joy Lenz (Haley performs this song on tour)
7x18 // Landslide - Fleetwood Mac (Haley, Quinn and Taylor play the family montage for Lydia)
7x20 // Dance So Good - Wakey!Wakey! (Grubbs sings to Miranda)
7x22 // Almost Everything - Wakey!Wakey! (Haley, Brooke and Quinn sit together in the snow fort)
season 8:
8x06 // Can’t Be Love - Laura Izibor (Erin performs at TRIC)
8x13 // Sweet and Low - Augustana (Brooke and Julian share their first dance as a married couple)
8x22 // Kiss Quick - Matt Nathanson (montage of scenes, Julian measures Brooke’s pregnant stomach)
season 9:
9x06 // Hourglass - Drew Holcomb & the Neighbours (end of the episode, Julian goes to Brooke, Mouth visits Dan with information on how to find Nathan)
9x11 // Never Let Me Go - Florence and the Machine (Nathan and Haley reunite after Nathan’s kidnapping at the hospital)
9x13 // Half Moon - Blind Pilot (Nathan, Haley and Brooke watch versions of their younger selves from afar)
9x13 // Soldier - Gavin Degraw (Gavin performs at TRIC, Nathan gives Haley a bracelet)
9x13 // Belief - Gavin Degraw (Nathan and Haley dance in the rain, Julian buys Brooke’s childhood home, Quinn and Clay tuck Logan into bed)
9x13 // I Don’t Wanna Be - Gavin Degraw (Gavin performs the theme song live at TRIC, everyone sings along)
9x13 // One Tree Hill - U2 (the gang meet up at the high school to watch Jamie’s basketball game)
do you ever wonder how it would have been if peyton & lucas were still around?
yes!! all the time! my dream scenario would have been that lucas, peyton and sawyer all headed off to wherever they needed to go for a little holiday - just to get away from tree hill and all the drama for a little while, maybe for the whole of season 7. then brooke would ask peyton to be her maid of honour and julian would ask lucas to be an usher at the wedding or something (i would have liked to see their friendship from s6 develop further because that was such an interesting dynamic and julian needed more friends!!! i hated how they had him in this brooke bubble for most of the time he was in it). then peyton would call brooke up and say that sawyer is sick and they might not be able to make it (as it happened) but then the day before the wedding brooke would be standing in the empty clothes over bros store with her wedding dress, and the door would open and peyton would walk in and say “still need a maid of honour?” and brooke would have to admit that she’d just asked haley to be her maid of honour, so they’d agree to be joint maid of honours and brooke would have her two best friends at the wedding and they’d make a cute joint speech about the first time they ALL hung out together in the car, when brooke passed out in the back seat (let’s get facts right here, oth writers). then lucas, peyton and sawyer would all move back into karen’s house and stay in tree hill. and haley, brooke and peyton would regularly meet for coffee in karen’s cafe once it reopened and once they’d dropped all the kids off at school and they’d gossip about their husbands and sometimes quinn would join them and it would have been so perfect!!
i know they got their “happy ending” and i’m so happy that they were endgame but they painted sawyer’s room for the nursery and never used it!! they talked about their future in the house and never stayed!!!
come on - ben jelen (after lucas gets into the car accident in 1x15 and peyton visits him at his house after he wakes up)
dare you to move - switchfoot (naley’s first kiss in 1x08)
within you - ray lamontagne (the time it’s played in the closing scene of 4x21)
one tree hill - u2 (the closing scene for 9x13)
hear you me - jimmy eat world (when jake leaves in 2x22)
coffee and cigarettes - michelle featherstone (in 3x21 when brooke makes haley’s wedding dress for her, the proper one, out of their bedsheets)
times like these - foo fighters (in 4x21 when haley is giving her valedictorian speech at graduation)
hands down - dashboard confessional (in 1x01 when peyton is driving her car and almost runs down lucas lol)
i don’t wanna be - gavin degraw (anytime he performed it, but especially in 9x13 when he performs it live at tric)
your love is a song - switchfoot (in 7x11, i can’t remember exactly what is happening in the scene but i’m pretty sure it’s a brulian scene?? or at the end of an episode)
babe i’m gonna leave you - led zeppelin (3x23 when nathan dives off the bridge to save rachel and cooper and haley is screaming his name)
always love - nada surf (3x03 the ending scene of the episode, like when lucas and haley are writing their predictions for the school year etc)
wannabe - spice girls (the dancing moment in 4x21 with all the girls because that’s such a classic moment)
that time he told peyton that she was the one who gave up on them and didn’t believe him in him and was so incredibly selfish, also when peyton said “not now but someday” and i guess he interpreted that as “i never ever want to marry you”
when he told peyton he hated her
KISSEd peyton then proposed to lindsey in the same night!!?
any time he butted himself into haley’s relationships and told her what she could and couldn’t do with nathan (i.e being disapproving of the tattoo, after finding out they slept with each other being like ‘i thought you were going to wait’
tried to kiss brooke after breaking up with peyton
man literally all of season 5
got mad at peyton for dating julian while they’d been broken up. i’ve literally never heard of anything so dumb in my life when he was literally engaged to somebody else AND tried to sleep with peyton’s best friend immediately after breaking up with her
that time when he almost ruined brooke and peyton’s friendship twice.. but does he ever get blamed for any of it? nope
cheating on brooke, cheating on lindsey
told peyton to go back to tree hill with him in season 5 where she could do big things, even though she specifically told him that tree hill held a lot of bad memories for her as it meant a psycho stalker and two dead mothers, yet he was still whiny about it
1. “It’s you Peyton” 2. “When you fixed my car, you fixed my heart” 3. “His belief in God and love and art would be re-awakened in his heart. The boy saw the comet and suddenly his life had meaning”4. “It’s always going to be there isn’t it, you and me?”5. “I was now and always would be in love with Peyton sawyer” 6. “You’re always saving me” or basically the whole of 3x167. “You said I was destined for greatness, you said it to me, you said it to the world and I wish you hadn’t because you didn’t mean any of it” 8. “That’s me inside your heart” /first time he spoke to her9. “Let me hold you for a couple minutes, that’s what’s gonna fix me”10. Their wedding ❤️
where he tells peyton that her turning down his proposal was her “not believing in him” when believing in him was ALL peyton ever did, when he was selfish enough to think that 19-year-old peyton turning down his marriage proposal was her being selfish or giving up on them, and when she said “not now” and he broke up with her.
oh my god, when he got mad at peyton for dating julian while they weren’t together when, straight after peyton had “rejected” his proposal - he went straight to see brooke and tried to sleep with her, then got ENGAGED to someone else while him and peyton weren’t together. you can’t get mad at a girl for dating someone else when you proposed to somebody else, mate. doesn’t work like that
when he got super defensive over haley getting 23 tattooed on her. why is it any of your business lucas.
when he got weird about haley sleeping with nathan for the first time, even though, again, it was none of his business whatsoever
when lindsay was still his editor after they’d broken up and he was back together with peyton, and she was like “what’s so important that you can’t come to the book tour?” and he was like “my wedding!!!” lucas, really. what a dick move
how everyone blames peyton for seeing her behind brooke’s back, when it was him who started dating brooke after having feelings for peyton since forever.
when peyton came back to tree hill for him and he was literally so mad at her for rejecting him and coming back for him, and he was so in denial, that he proposed to another woman and then used it as a way to make peyton feel awful.
EDIT: 8. Telling Peyton he hated her, no words for how awful that was of him to say that to her after she helped him when he was drunk
