80s Songs from STRANGER THINGS (Season 4)

Not gonna lie - with the way things are going right now, I'd never have been able to watch Season 3 of "Stranger Things", in preparation for Season 2 (Parts 1 & 2), because let's face it, I'm the sprite that needs proper continuity, so Stranger Things would essentially be left by the wayside of blogposts... but these two tracks made the difference for me... SPOILERS AHEAD



ABOVE: Eddie Munson's Upside Down Guitar GOD Scene
("Master of Puppets" by Metallica)
BELOW: Max’s Song (Full Scene)
("Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush)



Beyond the familiarity with the song (in this particular case, Ms Bush's), I'd read in the video's comments the character Max and her fight with depression, and how the scene and situations and words had paralleled how someone with depression might have felt (*which I cannot authenticate, and neither am I in any position to pretend otherwise what I am unfamiliar with, but)... and this scene hit so different and impactful.

Love it that the songs are not just "window dressing" meant to only stylize the intended period of the project, but able to encompass a deeper meaning, IMHO.

In a way - something which I'd only just discovered not too long ago - is my own personal connection to 80s' songs, not just that it symbolised an era of my growing-up, mocked and ridiculed in some quarters are "kitschy-nostalgia" (perhaps), but were very real memories of my live, heartbreaks, disappointments, victories - everything that led me to where and who I am now. And how or what "Running UP That Hill" appealed or is connected to a fictional character "Max", might well be a true memory of someone somewhere, perhaps perhaps perhaps... THAT said, I only recognise a small fraction of the songs listed here (via seventeen.com) ~ LOL

Chapter 1: "Hellfire Club"
"California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & The Papas
"Object of My Desire" by Starpoint
"The Red Army Is the Strongest" by The Red Army Choir
"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush
"Fever" by The Cramps
"Chica Mejicanita" by Andrea Litkei & Ervin Litkei
"Play With Me" by Extreme
"Steve’s Rocking Star Spangled Banner" by X-Ray Dog
"Detroit Rock City" by Kiss
"Got Your Number" by The Lloyd Langton Group

Chapter 2: "Vecna's Curse"
"Surf Time" by The Surf Riders
"You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" by Dead Or Alive
"Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco
"Diamonds and Emeralds" by The Interior Castle
"Tarzan Boy" by Baltimora
"Wipe Out" by Surfaris
"Iolanta, Op.69: Scene 5, Ibn-Hakia’s Mon" by Tchaikovsky, performed by The National Bolshoï Orchestra
"Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
"Burning Up" by Donnell Pitman

Chapter 3: "The Monster and the Superhero"
"In Transit to Bermuda" by Dorian Zero
"Rigoletto, Act III: V’ho Ingannato. Colpevole Fui" performed by Nadine Sierra and Dmitri Hvorostovsky "Guardian Angel" by Fergus Mac Roy

Chapter 4: "Dear Billy"
"Legless" by Hipbone Slim
"Hard Feelings" by Al Kerbey
"Minuet in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by Amelia Davis
"Pass the Dutchie" by Musical Youth
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" by Ella Fitzgerald
"Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy
"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush

Chapter 5: "The Nina Project"
"Travelin’ Man" by Ricky Nelson
“Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush
"Quand le bien-aimé reviendra" by Nicolas Dalayrac from Nina performed by Cecilia Bartoli "Never Ending Story" by Limahl

Chapter 6: "The Dive"
"Violin Concerto, Op. 35: III. Finale Allegro assai vivace" by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, performed by RTÉ Concert Orchestra, conducted by John Wilson
"The Snow Maiden: Chorus of the People and the Courtiers" by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, performed by the Russian State Orchestra and the Russian State Chorus, conducted by Andrey Chistiakov
"Pass the Dutchie" by Musical Youth

Chapter 7: "The Massacre at Hawkins Lab"
"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" by Ella Fitzgerald
"Akhnaten: Act II, Scene 2: Akhnaten and Nefertiti" by Philip Glass, performed by The Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra & Chorus, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies

Chapter 8: "Papa"
"Up Around the Bend" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
"Fire and Rain" by James Taylor
"Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo" by Rick Derringer
"Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" by Journey

Chapter 9: "The Piggyback"
"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush
"Master of Puppets" by Metallica
"Every Breath You Take" by The Police
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" by Ella Fitzgerald
"When It's Cold I'd Like to Die" by Moby
"Spellbound" by Siouxsie and the Banshees



ABOVE: OG MV for Kate Bush (1985)
BELOW: (Remastered) Audio only for Metallica (1986)