TV Tuesday: STRANGER THINGS Season 2 [2017]

It's 1984 in Hawkins, Indiana - a whole year after the events of Season One - and things are stranger than before. As we haven't had the time to watch it yet here at The Hideaway, I've kept my head buried in the sand, avoiding all articles about the show EXCEPT those dealing with the music heard in Season Two, both the original score and period-appropriate or scene-appropriate songs.

Before the Second Season of Stranger Things debuted on Netflix on Friday, October 28, 2017, several writers banded together over at Pitchfork to pick songs "that could serve as ideal backdrops for all the ominous action and treacherous heartache to come." Here are their choices:

• Borderline ─ Madonna
• Psycho Killer (from Stop Making Sense) ─ Talking Heads
• Telegraph ─ OMD
• Missing You ─ John Waite
• Drive ─ The Cars
• Halloween ─ Siouxsie and the Banshees
• I Can't Go For That ─ Hall & Oates
• Dark Entries ─ Bauhaus

An official soundtrack album for Stranger Things, featuring songs and snippets of dialogue from both Season One and Two has been released by Sony Legacy.

The original score for Season Two of Stranger Things is again composed and performed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein. It still has that cool John Carpenter/Tangerine Dream atmospheric synth thing going on and should not be missed.

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As we have yet to view the second season of Stranger Things, I'm relying on my fellow contributors at What Song? and Tunefind to provide me with two lists of songs they heard while watching each of the nine episodes. I'll list only my favorite Eighties songs from each episode based on the song itself as I have no context for how it plays or is heard within Stranger Things. Consider these soundtrack spoilers and proceed at your own risk.

01                                                                                          

• Whip It ─ Devo
• Just Another Day ─ Oingo Boingo
• Talking In Your Sleep ─ The Romantics
• Rock You Like a Hurricane ─ Scorpions

02                                                                                          

• Shout at the Devil ─ Mötley Crüe
• Islands in the Stream ─ Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers
• Girls On Film ─ Duran Duran
• Ghostbusters ─ Ray Parker Jr.

03                                                                                        

• Go! ─ Tones On Tail
• The Ghost In You ─ The Psychedelic Furs

04                                                                                         

• This Is Radio Clash ─ The Clash

05                                                                                          

• When the Sun Goes Down ─ The Jetzons

06                                                                                          

• Hammer to Fall ─ Queen
• Round and Round ─ Ratt

07                                                                                          

• Runaway ─ Bon Jovi
• Back To Nature ─ Fad Gadget
• The Bank Robbery (from Escape From New York) ─ John Carpenter
• Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly) ─ The Icicle Works

08                                                                                          

• Should I Stay or Should I Go ─ The Clash

09                                                                                          

• I Do Believe (I Fell In Love) ─ Donna Summer
• Love Is a Battlefield ─ Pat Benatar
• Twist of Fate ─ Olivia Newton-John
• Time After Time ─ Cyndi Lauper
• Every Breath You Take ─ The Police