Euphoria: Our 12 Favorite Songs

Kimberly Roots
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Euphoria: Our 12 Favorite Songs
Euphoria: Our 12 Favorite Songs

Like a yearbook full of inside jokes or a part-time job at the ice cream shop, TVLine Mixtape is here to get you through the long summer (and beyond!) until Euphoria returns for its third season.

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What follows are some excellent songs used in episodes of the HBO teen drama, complete with artist information and videos in case you want to listen, watch and/or make a note to throw them in a playlist in a music streaming service of your choosing. (And don’t forget to check out our list of what we’d really like to see happen in Season 3!)

We chose tunes from Seasons 1 and 2 — as well as the two in-between-season specials — that stuck in our memories. But we know you’ve got favorites, too. So scroll through the list below for a TVLine Mixtape full of the Euphoria music that we’ve loved, then hit the comments with your favorite songs from the show!

EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 8: “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name”
TITLE | “Elliot’s Song”
ARTIST | Dominic Fike with Zendaya
WHY IT ROCKED | Maybe we wouldn’t have included quite as much of the performance in the episode — seriously, Zendaya is sitting there and watching him play for a while — but we loved this bittersweet ballad in an equally bittersweet season finale.

 

 

EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 6: “A Thousand Little Trees of Blood”
TITLE | “Stand By Me”
ARTIST | Ben E. King
WHY IT ROCKED | We’ll never get enough of the softer side of Fezco, exhibited beautifully as he and Lexi chatted, flirted and sang along to the Ben E. King classic.

 

EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 3: “Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys”
TITLE | “Call Me Irresponsible”
ARTIST | Bobby Darrin
WHY IT ROCKED | In a show this heavy, you’ve gotta take the comic relief where you can find it. So when a very high Rue danced around her bedroom and stumbled her way through breakfast, all to the beat of Darrin’s upbeat mood-lifter, we couldn’t help but chuckle.

 

EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 3: “Ruminations: Big and Little Bullys”
TITLE | “Never Tear Us Apart”
ARTIST | INXS
WHY IT ROCKED | Few things could make us feel bad for Cal. But learning the backstory of his high school love for his best friend, and how it was shut down just as it might have gotten started, with INXS scoring the entire shebang? Yeah, that’s one of ‘em.

 

 

EPISODE | Season 2, Episode 2: “Out of Touch”
TITLE | “Right Down the Line”
ARTIST | Gerry Rafferty
WHY IT ROCKED | We’re not condoning the drug use that Rue is hiding from Jules (and everyone but Elliot) in this scene, but man, Rafferty’s late-‘70s tune is a sweet hit of mellow AM gold, isn’t it?

 

 

 

 

EPISODE | Special #2, “F–k Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob”
TITLE | “Liability”
ARTIST | Lorde
WHY IT ROCKED | The song was so perfect for the opening visual — in which scenes from Jules and Rue’s relationship are flashed on Jules’ eyeball — that Lorde herself reached out to Hunter Schafer afterward to tell her how much she’d enjoyed it.

 

 

EPISODE | Special #1: “Trouble Don’t Last Always”
TITLE | “Me in 20 Years”
ARTIST | Moses Sumney
WHY IT ROCKED | When Jules texts Rue this song, you just know it’s not going to be a lighthearted bop. Indeed, the Moses Sumney tune gives voice to the longing and angst the two teens can’t seem to escape.

 

EPISODE | Season 1, Episode 8: “And Salt the Earth Behind You”
TITLE | “A Song for You”
ARTIST | Donny Hathaway
WHY IT ROCKED | If by “rocked” here we mean “tore our hearts out as Rue remembered happier (and not so happy) family times from her past,” then yes: This song rocked indeed.

 

 

 

EPISODE | Season 1, Episode 5: “’03 Bonnie and Clyde”
TITLE | “Werkin Girls”
ARTIST | Angel Haze
WHY IT ROCKED | The spot Jules and Rue chose to ink their “Rules” tattoos? Painful. The NSFW anthem that accompanied their bit of teenage rebellion? Perfection.

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EPISODE | Season 1, Episode 4: “Shook Ones Pt. II”
TITLE | “Forever”
ARTIST | Labrinth
WHY IT ROCKED | This piece, written by the show’s composer, really captured young Jules’ despondency as her mother drove her to a psychiatric facility, then ambushed her by leaving her there without any explanation… or even a goodbye. (Sniff.)

 

EPISODE | Season 1, Episode 3: “Made You Look”
TITLE | “X Gon’ Give It to Ya”
ARTIST | DMX
WHY IT ROCKED | Cam-girl cash + newfound cam-girl confidence makes Kat’s debut of her new look rather badass, indeed.

 

 

 

EPISODE | Season 1, Episode 2: “Stuntin’ Like My Daddy”
TITLE | “Goh”
ARTIST | What So Not, Skrillex and KLP
WHY IT ROCKED | We can’t hear this song without thinking about the cheerleaders’ bedazzled performance in the cafeteria, the highlight of which was Maddy’s dead-eyed stare.

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