One of the things we love most about the dark Showtime series “Yellowjackets” is all the fantastic ’90s music. Half of the show takes place in 1996, when high school girls’ soccer team crash lands in the wilderness and half is set 25 years later, with the still traumatized adult survivors.
Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.
And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.
The series stars Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Tawny Cypress, Lauren Ambrose and Sophie Kessell as the adult Yellowjackets, with Sophie Nélisse, Sophie Thatcher, Samantha Hanratty, Jasmin Savoy Brown and Liv Hewson as their teenage counterparts.
Here are all the songs featured in each episode:
Episode 2.01: Friends, Romans, Countrymen
“Seventeen” – Sharon Van Etten
“Drown (Edit)” – The Smashing Pumpkins
“A Night in Rio” – Graham de Wilde
“#1 Crush” – Garbage
“Last Resort” – Papa Roach
“Cornflake Girl” – Tori Amos
Episode 2.02: Edible Complex
“No Room for a Nihilist in Hollywood” – Peachy!
“Inertia Creeps” – Massive Attack
“Climbing up the Walls” – Radiohead
Episode 2.03: Digestif
“When I Go Walkin’” – Popecoke
“Seether” – Veruca Salt
“Take Me Down” – Sonica Disturbia
“Full Time Jack Move” – Larry Thomas West
“Bells for Her” – Tori Amos
Episode 2.04: Old Wounds
“No Return” -Alanis Morissette
“Rainbow Tour” – Andrew Lloyd Webber, Original “Evita” Cast
“Just Get Over It” – James Donald Davies & Martin Jackson
“Won’t Waste a Day” – James Donald Davies & Martin Jackson
“Angst in My Pants” – Sparks
Episode 2.05: Two Truths and a Lie
“What’s Up?” – 4 Non Blondes
“Big Mouth” – Necking
“Stayin’ Alive” – Tropical F—k Storm
“Mother” – Danzig
Episode 2.06: “Qui”
“Sorted for E’s & Wizz” – Pulp
“CInematic Drone” – Alan Fillip
“Rescue Me” – Madonna
“Earth Canticle” – Wendy Smith Howard
“Song 2” – Blur
“Your Woman” – White Town
“Pitseleh” – Elliott Smith
“Fuk Da Police” – N.W.A
Episode 2.07: “Burial”
“Something in the Way” – Nirvana
“Sit Right Down” – Craig Wedren/John Cameron Mitchell
“Free” – Florence + the Machine
“6 Underground” – Sneaker Pimps
“Lightning Crashes” – Live
Episode 2.08: “It Chooses”
“Not While I’m Around” – Barbra Streisand
“The Music of the Night” (from “The Phantom of the Opera”)
“Bullet with Butterfly Wings” – The Smashing Pumpkins
Episode 2.009: “Storytelling”
“Zombie” – The Cranberries
“Sad But True” – St. Vincent
“God is Alive, Magic is Afoot” – Buffy Sainte Marie
“Street Spirit (Fade Out)” – Radiohead
“The Killing Moon” (Cover) – Nouvelle Vague
“The Killing Moon” – Echo and the Bunnymen
