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“The Walking Dead”: The best songs from the zombie series
A series – just like a film – lives by its soundtrack, breathes the music it is given, evolves with the emotions that it only reinforces. “The Walking Dead” has a wonderfully strong soundtrack. To give you an insight, here are the 13 best songs, sorted by season appearance. Incidentally, the eighth season of the series has only been available on Netflix since the end of October.
Bob Dylan – Tomorrow Is a Long Time
“Tomorrow Is a Long Time” by Bob Dylan finds its way into the first season finale of the hit zombie series. The folk legend originally recorded the song in April 1963 at New York Town Hall.
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“The Walking Dead”: The best songs from the zombie series
Clutch – The Regulator
Clutch are difficult to assign to a genre, they have evolved so much since their founding in the early 90s. The men from Germantown in Maryland definitely combine hardcore, blues rock and even wonderfully distorted stoner. In the eighth episode of the second season, “The Regulator” from the 2004 album “Blast Tyrant” can be heard.
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“The Walking Dead”: The best songs from the zombie series
Wooden Shjips – Lazy Bones
In addition to Wye Oak’s song “Civilian”, another song worth mentioning is included in the tenth episode of the second season: In 2011, Wooden Shjips released their third studio album “West”, and shortly afterwards the song “Lazy Bones” on it appeared in the series with the walking dead. A slightly different, spacey and minimalist sound from the drone rockers from San Francisco.
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“The Walking Dead”: The best songs from the zombie series
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Saturday Night Special
“Saturday Night Special” has already appeared in several series and films, including – of course – in “The Walking Dead”. Do you want to listen to the Lynyrd Skynyrd classic? The seventh episode of the third season is the right address for this.
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Neil Young – Old Man
This classic by Neil Young has also had several prominent appearances. Including in the film “Space Cowboys”, as a cover version in the series “Californication” and at Heath Ledger’s memorial service. Young compares the life of a young man with that of an old man – and comes to the conclusion that both designs are quite similar. Listen to it in season three, episode nine.
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Motörhead – Fast And Loose
In 1980 Motörhead released their album “Ace Of Spades” and it hit like a bomb. Although – according to frontman Lemmy Kilmister, who died in 2015 – they were too late for the first and too early for the next wave of metal. “Fast And Loose” is etched into vinyl on the A-side, giving Merle the proper soundtrack in the car in Episode 15 of Season 3.
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Sharon Van Etten – Serpents
Almost three decades after Motörhead’s fourth greeting from the studio, Sharon Van Etten appears on the music market with her debut. After recording and releasing a few demos on her own, presenting her own song as Rachel in “The OA” and giving birth to a son just last year, she announced last October that she would be releasing a new album at the beginning of the new year. Their song “Serpents” appears in the first episode of the fourth season.
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Sigur Rós – Brennisteinn
The Icelanders are known to be more dreamy than they appear on their latest album “Kveikur” – in German: candle wick – released in 2013. Here they combine post-rock with shoegaze elements. A year after the release of the album, on which the song “Brennisteinn” can be heard, the musicians in “Game of Thrones” appear as musicians at the wedding of the cruel King Joffrey Baratheon and contribute their song to the first episode of the fifth season.
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Junior Kimbrough – You Better Run
Junior Kimbrough was a bluesman from the very beginning. Born in 1930, died at just 67 years old. His style can be assigned to “North Mississippi Hill Country Blues”, which is characterized by hypnotic melodies and rhythms. He owned a bar, The Black Keys packed their 2006 EP “Chulahoma” with cover songs by Junior Kimbrough, paying him respect. His song “You Better Run” was featured in the fourth episode of the fifth season of “The Walking Dead.”
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Gov’t Mule – Far Away
Gov’t Mules Sound can be found again in “The Walking Dead” – at the very end of the seventh episode of the fifth season. The band has its roots in blues and is dedicated to southern jam rock. Warren Hayne’s unmistakable, warm, raspy voice has been part of the band since its formation in 1994 and is quite simply characteristic.
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Johnny Cash – It’s All Over
Where Bob Dylan finds his place in season 1, Johnny Cash also takes his place later. Among other things, with his almost three-minute song “It’s All Over” in the penultimate episode of the sixth season. Johnny Cash was known as the “Man in Black” and is considered one of the most important country musicians of all time.
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Roy Orbison – Crying
Roy Orbison’s “Crying” underscores Daryl’s desperation as Dwight leaves. This happens in the third episode of the seventh season. Roy Orbison, an original rockabilly artist, always wore black sunglasses and loved writing dark love ballads. The then 28-year-old celebrated his greatest success with the global hit “Pretty Woman”.
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Bauhaus – All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
Along with groundbreaking bands like The Cure, Joy Division and David Bowie Bauhaus laid the foundation for gothic rock to the pack – the music world gratefully accepted it. Bauhaus wanted everything and got (almost) everything. In the third episode of the ninth season of “The Walking Dead,” the zombies unite with Bauhaus’ wonderfully longing cry for everything.
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