[Don't worry, no spoilers in this article.] As soon as I watched the first episode of Netflix’s newest hit show, 13 Reasons Why, I knew I would love the soundtrack just as much as the show. I was right and after finishing the series in four days (whoops), I made an entire playlist of songs from the show. The playlist contained over 30 songs, so I took the liberty of condensing the list down to what I believe are the most important 13.
1. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" - Joy Division
Lyrics to make you feel something: And we’re changing our ways, taking different roads. Then love, love will tear us apart again.
2. "Young & Unafraid" - The Moth and the Flame
Lyrics to make you feel something: We’re the patient performer, the kid in the corner. We were just tuning you out, we were young and unafraid.
3. "Mess is Mine" - Vance Joy
Lyrics to make you feel something: Do you like walking in the rain? When you think of love do you think of pain?
4. "Reunion" - M83
Lyrics to make you feel something: A never-ending dance, a blooming and a trance. You make me feel my soul, there’s no more loneliness.
5. "Cowards Starve" - Protomartyr
Lyrics to make you feel something: Social pressures exist, and if you think about them all of the time you’re gonna find that your head’s been kicked in.
6. "Into the Black" - Chromatics
Lyrics to make you feel something: Once you’re gone you can never come back when you’re out of the blue, into the black.
7. "Fascination Street" - The Cure
Lyrics to make you feel something: But if you open your mouth, then I can’t be responsible for quite what goes in or to care what comes out.
9. "A 1000 Times" - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
Lyrics to make you feel something: I found your house, I didn’t even try. They’d closed the shutters, they’d pulled the blinds. My eyes were red, the streets were bright. Those ancient years were black and white.
9. "The Night We Met" - Lord Huron
Lyrics to make you feel something: When the night was full of terrors and your eyes were filled with tears, when you had not touched me yet. Oh, take me back to the night we met.
10. "Thirteen" - Elliott Smith
Lyrics to make you feel something: Won’t you tell me what you’re thinking of? Would you be an outlaw for my love? If it’s so then let me know, if it’s no then I can go.
11. "In a Black Out" - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
Lyrics to make you feel something: Midnight where we used to dance underneath the ugly halogen lamps. Oh, it all went away so fast in a black out.
12. "Vienna" - Ultravox
Lyrics to make you feel something: A voice reaching out in a piercing cry; it stays with you until the feeling has gone.
13. "Kill Em With Kindness" - Selena Gomez
Lyrics to make you feel something: Your lies are bullets, your mouth’s a gun and no war and anger was ever won.
And if you're feeling extra and want to relive the 13 reasons, here's a Spotify playlist of 13 Songs You Missed From 13 Reasons Why.
