Music has always been a big part of American Horror Story (remember the Name Game song?), and this new season will be no different. American Horror Story: 1984 takes place in the mid-1980s, so fans can expect a number of ’80s classics to be featured during the season. 1984 also features a ’80s-themed intro and theme song.
Mac Quayle has been the American Horror Story‘s composer since James S. Levine left the show in 2014. Quayle previously told music website Vehlinggo that he sets out to make each season of American Horror Story sound different from the other.
“It’s an interesting show for me, because every season we’re trying to reinvent the music and yet it’s still American Horror Story,” Quayle said. “There are some rules: Don’t use any sounds that we’ve used before and try to give each season its own identity; and yet still have some things we need for the show to be scary and creepy and weird.”
AHS: 1984 features a ’80s themed intro and credits scene, and the theme song that fans have grown to know and love is remixed with the sounds of ’80s glam rock and deep synth tones.
Here’s our season-long running list of the songs featured in American Horror Story: 1984.
American Horror Story: 1984 Theme Song
Episode 7: The Lady in White
Dinah Shore – “Buttons and Bows”
Def Leppard – “Armageddon It”
Patti Smith – “Because the Night (Remastered)”
Episode 6: Episode 100
Billy Idol – “Flesh for Fantasy”
Black Sabbath – “Paranoid”
REO Speedwagon – “Can’t Fight This Feeling”
Mötley Crüe – “Home Sweet Home”
Dominik Hauser – “Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous Theme” from the Television Series By Bill Conti
The Smiths – “How Soon Is Now?”
Tom Howe, Hugh Wilkinson – “Dreaming Awake”
Episode 5: Red Dawn
Rose Royce – “Love Don’t Live Here Anymore”
Raw Soul Express – “Get On Up And Get Freaky”
Amii Stewart – “Knock on Wood”
Billy Idol – “Blue Highway”
Episode 4: True Killers
Billy Idol – “Rebel Yell”
Stevie Nicks & Don Henley – “Leather And Lace”
Episode 3: Slashdance
Chicago – “If You Leave Me Now”
Daryl Hall & John Oates – “Maneater”
Billy Squier – “The Stroke”
Kajagoogoo – “Too Shy”
Episode 2: Mr. Jingles
Billy Idol – “White Wedding Pt. 1”
Greg Kihn Band – “Jeopardy”
The Pointer Sisters – “Jump (For My Love)”
Herb Alpert – “Rise”
Episode 1: Camp Redwood
Frank Stallone – “Far From Over”
Bananarama – “Cruel Summer”
Rockwell – “Somebody’s Watching Me”
Def Leppard – “Photograph”
Daryl Hall & John Oates – “Private Eyes”
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