Jam out darkly with this playlist of every song mentioned in Stephen King’s The Dark Tower
One of Stephen King’s favorite tricks while crafting his multiverse-spanning seven book epic The Dark Tower was the way he deployed pop music. Roland Deschain, the Gunslinger, and his loyal band of heroes would be journeying in some strange, far-flung region of reality in pursuit of the titular monolith, when suddenly a local would begin singing something from Earth’s Top 40 radio. The effect was usually both alienating and comforting, emphasizing the interconnectedness of reality that was one of the series’ major themes.