Take a trip back to ’80s Indiana with Spotify’s Stranger Things playlist
One of the many ways Netflix’s Stranger Things wears its ’80s-loving heart on its Spielbergian sleeve is in its soundtrack, which mixes a John Carpenter-influenced electronic score with period-approximate hits that help define the show’s various characters. (Radio hits accompany high-school jock Steve and his buddies, for example, while moody outcast Jonathan prefers punk rock.) The Clash’s “Should I Stay Or Should I Go,” the favorite song of the missing boy who forms the center of the show’s mystery, is played often enough that it’s practically a character on the show.