
Yellowjackets Soundtrack Season 1 (2021) Guide
The first season of Yellowjackets chronicles the harrowing survival of a talented New Jersey high school girls' soccer team after their private plane crashes deep into the remote Canadian wilderness in 1996. Told across dual timelines, the narrative follows the teenage players as they spend 19 months stranded in the woods, tracking their slow descent from a cohesive team into warring, cannibalistic clans driven by trauma and supernatural paranoia. Simultaneously, 25 years later in 2021, the adult survivors, including Shauna, Taissa, Natalie, and Misty, try to navigate their fractured personal lives while being blackmailed and stalked by someone threatening to expose the dark, horrific secrets of what they actually did to stay alive.
Created by Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, the inaugural season of Showtime's Emmy-nominated survival drama Yellowjackets captivated audiences by subverting high school sports camaraderie into a chilling psychological nightmare. Propelled by standout performances from Melanie Lynskey, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress alongside an equally brilliant younger cast led by Sophie Nélisse, Samantha Hanratty, and Ella Purnell, Season 1 meticulously builds the mythology of the 1996 crash site. From the ominous discovery of the lakeside cabin and the unhinged woodland delirium of the 'Doomcoming' to the contemporary blackmail scheme threatening the survivors' 25th high school reunion, the debut season sets up an intricate web of trauma, guilt, and lingering feral secrets.
The Yellowjackets Season 1 soundtrack is a masterclass in 1990s sonic nostalgia, curating an explosive tapestry of female-fronted alt-rock, grunge, riot grrrl, and dark trip-hop. From the raw angst of Liz Phair's 'Supernova', PJ Harvey's 'Down by the Water', and Hole's 'Miss World' to dream-pop staples like The Cranberries' 'Dreams' and Mazzy Star's 'Fade into You', each needle drop mirrors the teens' psychological disintegration. Paired with unsettling, primal vocal cues from composers Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker ('Blood Hive') and the surreal, hallucinatory ensemble sing-along to Seal's 'Kiss from a Rose' in Episode 9, the music functions as a vital emotional anchor bridging both timelines.
Episode 1: Pilot (Nov 14, 2021)
On the eve of a fateful flight, a championship high school girls soccer squad celebrates being a team by betraying one another. 25 years later, the survivors do their best imitations of well-adjusted people.
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Scene Context: Shauna picks up Jackie after Shauna has slept with Jeff.
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Informer
Snow
Scene Context: Jackie alters the song playing in Shauna’s vehicle to another track.
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Miss World
Scene Context: Nat takes a taxi from a rehabilitation facility and plays at a party.
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Scene Context: The girls enter the gym and are introduced as the soccer team.
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Scene Context: This scene follows Nat after consuming LSD and includes the interaction with the pit girl.
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Let Me Find Out
POS NEG
Scene Context: Jackie and her friends arrive at the party and engage in drinking and smoking. Natalie is offered LSD.
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Scene Context: The scene occurs while the characters are preparing for the pep rally.
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Scene Context: Passengers are preparing for the trip and boarding the aircraft.
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What If...
Dore Soul
Scene Context: Shauna and Jackie prepare for the party.
Episode 2: F Sharp (Nov 21, 2021)
As the teens get their bearings among the wreckage, Misty finds hell on earth quite becoming. In the present: revenge, sex homework and the policeman formerly known as Goth.
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Mother Mother
Tracy Bonham
Scene Context: The scene commences with Misty amputating Coach Ben's leg.
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Scene Context: The scene depicts the characters sitting around a fire following a crash.
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Scene Context: Misty destroys a plane transmitter box and subsequently receives a prank call. Walter visits Misty at her residence.
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Confetti
Bien
Scene Context: Misty and Natalie are at a dive bar.
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Medusa
Noonday Devils
Scene Context: Misty and Natalie are at a dive bar.
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Scene Context: Natalie contacts Travis via phone call at the motel.
Episode 3: The Dollhouse (Nov 28, 2021)
The Yellowjackets debate the merits of probably dying while staying put or probably dying while looking for shelter. Taissa navigates a dirty attack ad and the other C-word. Shauna sees about a boy.
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Grandma's Hands
Scene Context: Taissa sits with her grandmother, singing softly to her.
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Cambodia
Scene Context: Shauna tails Jeff's vehicle and confirms he is involved in an extramarital relationship.
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Scene Context: Natalie and Misty discover Travis's body in the warehouse.
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Scene Context: The girls locate the lake and proceed to it.
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Mr. Mistoffelees
Scene Context: Natalie drives while Misty talks about finding Travis.
Episode 4: Bear Down (Dec 5, 2021)
The girls play with guns to determine who is the most responsible. Natalie untangles a lifetime of piecing together broken men. Taissa greets the rich.
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Scene Context: Shauna and Adam enter a river at night and engage in intimate activities. They then climb into Adam's truck.
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Feel the Pain
Dinosaur Jr.
Scene Context: Natalie escorts Kevyn to her bedroom in the trailer and inserts a cassette into the boom box.
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Mountain Song
Scene Context: Natalie experiences a dream about a plane crash; title card appears; Natalie receives a phone call from Misty.
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Maid in China
The Father Figures
Scene Context: Shauna and Adam are outside a liquor store, seeking assistance from another individual to purchase alcohol.
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Breakfast At Tiffany's
Deep Blue Something
Scene Context: In the wilderness, Misty assists Coach Scott during a squat exercise and sings a few lines of a song.
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So Alive
Scene Context: Shauna and Adam participate in a mini golf game.
Episode 5: Blood Hive (Dec 12, 2021)
Out in the wilderness, the girls ride the crimson wave and plan a dark arts slumber party. Natalie and Misty tame a stallion. On Halloween night, Shauna parties like it’s 1996.
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Emergency
Scene Context: Adam and Shauna attend a Halloween party at an underground warehouse and encounter Callie there.
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Watashi No Sei
Andrea Monorchio
Scene Context: Scene takes place at a restaurant.
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Scene Context: The episode begins with the girls dancing inside the cabin at night.
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Freak Out (feat. Bambie)
Nightlapse
Scene Context: Shauna dances with Adam at the Halloween party and then abruptly leaves after hallucinating the presence of Jackie.
Episode 6: Saints (Dec 19, 2021)
The Yellowjackets tangle with the birds & the bees, navigating love, lust and DIY surgery. In the present : blackmail, bunnies and an icy reunion. Misty prepares for a surprise(d) houseguest.
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Munich
Scene Context: Kevyn surprises Natalie by providing her with food.
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Love Comes Close
Cold Cave
Scene Context: Kevyn retrieves Natalie from the auto shop following the sale of her vehicle.
Episode 7: No Compass (Dec 26, 2021)
As starvation looms, Taissa leads a last-ditch effort and/or suicide mission. Amid felony schemes and all-night stakeouts, the Yellowjackets are forced to commit small talk.
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Scene Context: The Yellowjackets pursue a masked individual.
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S P A C E
Scene Context: Taissa decides to go south and cuts her hair.
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The Music of the Night
Michael Crawford
Scene Context: Misty observes Natalie and Kevyn sleeping in her motel room.
Episode 8: Flight of the Bumblebee (Jan 2, 2022)
What is madness and what is divine? While in triage after a vicious attack, the Yellowjackets are left to suss out the best of their worst ideas. Shauna dabbles in some light cyberstalking.
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Scene Context: Natalie enters the cabin and had previously consumed alcohol, applied makeup, and sent text messages in her motel room.
Episode 9: Doomcoming (Jan 9, 2022)
You are cordially invited to The Doomcoming. On the brink of death, the Yellowjackets opt to throw one last rager before careening into oblivion. An increasingly paranoid Shauna struggles between keeping her cool and being Shauna.
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Gepetto
Belly
Scene Context: Lottie ignites the torches for the party in the wilderness.
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Scene Context: Lottie begins singing during the prom, soon joined by the other girls who continue the performance together.
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The World I Know
Scene Context: The Yellowjackets begin preparing for the prom in the forest.
Episode 10: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (Jan 16, 2022)
On the night of their 25-year class reunion, the Yellowjackets navigate damning evidence, false alibis and a dubious attempt to “heal.” In the wilderness, the Doomcoming fallout finds everything firmly off the rails as simmering resentments come to a head. Season finale.
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Scene Context: Shauna and Jeff perform a dance to this song.
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Scene Context: Allie presents a commemorative video for the Yellowjackets' soccer team's 25th anniversary. Concurrently, Jackie engages in an argument with the team.
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Scene Context: Shauna, Taissa, and Natalie enter the high school party.
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Scene Context: The Yellowjackets reunite and consume tequila at a small gathering.
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Bach 70
I Marc 4
Scene Context: Misty speaks with the daughter of the woman she cared for in the hospital. The bodies of Adam and the elderly woman are cremated.
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Ladykillers
Lush
Scene Context: Shauna, Taissa, and Natalie meet at the party entrance.
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The Haunted (feat. Amy Bowman)
Dot Allison
Scene Context: Shauna cries in the shower. Taissa enters her house. Natalie prepares to leave.
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Scene Context: Natalie cleans her room and comforts Travis after his conversation with Javi.
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Rump Shaker
Wreckx-n-Effect
Scene Context: A DJ plays the song as Jeff and Randy converse with Allie.
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All That She Wants
Scene Context: Shauna threatens Randy and consumes tequila.
Blood Hive (Original Score from the Showtime Series Yellowjackets)
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No Return (Extended Version)
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Join Hands / With The Angels
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker , Theodore Shapiro
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Plane Crash
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker , Theodore Shapiro
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All In Favor
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Bad Habits
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Bobby Who?
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker , Theodore Shapiro
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Oh God
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Misty Prepares
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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It Means Something
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Diving In
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Baptism / The Light
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Great Grandfather's Ring
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Post Coital
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Hurry Up Tai
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Laura Lee
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Missing Eyes
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker , Matthew Wang
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His Name's Adam
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Doomcoming
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Misty Brings Tea
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Not A Game
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Pyre
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Whatever You Need
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Let The Darkness Set Us Free
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
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Snarler
Craig Wedren , Anna Waronker
From car stereos blasting The Smashing Pumpkins in the Pilot to the adrenaline-fueled party anthems of Salt-N-Pepa, Montell Jordan, and The Offspring in the finale, finding every song featured in Yellowjackets Season 1 is effortless with SeekerTune. Our comprehensive, episode-by-episode music guide tracks every track across all ten episodes—including 'Pilot', 'F Sharp', 'Blood Hive', and 'Sic Transit Gloria Mundi'. Relive the unforgettable mixtape moments with verified scene contexts, 30-second audio previews, and direct streaming links on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Main Cast
- Melanie Lynskey Shauna Sadecki
- Tawny Cypress Taissa Turner
- Sophie Nélisse Teen Shauna Shipman
- Jasmin Savoy Brown Teen Taissa Turner
- Sophie Thatcher Teen Natalie Scatorccio
- Sammi Hanratty Teen Misty Quigley
- Warren Kole Jeff Sadecki
- Christina Ricci Misty Quigley
Official Trailer
Complete Soundtrack List - All Songs Played in Every Episode
| Episode | Song Title | Artist |
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| E1 | Today | The Smashing Pumpkins |
| E1 | Supernova | Liz Phair |
| E1 | Informer | Snow |
| E1 | Miss World | Hole |
| E1 | Good Vibrations (feat. Loleatta Holloway) | Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch |
| E1 | Down by the Water | PJ Harvey |
| E1 | Let Me Find Out | POS NEG |
| E1 | Shoop | Salt-N-Pepa |
| E1 | Never Tear Us Apart | Paloma Faith |
| E1 | What If... | Dore Soul |
| E2 | Mother Mother | Tracy Bonham |
| E2 | Glory Box | Portishead |
| E2 | Hold On | Wilson Phillips |
| E2 | Confetti | Bien |
| E2 | Medusa | Noonday Devils |
| E2 | Kick It | Iggy Pop, Peaches |
| E3 | Grandma's Hands | Bill Withers |
| E3 | Cambodia | Kim Wilde |
| E3 | Vienna | Ultravox |
| E3 | Dreams | The Cranberries |
| E3 | Mr. Mistoffelees | Andrew Lloyd Webber |
| E4 | Ready to Go | Republica |
| E4 | Feel the Pain | Dinosaur Jr. |
| E4 | Mountain Song | Jane's Addiction |
| E4 | Maid in China | The Father Figures |
| E4 | Breakfast At Tiffany's | Deep Blue Something |
| E4 | So Alive | Love and Rockets |
| E5 | Emergency | SOFI TUKKER |
| E5 | Watashi No Sei | Andrea Monorchio |
| E5 | This Is How We Do It | Montell Jordan |
| E5 | Freak Out (feat. Bambie) | Nightlapse |
| E6 | Munich | Editors |
| E6 | Uninvited | Alanis Morissette |
| E6 | Love Comes Close | Cold Cave |
| E7 | Firestarter | The Prodigy |
| E7 | S P A C E | Amber Mark |
| E7 | The Music of the Night | Michael Crawford |
| E8 | Fade into You | Mazzy Star |
| E9 | Gepetto | Belly |
| E9 | Kiss from a Rose | Seal |
| E9 | The World I Know | Collective Soul |
| E10 | Kiss from a Rose | Seal |
| E10 | Only Time | Enya |
| E10 | Come Out and Play (Keep 'Em Separated) | The Offspring |
| E10 | I Touch Myself | Divinyls |
| E10 | Bach 70 | I Marc 4 |
| E10 | Ladykillers | Lush |
| E10 | The Haunted (feat. Amy Bowman) | Dot Allison |
| E10 | Vienna | Ultravox |
| E10 | Rump Shaker | Wreckx-n-Effect |
| E10 | All That She Wants | Ace of Base |





