History AwesomeMusic / RickAndMorty

* The actual score of the show isn't anything to sneeze at, either. Highlights include the [[ThemeTune main theme]] and the cue that plays when [[spoiler:Jerry evaporates the Meeseeks by perfecting his golf game]] in "Meeseeks and Destroy".
** Another highlight would be the score that’s occasionally heard in the “Rick and Morty Forever 100 Years” garage rants.

* Though it's played for (surreal) laughs, "Head Bent Over, Raised Up Posterior" is strangely compelling. Possibly due to its [[spoiler:marking Morty's triumphant return as he decides to stand with Rick and defend his planet from the Cromulons.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gmd1HVGBzk "Look On Down From The Bridge"]] by Music/MazzyStar at the end of "Rick Potion #9" as [[spoiler:Morty tries to process having just destroyed the planet, only to jump into a new reality where the only difference was that he got to bury his own alternate self.]]

* The use of Gerry Rafferty's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Yi762sQTo "Baker Street"]] in "M. Night Shaym-Aliens!" [[spoiler:Just after Rick and Jerry escape the simulation, Jerry makes a snide remark about how Rick is now one of the "dummies". Moments later the con artist aliens mix in his "dark matter formula" and explode.]] Rick then snarks back to Jerry before the song and Rick's a capella of the tune fades the show out.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Js-XbNj6Tk "For The Damaged Coda"]] by Blonde Redhead plays over the end of "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind" [[spoiler: as the Council of Ricks figure out that the dead Rick was a mere puppet, followed by the shot of Evil Morty walking away.]] It makes a surprise re-appearance at the end credits of [[spoiler:"The Rick-Lantis Mix-Up". Apparently, this particular tune is Evil Morty's {{Leitmotif}}.]]

* "Auto-Erotic Assimiliation" has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTA0DSfrGZ0 "Do You Feel It?"]] by Chaos Chaos, a peppy little tune about a co-dependent relationship that plays [[spoiler:during Rick's failed suicide after Unity dumps him.]]

* The heartbreaking use of Music/NineInchNails' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oGqIfnIAEA "Hurt"]] during the climax of "The Wedding Squanchers" as [[spoiler:Rick turns himself in to the Galactic Federation.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_q7bsVQ5IQ "Don't Look Back"]], performed by Kotomi and written by Ryan Elder, from the fourth season finale, "Star Mort Rickturn of the Jerri". The song plays during the final scene before the credits where Rick watches a memory he deleted from his own head that reveals [[spoiler: Beth asked him at the end of "The [=ABC's=] of Beth" to decide whether she should stay on earth or go into space, essentially asking him what kind of daughter he wanted, one like him, or one that's the opposite. Unwilling to choose, he cloned her and then intentionally mixed them up so not even he knows which one is his real daughter.]] The music plays as Rick realizes just how awful a father he really is and decides to just sit in the garage alone. The lyrics can be applied to either Rick ''or'' Beth, with the former interpretation being that Rick is trying and failing to forget the past to avoid dealing with his guilt, while the latter is about Beth [[spoiler:and her clone realizing someone they used to look up to is toxic and their lives are considerably better without him]].