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* Quite possibly one of the best trailer music ever used: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pzzDPaI5Q Future Royalty's "Take What's Mine"]] for the first Season 9 SDCC trailer. Even those who had long quit the show admitted that this song alone had them hyped for the ''[[TImeSkip New Beginning]]'' arc that will be adapted.

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* Quite possibly one of the best trailer music tracks ever used: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pzzDPaI5Q Future Royalty's "Take What's Mine"]] for the first Season 9 SDCC trailer. Even those who had long quit the show admitted that this song alone had them hyped for the ''[[TImeSkip New Beginning]]'' arc that will be adapted.
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* Quite possibly one of the best trailer music ever used: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6pzzDPaI5Q Future Royalty's "Take What's Mine"]] for the first Season 9 SDCC trailer. Even those who had long quit the show admitted that this song alone had them hyped for the ''[[TImeSkip New Beginning]]'' arc that will be adapted.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsmILm-mB8 "Grim Ranger"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 3 and [[spoiler: TheStinger showing Clementine, further matured by her experiences with Javi, sets out to find A.J.]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsmILm-mB8 "Grim Ranger"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 3 and [[spoiler: TheStinger showing Clementine, further matured by her experiences with Javi, sets setting out to find A.J. on her own.]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsmILm-mB8 "Grim Ranger"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 3 and [[spoiler: Clementine, further matured by her experiences with Javi, sets out to find A.J.]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsmILm-mB8 "Grim Ranger"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 3 and [[spoiler: TheStinger showing Clementine, further matured by her experiences with Javi, sets out to find A.J.]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CsmILm-mB8 "Grim Ranger"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 3 and [[spoiler: Clementine, further matured by her experiences with Javi, sets out to find A.J.]]
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* The piece during Eugene volunteering to make his LastStand in "Last Day on Earth" is heart-wrenching and beautiful, as it perfectly captures the group's gratitude for Eugene's actions, Abraham and Eugene bidding each other farewell [[spoiler: for the last time as the Season 7 premiere will reveal]], and Eugene trying to muster up the courage to stay the course, even in this DarkestHour.

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* The piece during Eugene volunteering to make his LastStand in "Last Day on Earth" is heart-wrenching and beautiful, as it perfectly captures the group's gratitude for Eugene's actions, Abraham and Eugene bidding each other farewell [[spoiler: for the last time as the Season 7 premiere will reveal]], reveals]], and Eugene trying to muster up the courage to stay the course, even in this DarkestHour.



* The track that plays during the actual victim picking with Lucille nearly helps regain all the terror and anxiety that the audience lost when the cliffhanger abruptly ended the Season 6 finale.

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* The track that plays during the actual victim picking with Lucille nearly really helps regain all the terror and anxiety that the audience lost when the cliffhanger abruptly ended the Season 6 finale.
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* "The Cell" features Music/RoyOrbison's "Crying", and opens up with Music/TheJam's "Town Called Malice".
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* The piece at the end of "Start to Finish" has great piano as [[spoiler: Deanna makes her LastStand]] and the others exit the Anderson home CoveredInGrunge. It really picks up as Rick's group stands on the porch, bracing themselves to step off into the danger of the open herd, and considering TheStinger, also brace themselves for the unknown and the darkness on the horizon whose name is ''Negan''.

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* The piece at the end of "Start to Finish" has great piano as [[spoiler: Deanna makes her LastStand]] and the others exit the Anderson home CoveredInGrunge.CoveredInGunge. It really picks up as Rick's group stands on the porch, bracing themselves to step off into the danger of the open herd, and considering TheStinger, also brace themselves for the unknown and the darkness on the horizon whose name is ''Negan''.

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* The quiet, ethereal piece during [[spoiler: Tyreese's death]] is soothing and gentle, as [[spoiler: Tyreese]] accepts his fate and passes on to the afterlife, and the group dejectedly buries him, and is forced to move on.



* The epic track during the walker mission in "First Time Again" is haunting and epic as we see the group take on their biggest mission yet. There are sounds during the piece that sound like a cross between an automated car assembly line and a vocalist that help portray the unthinking machinery of the herd.
* The piece at the end of "Start to Finish" has great piano as [[spoiler: Deanna makes her LastStand]] and the others exit the Anderson home CoveredInGrunge. It really picks up as Rick's group stands on the porch, bracing themselves to step off into the danger of the open herd, and considering TheStinger, also brace themselves for the unknown and the darkness on the horizon whose name is ''Negan''.
* The Battle of Alexandria in "No Way Out" is accompanied by a great soundtrack, first a down and dirty section as Rick's group and the Alexandrians unite on the battlefield. Then once Daryl arrives with the RPG, the music turns hopeful with a bunch of strings, as Rick leads the final charge to take back their home.



* The piece during Eugene volunteering to make his LastStand in "Last Day on Earth" is heart-wrenching and beautiful, as it perfectly captures the group's gratitude for Eugene's actions, Abraham and Eugene bidding each other farewell [[spoiler: for the last time as the Season 7 premiere will reveal]], and Eugene trying to muster up the courage to stay the course, even in this DarkestHour.
* It's just barely there, but during the big Negan scene in "Last Day on Earth", there are these scratchy strings playing throughout (notable in one shot of Glenn after Negan introduces Lucille) that really sell the writhing frustration and anxiety of watching Negan play with his prisoners.
* The track that plays during the actual victim picking with Lucille nearly helps regain all the terror and anxiety that the audience lost when the cliffhanger abruptly ended the Season 6 finale.



* "The Well" gives us a haunting choral cover of Music/BobDylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".

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* "The Well" gives us a haunting haunting, but gorgeous choral cover of Music/BobDylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right".
Right". It's a great comedown from the horrors of the Season 6 finale, Season 7 premiere, and all the speculation and frustration during the seven month long cliffhanger.
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* "The Well" gives us a haunting choral cover of BobDylan's ''Don't Think Twice, It's All Right''.

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* "The Well" gives us a haunting choral cover of BobDylan's ''Don't Think Twice, It's All Right''.
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* Though the name of the track isn't known yet, the tune that plays during "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" as Rick collapses atop the RV is absolutely heartbreaking.

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* Though the name of the track isn't known yet, the The tune that plays during "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" as Rick collapses atop the RV is absolutely heartbreaking.
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* Though the name of the track isn't known yet, the tune that plays during "The Day Will Come When You Won't Be" as Rick collapses atop the RV is absolutely heartbreaking.

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* Hozier's "Arsonist's Lullaby" at the end of "Not Tomorrow Yet" nicely underscores the group's emotions after [[spoiler: their attack on the Savior compound.]]
* "It's All Over" by Johnny Cash near the beginning of "East."
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwXVs_0A7bg "In the Pines"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 2, Episode 3.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwXVs_0A7bg "In the Pines"]], which plays over the end credits of Season 2, Episode 3.2.

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* In "Consumed", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7qZ57inaw "Bad Blood"]] by Alison Mosshart and Eric Arjes plays over the prologue showing Carol's perspective between the episodes "Indifference" and "Too Far Gone". It's a slow, heart-wrenching song that perfectly accommodates Carol's grief over [[spoiler: being exiled from the prison by Rick.]]
* "We Carry On" by The Phantoms is used in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o-QvZ_nTbI trailer for Season Six]]. It really sells one of the main themes of the series - "we will stand stranger to brother, we are one, we carry on." It plays over some cool visuals of the main cast of the season, the cast member in focus transitioning under a revolving light from above. Especially cool is Morgan's presence towards the end, confirming his return to the ensemble and as a major character to boot.
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* In "Alone", Beth performs Waxahatchee's "Be Good" on a piano. Much like the Hyundais featured in the show, the song can't logically exist in the show's universe, as it was written in 2012.

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* In "Wildfire," when they group is driving away after [[spoiler:leaving Jim to die, as per his request,]] the wonderful "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from ''{{Film/Sunshine}}'' plays, presumably as a ShoutOut to director Danny Boyle, who also directed ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''.

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* In "Wildfire," when they group is driving away after [[spoiler:leaving Jim to die, as per his request,]] the wonderful "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from ''{{Film/Sunshine}}'' ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' plays, presumably as a ShoutOut to director Danny Boyle, who also directed ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''.



%%* The main theme, composed by Bear [=McCreary=].
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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West"]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.

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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West"]] plays over [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.



* [[http://youtu.be/5x3xmLWjgvI "In The Water"]], which plays over the credits of Season 2 Episode 1.



* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbae9h384-0 "At Peace"]], which plays when [[spoiler: Kenny says his last words to Clementine or when he begs Edith to let her and AJ into Wellington]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbae9h384-0 "At Peace"]], which plays when [[spoiler: Kenny [[spoiler:Kenny says his last words to Clementine or when he begs Edith to let her and AJ into Wellington]].Wellington]].
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbae9h384-0 "At Peace"]], which plays when [[spoiler: Kenny says his last words to Clementine or when he begs Edith to let her and AJ into Wellington]].

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* Kari Kimmel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQes2Bh9A3w Black]]'', for the Season 3 debut trailer. Fight the Dead. Fear the Living.

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* Kari Kimmel's "[[https://www."[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQes2Bh9A3w Black]]'', Black]]", for the Season 3 debut trailer. Fight the Dead. Fear the Living.



* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.

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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West]] West"]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.



* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w "It´s Over"]], which has played in major sad moments since Episode 2, particularly [[spoiler:when leaving the St. John Dairy, when Kenny and Katjaa are deciding what to do with a bitten Duck, and when the player drops Ben to his death]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w "It´s "It's Over"]], which has played in major sad moments since Episode 2, particularly [[spoiler:when leaving the St. John Dairy, when Kenny and Katjaa are deciding what to do with a bitten Duck, and when the player drops Ben to his death]].
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* Kari Kimmel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQes2Bh9A3w Black]], for the Season 3 debut trailer. Fight the Dead. Fear the Living.

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* Kari Kimmel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQes2Bh9A3w Black]], Black]]'', for the Season 3 debut trailer. Fight the Dead. Fear the Living.
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* Kari Kimmel's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQes2Bh9A3w Black]], for the Season 3 debut trailer. Fight the Dead. Fear the Living.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwXVs_0A7bg "In the Pines"]], plays over the end credits of Season 2, Episode 3.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwXVs_0A7bg "In the Pines"]], plays over the end credits of Season 2, Episode 3.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzNf_x2ks4 "Hope"]], the track that plays during any of the more uplifting scenes of the game, such as when [[spoiler:Carley flirts with Lee in Episode 3, where it is first heard, or when Lee's group discovers a functioning boat in Episode 4]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzNf_x2ks4 "Hope"]], the track that which plays during any some of the more uplifting scenes of the game, scenes, such as when [[spoiler:Carley flirts with Lee in Episode 3, where it is first heard, or when Lee's group discovers a functioning boat in Episode 4]].
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBzNf_x2ks4 "Hope"]], the track that plays during any of the more uplifting scenes of the game, such as when [[spoiler:Carley flirts with Lee in Episode 3, where it is first heard, or when Lee's group discovers a functioning boat in Episode 4]].
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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.

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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols Nichols' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.
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* In "Live Bait", Ben Nichols [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuJzivuF1o "The Last Pale Light In The West]] plays over [[spoiler: the Governor]] wandering through the wilderness for months.
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* In "Wildfire," when they group is driving away after [[spoiler:leaving Jim to die, as per his request,]] the wonderful "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from ''{{Film/Sunshine}}'' plays, presumably as a ShoutOut to director Danny Boyle, who also directed ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''

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* In "Wildfire," when they group is driving away after [[spoiler:leaving Jim to die, as per his request,]] the wonderful "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from ''{{Film/Sunshine}}'' plays, presumably as a ShoutOut to director Danny Boyle, who also directed ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''.



* Tom Wait's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnOEiehONQ Hold On]] is used, and sung by Beth Greene, at the end of "I Ain't No Judas".

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* Tom Wait's Waits' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnOEiehONQ Hold On]] is used, and sung by Beth Greene, at the end of "I Ain't No Judas".



* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w&feature=relmfu "It´s Over"]], which has played in major sad moments since Episode 2, particularly [[spoiler:when leaving the St. John Dairy, when Kenny and Katjaa are deciding what to do with a bitten Duck, and when the player drops Ben to his death]].

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w&feature=relmfu com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w "It´s Over"]], which has played in major sad moments since Episode 2, particularly [[spoiler:when leaving the St. John Dairy, when Kenny and Katjaa are deciding what to do with a bitten Duck, and when the player drops Ben to his death]].
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* In "Wildfire," when they group is driving away after [[spoiler:leaving Jim to die, as per his request,]] the wonderful "Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor)" from ''{{Film/Sunshine}}'' plays, presumably as a ShoutOut to director Danny Boyle, who also directed ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater''
* The preview for "Bloodletting" uses Johnny Cash's "I See A Darkness" to a truly haunting effect.
* In "Nebraska", Clutch's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0HUBWdDkU "The Regulator"]] is used for a particularly haunting effect over the final scene [[spoiler: of burning the barn Walker bodies]].
* The main theme, composed by Bear [=McCreary=].
* Wye Oak's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssm8Ml5sOo "Civilian"]] is used in the main trailer for Season 2, as well as the episode "18 Miles Out" when Rick is driving back to the farm at the end of episode.
* Tom Wait's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPnOEiehONQ Hold On]] is used, and sung by Beth Greene, at the end of "I Ain't No Judas".
* Jamie N. Common's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptH60ktLqBM "Lead Me Home"]] plays in "Clear".

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ePFxuu9lik "Alive Inside"]], first played in the pharmacy office in Macon, plays during scenes with Clementine. A moving, crushingly sad version is played during [[spoiler: the final scene when Lee tells Clem his final words]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTDGtnAnY7w&feature=relmfu "It´s Over"]], which has played in major sad moments since Episode 2, particularly [[spoiler:when leaving the St. John Dairy, when Kenny and Katjaa are deciding what to do with a bitten Duck, and when the player drops Ben to his death]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yf9GqN9xxM "Armed With Death"]], played only during [[spoiler:Lee's potentially one-armed rampage through the streets of Savanna, which are infested with a horde of walkers.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-bXhI4AzNg "Take Us Back"]], by Alela Diane in the credits for the last episode of season one. It certainly punctuates the emotional roller coaster of Episode Five.

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