If you thought Wednesday just upped the ante of the stakes and darkness in the second season, you’re gravely mistaken. This time around, the Netflix series has conjured an even gorier soundtrack, grittier than the cello session you heard in the first episode. From tracks with a gothic spin to brooding, moody tunes, Wednesday has spun a surprise even in the tonal settings of the show.

While Wednesday’s cello skills have significantly increased, season two also has throwback tunes from the ‘90s and K-pop anthems. The first episode opens with a haunting version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein showtune, ‘My Favourite Things,’ by The Lennon Sisters. The scene shows Wednesday tied to a chair, surrounded by a serial killer’s doll collection while she cries black tears.

Showering homage to Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jenna Ortega, and Luis Guzman’s Latin heritage, Wednesday includes ‘Un Mundo Raro’ by Chavela Vargas. He was also featured in the series premiere of the first instalment. Meanwhile, the track that accompanies the Addams family’s road trip to Nevermore while they pass a minivan is Berry Lipman Singers’ ‘Tropical Island,’ quite the choice for the spark of havoc Pugsley causes seconds later.

Wednesday has always used music to offer juxtaposition with what you see and what you hear. When Greg and Debbie start getting a little too cosy in the woods, Sixpence None the Richer’s ‘Kiss Me’ tunes in as Carl Bradbury is pecked to death by evil crows. And by the time we meet Enid, MAMAMOO’s ‘Um Oh Ah Yeh’ begins playing. And knowing Wednesday isn’t really into the K-pop tunes, she resorts to playing ‘The Dance of the Knights’ from Prokofiev’s ballet score.

When the Founder’s Pyre is set ablaze, the outcasts break into ‘No Time to Cry’ by Sisters of Mercy. ‘Nevermore Alma Mater’ by Pitch Slaps is led by Bianca Barclay thereafter. Meanwhile, Principal Dort walks into Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing in the Dark’ just before setting the fire on the pyre.

Moving on to episode two, the Prank Day sees The Kinks’ ‘You Really Got Me’ playing in the background. Side-wise, Morticia Addams commences the fundraising campaign against the background score of Mozart’s ‘Voi Che Sapete.’ Another classic operatic piece is Verdi’s ‘Dies Irae’, which plays during Wednesday’s scheming to hijack Enid’s driving lesson.

In episode three, Morticia and Gomez tango to Roberto Alagna’s ‘La Cumparsita.’ A little later in Camp Jericho, Roky Erickson’s ‘I Walked with a Zombie’ plays when Pugsley packs his pet zombie Slurp in a coffin. The war film classic, Wagner’s ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’, backs up the battle against the normies. In one of the poignant scenes, Morticia and Isadora break into Creedence Clearwater Revival’s ‘Bad Moon Rising.’

That same episode, you may hear Gomez singing Pedro Vargas’ ‘Besame Mucho.’ And when the mother-daughter relationship reaches fever pitch, Wednesday swiftly conjures REM’s ‘Losing My Religion’ covered by GnusCello. In episode four, Uncle Fester’s brief romance with lunch lady Louise is highlighted by Foreigner’s ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’ and Gary Wright’s ‘Dream Weaver.’ And when he goes into electroshock therapy, Dean Martin’s ‘Ain’t That a Kick in the Head’ elevates the scene.

Mozart is summoned once again. And so is Isadora, who sings Eric Carmen’s ‘All by Myself’ while driving to Willow Hill. She also plays The Cranberries’ iconic hit song, ‘Zombie,’ on the piano cover. And lastly, Fester and Louise’s brief love story comes to a close with Bernard Herrmann’s ‘Scene D’Amour.’

Every song in the Wednesday season two soundtrack

• ‘My Favourite Things’ by The Lennon Sisters
• ‘Un Mundo Raro’ by Chavela Vargas
• ‘Tropical Island’ by Berry Lipman Singers
• ‘Kiss Me’ by Sixpence None the Richer
• ‘Um Oh Ah Yeh’ by MAMAMOO
• ‘The Dance of the Knights’ from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet
• ‘No Time to Cry’ by Sisters of Mercy
• ‘Nevermore Alma Mater’ by Pitch Slaps
• ‘Dancing in the Dark’ by Bruce Springsteen
• ‘You Really Got Me’ by The Kinks
• ‘Voi Che Sapete’ from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro
• ‘Dies Irae’ from Verdi’s Requiem
• ‘La Cumparsita’ by Roberto Alagna
• ‘I Walked with a Zombie’ by Roky Erickson
• ‘The Ride of the Valkyries’ by Wagner’s Die Walkure
• ‘Bad Moon Rising’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival (covered by the cast)
• ‘Besame Mucho’ by Pedro Vargas
• ‘Losing My Religion’ by REM (covered by GnusCello)
• ‘I Want to Know What Love Is’ by Foreigner
• ‘Ain’t That a Kick in the Head’ by Dean Martin
• The Andante di Molto from Mozart’s Symphony No 34 in C Major, K 338
• ‘Dream Weaver’ by Gary Wright
• ‘All by Myself’ by Eric Carmen
• ‘Zombies’ by The Cranberries (piano cover)
• ‘Scene D’Amour’ by Bernard Herrmann