Now that you’ve had the weekend to marathon The Get Down and pretend you’re the honorary seventh member of the Fantastic crew, you’ve finally found the perfect red sneakers to hop from roof to roof in, and you’re ready for all the music.
That means you’ll want more than just those 24 excellent songs on the official soundtrack, which includes some of the classics and the original jams. Plenty of the best songs star in more than a couple of the episodes, and they all weave a magnificent soundscape fit for the kings and queens of New York. Ranging from the DJ favorites (Walter Murphy’s “A Fifth of Beethoven” from The Grandmaster Flash’s The Official Adventures of Grandmaster Flash!) to that one that played pretty much every time something happened (Can’s “Vitamin C!”), here are 67 of the tracks you hear on the show—excluding the ones on the soundtrack—listed below to keep you howling in the street until next year when part two comes out.
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And do play through 61 of those tracks from the show gathered here in this handy playlist.
Episode 1: “Where There Is Ruin, There Is Hope for a Treasure”
1. The Spinners – The Rubberband Man
2. Earth, Wind & Fire – Shining Star
3. Can – Vitamin C (2004 Remaster)
4. Little Beaver – Concrete Jungle
5. The Salsoul Orchestra – Magic Bird of Fire
6. The Trammps – Disco Inferno
7. Wild Cherry – Play That Funky Music
8. Earth, Wind & Fire – Be Ever Wonderful
9. Boney M. – Daddy Cool
10. Murray Head – Superstar
11. The Fatback Band – (Are You Ready) Do the Bus Stop
12. C.J. & Co – Devil’s Gun
13. The New Swing Sextet –Revolucionando
14. Incredible Bongo Band – Apache (Grandmaster Flash Remix)
15. Eastside Connection – Frisco Disco
16. Rhythm Heritage – Theme song from the TV show S.W.A.T.
17. Billy Squier – The Big Beat
18. Michael Kiwanuka – Rule the World
19. Vicki Sue Robinson – Turn the Beat Around
Episode 2: “Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames”
20. La Lupe – El Carbonero
21. Hot Chocolate – Heaven Is the Back Seat of My Cadillac
22. Henry Mancini – The Pink Panther Theme
23. Willie Colon – El Malo
24. Lyn Collins – Think (About It)
25. Marvin Gaye – Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
26. Nina Simone – Don’t Explain
27. The Commodores – The Assembly Line
28. Gloria Gaynor – Never Say Goodbye
29. Curtis Mayfield – Superfly
30. Orquesta Harlow, Larry Harlow, Junior Gonzalez – La Cartera
31. The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun
32. Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
33. Machine – There But for the Grace of God I Go
Episode 3: “Darkness Is Your Candle”
34. K.C. and the Sunshine Band – That’s the Way (I Like It)
35. George McCrae – Rock Your Baby
36. The Temptations – Papa Was a Rolling Stone
37. The Rolling Stones – Hot Stuff
38. Marvin Gaye – Got to Give it Up, Pt. 1
39. Dynamic Corvettes – Funky Music Is The Thing (Parts 1 & 2)
40. Pleasure – Let’s Dance
41. CHIC – Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
42. Quincy Jones – Money Runner
43. Joe Tex – I Gotcha
44. Chocolate Milk – Action Speaks Louder Than Words
45. Kool & the Gang – Hollywood Swinging
46. Trio Los Panchos – Besame Mucho
47. The Supremes – Up the Ladder To The Roof (covered on the soundtrack)
Episode 4: “Forget Saftey, Be Notorious”
48. Leon Bridges – Ball of Confusion
49. José Feliciano – Susie Q
50. Willie Colon – Juana Pena
51. Tito Puente Y Su Orquesta – Cuando calienta el Sol
52. Stevie Wonder – Living For The City
53. Musique – In the Bush
54. Teddy Pendergrass – You Can’t Hide From Yourself (You’ll find the ZAYN, Teddy Pendergrass & Grandmaster Flash’s “You Can’t Hide/You Can’t Hide From Yourself” on the soundtrack)
55. Babe Ruth – The Mexican
56. The Jackson 5 – Hum Along and Dance
Episode 5: “You Have Wings, Learn to Fly”
57. James Brown – Give it Up or Turnit a Loose
58. Baby Huey & The Babysitters – Listen To Me
59. Jackson 5 – The Love You Save
60. War – Slippin’ Into Darkness
Episode 6: “Raise Your Words, Not Your Voice”
61. Village People – In Hollywood (Everybody Is a Star)
62. Marie et les Garçons – Rien à dire
63. The Emotions – Best of My Love
64. First Choice – Doctor Love
65. Walter Murphy – A Fifth of Beethoven
66. Lucy Hawkins – Gotta Get Out of Here
67. John Williams & London Symphony Orchestra – Star Wars Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner
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