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Over the course of six seasons, showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields and music supervisors P.J.

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Below, youll find the best of the best.

Turn it up loud.

Phil Collins, In the Air Tonight (Season 1, Episode 1)

Explicit sexuality.

Emotionally charged moments in parked cars at night.

musical montage in season six.

Along with Peter Gabriel, Fleetwood Mac, and Roxy Music (dont touch that dial, music fans!

Sweet but never saccharine, it suits the dancing-in-the-moonlight ambience of the scene perfectly.

Bauhaus, Slice of Life (Season 5, Episode 10)

Fromthe CuretoEcho and the BunnymentoFad Gadget(!

),The Americanswas never afraid to goth it up.

Its a layered, lovely, and utterly heartbreaking choice.

But when producer Brian Enos synthesized drum beat and twinkling keyboards first kick in?

What am I, made of stone?

Keri Russells shock-widened eyes in that single moment alone merit music this massive.

and after this astonishing suspense sequence, but its the way they used it here thats so striking.

Lindsey Buckinghams guitar sounds like a coded signal.

In this particular case, the person being subjected to a live emotional autopsy is Elizabeth.

This is Elizabeths Milgram moment, long overdue.

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Season 1, Episode 1)

Number one, without question, full stop.

And what a first impression it made.

The Americans: In Memoriam

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