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Songs that feel like IT: Welcome to Derry (2025)

A heavy, creeping dread hanging over a claustrophobic American small town where childhood innocence is slowly devoured by an ancient, structural evil.

1. Runaway by Del Shannon: Its trembling falsetto and soaring, ominous synth-like organ capture the exact paranoid heartbreak of a 1960s nightmare.
2. The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals: The hypnotic, mournful organ chords evoke a cursed, inescapable doom hanging over young lives.
3. Season of the Witch by Donovan: A hypnotic and slightly paranoid groove that speaks directly to the creeping realization that dark forces are taking over the town.
4. Paris Is A Lonely Town by Judy Garland: Captures the heavy, suffocating isolation of growing up misunderstood in a place where nobody listens.
5. People Who Died by The Jim Carroll Band: A frantic, tragic inventory of young lives cut short that mirrors Derry's devastating history of missing children.
6. Everyday by Buddy Holly: Its innocent, childlike rhythm and underlying melancholy evoke the fragile, fleeting joy of kids playing before the terror sets in.
7. Gloomy Sunday (with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra) by Billie Holiday: A devastatingly bleak standard that mirrors the historical weight of Derry's recurring cycles of tragedy.
8. Tell Laura I Love Her by Ray Peterson: A classic teenage tragedy ballad that highlights the terrifying vulnerability of young love against the backdrop of sudden death.
9. Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) by Peter Sarstedt: Possesses a haunting European chamber-pop elegance that masks deep, melancholic secrets beneath the surface.
10. O Death by Ralph Stanley: A raw, a cappella mountain dirge that channels the ancient, inescapable presence of a primal entity waiting in the dark.