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This playlist moves from the Overlook’s vast, wintry isolation into the domestic dread of Jack’s unraveling, with the hotel’s eerie musical shadows setting the tone. The vocal songs trace the book’s tensions around alcoholism, family, fear, and the pull of violence, while keeping room for Danny’s unsettling sensitivity and Wendy’s fight to protect her family.
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20 songs
1
Tubular Bells
Mike Oldfield · Time To Have Peaceful
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Rocky Mountains
Wendy Carlos · The Shining (Selections from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Profondo rosso
Goblin · Profondo rosso (Gold Tracks) [Colonna Sonora Originale dal Film "Profondo Rosso"]
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Tenebre
Goblin · Austinato - Live in Austin, Texas
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Gyroscope
Boards of Canada · Geogaddi
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Beware The Friendly Stranger
Boards of Canada · Geogaddi
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Psycho: Prelude
Bernard Herrmann · The Essential Hollywood
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The Fog
John Carpenter · Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
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Prince of Darkness
John Carpenter · Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
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Totentanz, S. 126
Franz Liszt · The Romantic Piano Concerto, Vol. 7
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Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat
Hector Berlioz · Munch Conducts Berlioz
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Black Angels, Thirteen Images from the Dark Land, Departure: I. Threnody I "Night of the Electric Insects"
George Crumb · George Crumb: Black Angels & Music for a Summer Evening
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Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106: III. Adagio
Béla Bartók · The 50 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music
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Hotel California - 2013 Remaster
Eagles · Hotel California (2013 Remaster)
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Mother
Pink Floyd · The Wall
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Excitable Boy
Warren Zevon · Excitable Boy
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Riders on the Storm
The Doors · L.A. Woman
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath · The Ultimate Collection
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Red Right Hand
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds · Red Right Hand (Theme from 'Peaky Blinders')
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