Jerkin'
by Amyl and The Sniffers
⏱ 00:01:16
Album: Jerkin' - Single
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Youth Season 1 Soundtrack
Complete Youth Season 1 Soundtrack on HBO. Discover all 42 songs, episodic tracklists with timestamps, trailer music by Santigold, and score updates.
Created by and starring Sharon Horgan, Youth follows a literary agent navigating romance, demanding authors, and the challenges of midlife in London. Discover every featured song across the debut season below.
Episode 1 Songs: "Lockjaw"
7 Songs
DUOS
by JGRANTBEATS
⏱ 00:11:58
Album: DUOS - Single
Au Pays du Cocaine
by Geese
⏱ 00:16:46
Album: Getting Killed
Whow The Funk
by Tico Pierhagen
⏱ 00:17:57
Album: On Air - Disco Fever
Strict Machine
by Goldfrapp
⏱ 00:20:46
Album: Black Cherry
One Is the Magic #
by Jill Scott
⏱ 00:24:28
Album: Who Is Jill Scott?: Words and Sounds, Vol. 1
Everything In Its Right Place
by Radiohead
⏱ 00:27:37
Album: Kid A
Episode 2 Songs: "Wagon Burner"
6 Songs
L'estro armonico. Concerto No. 4 for 4 Violins in E Minor, Op. 3, RV 550: IV. Allegro
by Antonio Vivaldi
⏱ 00:01:28
Album: Vivaldi: 12 Concertos, Op. 3 "L'estro armonico" – Bach: Keyboard Arrangements
Time to Get Away
by LCD Soundsystem
⏱ 00:14:23
Album: Sound of Silver
I Want You To Love Me
by Fiona Apple
⏱ 00:16:09
Album: Fetch The Bolt Cutters
Pontypridd
by Edward H. Dafis
⏱ 00:16:56
Album: Hen Ffordd Gymreig O Fyw
Sports
by Viagra Boys
⏱ 00:19:08
Album: Street Worms (Deluxe Edition)
Ocean
by The Velvet Underground
⏱ 00:26:48
Album: VU
Episode 3 Songs: "Welcome to the Rat's Nest"
6 Songs
Nach fest kommt lose
by Die Sterne
⏱ 00:03:59
Album: 24/7
Passion Babe
by Aldous Harding
⏱ 00:06:58
Album: Warm Chris
I.O.U. (12" Version)
by Freeez
⏱ 00:17:26
Album: Freeez Frame! - The Best of Freeez
Loco Loco
by Gordo
⏱ 00:17:38
Album: Loco Loco - Single
Love Spell
by Westend
⏱ 00:18:26
Album: Love Spell - Single
Schwerelos
by MilleniumKid
⏱ 00:21:44
Album: Schwerelos - Single
Episode 4 Songs: "Michael Man"
6 Songs
Peligro (Danger)
by Panda Bear
⏱ 00:00:16
Album: Reset Mariachi - EP
Sad Disco
by Flipturn
⏱ 00:10:29
Album: Keep Pressing On: 25 Years of Dualtone
Heels over Head
by Seamus Fogarty
⏱ 00:12:06
Album: The Curious Hand
Sweet Old Sorry Me
by Tim Burgess
⏱ 00:24:46
Album: I Love the New Sky
Rinse & Repeat
by Riton
⏱ 00:25:05
Album: Foreign Ororo (Special Edition)
Les Fleurs
by Minnie Riperton
⏱ 00:26:57
Album: Come to My Garden (Remastered)
Episode 5 Songs: "The Holiday"
6 Songs
Hu Man
by Greentea Peng
⏱ 00:02:17
Album: Hu Man - Single
A Caballo
by Simon Munting
⏱ 00:05:38
Album: Kpm 1000 Series: The Classical Guitar Spanish Suite / The Classical Guitar European Suite
Free
by Sault
⏱ 00:08:46
Album: Untitled (Rise)
Stay Flo
by Solange
⏱ 00:09:47
Album: When I Get Home
Move On Up
by Curtis Mayfield
⏱ 00:24:18
Album: The Berlin Sessions
EARFQUAKE
by Tyler, The Creator
⏱ 00:27:54
Album: IGOR
Episode 6 Songs: "Desperate Measures"
5 Songs
Far Too Much
by Oscar Jerome
⏱ 00:01:05
Album: Far Too Much - Single
Can't Carry On
by Gruff Rhys
⏱ 00:17:06
Album: Seeking New Gods
Van Gogh's Ear
by Seamus Fogarty
⏱ 00:17:38
Album: The Curious Hand
Quando Ti Guardo
by Cyril Giroux
⏱ 00:23:08
Album: Italian Pop
Winesong
by The Mary Janes
⏱ 00:27:39
Album: Sham
Episode 7 Songs: "Last Night on Earth"
5 Songs
Favourite
by Fontaines D.C.
⏱ 00:03:22
Album: Romance
Sweet Road
by Animal Collective
⏱ 00:12:13
Album: Sung Tongs
Paris!
by AYLØ
⏱ 00:23:23
Album: Paris! - Single
feel away
by slowthai
⏱ 00:25:16
Album: feel away - Single
3WW
by alt-J
⏱ 00:27:53
Album: RELAXER
Official Trailer Music
1 Track
Disparate Youth
by Santigold
Album: Master of My Make-Believe (Deluxe Version)
Youth Season 1 Soundtrack — Overview & Musical Style
Created by and starring BAFTA winner Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, Bad Sisters), Youth brings a sharp, unapologetic perspective on midlife reinvention to HBO. Set in London, the comedy-drama follows Alex, a fifty-year-old literary agent navigating the messy fallout of a recent divorce while juggling awkward romantic entanglements, a wayward teenage son (Aran Murphy), and aging parents. Alongside Rupert Friend and Sharlene Whyte, Horgan balances biting humor with genuine vulnerability, portraying the exhausting tug-of-war between professional ambition and personal survival.
The soundtrack of Youth mirrors the chaotic emotional pace of Alex's daily life, leaning into an eclectic mix of sharp post-punk, vintage alternative rock, and classic electroclash. The musical selections shift effortlessly from the punk fury of Amyl and the Sniffers' "Jerkin'" and Viagra Boys' satirical "Sports" to the seductive dancefloor nostalgia of Goldfrapp’s "Strict Machine" and LCD Soundsystem "Time to Get Away." The season also weaves in heartfelt cuts from Jill Scott and Fiona Apple’s raw ballad "I Want You To Love Me," matching the messy collisions of Alex’s romantic life.
Alongside the original score by veteran comedy-drama composer Jeff Cardoni (Silicon Valley, The Kominsky Method), standout needle drops take center stage during the final moments of each chapter. The opening episode delivers an unforgettable emotional punch by closing on Radiohead’s haunting Kid A opener, "Everything In Its Right Place," as Alex lies beside her sleeping son. Later, the mournful warmth of The Velvet Underground’s archival classic "Ocean" underscores a painful romantic fracture, showing how the series uses seminal alternative records not merely as background noise, but as a direct window into its heroine’s private mental exhaustion.
