American Horror Story/Soundtrack

Original scoring for American Horror Story is composed by Charlie Clouser (late of Nine Inch Nails). He has created a different main title theme for each season, all incorporating an experimental noise piece from musician Cesar Davila-Irizarry. Along with his incidental music, the soundtrack features borrowed scoring from horror films as well as previously released and newly covered recordings of popular rock and standards.

Episodic Music

These are individual songs, not score compositions.

Music of Murder House

Song	Links	Artist	Episode or Theme	Scene
"Tonight You Belong To Me"		Patience and Prudence	Pilot & Afterbirth	Troy and Bryan demolish the house/The Ramos family flees
"Blood Gets Thin"		Pete and the Pirates	Pilot	Violet meets Leah
"Special Death"		Mirah	Tate and Violet	Scenes related to Tate and Violet
"Baby, You Ain't Looking Right"		PowerSolo	Pilot	End credits
"Tainted Love"		Hannah Peel	Promotional	Used in Clues videos

Music of Asylum

Song	Links	Artist	Episode or Theme	Scene
Dominique		Soeur Marie	Welcome to Briarcliff	In the common room of Briarcliff
There Goes My Baby (Re-Recorded)		The Drifters	Welcome to Briarcliff	Kit singing along as he closes shop
Bucket of Blood (Carrie)		Pino Donaggio	Welcome to Briarcliff	Lana Winters Arrives at the Asylum
Pater Noster		Richard Eihhorn	Welcome to Briarcliff	Sister Jude dining with Monsignor Timmothy Howard)
Moon in My Mind		Frankie Rose	Welcome to Briarcliff	Leo and Teresa enter the abandoned asylum
Softly Baby		Red Garland	Welcome to Briarcliff	Lana and Wendy talking
Lovemaker, Lovebreaker		Frank Fafara	Welcome to Briarcliff	Kit and Alma lay in bed after sex
For the Last Time We'll Pray (Carrie)		Pino Donaggio	Welcome to Briarcliff	Sr. Mary escorts Lana

Music of Coven

Song	Links	Artist	Episode or Theme	Scene
Sugarland		Papa Mali	Bitchcraft	Zoe leaves parents' home

Music of Freak Show

Song	Links	Artist	Episode or Theme	Scene
Should I		The Four Aces	Monsters Among Us
Tango Notturno		Negri	Monsters Among Us
Carnival Of Souls		Verne Langdon	Monsters Among Us
Kiss Of Fire		Georgia Gibbs	Monsters Among Us
Thunder		Jody Reynolds	Monsters Among Us
Wenn Du Mal In Hawaii Bist		Orchestra Marek Weber	Monsters Among Us
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart		Les Baxter	Monsters Among Us
Down At The Beach		The Pentagons	Monsters Among Us
With My Eyes Wide Open I'm Dreaming		Patti Page	Monsters Among Us
Loneliness Ends With Love		Al Lerner & Margaret Whiting	Monsters Among Us
Auf Wiedersehn, Sweetheart		Vera Lynn	Monsters Among Us

Featured in Murder House

Pilot

• "Tonight You Belong To Me"by Patience and Prudence (When Troy and Bryan demolish the house)^Spotify
• "Special Death" by Mirah (Scenes related to Tate and Violet)^Spotify
• "Twisted Nerve" by Bernard Herrmann (Westfield High Massacre related scenes)^Spotify
• "Blood Gets Thin" by Pete And The Pirates (Violet and Leah fight)^Spotify
• "Flickers" by Son Lux (When Violet and Tate talk about scaring Leah)^Spotify
• "Baby, You Ain't Looking Right" by PowerSolo (Closing Credits)^Spotify

Home Invasion

• "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)" by The 5th Dimension (During the opening scene)^Spotify
• "Special Death" by Mirah (Violet and Leah talk about what happened in the basement)^Spotify
• "Make it with You" by Ian McCutcheon/ originally by Bread (Bianca's elevator dream)^Spotify
• "Do You" by Carina Round (Scene where Vivien brings a cupcake to Violet's room/Ben drinking wine with Hayden) ^Spotify

Murder House

• "For Everything A Reason"by Carina Round (Scene of Larry burying Hayden and finding Moira's skeleton) ^Spotify

Halloween: Part 1

• "Lavender Moon" by Haroula Rose (When Violet's giving Addie a makeover)^Spotify
• "Big Mother" by Feeding People (When Violet's reading on her bed) ^Spotify
• "Dracula - The Beginning" by Wojciech Kilar (The Montgomery family flashback scene) ^Spotify

Halloween: Part 2

• "Twisted Nerve" by Bernard Herrmann (Tate confronts the "Dead Breakfast Club")^Spotify

Piggy Piggy

• "Suite for Solo Cello No. 5 in C Minor: Allemande" by Yo-Yo Ma / originally by Bach (Vivien's dream)^Spotify
• "I, The Sun" by Lights On (Violet comes back to her room after seeing ghosts in the basement)

Open House

• "I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl" by Nina Simone (While Vivien's pleasuring herself)^Spotify
• "Don't Look Back" by Kissing Cousins (Played when Maria haunts Violet) ^Spotify
• "Harsh Realm" by Widowspeak (When Vivien and Violet talk about love)^Spotify

Rubber Man

• "XXX" by Natalie Nylon (When Chad shops at the S&M/Sex Shop.)

Spooky Little Girl

• "Good for Nothin' Joe" by Lena Horne (During the opening scene)^Spotify
• "Nightmare" by Artie Shaw (Scenes related to the Black Dahlia)^Spotify
• "Spooky" by Martha Reeves (During Hayden/Travis' bed scene)^Spotify
• "Spooky" by Atlanta Rhythm Section / originally by the Classics IV (Flashback of Ben & Hayden in a Boston bar)^Spotify

Smoldering Children

• "M1A2 Battalion Of Hate" by Wehrwolfe (Song playing when Tate's alarm clock goes off)^Spotify
• "Hate My Way" by Throwing Muses (When Ben comes to Violet's room to talk about her truancy)^Spotify
• "Hazard" by Gossling (Scene where Tate and Violet talk about both being dead)^Spotify

Afterbirth

• En Infiel by Marvelous Toy (When Violet meets Gabe)^Spotify
• "Tonight You Belong To Me" by Patience and Prudence (When the Ramoses are escaping the Murder House)^Spotify
• "Loretta" and "Roses Today" by John (or Johnny) Scott (the two instrumental background lounge tracks when Constance Langdon talks to her hairdresser near the end of the episode)
• The Little Drummer Boy – Harry Simeone Chorale (Christmas tree scene)

Other Episodes/Repeating Themes

• "American Horror Story" by Cesar Davila-Irizzary & Charlie Clouser (Opening credits)^Spotify
• "The Beginning" from Dracula (1992) (Played in all flashbacks of the Infantata/the Montgomerys)^Spotify
• "Swing the Blues Away" by The Brad Hatfield Trio ^Spotify

Featured in Asylum

Welcome to Briarcliff

• Moon in My Mind by Frankie Rose (Leo and Teresa enter Briarcliff in 2012)
• There Goes My Baby by The Drifters (Kit singing along in the garage before being interrupted)
• Lovemaker, Lovebreaker by Frank Fafara (Kit and Alma post-coitus)
• Bucket of Blood by Pino Donaggio from Carrie (Lana arrives at Briarcliff)
• For the Last Time We'll Pray by Pino Donaggio from Carrie (Sr. Mary escorts Lana)
• Dominique by Soeur Marie (as always in the disc player in the common room)
• Softly Baby by Red Gardland (Lana and Wendy talking)
• Voices of Light V: Pater Noster by composer Richard Einhorn (Sr. Jude's fantasy)

Featured in Websites or Promotions

Hannah Peel Tainted Love

• "Tainted Love" by Hannah Peel.
• "Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree" by The Andrews Sisters.

• "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield (From "The Exorcist" score.)
• "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens.
• "Ave Maria for Cello and Piano" by Bach Gounod.
• "All You Leave Behind" by Hannah Cartwright and Ross Tones.
• "Nighty Night" by Louise Dowd.

You're Going To Die In There

• Outside : "This Time" performed by Richard Blandon and the Dubs (Written by Dave Antrell.)
• 1940’s : "Twice as Nice" by Werner Tautz.
• 1950’s : "A Real Reel Switcher" by Eunice Russ Frost with The Earl Palmer Combo.
• 1970’s : "R&R" by Will Johnstone, Nicholas Thomas Emmanuel Amour, and Andrew Philip Carroll.
• 1980’s : "London Boy" by Ian Curnow.
• 2000’s: "Mystic Maze" by Kully B and Calvin Kahn.

References

Music guide

Music from AHS tumblr - Author has FX/TNT contacts for most accurate info.