The (Play) List: October 2023

The spirit of the 90s, cast through the lens of your favorite witchy teen melodrama.

Did you watch Charmed on the WB? How about Buffy the Vampire Slayer or her goth beau’s spinoff, Angel? Do you savor this season as the moment to queue up Practical Magic or The Craft? Then I made you a playlist.

Below, the witchy spirit of October in the 90’s — cast through the lens of your favorite spooky teen melodrama.

Tracks:

1. Elderbrook - Feels Like a Sunday

2. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon

3. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

4. Girl in Red - We Fell in Love in October

5. The Cranberries - Zombie

6. The Pixies - Where Is My Mind?

7. Wallows - 1980's Horror Film II

8. Lana Del Rey - Season of the Witch

9. Darling Violetta - Cure

10. Morcheeba - Never an Easy Way

11. Coldplay - Warning Sign

12. Rasputina - Transylvanian Concubine

13. Better Than Ezra - One More Murder

14. Poe - Hey Pretty

15. Paula Cole - Be Somebody

16. Stevie Nicks - I Miss You

17. Our Lady Peace - Stealing Babies

18. Moby - Find My Baby

19. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??

20. Fiona Apple - Criminal

21. Tantric - Breakdown

22. The Colour - Save Yourself

23. Jewel - Down So Long

24. The Chemical Brothers - Galaxy Bounce

25. Stereophonics - A Minute Longer

26. Dido - Here With Me

27. Garbage - Stupid Girl

28. Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl

29. The Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight

30. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

P.S. If your fall vibe is more PSL than Pentagram, there’s always last year’s playlist, Meg Ryan Fall.