Full Tracklist of Songs by Episode, Canada Reviews

Love murder-mysteries? Love Derry Girls? Love the work of noughties pop legends like Black Eyed Peas and Girls Aloud?

If the answer to literally any of those questions is ‘hell yes’, you’ll be needing to settle in for a hearty binge of Derry Girls’ creator Lisa McGee new Netflix comedy-thriller How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.

The show follows old school friends, TV writer Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), stressed-out mum Robyn (Sinéad Keenan) and carer Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne), as they cross Ireland trying to undercover them mysterious fate of the fourth member of their old schoolgirl gang Greta (Natasha O’Keeffe).

Photograph: Netflix/Christopher Barr

Between their encounters with dangerous, charming and eccentric character amid glorious Irish landscapes, the sisters-in-sleuthing find time for some old school discos, boozy pub sessions and a whole mess of squabbling.

The soundtrack is worth the binge alone, with McGee piling coins into the jukebox and teeing up Gaelic folk staples and some landmark noughties cheese featuring the likes of Atomic Kitten, S Club 7, All Saints, Daniel Bedingfield and, yes, Vengaboys. Trust it, it just works.

‘I really loved creating a soundtrack that reflected what these three women would have been dancing to when they were teenagers in 2003,’ McGee tells . ‘And the time of tunes they still whack on to dance to in the kitchen with a glass of wine. Not necessary cool – but bright and upbeat and nostalgic.’

Here’s the soundtrack in full:

Episode 1

Hot In Herre – Nelly
Superstar – Jamelia
C’est la vie – B*Witched
Heaven – DJ Sammy
Pump It – Black Eyed Peas
I Don’t Want To Go To You – Gary Lightbody/Ian Archer
Move Your Feet – Junior Senior

Episode 2

Love Machine – Girls Aloud
Just A Little – Liberty X
Gotta Get Thru This – Daniel Beddingfield
C’est la vie – B*Witched
Sound of the Underground – Girls Aloud
Why’d Ya Come In Here – Lisa McHugh
Whole Again – Atomic Kitten
Love is Like A Butterfly – Bronagh Gallagher

Episode 3

Everybody Get Up – 5ive
Friends In Low Places – Mike Easterday
Spice up your life – Sunfly karaoke performers
Rock and Roll Kids – Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington
Emily Magner Hurley – Amhran Na Bhfiann

Episode 4

Black Horse and The Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
Ketchup Song – Las Ketchup
Where Do You Go – No Mercy
Reach – S Club 7

Episode 5

Love of your life – Raye
Scandalous – Mis-Teeq
Da Ba Dee – Blue
Bould O’Donoghue – The Mary Wallopers
Dublin’s Fair City (whistled) – Bronagh Gallagher
To Whom It May Concern – Chris Andrews
It’s All Coming Back To Me – Celine Dion
The Fields of Athenry

Episode 6

Sound of The Underground – Girls Aloud
Whole Again – Atomic Kitten
Gotta Get Thru This – Daniel Bedingfield
Something Kinda Oooh – Girls Aloud
I Don’t Want To Go To You – Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer
All The Things She Said – Tatu

Episode 7

Reach – S Club 7
It’s My Life – Dr Alban
My Perfect Cousin – The Undertones
Saltwater – Chicane Feat Moya Brennan
Calvary’s Mountain – Clem Clark

Episode 8

Black Coffee – All Saints
Move Your Feet – Junior Senior
Livin’ on Easy Street – Dave Steward with Ron Risney
I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen – Brian Coll and The Plattermen
Calvary’s Mountain – Clem Clark
Rock and Roll Kids – Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington
We Like To Party! – Vengaboys
Striptease Con Bajos – Jim Sutherland
My Lovely Horse – The Divine Comedy
A Village in County Tyrone – Philomena Begley
Life Ain’t Worth Livin’ – Joyce Street
How This All Ends – Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer
Church Of Your Fathers – Gary Lightbody/Iain Archer
Aimee – Luke Jackson
California Poppy – Theo Lawrence