10 standout songs from The Umbrella Academy Season 3: Queen, Nelly, The Rescues, and more

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10 standout songs from The Umbrella Academy Season 3: Queen, Nelly, The Rescues, and more

A magic cube, a robot mom worshipping an energy glob, and another apocalypse. That can only mean one thing: another season of The Umbrella Academy is here!

After two years, the Hargreeves Siblings are back but this time, in another messed-up timeline with an apocalypse fast approaching. So basically, nothing new. Season 3 picks up right where the previous season left off: with the Hargreeves transported back to 2019 but with their house no longer the Umbrella Academy but the Sparrow Academy, which comprises another set of powerful superhero siblings. Oh, and Ben is alive but he's kind of a jerk. 

This season has a feast of highlight moments like Vanya's transition into Viktor, Christopher the cube, the return of Pogo who is now a badass biker, a Kugelblitz (a German astrophysics term for blackhole), and an apocalyptic wedding. And like always, a wicked soundtrack that perfectly fits every twist and turn. 

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"I write a lot of songs already into the script. And I encourage my writers to do the same thing. Sometimes they make sense in the scene. Sometimes they’re a little weirdly subversive. And sometimes it’s just literally a fun song for that moment. But as I’ve always said music is a huge part of the show. We love our little soundtrack every year, and it was a delight to do it again this year," says Director Steve Blackman to Don of Geek

From karaoke favourites to unknown gems, here are some of our favourites songs from The Umbrella Academy Season 3. Be warned, there might be some spoilers so turn away!


'Footloose' - Kenny Loggins (Episode 1)

If there's one takeaway from The Umbrella Academy, it's their iconic dance sequences. Not the epic fight scenes or the adorable sibling moments, but the dancing. Why is there dancing in an apocalyptic, anti-superhero show like The Umbrella Academy, we're still not too sure but we wouldn't change it for the world. 

While previous seasons had their respective dance sequences embedded deeper into the show, Season 3's had theirs right at the beginning. Set to be Diego's hallucination of a dance-off to the deaths between the newly acquainted Umbrellas and Sparrows, the two families battled it out to none other than the 1984 classic 'Footloose'. 


'Quando Quando Quando' - Engelbert Humperdick (Episode 2)

The Umbrella Academy has no shortage of epic fight scenes, and while you'd expect them to be soundtracked by some dramatic and grandeur tracks, you instead get the strangest pairings that oddly work so well.

For Diego's big supermarket fight scene against Alphonso and Jayme, where chins were lost and arms were slashed, you have it play out to the musical delight that is 'Quando Quando Quando'


'HIGHER LOVE' - LILLY WINWOOD & STEVE WINWOOD (Episode 2)

'Higher Love' by Lilly Winwood and Steve Winwood soundtracks the beginning of Luther and Sloane's Romeo & Juliet-esque romance. Star-crossed lovers from feuding families who want nothing more than to be together and travel the world, it's all so romantic. Granted they could have picked a less... apocalyptic moment to fall in love, but we're here for it. 


'DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC' - THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL (Episode 3)

'Do You Believe In Magic' plays at a very bittersweet moment of the show. Luther had just left The Sparrow Academy after spending the night with Sloane and prances around the city in absolute glee—it's giving Singing In The Rain, just more dark and grimy—when suddenly the Kugelblitz sends another energy pulse through the city, wiping a whole wave of people. 

The apocalypse is drawing near once again, but oh what a joy it is to be in love. 


'MY SILVER LINING' - FIRST AID KIT (Episode 5)

When you're certain the world is about to end and there's nothing you can do about it, there's a sense of peace that washes over you as you come to terms with the inevitable. For most of the Umbrella Academy, this was the moment where that feeling of acceptance came together; that even with the universe collapsing in on itself, they had each other. All of which was soundtracked by First Aid Kit's aptly titled 'My Silver Lining'


'RIDE WIT ME' - NELLY & CITY SPUD (Episode 7)

If you asked me what I thought the stern, eccentric, and borderline evil Reginald Hargreeves listened to, I would have a million answers but none of them would be Nelly & City Spud's 'Ride Wit Me'. But lo and behold, there he was listening to the 2000s hip-hop classic, as he embarked on a very interesting father-son road trip with Klaus.


'ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST' - QUEEN (Episode 7)

'Another One Bites The Dust' kicks off the Umbrellas and Sparrows' joint celebratory montage for saving the world from the dreaded Kugelblitz (or so they thought). After Christopher absorbed the big energy ball with the help of Sloane, Viktor, and Lila, the two families band together to celebrate with champagne and some good ol' confetti. 

But of course, it didn't last too long before Christopher exploded and out came an even bigger Kugelblitz, causing the Umbrellas and what's left of the Sparrows to run for safety. 


'TIME OF MY LIFE' - BILL MEDLY, JENNIFER WARNES (Episode 8)

When you’re constantly fighting to save the world from the apocalypse, you can rarely get a chance to celebrate… or even have an occasion to celebrate. So a wedding, while it seems very untimely, calls for some much-needed joy amidst doom, and what better to signal joy than some karaoke. 

Ahead of Luther's wedding, he puts together a Bachelor's party and calls all the brothers to partake in some bad, drunk karaoke. And as Five and Klaus take the stage, they ring everyone around for a very scuffed sing-along to Bill Medley and Jennifer Warnes'Time Of Our Life'


'TEENAGE DREAM' - THE RESCUES (Episode 10)

The Rescues' cover of Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream' was the perfect song to soundtrack Luther and Sloane's first (and probably last) dance as a married couple. It's harrowing but filled with feelings of youthful love—something the pair never really got to have.

While they're probably only be married for a day or two, with the world coming to an end and all, it was the perfect song to monument Luther and Sloane's love for one another. 


'SHORT CHANGE HERO' - THE HEAVY (Episode 10)

Season 3 ends on quite the cliff-hanger, as all previous seasons did but this one's a little strange. The Hargreeves have lost their powers, Sloane is nowhere to be found, and Reginald is reunited with Abigail, who we presume to be his wife. As 'Short Change Hero' closes out the season, there's distressing energy in the air; what will come of the Umbrella Academy? 


The Umbrella Academy is available to stream on Netflix. Listen to this season's soundtrack here.