Let’s be honest. A show like “Maniac” was never going play it safe in any department.

When it comes to music, the show had free reign of genre and time period to help tell its reality-spanning epic. Aside from Dan Romer’s versatile score, there’s still an impressive array of songs to help tell the story.

Like with a few other Netflix shows so far this year, some of these songs managed to play big parts within the story itself. (How else would we have been able to hear Billy Magnussen show off his singing chops without some help from Gordon Sumner and friends?)

Each of these new worlds uses so many different elements to signal how much has changed — or stayed the same. Case in point: that wacky ’80s fur store saga, which managed to rope in Hall & Oates, Art of Noise, and Herb Alpert for good measure.