10 Best Songs From Community

Greendale notched up an impressive soundtrack in six years, but which ones were the very best?

Community Christmas Rap
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Community remains one of the 21st century’s best sitcoms, becoming a cult classic after it was initially bounced around from timeslot to timeslot and never really found an audience. Stars like Ken Jeong, Donald Glover and Alison Brie have gone on to have stellar careers since, as has showrunner Dan Harmon.

One of the lesser appreciated aspects of the show though was the music. Let’s change that now.

Not only was the composer Ludwig Goransson, who went on to win an Oscar with Black Panther and be instrumental in Childish Gambino’s career, the show was packed with tons of original songs too.

It’s only originals we’re focusing on here, too. That means great moments like Sara Bareilles’ Gravity, Somewhere Out There, Sophie B. Hawkins’ guest spot or the running gag of Daybreak don’t make the cut here.

Even without those though, there’s plenty of great Community songs to dig into. With Donald Glover on the cast, that’s no surprise, but there’s more than just Troy involved here. With a mix of genuinely good songs and some great comedy tunes in there too, there’s a lot to appreciate in the Community soundtrack.

10. That’s An Adventure

While Sara Bareilles’ Gravity, often used to tie together Jeff & Annie, won’t feature here as it’s not an original song, her guest appearance in That’s An Adventure as The Balloon Guide definitely counts.

Intro To Felt Surrogacy is in many ways a quintessentially Season Four episode. It’s a decent high concept, but one they don’t fully commit to nor execute as well as they should. There’s also the fact that Pierce is an add on, and the emotional impact of the ending plays it too close to ironic and too close to genuine to mean anything.

The song, at least, is golden though. Sang by the puppet versions of the study group, it’s great to see the mix of the tone deaf stylings of Jeff & Britta mixed with Annie’s decent stage school voice and Troy & Shirley’s genuine musical talent.

Bareilles keeps a handle on things too, and the theatrical nature of the song plays perfectly into the skills she’d go on to display in writing Waitress. It’s an easy, free flowing song that perfectly fits the episode’s opening, and while it’s not one of their best episodes, it’s one of their best songs.

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