For a show set in the 80s, it’s hard to go wrong with the pop-leaning hard rock and heavy metal bands of the era. Something about a guitar-driven power ballad just feels right.
Stranger Things got a lot of mileage out of songs by Metallica and Journey in the most recent season, and I think it’s time for them to throw a little love to Def Leppard in the next one.
The English rockers released their most successful album, Hysteria, in 1987. That means big hits ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’ and ‘Love Bites’ are ripe for a Netflix-fueled renaissance.
I particularly like the idea of the show’s literal biting and bleeding juxtaposed with the metaphorical sort in today’s SOTD.
If you’ve got love in your sights
Watch out
Love bites
[Verse 1]
When you make love, do you look in the mirror?
Who do you think of, does he look like me?
Do you tell lies? And say that it’s forever
Do you think twice, or just touch and see?
Ooh, babe
Oh, yeah
When you’re alone, do you let go?
Are you wild and willing or is it just for show?
Ooh, come on
[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t want to touch you too much, baby
‘Cause making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don’t want to be there when you decide to break it
No
[Chorus]
Love bites, love bleeds
It’s bringing me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It’s no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It’s what I need
[Verse 2]
When I’m with you, are you somewhere else?
Am I getting through or do you please yourself?
When you wake up, will you walk out?
It can’t be love if you throw it about
Ooh, babe
[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t want to touch you too much, baby
‘Cause making love to you might drive me crazy
Oh
[Chorus]
Love bites, love bleeds
It’s bringing me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It’s no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It’s what I need
[Instrumental Break]
[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t want to touch you too much, baby
‘Cause making love to you might drive me crazy
I know you think that love is the way you make it
So I don’t want to be there when you decide to break it
No
[Chorus]
Love bites, love bleeds
It’s bringing me to my knees
Love lives, love dies…
Love bites, love bleeds
It’s bringing me to my knees
Love lives, love dies
It’s no surprise
Love begs, love pleads
It’s what I need
[Outro]
If you’ve got love in your sights
Watch out
Love bites
Meet Me In Montauk 
Seems like a good choice.