This probably won’t come as a shock to anyone who’s ever been within earshot of me or read anything I’ve ever written, but I’m a huge nerd. And, since I’m a huge nerd, it probably won’t come as a shock to anyone that I’m obsessed with Marvel movies and the MCU.

Unfortunately, with the season finale of “Loki” earlier this week, “Black Widow” already out in theaters, and the next series, “What If…,” not due for a month or so, we’re in the first Marvel dry spell in months. And I’ve already got the shakes. I need my fix, guys.

Since I generally assume everyone agrees with me about everything and has the same needs and desires, I’m gonna help you ride out this superhero offseason by reminding you of some great songs off movie and TV show soundtracks.

AC/DC — “Back in Black”

Marvel Studios has kinda killed it with the soundtracks since the beginning, throwing AC/DC and Black Sabbath into the very first “Iron Man” movie back in 2008. Then for “Iron Man 2,” they literally made the soundtrack an AC/DC greatest hits album.

In addition to it being a great song, it did what any good soundtrack does and really set the tone for the movie itself. The “Iron Man” movies, and especially the first, absolutely had the feel of an AC/DC song. People liked that, since it spawned a movie and TV franchise that’s made more money in 13 years than the GDP of some nations.

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Blue Swede — “Hooked on a Feeling”

Let’s skip past “The Incredible Hulk” for obvious reasons, and ignore the mediocre first two “Thor” movies and the very good first “Captain America” movie because they don’t use any licensed songs for some reason, and go to the undisputed high point of MCU music: “Awesome Mix Vol. 1.”

James Gunn is a massively underrated filmmaker, in large part because he makes incredibly weird films. The first screenplay he ever produced was “Tromeo and Juliet,” an… adaptation, let’s say, of Romeo and Juliet by legendary low-budget indie film studio Troma. His career pretty much continued along those lines until Marvel came calling.

It turns out Gunn also has fantastic taste in music, because the soundtracks to the two “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies are just amazing.

Jidenna — “Long Live the Chief”

For the purposes of this list, I’m treating the Netflix shows as MCU canon, largely because “Luke Cage” was a great show and I want to know what happens next. Jessica Jones was also very good. Daredevil was cool. Iron Fist can go away.

Anyway, when former music journalist Cheo Hodari Coker was booking Harlem’s Paradise, the fictional nightclub from the show, he outdid himself. Coker clearly decided to use the series as a showcase for musicians he thought needed a bigger stage, including Sharon Jones, Gary Clark Jr., Kingfish, Raphael Saadiq and, obviously, Jidenna.

Seriously, go watch “Luke Cage” if you haven’t yet.

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Led Zeppelin — “Immigrant Song”

Speaking of incredibly talented filmmakers, Taika Waititi completely revived the “Thor” franchise and the character in general. I know Marvel Studios was trying to go with a dramatic, vaguely Shakespearean, “Lord of the Rings”-esque epic with “Thor,” but it just didn’t work. They had to keep sending him to Earth, which totally undercut the high drama, and at the same time the high drama made his time on Earth seem inconsequential.

Then Waititi finally noticed that Chris Hemsworth has incredible comic timing and that the entire concept of a Norse god from space is bizarre and just went wild, turning it into a bright-colored cosmic action-comedy adventure. And it ruled. Easily one of my top three MCU movies.

Oh, right, this is supposed to be a music column.

Part of “Thor: Ragnarok” that goes under-appreciated is that during battle scenes, the shot periodically goes into slow motion and looks like a heavy metal album cover from the ’70s. Why does that not happen in more movies? It improves everything.

Schoolboy Q — “X”

In 2017, Kendrick Lamar had just finished DAMN., the future Grammy nominee for Best Album. Ryan Coogler asked him to record some original songs for the “Black Panther” soundtrack and, to help convince him, showed him an early cut of the movie. He loved it so much he wrote a whole album.

It’s rare in entertainment, or in art in general, that someone with Coogler’s once-in-a-generation talent is given the near-limitless resources a company like Disney has to offer, and at the same time for Disney to give him as much creative freedom as it did. But we’re lucky it happened because the result is an absolute masterpiece. Criticize it for the CGI fights or action setpieces all you want, it still has the soul of an indie movie with something to say. The superheroes are just the sugar to help the medicine go down.

It needs to be July of 2022 so I can see sequel “Wakanda Forever,” then it needs to be 2023 or 2024 or whenever the Coogler-created spinoff TV series is set to come out. Though at this point, I’ll be happy when it’s September and we get “Shang Chi” and “Ms. Marvel.”

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