Posted by bzedan on Nov 01, 2022
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October! Thematic playlist time!! September I set myself up for a challenge by dropping Portishead, Over The Garden Wall and the theme song for the Ducktales game into the upcoming month’s playlist but I think it all hangs together in the end. There is even, in fact, one very fabulous transition due to an OTGW song, so!
Although the overall theme was “spooky/Halloween vibes” it’s still my monthly playlist and therefore has some less-creepy songs that just came up as the month rolled along (ie: new CRJ and Tove Lo songs, “Amie,” apparently). Speaking of, CW on that Tove Lo song, “Grapefruit,” which is very explicitly about disordered eating and dysmorphia. It comes on after “Freak Out” when playing chronologically (and remember! You can hide a song on Spotify, it’s a lifesaver).
One particular song of note is “Hurrian Hymn no. 6,” which I learned about via a Tumblr post. It’s a musical fragment from Mesopotamia 1400BCE, played on an era-accurate instrument!! The linked Tumblr post goes into why being able to hear this piece is so special and it’s just lovely.
Also, I will just put "Coconut" on most things but it's valid here because it is from Practical Magic and is a great example of using a fun song during a scene that breaks weird without it feeling hackneyed.
And here's a link to October's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'Gather Up' - Matt Berry
- 'The Moon' - Jake Kaufman
- 'Little April Showers' - Tonstartssbandht
- 'Potatoes and Molasses (feat. Colin Dean)' - Over the Garden Wall
- 'Black Country' - Tonstartssbandht
- 'Eternal Thrills' - Nurses
- 'Sunrise - 2015 Remaster' - New Order
- 'Excess' - Tricky
- 'Solstice' - Matt Berry
- 'Playground Love' - Air
- 'Over the Garden Wall (feat. Jack Jones)' - Over the Garden Wall
- 'Amie' - Pure Prairie League
- 'Icabod' - TR/ST
- 'Glory Box' - Portishead
- 'Haunted House' - Sir Babygirl
- 'Spellbound' - Siouxsie and the Banshees
- 'Devil Inside Me' - Matt Berry
- 'Full Circle' - Supreme Beings of Leisure
- 'Sour Times' - Portishead
- 'Taurnado' - Kimiko Glenn
- 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' - Roxy Music
- 'Dead Moon Night' - Dead Moon
- 'Black Lipstick' - Chicano Batman
- 'Kinda Outta Luck' - Medusa
- 'The First Cut' - Propaganda
- 'Warm Blood' - Carly Rae Jepsen
- 'Paris 1919' - John Cale
- 'Forever Young' - Alphaville
- 'All Night Long (All Night) - Single Version' - Lionel Richie
- 'Skin Deep' - The Stranglers
- 'Roads' - Portishead
- 'The Fog' - John Carpenter
- 'I Ran (So Far Away)' - A Flock Of Seagulls
- 'Freak Out' - Miya Folick
- 'Grapefruit' - Tove Lo
- 'Santa Monica' - Everclear
- 'I Put a Spell On You' - Screamin' Jay Hawkins
- 'Missed Call (1)' - Let's Eat Grandma
- 'Materia Primoris: The X-Files Theme (Main Title)' - Mark Snow
- 'And When I Die' - Peter, Paul and Mary
- '"Hurrian Hymn no. 6" (c.1400BCE) - Ancient Mesopotamian Musical Fragment' - Michael Levy
- 'My Body Is A Cage' - Peter Gabriel
- 'Paint it Black (feat. The Royal Choral Society)' - London Symphony Orchestra
- 'I'm Dancing in the Show Tonight' - Ween
- 'Tragedy' - Brian David Gilbert
- 'Coconut' - Harry Nilsson
- 'Flesh of My Flesh' - Orange Juice
- 'Let's Go' - Wang Chung
- 'Hungry Like the Wolf - 2001 Remaster' - Duran Duran
- 'Demons' - Hayley Kiyoko
- 'Beach House' - Carly Rae Jepsen
- 'No One's There' - Anika
- 'You're Dead' - Norma Tanega
- 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore' - Cher
- 'Bad Thing Twice' - Carly Rae Jepsen
- 'Stayin' Alive' - Brian David Gilbert
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