Posted by bzedan on Oct 02, 2023
[Main image description: A digital illustration imitating a CRT effect of a pixel-y game image in a limited palette of dark purple and light grey, with one spot of colour. Garfield sits in a chair with his hands folded in his lap, looking out a window where a leaf is falling above the words "September 2023." Both Garfield and the leaf are orange.]
It is September! It is fall, for whatever flavour fall is for you. For me, it is the beginnings of oranges and a joint-warbling gradient of temperatures that range from the 80s to 60s. This is the shortest playlist of the year so far, but it felt complete and it was nice to loop it over the workday.
There wasn't much of an originating theme here other than the concept of school beginning, summer ending, treading into the depths of fall. I was grateful for Dead On A Sunday to drop 'Bloody September' this month (or maybe it was August as I often throw songs that aren't right for the month into future playlists) as it let me have a good dark ending for the start of October.
Related media to some of the songs:
- Strongly suggest you listen to the cover of 'Mad World' before you watch the video because if you don't know who Puddles Pity Party* is it is quite the surprise.
- It looks like 'C'est la vie (Edit') is not currently on Spotify, but here it is on Youtube. Like any dance song, there are a couple of versions but the plain "(Edit)" one is what I dug.
- Unlike their other albums, Boy Jr.'s Sheesh! isn't available outside of Spotify, as it was for a commercial music library, which is exciting for them! I would like their music to be in things.
- There's a Chavela Vargas song in here and I love her and if you can find a way to watch the 2017 biography Chavela, do so (Reelgood shows it as available on Prime, Tubi, Plex, and Kanopy).
Anyway here's a link to September's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'The Killing Moon' - Nouvelle Vague
- 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' - Stantough
- 'Thinking About You - Radio Version' - INCARMA
- 'It's My House' - Diana Ross
- 'Be Good Johnny' - Men At Work
- 'Mi Gran Felicidad - Digitally Remastered' - Chavela Vargas
- 'One Headlight' - The Wallflowers
- 'Bette Davis Eyes' - Kim Carnes
- 'Top Brass' - Matt Berry
- 'Mad World' - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
- 'C'est la vie - Edit' - Scotty
- 'Discoproof' - La Roux
- 'Vivir Mi Vida' - Marc Anthony
- 'Dream Weaver' - Gary Wright
- 'Perfect Day' - Al Green
- 'Cherrybrook Valley' - Jon of the Shred
- 'Bittersweet Symphony' - Graeme James
- 'Hey Bulldog' - Fanny
- 'Hater's Anthem' - Infinity Song
- 'Goin' Back' - Dusty Springfield
- 'Your Loss' - Boy Jr.
- 'Making Plans For Nigel' - XTC
- 'Fairweather Friends' - Oliver Tree
- 'Dancing With Myself' - El Conjunto Nueva Ola
- 'Feelings Are Fair' - Boy Jr.
- 'Cheerleader' - Sir Babygirl
- 'Masa' - Jarina De Marco
- 'An Accident' - Soda Blonde
- 'Waves' - Norma Tanega
- 'Coca-Cola' - Jarina De Marco
- 'Escape (The Pina Colada Song)' - Rupert Holmes
- 'Mad World' - Tears For Fears
- '(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay' - Otis Redding
- 'Falling' - Daryl Hall & John Oates
- 'The Melody Of A Fallen Tree' - Windsor For The Derby
- 'Evening Falls...' - Enya
- 'Wicked Game' - Braaheim
- 'New Moon on Monday - 2010 Remaster' - Duran Duran
- 'Bloody September' - Dead On A Sunday
*I for one, did not, and when Chase described him as a "real pagliacci" I thought he was using it as a more general descriptive, like one would "meathead" or something.
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