Posted by bzedan on Dec 02, 2023
[Main image description: An illustrative copy of Duran Duran's Rio album, but edited to read November 2023, with the Patrick Nagel girl replaced by a Garfield done in a similar style.]
November was kind of a fucking lot! The middle-ish of this playlist ('Dance Hall Days' to 'Kiss from a Rose') is just the five-song playlist I loop on repeat for hours as brain static. Yes I play '30 Century Man' twice in a row, it's the law. Anyway, I apparently used this aural coping method so much it affected my Spotify Wrapped, something it hasn't done so notably in years, so that's the summary of November.
Related media to some of the songs:
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There's a Cicada Omega song on here, though I think they've shown up before. We knew these guys (still know these guys some) in the 2010s, Chase took a lot of their promo images and they remain one of the few folks in this particular sliver of genre I enjoy.
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If you haven't seen the video for 'Dance Hall Days' then it's worth a gander, I think this song would be what played for me in my personal version of the ballroom scene in Labyrinth.
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'Run From Me' by Timber Timbre was featured beautifully in season 2, episode 2 of Our Flag Means Death (this scene is spoilers obvi), and then I FORGOT and I kept listening to it, wondering what I knew it from.
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EMA is another musician who is a delight as a person, and one I forget I have known.
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My BFF and I were talking about how songs were in the 2000s and 2010s and how sometimes a shitty rip of a song playing diegetically in a scene on a show was the only copy you had. One of those for me is 'Brian Down' by Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, a file from the early 2000s that has floated through our various drives and which is most easily sharable via listening to it on youtube, annoyingly.
Anyway here's a link to November's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
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'November' - Lil Peep
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'DANSE MACABRE' - Duran Duran
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'Motorcycle' - Liz Cooper
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'Marie-Antoinette - Sparks English Version' - Lio
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'Milyonochek - Acoustic Techno' - Dobranotch
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'BLACK MOONLIGHT' - Duran Duran
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'Not' - Big Thief
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'SUPER LONELY FREAK' - Duran Duran
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'Are You With Me Now?' - Cate Le Bon
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'NIGHTBOAT' - Duran Duran
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'Anesthesia' - Type O Negative
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'Only For Tonight' - Pearl Charles
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'Heart and Hope to Die' - Tristen
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'Capacity' - Charly Bliss
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'Flatline' - Cicada Omega
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'Wrong Direction' - They Shoot Horses Don't They
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'Dance Hall Days' - Wang Chung
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'The Brazilian' - Genesis
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'30 Century Man' - Scott Walker
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'30 Century Man' - Scott Walker
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'Hungry Like the Wolf - 2001 Remaster' - Duran Duran
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'Kiss from a Rose' - Seal
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'What's Up' - O-Dee
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'I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)' - The Proclaimers
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'So Alive' - Love and Rockets
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'Last Life' - Izzy Perri
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'Gilgamesh' - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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'Change (In the House of Flies)' - Deftones
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'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out' - Dum Dum Girls
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'I'm Real - Murder Remix' - Jennifer Lopez
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'One & Only' - Oliver Tree
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'Oh to Be in Love' - Kate Bush
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'Run From Me' - Timber Timbre
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'Chang'e' - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
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'California' - EMA
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'Major Tom (Coming Home)' - Shiny Toy Guns
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'Stray Cat Strut' - Stray Cats
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'Inside Out' - The Mighty Lemon Drops
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'The Prince - Remastered 2021' - Diamond Head
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'Supermassive Black Hole' - Muse
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'Help I'm Alive' - Metric
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