Posted by bzedan on Feb 02, 2024
[Main image description: A redraw of a scene from Bee and Puppycat, with Jon holding up Garfield, a happy look on Jon's face. Garfield's back is to the viewer and he is wearing a teal jacket with a purple collar and big pink shoulder bows. The back of the jacket reads "2024 January" across two ribbon banners, with a picture of Pooky the bear's face between the ribbons.]
Short playlist for one of those long-feeling months. The description I put on the playlist was "aiming for a decent start" and that's the vibe. We got this! Chase and I have been talking about why Nick Lutsko's music always seems to hit for us, beyond him being very good at working skeletons into things and also using puppets, and it has come down to a specific realist-pessimism in tone that does not deny hope or optimism.
Related media to some of the songs:
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This month's playlist cover is inspired by the video for 'cliché - revisited' by mxmtoon, which features Bee and Puppycat themselves.
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'Swinging On A Star' is featured (as sung by Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello) in the 1991 film Hudson Hawk, which is a charming film if one for a very specific audience.
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"Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" is one of two Black Mirror episodes I've seen and I remain forever fond of it, probably due to the particular approach to the Nine Inch Nails covers.
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The Devil and Daniel Johnston is a great doc, available on Archive dot org. His music has been threaded through a lot of my adult life.
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'Love Shack' - The B-52's
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'Everybody (Backstreet's Back)' - Joseph C. Phaze
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'The Leftovers (Main Title Theme)' - Max Richter
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'Santanico's Fight Club' - Robert Rodriguez
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'Time After Time' - Samantha Crain
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'Enjoy The Silence' - Dead On A Sunday
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'フロム天国 ' - RIM feat. EMA
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'through the chimney' - demon gummies
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'Hello Rainbow Road' - Kimiko Glenn
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'(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang - Remastered 2006' - Heaven 17
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'Robrash' - TR/ST
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'cliché - revisited' - mxmtoon
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'Walcott' - Vampire Weekend
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'All I Want Is You' - Barry Louis Polisar
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'Windy - Remastered Version' - The Association
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'Tried And True' - Ween
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'SENSITIVE' - MOTHICA
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'Running up That Hill (Middle English)' - The_miracle_aligner
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'Lightning's Girl' - Nancy Sinatra
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'Neon Moon' - Brooks & Dunn
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'Fresh Blood' - Eels
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'Lovely Head' - Goldfrapp
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'Rice' - Young Fathers
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'Swinging On A Star - Single Version' - Bing Crosby
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'On A Roll' - Ashley O
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'Baby's On Fire - 2004 Digital Remaster' - Brian Eno
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'Your Motion Says' - Arthur Russell
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'Nothing To Declare' - MGMT
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'All Night Long (All Night) - Single Version' - Lionel Richie
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'Land Of Plenty' - OMC
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'Buffalo Stance' - Neneh Cherry
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'Virtual Insanity - Remastered' - Jamiroquai
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'Software' - Nick Lutsko
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'Halah' - Mazzy Star
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'Wicked Game' - Widowspeak
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'Phantom Birds' - Matt Berry
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'Big Flame (Is Gonna Break My Heart in Two)' - Doris Wilson
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'Big Time' - Angel Olsen
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'Devil Town' - Daniel Johnston
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''71: I Think I'll Make Another World' - The Magnetic Fields
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