Posted by bzedan on Jun 30, 2024
[ID: A peach-tinted photo of a bunch of ball-point doodles done on notebook paper and coloured in with crayon and highlighter. The doodles are all centring around a big garfield head. To the right is a Garfield with top surgery scars on his chest, wearing blue shorts and listening to green headphones, shaking his finger to the beat. To the right is a heart with wings, what is possibly Woodstock the bird, a flower, and a Garfield with a flower crown. Underneath the central head is a wiggly rainbow with a star on one end and a cloud on the other. Above all this is written June 2024. End ID.]
There's no way I could repeat the perfection of last year's June playlist and this year I seem confined to more-or-less-two-hour playlists, but this one works for me.
Related media to some of the songs:
- The video for Tove Lo & SG Lewis's 'Heat' is a NSFW romp that looks like it was fun to film.
- I feel like 'Starburster' by Fontaines D.C. and 'Smalltown Boy' by Bronski Beat are in conversation with each other a bit, but maybe its me.
- Speaking of 'Smalltown Boy' there's a recent article about it in El País that gives some historical context to folks who might be younger. It's been 30 years since it came out and there was a reissue this year and well, if you're queer the whole cycle of it is a mood tbh.
- 'Starburster' is described by NME as "that shock of trying to grasp reality amidst all the chaos" and was written about a panic attack - and you feel it!
- While looking up stuff about 'Smalltown Boy' I found this list of song titles posted in a thread in 1993, archived thanks to Queer Resources Directory.
- I was thrilled to encounter Allie X's 'June Gloom' as this June was particularly cool and cloudy - we barely saw the mountain this month. I learned it's a whole SoCal marine cloud layer thing. Weather is fun.
Anyway here's a link to June's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'Being Boring' - TR/ST
- 'Dancing On My Own' - Robyn
- 'Tonight's The Night' - Curley
- 'Eat Your Heart Out Adonis' - Wild Beasts
- 'Alien Boy' - Oliver Tree
- 'Pump Up The Jam' - Technotronic
- 'Like This' - Urban Heat
- 'Froot' - MARINA
- 'Slumber Party' - Britney Spears
- 'Mr. To You' - Dorian Electra
- 'Daddy's Pussy' - LIONSTORM
- 'Starburster' - Fontaines D.C.
- 'Downed' - Cheap Trick
- 'Hanging On Red' - Dead On A Sunday
- 'I Want You to Want Me - Live at Nippon Budokan, Tokyo, JPN - April 1978' - Cheap Trick
- 'Right Now' - Kalifa
- 'Are You Having Any Fun?' - Elaine Stritch
- 'Trampoline' - Kero Kero Bonito
- 'In Too Deep' - Slow Pulp
- 'Sodom & Gomorrah' - Dorian Electra
- 'Macho' - RealXman
- 'The Cult of Dionysus' - The Orion Experience
- 'Tigerlily' - La Roux
- 'Suspended In Gaffa' - deer scout
- 'I Am Not a Robot' - MARINA
- 'June Gloom' - Allie X
- 'It's Gonna Be (Alright)' - Ween
- 'Your Spit' - IAN SWEET
- 'Smalltown Boy' - Bronski Beat
- 'Nothing Matters' - The Last Dinner Party
- 'Get Around To It' - Arthur Russell
- 'HEAT' - Tove Lo
- 'Sinner' - The Last Dinner Party
- 'Nasty - Match My Heat Remix' - Tinashe
- 'Andrew in Drag' - The Magnetic Fields
- 'Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht - Stereoact Remix' - Stereoact
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