Posted by bzedan on Oct 30, 2024
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Shout out to Chase for a photo from the archives for this playlist cover.
October is always fun because I'm building or refining a monster playlist AND my monthly playlist (see all my Halloween playlists here). Like, how many songs from scary/spooky movies does one add? This time around, just two: 'Tenebre' (from the film of the same name) and 'Wolf Like Me' which has been used pretty often but most recently in Wendell & Wild. Balanced, I think, by the inclusion of 'Crockett's Theme' by Jan Hammer for Miami Vice.
Also, The The's new album sounds like Jack Skellington breaking out to do a solo album and I'm all about it.
Related media to some of the songs:
- Joshua Ray Walker's album of covers, What Is It Even? is full of bangers and he discusses the influence of the women on his work and "countryfication" these particular covers over at Holler.
- Go enjoy Roxy Music on Old Grey Whistle Test singing 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache* on Youtube. I always picture the setting to be one of those wild glass-walled modernist homes that are so Los Angeles, like the Stahl House.
- 'Downhill' is from Pom Pom Squad's latest album Mirror Starts Moving Without Me, which bangs. They're a joy of a band and the latest album is aesthetic as hell, as the lyric videos on their Youtube can attest.
Anyway here's a link to October's playlist on Spotify, with the track list below.
- 'You Suck (the life out of me)' - Dead On A Sunday
- 'In Every Dream Home A Heartache' - Roxy Music
- 'Flesh For Fantasy' - Billy Idol
- 'I Will Walk You Home' - Melanie
- 'Life After Life' - The The
- 'Toxic' - Koen Fagen
- 'Cognitive Dissident' - The The
- 'Wolf Like Me' - TV On The Radio
- 'Black Country' - Tonstartssbandht
- 'Calling It' - Automatic
- 'Downhill' - Pom Pom Squad
- 'Linger' - Joshua Ray Walker
- 'Tenebre' - Claudio Simonetti
- 'Lose It' - Austra
- 'Smells Like Teen Spirit (feat. Mckenna Breinholt)' - Cinematic Pop
- 'Happy Together' - FLOOR CRY
- 'Magnum' - Show Me the Body
- 'WHOLESOME' - Indigo De Souza
- 'Lost Boys and Girls Club' - Dum Dum Girls
- 'Army of Me' - Björk
- 'All You Pretty Girls - 2001 Remaster' - XTC
- 'Dangerous Game' - Blu DeTiger
- 'Running Up That Hill' - Chromatics
- 'Black Leather Gloves - 7" Release' - Cosmetics
- 'Crockett's Theme' - Jan Hammer
- 'The Waves' - Wang Chung
- 'Deadbeat Club' - The B-52's
- 'Fever' - La Lupe
- 'All Shook Up' - Nick Lutsko
- 'Lovesong' - Dead On A Sunday
- 'Water Witch' - The Secret Sisters
- 'That's Life' - Lady Gaga
- 'Mad World' - Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox
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