I spent most of yesterday dealing with various breakdowns of electronic equipment – to be precise my home computer, my office computer and my TV. Needless to say this did not make me the happiest camper ever, since I really need to spend spare Saturdays clearing up my ‘to do’ list before the twin torments of job searches and graduate admissions take over my life. So naturally I responded by not working, but instead by making up my own iTunes playlist. (Since there’s really no philosophy here I’ve put the rest of this into the extended entry.)
It’s always moderately amusing, if a little time-consuming, to throw various songs together this way. I can never really get the balance I want on any list – I either have too many slow songs in a row, or too many upbeat songs in a row, or a yo-yo like songlist that jumps back and forth between various styles without letting the listener settle in. And I always use too many famous songs. Having said all that, here was yesterday’s effort.
Purple Sneakers – You Am I
Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying – Belle & Sebastian
As I Went Out One Morning – Bob Dylan
Common People – Pulp
Mean to Me – Crowded House
(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister – Stone Roses
Busby Berkeley Dreams – Magnetic Fields
Greg! The Stop Sign!! – TISM
NYC Cops – The Strokes
From St Kilda to Kings Cross – Paul Kelly
Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
The Owls Go – Architecture in Helsinki
Pure Morning – Placebo
Ego Is Not a Dirty Word – Skyhooks
NYC – Interpol
We Can Work It Out – The Beatles
My Friend – Alex Lloyd
Fell in Love with a Girl – The White Stripes
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – The Smiths
The Ship Song (live) – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Dive For Your Memory – The Go-Betweens
Every Fucking City – Paul Kelly
And that, after a few misfires (which led to me being less happy with my electronics) fits onto an 80 minute CD. There’s no real theme there, about from songs I felt like listening to on November 15.
We’re having a few too many non-philosophy posts here I guess – although it’s hard to see how that will be fixed if all my philosophy reading for the next ten weeks is of writing samples…