My Music Playlists

Gotta write these down!

## Actual Playlists

### **The Way It's Been**

Made while I still lived in Whitehorn NE, (so around 2009 to 2010?). Originally one playlist that I noticed went well when played in a loop (after I listened to it fully on a trip to university, maybe I had "loop" mode on my ipod, and it started again as I was heading back home, and I liked it), then I developed variations for each loop, four "loops" in total.  The result is something like this (I may have to list one of my cut-down versions too...):

1. Going, Going, Gone
2. Dreams
3. Ender (acoustic)
4. Twister - Remy Zero
5. Metamorphosis 2
6. Night Windows
7. Sleep Alone
8. Endlessly
9. On Peak Hill
10. The Ocean - Tegan and Sara
11. [Loop 2] Dreams
12. Passage of the Night [song by me]
13. Relief Next to Me
14. Twister
15. Night windows
16. Lost - Avenged Sevenfold
17. Sleep Alone
18. Reckoner
19. [Loop 3] Ender
20. The Greater Times
21. Pearl's Dream
22. All Good Things - Nelly Furtado
23. [Loop 4] Going, Going, Gone
24. Ender?
25. Daniel (Live) - Elton John [edited]
26. Daniel (Live) - Elton John [edited] [yes, twice]
27. The Greater Times - Electralene
28. Night Windows
29. Lost
30. Metamorphosis Four
31. Endlessly
32. On Peak Hill
33. Title and Registration (Original Version) [not the "demo" version, that has altered lyrics]

alright here we go. made it into a youtube playlist. [obviously it's missing the edit in the song "daniel", which removes the words "daniel is travelling tonight on a plane" at the beginning of the song, and i left "pearl's dream" off, along with the 3rd instance of "ender".] ~~hmm, checking the songs i found on youtube: i wasn't able to find the version of "Ender" that i have. the version i always had lacks the percussion at the start, and has some kind of distortion on the vocals, perhaps even sounding like a different person? [but regular common version sure sounds like it was the inspiration behind the sound of the album version of "title and registration"]~~ nevermind, found it.

at least one version of this playlist had "midnight sun" by Wendy Carlos right after the song "Lost".

### **The Five Playlists**

[from memory, as i don't currently have access to this playlist][haven't listened to it in forever, though]

* [1]
	+ sharkey's night
	+ soul meets body
	+ friends [Led Zeppelin]
	+ boulevard of broken dreams
	+ butterfly caught
	+ ???
		- Tadarida
		- truman sets sail?
		- raising the sail?
		- ???
		- counting the stars [Nick Cave & Warren Ellis]
		- interlude [muse]
* [2]
	+ ???
		- The Dream Before
		- The Current
		- Obsessed
		- Snowflake [Mew]
		- Little Bribes
		- Absolutely Sweet Marie
		- the self-title song by "glass waves"
		- Perfect Day [i can't find the version that i had...](ah, it's the one by Antony and the Johnsons, now known as Anohni and the Johnsons)
	+ ???
	+ Beyond Here Lies Nothin' [edited at the start to have the end instrumentation from "what sarah said", which fades into the nonmusical opening of some song by the beatles][I guess I added "Bixby canyon bridge" at the end of the song? Pretty sure I named this 2nd playlist "miles to go"]
	+ Flame Trees [Sarah Blasko]
	+ A Bird is a Song
	+ ???
	+ Hummingbird [wilco]
	+ Empty Streets [Late Night Alumni]
	+ Easily [muse]
* [3]
	+ [was "make it wit chu" on here, or another that i mix up with that one?]
	+ Don't Let Me Down [edited to end more abruptly]
	+ Hungry Like the Wolf
	+ ???
	+ Corona [Calexico]
	+ ???
* [4]
	+ Pink Ego Box
	+ ???
		- Everybody Wants to Rule the World [Patti Smith]
		- Extraordinary thing [Aqualung]
		- ???
		- Closing [philip glass]
	+ [5]
		- ???
			* Barbastella [cut short. either at the pause around the 2:09 minute mark, or the pause around 2:46]
			* "Blackout [S3]" [blackout by muse, orchestral version from the credits of HAARP, but edited so that the beginning before the lyrics is the album version, and this worldless portion of the album version is also pasted in the 2nd time when i think the album version would have had lyrics, so the overall complete song is instrumental]
			* Song for Bob [edited so that the end fades into the ending of "tiny vessels" after the final drum hit]
			* Transatlanticism
			* Different Names for the Same Thing
			* I will go sailing no more
			* ???
				+ Buckbeak's flight [edited to transition into the rendition of "circle of life" at the end of lion king? possibly with one of the other lion king songs in between?]
				+ nightengale [yanni]

### **70s ish**

Here it is on Youtube. My cherry picked version of 70s ish music. It's lovely. <3

1. I'm On Top of the World
2. Pure Imagination
3. Nature's Sweet Endless Song [I need to make a version that doesn't botch the chorus]
4. Forever in Blue Jeans
5. Forever Autumn
6. One Tin Soldier
7. September Morn
8. Daydream - Wallace Collection
9. Another Green World
10. Mother Earth and Father Time
11. Imagine
12. Get Happy - Partridge Family
13. Aquarius (Let the Sunshine In)
14. I Feel Love
15. Garden of Paradise - Rainbow Dome Musick

### **Road** **trip 2022**

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsim1gduirwDVuURgyBxvUwd7dCqfse05

Lithium Flower [short version from credits]

She's My Collar (Kali Uchis Spanish Special)

Hollow

I'll be back someday

### **Road** **trip 2023**

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsim1gduirwBTzNOYFVDFLcaEA69OSmV8

Hoshi Neko

Mission Impossible Theme (1996 version)

Risingson

Right Here Right Now

Glitter Freeze

Dying to Know

He's a Pirate (dj Tiesto remix)

Spying Glass

Inner Universe

[I forgot to add "right here right now" when I made it]

[and ya, hoshi neko was a last minute addition]

#### **Part 2 for Road trip 2023**

since "right here right now" wasn't actually included in the above playlist when i played it, i decided to make another playlist for it:

* Daydream
* Don Gato
* Right Here Right Now
* Crying My Heart Out
* Snow (by the Chemical Brothers)
* Sly
* Jack Sparrow
* I had a dream today (my eleven minute mashup of "a day in the life", "I feel love", and "Hey Jude")(will have to retrieve or re-create this…)

supposedly there's a million different versions of "Don Gato", but all of the english versions i can find are the same wrong version. also, I'm not sure this playlist is actually very good for road trips.

### 2020 nostalgia playlist

yes, i have nostalgia for 2020. at least contained within a few songs i listened to during the first 2 or 3 months of the pandemic:

-i dreamt we spoke again (first time listening to this new album)

-wall market song, final fantasy 7 remake

-peaceful valley (hadn't heard this since i was a kid)(then jenny nicholson made that video)(why is this reminding me of tegan and sara)(probably similarity to "i'll be back someday". that movie came out in 1994, and they started writing those songs in 1995, so, it's possible)(but i'm not sure if the backing vocals / "why don't you call" lines were in the older version)

Maybe also (later on in the first year or so of pandemic):

-90s drum and bass or whatever it is

-this cute song (by @mashinomi55) and animation (by @himaraya) Shaun shared on twitter https://twitter.com/himaraya/status/1400755101170507776

even later:

-shaun from youtube playing "march of the profane" on beat saber, fall 2021 (and associated memories around that time of grabbing screenshots from Tekwar, space precinct, crime cities, and to a lesser extent Rollcage)

## Re-Arranged Albums

### **The 2nd Law**

This one seems suspiciously like it was how the album was intended to be.  Not only does it start with the slow songs and build to the more energetic songs, but it also starts and ends with the heartbeat sound, like bookends.  And you'll see I left the order mostly intact, just a slight cut and paste, and removed the two songs by Dom.

1. Follow Me
2. Animals
3. Explorers
4. Big Freeze
5. Supremacy
6. Madness
7. Panic Station
8. Prelude
9. Survival
10. The 2nd Law: Unsustainable
11. The 2nd Law:  Isolated System

### **Codes and Keys**

1. Home Is A Fire
2. Codes And Keys
3. Monday Morning
4. Portable Television
5. You Are A Tourist [optional]
6. Doors Unlocked And Open
7. Unobstructed Views
8. St. Peter's Cathedral
9. Stay Young, Go Dancing [optional]

### **Young Galaxy**

* Searchlight
* Outside The City
* Wailing Wall
* Lazy Religion
* No Matter How Hard You Try
* The Golden Coin [from EP]
* Swing Your Heartache
* The Sun Is Coming Up and My Plane's Going Down
* Embers
* Come and See
* The Alchemy Between Us

### **Shapeshifting**

* High And Goodbye
* Shapeshifting
* Nth
* The Angels Are Surely Weeping
* Blown Minded
* We Have Everything
* Phantoms
* Peripheral Visionaries
* Cover Your Tracks
* For Dear Life

### **The Method of Modern Love**

* Your Big Brown Eyes My Big Broke Heart
* The Science of the Seasons
* Red Red Wine
* Pine Prisonyard
* C'mon
* A Mind's Dying Verse (The Solitary Stone)
* A Mind's Dying Verse (You and the Wine)

### **Plans**

i guess i should record this here, before it becomes lost to time. i had to fish it out of some meta-data files from my old ipod last year.

* Crooked Teeth
* Marching Bands Of Manhattan
* Summer Skin
* Different Names For The Same Thing
* Soul Meets Body
* I Will Follow You Into The Dark
* Your Heart Is An Empty Room
* Someday You Will Be Loved
* What Sara Said
* Brother On A Hotel Bed

### **Narrow Stairs**

* Bixby Canyon Bridge
* I Will Posses Your Heart
* Pity and Fear
* No Sunlight
* Cath...
* Talking Bird
* A Diamond and A Tether [from The Open Door EP]
* You Can Do Better Than Me
* Grapevine Fires
* Your New Twin Sized Bed
* Long Division
* The Ice is Getting Thinner

### **Sainthood**

revisited some Tegan and Sara recently, thought about how i've never re-arranged any of their albums, ended up trying and came up with this:

* Northshore
* Arrow
* Red Belt
* Sentimental Tune
* On Directing
* The Ocean
* The Cure

### **Absolution [mini playlist]**

* The Small Print
* Endlessly
* Stockholm Syndrome
* Blackout
* Butterflies and Hurricanes

## My Favorite Playlist Structure

[like i did with “Sainthood” and "Absolution"]

mostly thematically chronological, except with a punchier, jarring, non-chronological song at the very start.  Often those are songs i previously thought were not great (or, at least, kinda not my style), and they didn’t seem to fit anywhere.  But they fit well in this role of not fitting, perhaps the contrast helps the rest of the album to pop out as being what it is.

For example, with "The Fine Print" in Absolution, it has always been (despite it's hardcore punkish attitude, which isn't my style) a relatively bland/generic nonspecific song that i didn't really get much out of whenever i would give a chance to it. but now it fits perfectly! it's like a chaotic table of contents for the ideas in the other songs. like an egg that's exploding into the rest of the playlist

## [These are just the regular album, with a few songs removed]

**Invisible Republic**

[i usually append my "Shapeshifting" playlist to the end of this]

* Long Live the Fallen World
* Destroyer
* Pathos
* Light Years
* Disposable Times
* Dreams
* Smoke And Mirror Show
* Firestruck