Happy Friday Book Music Day! I had no plan for this week of guest DJ-ing until I was on my way to a gathering of book people a week ago, and suddenly it became obvious what I needed to do. So I'm curious, do the rest of y'all have song/book pairings you'd suggest? Also, please drop your lists.
The song/book pairing is kind of a thing with Nez.
01. "Knoxville Girl" – BR5-49 – Live From Robert's
02. "T.I.W.Y.G." – Savages – Adore Life
03. "Slipping Husband" – The National – Songs For Dirty Lovers
04. "Golddust" – Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
05. "Contusion" – Stevie Wonder – Songs In The Key Of Life
06. "Old King Coal" – Sturgill Simpson – High Top Mountain
07. "Hey Life" – tUnE-yArDs – Nikki Nack
08. "Look What U Started" – The Internet – Hive Mind
09. "All For Nothing" – The Muffs – The Muffs
10. "Black Rainbow" – St. Vincent – Actor
HJ, that list isn't as Sad as it should be . . .
"Johnny Got His Gun" and "One" by Metallica.
Read "Our Band Could Be Your Life" with each chapter's band on the the background.
Large Hearted Boy does this series (Book Notes) where authors choose a playlist to go with their newly-released books.
Hanif Abdurraqib made one for his recent book about A Tribe Called Quest.
Rebecca Makkai's Pulitzer Prize nominated book got one
The Orange Eats Creeps - a book with one of the creepiest villains ever was the playlist where I found out about this.
1. Raleigh Ritchie* “A Moor” The Middle Child EP
2. Faithless feat. Dido “One Step Too Far” Outrospective
3. Beyoncé “Halo” I Am... Sasha Fierce
4. Black Dice “Glazin” Repo
5. Deee-Lite “Groove Is in the Heart” *
6. The Mae Shi “Run to Your Grave” HLLLYH
7. Ha Ha Tonka “Dead to the World” Lessons
8. David Bowie “I Have Not Been to Oxford Town” 1. Outside
9. Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Hummingbird, Pt.2”* Hummingbird EP
T. The Breeders “S.O.S.” Last Splash
*Notes:
1. He's not from NC, or even the US. His name is not Raleigh (or Richard), either.
5. I ripped this from a promo compilation CD (white card sleeve with sticker, I think I paid $1), which credited it to the compilation Sampladelic Relics & Dancefloor Oddities, but that only includes a remix of this song. Yet the version I have has a different length than that remix, the versions on the original single, and the album version from World Clique. Listening to those on YouTube, this is a different version than all of them with a bit more Bootsy Collins at the beginning, and a length of 4'02. I wonder if this mix/edit is accidentally exclusive to that release (but I don't have enough time to dig).
9. Leon Russell cover.
9. Leon Russell cover.
I want to hear that as a Wilco cover.
I listened solely to Monster Magnet's Dopes to Infinity while reading Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness.
And pretty much the Knife's Silent Shout while reading Charles Burns's Black Hole (graphic novel).
Oh, hey, I haven't done a list in a few million years. Also haven't updated the music on my phone in a few million years, so here's a list that's entirely unrepresentative of what I've been listening to lately!
1. “I Was a Daughter” Basia Bulat Oh, My Darling
2. “Class of 2013” Mitski Retired from Sad, New Career in Business
3. “Tear Stained Letter” Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
4. “Just Like Honey” The Jesus & Mary Chain Lost in Translation Soundtrack
5. “Way Out” Yeah Yeah Yeahs Show Your Bones
6. “The Book of Right-on” Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
7. “Death with Dignity” Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell*
8. “Dead Fox” Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit*
9. “Really Wanna See You” Lydia Loveless Somewhere Else
T. “Going Down” Ani Difranco Dilage
*Nothing like back-to-back songs about death to really lift one's spirits . . .
* Inuksuit: Part IV - John Luther Adams - Inuksuit
* Dead Quote Olympics - The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
* Ruiner - The Body - All the Waters of the Earth Turn to Blood
* Millionaire - Thao and the Get Down Stay Down - A Man Alive
* Contritus - JACK Quartet - Caleb Burhans: Past Lives (Caleb Burhans)***
* Sophia's Wide Awake Dreams - Aizuri Quartet - Blueprinting (Lembit Beecher)
* Seven - Fever Ray - (self-titled)
* The Grey Ship - EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
* Doubt - Wye Oak - Civilian
* Carrot Revolution - Aizuri Quartet - Blueprinting (Gabriella Smith)****
*** I think this is the best string quartet piece I have ever heard.
**** Great, now I'll be humming this all day.
**** Great, now I'll be humming this all day.
*snort*
This iconic photo taken 40 years ago today.
Not sure were the image is, but it's the London Calling cover.
not sure what you did, but fixed.
This is fun