“These are the days of our lives…” October 2009-March 2010“…the days take care of everything…” –elvis costelloA day-by-day song chronicle: Moving mix 01. September 28:
“50 Lashes” – Floating Action“When it’s too late to sell my gold/Too late to be in control…”
02. September 29:
“Madame Shocking” – The Silent Years“Some of my trash might be somebody’s treasures…”
03. October 1:
“The Architect” – dEUS Thanks to Roxane and her superb musical taste, reminds me of long drives all over
Sweden04. October 2:
“She’s Got You High” – Mumm-Ra Watched
500 Days of Summer… thought a lot about the bitterness of one-sided love
05. October 3:
“Hero” – Regina Spektor I don’t care for
Regina Spektor much, but somehow this song held some appeal at the moment I chose it; “And we're trying to be faithful but we're cheatin', cheatin', cheatin'”
06. October 7:
“Colin-Maillard” – Jean-Louis Murat The endless effect of
the French07. October 8:
“Walking on a Dream” – Empire of the SunAnd PF reappears
08. October 9:
“We’re Going to Miss You” – James “Forgiveness is fine/forgiveness divine/revenge is more human”
09. October 15:
“Utterly Bewildering” – Diving with Andy Wishing I were a therapist; the enduring influence of Bruno
10. October 17:
“When We Were Still Friends” – Herman Düne Feeling deeply depressed, decidedly sad. Final goodbye to N. and trying to reveal real feelings to B. “And soon I will just be rain on your parade.”
11. October 19:
“So Light is Her Footfall” – Air “In the mist of dawn she’s already gone/and I miss her/she’s all alone… and I miss her”
12. October 20:
“Can’t Stop Thinking About You” – Martin Sexton Watching
Brotherhood and this song hit me – not my normal style. “Loving you was like loving a house on fire”
13. October 21:
“First of the Gang to Die” – Zee Avi Malaysian musician introduced at former colleague Dennis’s dinner party; he did not realize it is a
Morrissey song (Morrissey version included on Halloween 2009 mix). Again a Bruno reminder.
14. October 22:
“When” – Lisa Ekdahl Getting through hard days at work when Arnfinn and Janne still shared my office; Arnfinn listened to this a lot.
15. October 26:
“Kiss Them for Me” – Siouxsie and the Banshees Happy birthday, Tara. Just liked the sound of this song and the nostalgia it evokes (even though the time period from which it came is none too happy a memory)
16. November 9:
“Don’t Talk, Just Kiss” – The Wedding Present Good advice: Don’t ask, just do
17. November 17:
“Fat Slut” – Tori Amos “Go stick it in somewhere, I’m sick of hearing it”. Self-explanatory
18. November 18:
“Your Dirty Answer” – Kristin Hersh “Blowing the meat flute”; “When I get my act together, I will join the Air Force” – “Sex is your best friend/what’s your dirty answer?”
19. November 19:
“Heaven Can Wait” – Charlotte Gainsbourg with Beck Thanks to Aurélien; “She’s hiding on a battleship of baggage and bones”
20. November 20:
“Tammie” – The Dø Bruno does it again. Makes one little suggestion and suddenly it’s on the list. “Well, you’re not my type anyway…”
21. November 21/22:
“Requiem pour un con” – Martin Solveig PF appears again; can’t resist an interpretation of
Serge Gainsbourg22. November 24:
“On a Slow Night” – Metric Thanks to Aurélien and jealousy! “Tell me what did that salesman do to you?”
23. November 25:
“All the Mines” – The Curse of the CompanyAnother thanks to Aurélien – fighting for recognition
24. November 30:
“Για Σένα” – Giannis Koursioumis Georgios – who sometimes surprises me
25. December 1:
“Coast of Carolina” – TelekinesisJust love the sound;
Seattle band
Telekinesis!26. December 2:
“Quick” – Kristin Hersh Cancer song; “Nostalgic flowers wind their way around your core/til you peer into the moment/the danger clear and present/can’t keep your eyes shut anymore…”
27. December 4:
“How It Ends” – DeVotchKa Aurélien, trying to make presence felt; at first I did not like this song at all but it grew on me. “And you already know/Yeah, you already know how this will end”
28. December 5:
“Blue & Green” – The Little Hands of AsphaltRandom discovery; power of indecision: “Are you always gonna change your mind?”
29. December 6:
“Excuses, Excuses” – LacrosseAnother random discovery; perfect excuses, excuses, excuses
30. December 7:
“Shiny Happy People” – The Fatima MansionsThanks to Naomi for introducing me to this song back in 1995. “You look like the type/who likes to suck a big pipe.”
31. December 8:
“Flooding” – Kristin Hersh Overdose on Kristin Hersh; “Like melting you shrugged off the clothes of your life…”
32. December 9:
“Blood Bank” – Bon Iver Discovered this reading
Carrie Brownstein’s
Monitor Mix blog; song has an inherent pleasantness to its story
33. December 10:
“Tokyo” — TelekinesisLove the sound. And miss
Tokyo sometimes.
34. December 11:
“IRM” – Charlotte GainsbourgJust love the sound.
35. December 12:
“Inside Out” – The Mighty Lemon Drops Like a page ripped out of the book of junior-high life. Sometimes I really miss my friend Terra and who we were then.
36. December 15:
“Let’s Get Out of This Country” – Camera Obscura As I go toward my
Swedish future. Realizing that some actions are nothing more than throwing a dog a bone (infrequent contact and only for one reason)
37. December 17:
“Lloyd I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” – Camera Obscura Started out on repeat in the elation of moving and ended up a refrain of feeling not heartbroken but used
38. December 19:
“To Lay Me Down” – Cowboy Junkies Feeling sadness, the pain of repeating the same stupid patterns I have always repeated, longing for something else
I am invisible. “'They don’t know what they are missing.’ ‘On the contrary, they had it, tried it out and just don’t want it.’”39. December 31:
“Power + Light” – 50 Foot Wave“At the wet end of a good soaking…” A song that seemingly goes on forever but constantly proves its worth. (One of my favorite songs ever.)
40. January 1:
“Bulletproof” – La RouxI heard this on a tv show, hated it but then found that it seeped into me and I like the idea of being bulletproof.
41. January 2:
“15 août” – Benjamin Biolay A and B recommended this at the same time. They live parallel lives. One the jealous husband, the other the lover.
42. January 3:
“Whore” – Low How I relate…
43. January 5:
“Loveheart” – MerzThanks to Catherine
44. January 10:
“Raw Sugar” – Metric “Sort of wonder why/no one said a word/don’t you like it on the sly?/don’t you like it til it hurts?/have I been on your mind/what’s a voice without a song/something in your head/you’ve been fighting all along”
45. January 15:
“Will Never Marry” – Morrissey Roxane always reminds me of excellent Morrissey songs, which in turn make me think of Bruno
46. January 19:
“Hit and Run Love” – Kate and Anna McGarrigle RIP Kate; “Now the good doctor smiles/but I’m coming apart/And he scratches his head/And studies my chart/”She’s alive but she’s dead”/And the ivy grows around my heart” (Sorry, cannot find a good link.)
47. January 28:
“Chaiyya Chaiyya Bollywood Joint” – Sapna Awasthi and Sukwinder Singh Thanks to a random recommendation from a random guy online, this song has been stuck in my head for weeks
48. January 31:
“Black Room” – Jun MayuzumiJapanese stuff from the 60s!
49. February 1:
“There are Birds” – The Ruby Suns Another Aurélien-inspired gem
50. February 3:
“There is a Light that Never Goes Out” – The SmithsI got this song stuck in my head for much of the duration of a sales seminar I had to attend – one sales guy from Japan mentioned taking a double-decker bus from Oslo to the seminar location, and it was all over for me.
51. February 4:
“Jaime’s Song” – The Aislers Set “You get who you play for/and not who you wait for…”
52. February 6:
“Warwick Avenue” – Duffy Thanks to colleagues who are big fans, such as Annette (who has been like the sun in my sky and the candles in my
menorah! Haha) and a guy Annette initially believed has “high morals” (hmm). Memories of the sales seminar and all the vague connotations of “supporting sales”.
53. February 7:
“Islands” – The xx “I am yours now/so now I don’t ever have to leave/I’ve been found now/So now I never explore…”
54. February 8:
“Does He Love You?” – Rilo Kiley “A married man, he visits me, I receive his letters in the mail twice a week…” Started listening to
Rilo Kiley thanks to Shaina; this song has particular applicability. Yay, J and A. “And your husband will never leave you/He will never leave you for me…”
55. February 9:
“Laughing with a Mouth of Blood” – St Vincent “I can’t see the future/but I know it’s got big plans for me”
56. February 10:
“Above the Sunrise” – The Fastbacks High school memories, puts me directly back to that awkwardness. Does it ever really go away?
57. February 18:
“Infinity” – The xx My very last day staying in
Oslo. “I can’t give it up/to someone else’s touch/because I care too much…”
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whole thing at once. Minus non-Spotify tracks, that is.
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