monday music recs

[rm]

What are your "I am awesome, bring me the world. Now." songs?

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[norda.livejournal.com]

My main anthem for such moods is "I Have The Touch", by Peter Gabriel.

[Edited for Theraflu-fogged typo.]

[ophymirage.livejournal.com]

"When I am King," Great Big Sea.

(Also "Ordinary Day" and "Everything Shines" and, well, lots of their songs have the ability to induce that mood in me.)

[popfiend.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY0tsKCB4lc

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

"The Day the Aliens Came" - The Mountain Goats (I'll email you)
"As Cool As I Am" - Dar Williams
"Tear Me Down" - Spoon, covering the song from Hedwig
"On the Air" - Girlyman
"Company of Fools" - Great Big Sea
"The Wizard and I" - Wicked (hee)
"Stronger" - Kanye West

[imaginarycircus.livejournal.com]

Waiting Room by Fugazi, especially if I'm a little pissed off.
Don't Fucking Tell Me What to Do by Robyn
Bite Hard by Franz Ferdinand

In the old days:

Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes
Eighties by the Killing Joke
Loose by the Stooges
Fever covered by The Cramps

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

"Defying Gravity" from Wicked.

[fourzoas.livejournal.com]

"Work That" by Mary J. Blige. Empowers me every single time.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh "The Wizard and I" I actually sort of live in terror of that song... I love it, but so much of that narrative arc is about how the people we admire from afar disapoint up-close. For me, that song is always a cautionary tale.

[habiliments.livejournal.com]

Oh, where to start?

• Janelle Monae's "Many Moons" - as much because Monae is fucking awesome as because the song is, well, also fucking awesome.

• Pretty much anything by Alkaline Trio, but I fully accept that very few people over the age of 18 appear to share this feeling.

• Metric. Most Metric songs, but particularly "Black Sheep," from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack.

There are so so so many more but I'm not at home in front of the wall of CDs and thus nothing is coming to mind. I keep asking myself, What would I put on if I needed to feel like hot shit and was the furthest thing from it? And the answer is probably Monae, Metric, Superchunk, The Anniversary, Elastica... and The Thermals. Particularly "No Culture Icons."

[http://users.livejournal.com/lindalee_/]

Oo!


"Use the Force" - Jamiroquai (this one is particularly good)
"Big Time" - Peter Gabriel
"Beauty in the World" - Macy Gray (Cutmore Extended Remix)

I could add more once I get home. I've got a whole playlist on my home computer but don't remember a lot of the songs, off the top of my head.

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Grace Jones' version of "Demolition Man." Cheesy but true.

[tdanaher.livejournal.com]

"Rock On" by David Essex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgcYfKw0_TI

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

"Freedom 90" by George Michael
"Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor
"Let it Rock" by Kevin Rudolf
"Allegretto" by Bond
"Redemption Song" by Bob Marley and the Wailers

Depending on what I want to be empowered to do :)

[rm.livejournal.com]

You and me on "Let it Rock" man. I've written pretty much all of what's done of ConSweet so far to that song on repeat.

[sevendayloan.livejournal.com]

Go Places - The New Pornographers
It Doesn't Always Have to be Beautiful - Slow Club
I Guess We'll Forget the Sound, I Guess - Bodies of Water
The World is Awaiting - Sunset
Awake My Soul - Mumford & Sons
Can't Go Back Now - The Weepies
Riches and Wonders - The Mountain Goats
Stars - Au Revoir Simone
Crooked Legs - The Acorn

... and more, if you're still looking for recs. Phew, that was practically a whole playlist!

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

That's certainly true.

I confess, I always forget that because I've read the book, and I own the OBCR, but I've never actually seen the show. So I don't remember exactly what the major plot points are.

I just love how darn hopeful that song is.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

It definitely gets the adrenaline pumping...

Allegretto is for driving:


When I hear that, all I can think of is driving fast :D

[rm.livejournal.com]

I had heard "Defying Gravity" first, and I knew the context in which that song happens, so from the moment I heard "The Wizard and I" it broke my heart. I haven't seen the show, but Megan did around the time I was being unemployed and seeing Boheme a lot, and I remember her telling me about it, and how I'd find several things about it really emotionally hard, and I've always sort of kept that song in mind in that context.

[hughcasey.livejournal.com]

New Order's "True Faith". Just forget it's about heroin addiction...

"I feel so extraordinary
Something's got a hold of me
I get the feeling I'm in motion
A sudden sense of liberty"

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

"Defying Gravity" is a good one for me when I'm on the treadmill. Sort of like, "Fuck you, heart defect!"

[rm.livejournal.com]

Word. It's so a Gattaca song.

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Never leave anything for the way back.

[ladypeculiar.livejournal.com]

Followup plot point: I got tickets because I was the bartender for the cast party.

KNOWLEDGE GAINED: Taye Diggs is kinda more insanely adorable in person than he is on screen. His drink order:
"May I have a Coca-Cola, please ma'am?"

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Take Me Out by Franz Ferdinand
Unconditional by the Bravery

[redstapler.livejournal.com]

Hee!

Taye Diggs went to the same high school as an ex of mine.

Anytime he's mentioned, I imagine him as a teen in Rochester, going to their analog to LaGuardia and being awesome.