sumMErsize: vol. 2

Coke my cola! We've reached the midpoint of June, which means it's time for another installment of sumMErsize. This time, I've taken a few playlisting liberties and gone perhaps off the deep end with some music choices. For some reason right about this time of year, all I can think about is food... maybe it's because all I do around this time of year is cook. But I think it's more than that. I think it has something to do with the fact that all my favorite bits are in season... plus, there's no better time for a picnic. To mix things up a bit, I've added in some patriotic gems just in time for that blessed day of barbecues and beer and bottle rockets. So cheers to the 4th, cheers to good food and cheers to it all with the people you love (and the one's you're stuck with).

Tracklisting:

1. The Maccabees The Picnic Song
   
2. Future Clouds & Radar Feet On Grass
   
3. The Dodos Park Song
   
4. Chicago Saturday In The Park
   
5. Elliott Smith Independence Day
   
6. The Beatles Mean Mr. Mustard
   
7. Mo Horizons Southern Fried Funky Lovesong
   
8. Kelis Sugar Honey Iced Tea
   
9. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings This Land Is Your Land
   
10. Booker T. & The MG's Green Onions
    
11. Nina Simone Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
    
12. Ryan Adams Firecracker
    
13. British Sea Power Waving Flags
    
14. New Kids On The Block Popsicle
    
15. Desario Cane Cola
    
16. Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Amazing Grace
    
17. Tahiti 80 Cherry Pie
    
18. Muscles Ice Cream
    
19. Coldplay Strawberry Swing
    
20. Ray Charles America The Beautiful
    
21. Santigold Lights Out (DJ Mehdi Buddy Light Mix)
    
22. The Whitest Boy Alive Fireworks
    
23. 100 Year Picnic Everything's Perfect

Links:
sumMErsize: vol. II, pt. 1
sumMErsize: vol. II, pt. 2

the perks of being a wallflower

Tracklisting:

1. The Smiths Asleep
2. Ride Vapour Trail
3. Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair/Canticle
4. Procol Harum Whiter Shade of Pale
5. Nick Drake Time Of No Reply
   
6. The Beatles Dear Prudence
   
7. Suzanne Vega Gypsy
   
8. The Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
   
9. The Smashing Pumpkins Daydream (Demo)
   
10. Genesis Dusk
    
11. U2 MLK
    
12. The Beatles Blackbird
    
13. Fleetwood Mac Landslide
    
14. The Smiths Asleep (Soundcheck)
    

Link:
The Perks of Being A Wallflower: Winter Songs


When I was reading Wallflower, it occured to me that I needed to share a little of what it offered. It's superb. When I came upon this passage:

"I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of htese memories adn feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote on of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

it was as if reading a passage from my mind... except made profoundly clear so that others could understand. Understand what it is that I get out of making playlists. The following is a playlist made from and inspired by the music from the book. In the style of Charlie I hope.

"I hope it's the kind of second side that [you] can listen to whenever [you] drive alone and feel like [you] belong to something whenever [you're] sad. I hope it can be that for [you]"

Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

1. Regina Spektor Laughing With
   
2. David Bowie Rebel Rebel
   
3. Red Light Company With Lights Out
   
4. The Beatles Something
   
5. Gary Jules Falling Awake
   
6. James Blackshaw Infinite Circle
   
7. Billie Holiday Solitude
   
8. Arcade Fire Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
   
9. Blondie Union City Blue
   
10. Mr. Mister Broken Wings
    
11. Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit [LP Version]
    
12. Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. II
    
13. Tim Curry (Frank N' Furter) I'm Going Home
    
14. Glen Hansard Lies
    
15. The Wallflowers Another One In The Dark
    
16. Adam Lambert Mad World (Tears for Fears Cover)
    
17. Matt Nathanson Bulletproof Weeks
    
18. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Links:
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. I
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. II

Instrumentality.

Instrumentals offer a plethora of possibilities when it comes to the emotional experience. If culminated properly there is the prospect of the picturesque portrayal... perhaps at times too perfect. Even still, the idea of collecting worldess psalms, ones which celebrate and lament life is throughly promising to me. Below is a collection of instrumentals from what I consider the great contemporaries of composers. The 25 track collection covers the epic journey of a single person through a great many tribulative triumphs, to the ultimate conclusion of life... death. I hope you enjoy.

1. Michael Brook Carte Noir [From "Into the Wild"]
2. Mark Isham Building a Family [From "Life as a House"]
3. Hans Zimmer Gumption [From "The Holiday"]
4. Nico Muhly Reading [From "The Reader"]
5. Ennio Morricone Deborah's Theme [From "Once Upon a Time in America"]
6. John Williams Destiny's Path [From "Memoirs of a Geisha"]
7. Thomas Newman Dead Already [From "American Beauty"]
8. Piero Umiliani Crepuscolo Sul Mare (Twilight on the Sea) [From "Ocean's 12"]
9. Nicola Piovani Vita É Bella (Life Is Beautiful) [From "Life is Beautiful"]
10. Rachel Portman Chocolate Sauce [From "Chocolat"]
11. Christopher Gunning L'éveil [From "La Vie En Rose"]
12. Adrian Johnston With Terry Davies & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Fantasy-Impromptu in C Sharp minor, Op. 66: Always Summer [From "Brideshead Revisited"]
13. Christophe Beck Blue Umbrellas [From "Under the Tuscan Sun"]
14. Nicola Piovani Caro Diario [From "Caro Diaro (Journal Intime)"]
15. Itzhak Perlman & John Williams With The Boston Pops Orchestra film score Theme [From "Now, Voyager"]
16. Janusz Olejniczak Nocturne For Piano in C Sharp minor (Doubtful), KK Anh. Ia/6 [From "The Pianist"]
17. Ryuichi Sakamato Bibo No Aozora/04 [From "Babel"]
18. Ennio Morricone The Crisis [From "The Legend of 1900"]
19. Dario Marianelli Your Hands Are Cold [From "Pride & Prejudice"]
20. Patrick Doyle & Miriam Stockley Love Theme (Kissing In The Rain) [From "Great Expectations"]
21. Philip Glass The Poet Acts [From "The Hours"]
22. Thomas Newman Road to Chicago [From "Road to Perdition"]
23. Dario Marianelli Elegy for Dunkirk [From "Atonement"]
24. Jake Parker (Performed By Isobel Griffiths & Conducted By Nick Ingman/Jake Parker) Title Theme [From "The Life of David Gale"]
25. Ennio Morricone (Performed By Yo-Yo-Ma) Ecstacy of Gold [From "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"]

Links:
Instrumentality. Pt.1
Instrumentality. Pt.2