Transformative Weather
Jul. 19th, 2014 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Several months ago, I dumped a bunch of songs into a shuffle playlist and called it "Transformative Weather": things that reminded me of Welcome to Night Vale in some way, things I'd just been listening to then, a couple Dylan covers that I really like and that had come up on shuffle again recently, and some other things that just seemed to fit.
I later refined it into an actual listen-in-this-order playlist, and in celebration of catching up on my episode reactions, I've put it on YouTube, because that is a thing one can do these days. As usual, I have only watched snippets of most of the videos, though I have optimized the start and end times for music-in-background as opposed to video-watching purposes. If you like the songs, support the artists, please.
- "Hard To Make It," by Tracy Grammer (could only find a live version; volume is very low)
- "Bad Luck," by Langhorne Slim & The Law
- "Tallulah," by Company Of Thieves
- "Fire In the Canyon," by Fountains Of Wayne
- "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," by Miley Cyrus
- "Calamity Song," by The Decemberists (Infinite Jest fans, you need to watch this video; volume is very low)
- "Call Me Up," by World Party
- "Radioactive," by Imagine Dragons (yes, I used the WtNV trailer version for the YouTube playlist, because the official video does weird things to the song)
- "That Old Black Hole," by Dr. Dog
- "Long Time Coming," by Delays
- "Gimme Sympathy (live)," by Metric
- "Chloe," by Grouplove
- "With God On Our Side," by K'naan
- "Sleep All Summer," by Crooked Fingers
- "Love Will Save Your Soul," by Grouplove
- "Anna Sun," by Walk the Moon
- "Bottled In Cork," by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- "Living in Colour," by Frightened Rabbit
- "Graceless," by The National
- "Make It Always Be Too Late," by Del Amitri
(The last song is (a) the one I would pick in a heartbeat if the Night Vale folks showed up on my doorstep and asked me to introduce the weather; and (b) so obscure that last time I looked I couldn't find it on YouTube, only live covers that lacked the instrumentation that gives it the full feel. So yay it being up now.)
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Date: 2014-07-24 01:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-24 01:45 am (UTC)Yay! Hope you find something to like.