Music Nonstop

[rivkat]

Switch is heading for the betas! Yes! Yes! (Pumps fist in air.) Theme song: Switch, Fem 2 Fem -- it's about lesbianism, but, you know, close enough.

So, in the great quest to listen to all my iTunes songs once now that I have this neat "play count" feature, I discovered that some of my mp3s had melted down. It's very bizarre, really. LimeWire has been less than helpful replacing them, so I was wondering if any of you folks had access to any of the following, or could find them on Kazaa for a poor Mac user:

Hepburn: I Can't Cry
Hepburn: I Got the News
Liza Minelli: Don't Drop Bombs, ext. remix
Pet Shop Boys: Rent, Francois Kevorkian ext. remix
Sisters of Mercy: Confide in Me
Stella Soleil: Witch
Leah Andreone: Show Me
Leah Andreone: Something I Can Feel
Beautiful South: Artificial Flowers
New Order: Vanishing Point (dorian remix)

On the other hand, if you want to know what my current fic-writing mix is, read on.

Some of these songs would have been on the playlist anyhow, but I’ve organized it by my current obsession.

Songs on the list because of the show:
Free To Change Your Mind, Regency Buck

Songs on the list because of a great vid:
In The End, Linkin Park
You're The One, Tracy Chapman (also one of two “happy ending” songs of the 97)
The Different, Melissa Etheridge
Charm Attack, Leona Naess
I Want Your Sex, George Michael

Topical:
Red Rain, Peter Gabriel
Hallo Spaceboy, David Bowie & Pet Shop Boys (bonus points for “Do you like girls or boys?/It’s confusing these days”)
Three Wishes, Shades Apart
Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down
Not One of Us, Peter Gabriel
My Antarctica, Duran Duran

Secrets and lies:
Telling Me Lies, Linda Thompson
Liar, New Order
When We Lie, Anything Box
When You Don't See Me, Sisters of Mercy (on the list long before the vid)
Taffy, Lisa Loeb
Lie To Me, Depeche Mode
Policy of Truth (Single Version) , Depeche Mode
The Stranger, Billy Joel
Confide in Me, Kylie Minogue
Liar, Cranberries
Will You Still Love Me, Leah Andreone
Into the Dark, Melissa Etheridge

The love that dare not speak its name:
I Don't Think They Know, Mesh
Back Door Man, Sarah McLachlan
What Would Happen, Meredith Brooks
Can You Forgive Her?, Pet Shop Boys
Don't Stand So Close To Me, Sting

Lex, you bad boy:
Commercial For Levi, Placebo
Filthy Mind, Amanda Ghost
Every You Every Me, Placebo (also a vid, but on the list for other reasons)
Whatever People Say You Are, black
Health and Knowledge and Wealth and Power, Shriekback
It's a Sin, Pet Shop Boys
I Have the Touch, Peter Gabriel
Power Play, Eddie and the Tide
World Leader Pretend, R.E.M.
Sex Drive, Dead or Alive (cars and sex, “a head for business and a body for sin”; this one was a gimme)
Sunbeam, Submarine
Idol (Hex Hector & Jonathan Peters Radio Mix), Amanda Ghost
The Devil You Know (God Is a Man), Face to Face
Fix Me Now, Garbage
The Patience of a Saint, Electronic

I love the smell of doomed love in the morning:
Without You I'm Nothing, Placebo
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out, Smiths
In Your Room (Zephyr Mix), Depeche Mode
Spring Haze, Tori Amos
No Good For Me, Corrs
Walk This Earth Alone, Lauren Christy
Crush, Jennifer Paige
Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen
Never Enough, Cure
We Are, Vertical Horizon
Stripped, Depeche Mode
Ever Fallen In Love?, Fine Young Cannibals
A Rock and a Hard Place, Sisters of Mercy
Dream Attack, New Order
Worlds Collide: a fairy tale, Plumb
Mouth (remix), Bush
Ode To Boy, Yaz
The Way It Really Is, Lisa Loeb
First and Last and Always, Sisters of Mercy
Special K (Timo Maas remix), Placebo
Nobody Lives Without Love, Eddi Reader
Never Let Me Down Again, Depeche Mode
I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, Smiths
Getting Away With It, Electronic

Let’s pretend we have a future:
Second To None, Electronic
Two Divided By Zero, Pet Shop Boys
Absolution, Gary Numan
Crossing the River, Devlins
'Til I Whisper U Something, Sinéad O'Connor
Saved by Zero, Fixx

Post-Rift
Lost You in the Canyon, Marc Cohn
Troy, Sinéad O'Connor
Shellshock, New Order
Kiss Off, Violent Femmes
Heaven (I Want You), Camouflage
Caught A Light Sneeze, Voltaire (covering Tori Amos)
Letterbomb, Lauren Christy
Boomerang Bang, Lauren Christy
Small Blue Thing, Suzanne Vega
Shattered, Cranberries
All in Vain, Chumbawamba
Child's Play, When In Rome
Dominion Day (Single Version), Gary Numan
Do You Sleep?, Lisa Loeb
Like the Way I Do, Melissa Etheridge
It's No Good, Depeche Mode
Half a Cell, Cirrus
Logic, Sisters of Mercy
You, Me And World War III, Gavin Friday
Walk Straight Down The Middle, Kate Bush (because they both do survive, even if they're not always happy about that)
Some Distant Memory, Electronic
Mr Disco, New Order

The other happy song:
Take Me To The Church, Lauren Christy (there’s really no explanation for this, other than hopeless romanticism and “Forget the white Mercedes/Lords and ladies/The secret safe behind the door/Marble on the floor”)

Comments

[ingrid-m.livejournal.com]

You want to hear something crazy?

I *almost* put "It's a Sin" and "Til I Whisper U Something" on the mix, but there was already too much Pet Shop and Sinead on it. *lol*

Great list!

[rivkat.livejournal.com]

Nothin' crazy about it, in my opinion. Great minds think alike -- and so do ours.

I'm sorry, but you'll never convince me of such a thing as "too much Pet Shop Boys." But then I have 223 PSB songs total, so you might consider me just a bit excessive. Various songs have come out of this mix over time, like Crush & Child's Play, and Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt and Soft Cell's On an Up have come on; it's at 90 songs now and gives me a good few hours at the gym.