PLAYLIST: October 2020
Songs for lightly despairing and watching the leaves turn.
Side A is for feeling the questions, Side B is for finding comfort.
Looking for joy, looking for joy.
Some notes:
“I Love the Unknown,” Clem Snide. A top-five desert island song. I got really into Clem Snide when the only way for me to listen to them was to search “clem snide” on Napster. I used to for-real for real put this song on mix CDs, for myself and for others. Then I didn’t hear it for probably fifteen years until it recently shuffled onto a Recommended Songs after-party for another Spotify playlist. All my cells lit up within the first few seconds. I do take it as a mantra of sorts! To not be afraid of questions, of stepping into the next thing. I like to always know exactly what’s going to happen, but my desire to know that is not stronger than my desire to keep growing.
“None of My Friends,” Liz Lawrence. I talk to you twice a year / on your birthdays and Christmases, and we connect over late-stage capitalist memes. A social-anxiety bop. Love to walk around the house singing NONE OF MY FRIIIIENDS ARE OKAYYYY this month in particular. We’re not!
“Avant Gardener,” Courtney Barnett. Again, not to be too on the nose, but this is a mix for October 2020 and this is a song about having a panic attack while working in the yard to try and feel better.
“Sweetness,” Jimmy Eat World. Listen, we need some easy wins, hence the Flaming Lips, and The Mountain Goats, and this.
how to cry on demand if you were a teenager in the late 90s
when’s the last time
you heard the first three seconds
of “sweetness?”
“I Wanna Be a Cowboy, Baby!” CMAT. Another song I learned about via random shuffle, and I’ve been listening to it nonstop. So cool. Love that warble.
“You Got It,” Roy Orbison. You do!!!