Well this is awkward, I wanted to post about my new writing playlist. In the past, I used Spotify and it wasn’t too bad export the list to make it postable, (words not the music itself – though sharing that on Spotify was easy too if someone had Spotify). Now I’ve switched to Amazon Cloud Player – all my tracks stored within easy reach of my phone and my laptop without the chaos of thousands of MP3’s loitering, in many cases with duplicates of duplicates.
However, Amazon don’t make it particularly easy to export the text of a playlist – so to show you mine it has to be a cut and paste job via Excel – took two copies and pastes to get the whole thing out. This is how dedicated I am to sharing.
This is actually my longest list thus far, and it’s just under half what it started off as. However I’m happy with it.
Music is, and always has been important to my writing process, for three reasons:
- It gaves me pacing and rhythm
- It focuses the mind, and it can distract the mind from over focusing
- It’s inspirational
For me to add it to a writing playlist it usually has to conform to three out of these four criteria:
- It requires no effort to ignore
- It doesn’t jar with the worlds I’m trying to create
- It fits with world’s I’m trying to create
- It eggs me on, exercise music for the brain
Of course there are always exceptions, and it’s entirely subjective, which it’s my list, and probably in it’s entirety only works for me. However, I share to compare and discuss, so feel free to comment with any suggestions.
My playist for Writing, Summer 2013
| Track | Artist/Band |
| You Picked Me | A Fine Frenzy |
| Thunderstruck | ACDC |
| Skyfall | Adele |
| Poison | Alice Cooper |
| When You Leave (Numa Numa) (Basshunter Radio Edit) | Alina |
| The Planets Suite, Op.32 – Mars The Bringer Of War | Ambrosian Chorus – Ladies Royal … |
| Let’s Start A Band | Amy MacDonald |
| Mr Rock & Roll | Amy MacDonald |
| The Belgian Detective (theme from Poirot) | Andy Findon |
| Do You Remember | Ane Brun |
| Bittersweet | Apocalyptica |
| Toreador II | Apocalyptica |
| Jerusalem | Barry Wordsworth, BBC Concert Or… |
| Land of Hope and Glory – Arr. from “Pomp and Circumstance” March No. 1 | Barry Wordsworth, BBC Concert Or… |
| Samson and Delilah (From ‘Samson and Delilah’) | Bear McCreary |
| My Country (The Moldau River) | Bedrich Smetana |
| Anxiety (feat. Papa Roach) | Black Eyed Peas |
| Heaven And Hell | Black Sabbath |
| Equus | Blonde Redhead |
| (Don’t Fear) The Reaper | Blue Öyster Cult |
| Mr. Vain | Culture Beat |
| No More Memory | cyriak |
| Wonder | Dan Black |
| Don’t Think Of Me | Dido |
| Thank You | Dido |
| The Day Before the Day | Dido |
| Us 2 Little Gods | Dido |
| I Invented The Night | Electric Six |
| ‘Till I Collapse | Eminem |
| Bring Me To Life | Evanescence |
| Going Under | Evanescence |
| Epic | Faith No More |
| The Hebrides Overture (“Fingal’s Cave”) | Felix Mendelssohn |
| Low | Foo Fighters |
| Down In The Park | Foo Fighters |
| Toca’s Miracle (Radio Edit) | Fragma |
| Push It | Garbage |
| Boulevard Of Broken Dreams | Green Day |
| Barracuda | Heart |
| Afraid To Shoot Strangers | Iron Maiden |
| Chains Of Misery | Iron Maiden |
| Fear Is The Key | Iron Maiden |
| Fear Of The Dark | Iron Maiden |
| The Apparition | Iron Maiden |
| Weekend Warrior | Iron Maiden |
| Bad Things | Jace Everett |
| A Weekend In The Country | Jeeves and Wooster |
| Canon in D Major | Johann Pachelbel |
| Born to be a dancer | Kaiser Chiefs |
| I Predict A Riot | Kaiser Chiefs |
| Boxing Champ | Kaiser Chiefs |
| My Kind Of Guy | Kaiser Chiefs |
| Katie Cruel | Karen Dalton |
| Too Much | Kylie Minogue |
| Born To Die | Lana Del Rey |
| Dark Paradise | Lana Del Rey |
| Lucky Ones | Lana Del Rey |
| Summertime Sadness | Lana Del Rey |
| Video Games | Lana Del Rey |
| Not Fair [Explicit] | Lily Allen |
| The Fear [Explicit] | Lily Allen |
| Piano Sonata No. 14 In C# Minor. Op. 27 No 2 Moonlight (Adagio/Presto) | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| I Am Not A Robot | Marina And The Diamonds |
| The Outsider | Marina And The Diamonds |
| Vivaldi Rocks | Mark Wood |
| Blue Sky | Meat Loaf |
| Blue Sky / Mad Mad World / The Good God Is A Woman And She Don’t Like Ugly | Meat Loaf |
| California Dreamin’ | Meat Loaf |
| Stand In The Storm | Meat Loaf |
| Bat Out of Hell | Meat Loaf |
| Tornero (Romania) | Mihai Traistariu |
| Hall Of The Mountain King – [Peer Gynt] | Milano Classic Rock Orchestra |
| Swanlake – [Peter I. Tchaikovski] | Milano Classic Rock Orchestra |
| Symphony No. 5 – [Ludwig Van Beethoven] | Milano Classic Rock Orchestra |
| Pictures At An Exhibition, Promenade | Modest Mussorgsky |
| Shine | Mr. Big |
| Butterflies & Hurricanes | Muse |
| Endlessly | Muse |
| Sing for Absolution | Muse |
| Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist | Muse |
| Exo-Politics | Muse |
| Knights Of Cydonia | Muse |
| Starlight | Muse |
| Unintended | Muse |
| Muscle Museum (Full Length Version) | Muse |
| Instant Messenger | Muse |
| Neutron Star Collision [Love is Forever] – Soundtrack Version | Muse |
| New Born | Muse |
| Megalomania | Muse |
| Plug In Baby | Muse |
| Sober | Muse |
| Easily | Muse |
| Madness | Muse |
| Supremacy | Muse |
| Survival | Muse |
| The 2nd Law – Isolated System | Muse |
| The 2nd Law – Unsustainable | Muse |
| I Belong To You [+Mon Coeur S’Ouvre A Ta Voix] | Muse |
| Resistance | Muse |
| United States Of Eurasia [+Collateral Damage] | Muse |
| Uprising | Muse |
| Mr. Crowley | Ozzy Osbourne |
| From A Mountain In The Middle Of The Cabins | Panic! At The Disco |
| The Piano Knows Something I Don’t Know | Panic! At The Disco |
| Innuendo | Queen |
| Sonne | Rammstein |
| Us | Regina Spektor |
| Die Walkure, Ride of the Valkyries | Richard Wagner |
| Love Somebody | Robbie Williams |
| Sexed Up | Robbie Williams |
| Supreme | Robbie Williams |
| Rock You Like a Hurricane | Scorpions |
| Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, Op. 43, Var. 18, Ardante Cantabile | Sergei Rachmaninoff |
| Romeo And Juliet Op. 64 (Montagus And Capulets) | Sergey Prokofiev |
| Gold | Spandau Ballet |
| Inside | Stiltskin |
| Golden Brown | Stranglers |
| Eye Of The Tiger | Survivor |
| Chop Suey | System of a Down |
| All The Things She Said (Original Album Version (Edited)) | t.A.T.u. |
| Null And Void | t.A.T.u. |
| 1812 Overture Op.49 – Finale | Tchaikovsky |
| House of the Rising Sun | The Animals |
| Good Vibrations (1999 – Remaster) | The Beach Boys |
| Hella Bar Talk, Enterprising Young Men – From Star Trek | The City of Prague Philharmonic … |
| Air On a G-String | The Fucking Champs |
| Sunny Afternoon | The Kinks |
| Summer In The City – 2003 Remaster | The Lovin’ Spoonful |
| Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon) – Edit Single Version | The Moody Blues |
| I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow | The Soggy Bottom Boys |
| Beethoven | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Beethoven’s 5th Symphony | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Fur Elise | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Mephistopheles’ Return | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Misery | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Mozart \ Figaro | Trans-Siberian Orchestra |
| Paint It Black | Vanessa Carlton |
| Saturday Night | Whigfield |
| Overture: The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| Greensleeves | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
If you’ve ever seen my playlists before, there is nearly always a large contingent of Muse songs – by far their music is the most inspirational to me, and has been for many years. Foo Fighters are an occaisional alternative – somehow the books I’ve read while listening to their music stands out the most, it always seem to somehow fit what I was reading. Always helps to have those kind of memories when writing.
Enjoy, and I’ve love to hear thoughts, opinions, and suggestions.
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