As pictures are to artifacts of existence - music playlists (or better known as the mix CD) are to time pieces of mood and emotion. It is no rare moment when you hear a song that reminds you of a particular place in time in your life - or even a person. Music has this unique ability to evoke those archived memories, stories of love and loss, and notions of why the fuck you ever listened to that song in the first place...
But so it is, so don't be ashamed. I will admit that whenever I hear Sublime I think of high school luncheons at the one and only Burger King in town - cruising springtime freshman year with the top down of a red Jeep, blasting "April 29, 1982 (Miami)" while on my way to devour a chicken sandwich with cheese, french fries, and a coke - all for $3.17 (tax included). It was a highly homogenized version of Dazed And Confused.
What follows is the playlist of my current state and mind. These are the songs that are currently defining, and within some given time down the road will remind me of my first two months living in New York City.
(If you are interested in hearing the mix, please provide an address and I will gladly send a copy).
Fate or Make Believe - NY Spring 2008
2) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes
3) Electric Feel/2080 - MGMT/Yeasayer
4) Didn't I - Darondo
5) Hard Sun (Into The Wild Main Theme) - Eddie Vedder
6) Nobody's Baby - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings
7) Reckoner - Radiohead
8) You Better Move On - The Rolling Stones
9) Natalia - Van Morrison
10) Back To This - The Helio Sequence
11) Out There On The Ice/Lights & Music - Cut Copy
12) Out of Reaches - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
13) Painter In My Pocket - Destroyer
14) Gold Watch - Lupe Fiasco
15) Hospital Bed - Cold War Kids
16) Innocent Son - Fleet Foxes
