Zombies, Run!

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Posted by The Shark | Posted in | Posted on 2:58 PM


This post is inspired by this iPhone app (please look at this site before continuing): https://www.zombiesrungame.com/

I really do think that it's an INGENIOUS way to get people to go out and get some exercise, while having fun at the same time.  It's also one of those apps that make me wonder why I didn't think of it first!

In any case, I decided to pay the steep price of $8 and download the game to my phone, and plan on trying it out ASAP.  But here's the thing: Between story chunks, the app actually plays music from your own playlists.  So this is where you come in:

What's the best music to listen to while running from zombies??

I'm raising this blog from the dead, if only temporarily, to ask you all to provide playlist suggestions for this theme.  I am including my own brief playlist here, in hopes that some of you will be able to help me expand it.  Most of my songs include a good beat/rhythm to set a running pace to, but I do make exceptions once or twice for songs that I just can't help leaving out, like the Cranberries' "Zombie."  And, like "Zombie," a lot of the songs aren't REALLY about zombies, per se, but due to their title or some of the lyrics, or maybe even the overall tone of the music, they could arguably fit in in some way. Another good example of this is New Found Glory's "Forget My Name," in which is repeated the phrase, "Tell all my friends I'm dead."

My playlist so far:

  1. "Zombie" from The Cranberries: Stars - The Best of 1992-2002 by The Cranberries
  2. "Thriller" from Thriller by Michael Jackson
  3. "Another One Bites the Dust" from Greatest Hits by Queen
  4. "Bring Me To Life" from Fallen by Evanescence
  5. "Devil's Dance Floor" from Swagger by Flogging Molly
  6. "Everybody Get Dangerous" from Weezer (Red Album) by Weezer
  7. "Forget My Name" from Sticks and Stones by New Found Glory
  8. "Hammerhead" from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace by The Offspring
  9. "I Will Survive" from Fashion Nugget by Cake
  10. "Savior" from Appeal to Reason by Rise Against

Zombies, Run! by Shark Gillins on Grooveshark

So I'm itching for your suggestions!  What's appropriate music to hear while escaping the zombie apocalypse?  Go!

Move that @$$!

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Posted by Carlos the Great | Posted in | Posted on 8:52 AM

Go go go! Spring time, getting warm out, time to stop hibernating and start exercising regularly again. Post those songs that motivate you to just keep going when you're out jogging, biking, at the gym, or what have you...

and if i sing you are my voice,

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Posted by Amanda | Posted in | Posted on 12:13 PM

I really love all of these songs, for various reasons that I figure I don't need to explain here (though I'd be happy to do so if there are any selections you're curious about). I hope that you find one or two in the list that you love as much as I do, if not more.

Enjoy!

(I'll have to email you 2--especially since I don't know who sings the version I nabbed from a friend's mix--and 4.)

  1. "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
  2. "Summertime" by unknown artist
  3. "Blue in the Face" by Alkaline Trio
  4. "St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244: No. 53 Choral - "Befiel due deine Wege" by Bach
  5. "The Body Breaks" by Devendra Banhart
  6. "Love Me Like a River Does" by Melody Gardot
  7. "Gold" by Interference (from the ONCE soundtrack)
  8. "Fantasie Impromptu Opus #66" by Chopin
  9. "Golden Hair" by Syd Barrett
  10. "Ghosts" by Laura Marling
  11. "Hurt" as sung by Johnny Cash
  12. "Romance in G, Op. 26" by Svendsen
  13. "Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love" by Coldplay
  14. "2 Dollar Shoes" by Rosie Thomas
  15. "Heartbeats" by Jose Gonzalez
  16. "War Requiem, Op. 66: XVIII. Let Us Sleep Now...In Paradisum" by Benjamin Britten
  17. "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver
  18. "Blood" by The Middle East


NYC is fine with me

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Posted by Scrumpestuous D | Posted in | Posted on 11:11 AM

Sorry about the late post, but at least I got it in...
  1. "City of Blinding Lights" from How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb by U2
  2. "Two Weeks" from Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
  3. "Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)" from The Blueprint 3 by Jay-Z
  4. "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" from Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem
  5. "Manhattan" from Once Upon a Summertime by Blossom Dearie
  6. "When I Fall in Love" from Portrait in Jazz by the Bill Evans Trio
  7. "New York City (Radio Edit)" from New York City by Norah Jones & The Peter Malick Group
  8. "I'm Waiting For The Man" from The Velvet Underground & Nico by The Velvet Underground
  9. "Pretty Baby" from Parallel Lines by Blondie
  10. "Judy is a Punk" from Ramones by The Ramones
  11. "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" from They Might Be Giants by They Might Be Giants
  12. "Digital Love" from Discovery by Daft Punk
  13. "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme) from The Empire Strikes Back by John Williams
  14. "Rhapsody in Blue" from Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue/An American In Paris by George Gershwin, perf. Leonard Bernstein & The Columbia Symphony Orchestra
  15. "Theme from New York, New York" from Trilogy: Past Present Future by Frank Sinatra
  16. "The Only Living Boy in New York" from Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel
  17. "Seattle" from Seattle by Perry Como


Notes in the comments.

Georgia on my mind

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Posted by Scrumpestuous D | Posted in | Posted on 11:04 AM

*Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics

How exactly do you go from Alan Jackson to T.I. in a playlist? It's not easy. But it's part of explaining the interesting combination that makes up Southern identity. I won't comment on the state of the South (because this isn't the place to politick), but suffice it to say, there're still the Alan Jackson folks, and the T.I. folks, and then people that are amalgamations of both. This setlist explains Georgia, my home, my ancestry, my youth, my present.

And, yeah, I've left out some obvious Georgia natives -- R.E.M., the B-52s, Widespread Panic, the Black Crowes. That's because they're not part of MY Georgia.



(Editor's Note: I'm super behind this week, so I didn't write out the list, and I got this up late. Sorry Lauren.)

Comma Songs

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Posted by Amanda | Posted in | Posted on 7:32 PM

Four years ago in London a freebird by the name of Shannon Mehner introduced me to the concept of a "comma song," which comes from the following ee cummings poem:

hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young

pleasure and pain are merely surfaces
(one itself showing,itself hiding one)
life's only and true value neither is
love makes the little thickness of the coin

comes here a man would have from madame death
nevertheless now and without winter spring?
she'll spin that spirit her own fingers with
and give him nothing (if he should not sing)

how much more than enough for both of us
darling. And if i sing you are my voice,


See that comma at the end, how this poem hangs on that beautiful mark of punctuation? Did it make you tingle, shiver, or sigh a little bit? I hope so. If not, try to think of another poem or photograph or song or whatever that leaves you with a lingering ache. A comma song is any song that sort of submerses you in sublimity. Sometimes it's the whole song that does this, but sometimes it's just the comma-sized detail--the way Jeff Buckley breathes audibly before even the first pluck of the strings in "Hallelujah," or the amazing intro to Johnny Cash's "Solitary Man." Make sense? This week I would like for all of us to compile sweet, sweet mixes of all of the "comma songs" in our music libraries.

Paris, je t'aime

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Posted by Amanda | Posted in | Posted on 8:58 PM

Obvi.

  1. "Montmartre" by Django Reinhardt
  2. "La valse d'Amelie" from Amelie
  3. "Pour Vous" by Django Reinhardt
  4. "Les Champs-Elysees" by Joe Dassin
  5. "Petits Mensonges" by Django Reinhardt
  6. "Printemps" by Coeur de Pirate
  7. "Les Yeux Noirs" by Django Reinhardt
  8. "Tout Doucement" by Feist
  9. "Bijou" by Django Reinhardt
  10. "Comptine d'un autre ete, l'apres-midi" from Amelie
  11. "Elats de Cuivres" by Django Reinhardt
  12. "La Vie En Rose" sung by Madeleine Peyroux
  13. "Ninouche" by Django Reinhardt
  14. "Parisian Thoroughfare" by Clifford Brown & Max Roach
  15. "Seul Ce Soir" by Django Reinhardt
  16. "Under the Bridges of Paris" by Dean Martin
  17. "Vous Et Moi" by Django Reinhardt
  18. "Le Festin" from Ratatouille
  19. "Petite Lili" by Django Reinhardt
  20. "Les etoiles" by Melody Gardot
  21. "Billets Doux" by Django Reinhardt
  22. "Padam...Padam..." by Edith Piaf


(I got all but two songs on here, but they're both Djangos so I figure you've got the idea as far as his genius goes.)
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