California
California is for everyone. Featuring artists like: The National Reserve, Chris Robinson & The New Earth Mud, The Beach Boys, My Morning Jacket, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kings of Leon, N.W.A., The Decemberists
Exit Songs For Your Funeral
Tracks to provide the soundtrack of how people will remember you. Featuring artists like: Fleetwood Mac, Kehlani, John Mayer, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Michael Jackson, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, FKJ, Peter Sauleda, Franz Schubert
Sentimental Folk
Songs for reflecting on life and the joys and pain it allows us to experience, featuring artists like: Patty Griffin, Leo Kottke, Joni Mitchell, Caroline Spence, Mary Johnson Rockers, Jason Isbell, Mindy Smith, John Prine
A Day In The Lives
Songs that reflect the complexity of being human.Featuring artists like: Blur,John Grant,Guster,Lipstick Stains,Die Nerven,Club Yoko,Le Tigre,The Staves,Nancy,Metronomy,
16 / 04 / 16 (Jack’s Song) – Cavetown
This track is a story about life and death. It makes you reflect in a calm-and-subtle-tone type of way. Listen and get its meaning here.
Hand It Over – MGMT
A track with layers of meaning. It’s amazing how music and lyrics can take on so many forms– about us and the world we live in. What does this track remind you of?
Let Me Fly – DMX
One degree of separation between me, my grandmother, and DMX
Honestly – Second Hand Poet
I’m trawling along the bottom again – I don’t know why – honestly… It’s the not knowing that kills – and not just you, but your loved ones too as you can’t articulate and are forced to watch as they project and hurt…
Break the Bottle – Jess Silk
God I love the story tellers.
The lyricists who construct a reality you can step into, to experience it as if you were there – as if you knew the characters – who do it so seamlessly that – even if it is by proxy – you get to feel the emotions for real.
That’s the point of this list – it’s designed to make you feel – to connect with the emotions that we’re oh so good at keeping hidden, buried under guilt and social conditioning. Because when we don’t deal with those emotions – well – that’s when the bad shit happens…
Loss – music2work2
Loss – when it’s still visceral – when you still think you can call them – when you’re still discombobulated and not sure when it will end.
Loss – when it colors your every move and burns hot in your heart.