BRIGHTON TASK #13: CHRONOLOGICAL PLAYLIST
AGES 0 – 3
“Politician” by Cream
“Hey now baby / Get into my big black car / Hey now baby / Get into my big black car / I want to show you / What my politics are.”
AGES 3 – 7
“Come Wander With Me” by Bonnie Beecher
“He said / ‘Come wander with me, love / Come wander with me / Away from this sad world / Come wander with me’ / He came from the sunset / He came from the sea / He came from my sorrow / And can love only me.”
“Dollhouse” by Melanie Martinez
“Places, places! / Get in your places! / Throw on your dress and put on your doll faces / Everyone thinks that we’re perfect / Please don’t let them look through the curtains.”
“Little Drop of Poison” by Tom Waits
“I like my town / With a little drop of poison / Nobody knows / They’re lining up to go insane.”
“(x) Amount of Truth” by Envy on the Coast
“Wake all the children from their slumber / Before they wonder / Why their dreams have gone to hell / Wake all the children from their sleep / Down the staircase we shall creep / To the basement of this white picket home / Let’s show them where the bad ones go / For all they know, for all they know / Their heroes are still untouchable / What they don’t know, what they don’t know.”
AGES 8-10
“Sad Machine” by Porter Robinson
“And though I know / Since you’ve awakened her again / She depends on you / She depends on you / She’ll go alone / And never speak of this again / She depends on you / She depends on you.”
“Battle Cry” by Angel Haze ft. Sia
“I woke up one Sunday morning / Stopped believing in Jesus / Stopped believing in churches / I stopped believing in preachers.”
AGES 10-13
“Control” by Halsey
“I’m bigger than my body / I’m colder than this home / I’m meaner than my demons / I’m bigger than these bones / And all the kids cried out / ‘Please stop / You’re scaring me’ / I can’t help this awful energy.”
“The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” by Los Campesinos!
“I grabbed a hold of her wrist and my hand closed from tip-to-tip / I said / ‘You’ve taken the diet too far / You’ve got to let it slip’ / But she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again, she’s not eating again / [...]” ––
AGES 14 – 18
“The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” by Los Campesinos!
“At fourteen her mother died in a routine operation / From allergic reaction to a general anesthetic / Spent the rest of her teens experimenting with prescriptions / In a futile attempt to know more than the doctors / She said one day to leave her / Sand up to her shoulders / Waiting for the tide / To drag her to the ocean / To another sea’s shore / This thing hurts like hell / But what’d you expect? / [...]” ––
“Baby I Got The Death Rattle” by Los Campesinos!
“We burnt all the skin from the palm of my hand / With an old zippo lighter and a deodorant can / I went to the palmist and asked her to read / No heart-line / No sun-line / No lifeline / No need. / Said all that I wanted was a quiet life / Not one predetermined by minuscule slices / Into my flesh and the broad she agreed / One look in my sad eyes / She had to concede.”
“Drugstore Diet” by Anarbor
“Don’t matter white, green, or blue / I’ll cut, crush, parachute you / I’ll just bottle it up / Hope all is fine / Bottle it up ‘til next Columbine / Call me crazy but I know I’m just fine.”
“Hurricane” by Halsey
“I’m a wanderess / I’m a one-night-stand / Don’t belong to no city / Don’t belong to no man / I’m the violence in the pouring rain / I’m a hurricane.”
AGES 18-22
“The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” by Los Campesinos!
“Best known left wrist, right finger through all the Southern states / On every video game’s machine / They call her triple A / There were racists on the radio trying to give up smoking / The talkshow host / He joked / ‘You have to wait for the government program’ / You talk about your politics / And I wonder if you could be one of them / But you could never kiss a Tory Boy without wanting to cut off your tongue again / [...]” ––
“The A Team” by Ed Sheeran
“And they scream / ‘The worst things in life come free to us’ / ‘Cause we’re just under the upper hand / And go mad for a couple grams / But she don’t want to go outside tonight / And in her pipe she flies to the Motherland / Or sells love to another man / It’s too cold outside for angels to fly.”
“House of the Rising Sun” by The Animals
“There is a house in New Orleans / They call the Rising Sun / It’s been the ruin of many a poor girl / And god, I know I’m one.” [ok the ‘girl’ part was a part of the original poem that they modified into a song – this is literally a song about a prostitute]
“Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant
“’If you pay the right price / Your evening will be nice / And you can go and send me on my way’ / I said / ‘You’re such a sweet young thing / Why you do this to yourself?’ / She looked at me and this is what she said / ‘Ain’t no rest for the wicked / Money don’t grow on trees / I got bills to pay / I got mouths to feed / Ain’t nothing in this world for free.’”
PRESENT
“The ‘59 Sound” by The Gaslight Anthem
“I wonder which song they’re gonna play when we go / I hope it’s something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow / When we float out into the ether / Into the Everlasting Arms / I hope we don’t hear Marley’s chains we forget in life.”
"Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails
“The needle tears a hole / The old familiar sting / Try to kill it all away / But I remember everything / What have I become, my sweetest friend? / Everyone I know goes away in the end / You could have it all / My empire of dirt / I will let you down / I will make you hurt.”
“Goodbye To A World” by Porter Robinson
“Thank you / I’ll say ‘goodbye’ soon / Though it’s the end of the world / Don’t blame yourself, now / And if it’s true / I will surround you / And give life to a world / That’s our own.”
“Coda: A Burn Scar in the Shape of the Sooner State” by Los Campesinos!
“Run the water ‘til it scalds you / Know that I’m listening / Pitter patter runs the shower, hits the bare porcelain / Watch the dirt run down the plughole where an echo exits / [...] An artist’s impression of the Manhattan skyline / And a soon to be burn scar / In the perfect shape of the Sooner State.”
“The Sea Is A Good Place To Think Of The Future” by Los Campesinos!
“A good place to look to the future is when you are sat at the sea / With the salt up to your ankles and a view at the end of the pier / And you may look down at your model’s feet and wish that you’d just float away / And the weather here is overcast and the sea is the same shade of grey / So the landscape before you looks just like the edge of the world / But to the left side and the right side / Either way is a crazy golf-course! / The sea is a good place to think of (about) the future. / And all you can hear is the sound of your own heart / And all you can feel is your lungs flood and the blood course / And, oh, I can see five-hundred years dead-set ahead of me / Five-hundred behind / A thousand years in perfect symmetry.”
