What's on your playlist?

Sage · Apr 28, 2012

Wow, that is an epic playlist, Kitty

Sage · Apr 28, 2012

This is my playlist for Love Sucks, my book that just came out.

Broken Heart – Motion City Soundtrack
Another Mystery – Dar Williams
See You Again – Miley Cyrus
Anything I’m Not – Lenka
Gravity – Sarah Bareilles
Learn You Inside and Out – Lifehouse
Bathwater – No Doubt
Fake – Shinedown
Ka-Ching! (Red) – Shanie Twain
Slow Dancing in a Burning Room – John Mayer
Let You Down – Default
Too Much Food – Jason Mraz
Extraordinary Girl – Green Day
Goin’ to the Dance with You – Kristin Chenoweth
I’m so Sick – Flyleaf
To the Moon and Back – Savage Garden
If it Kills Me – Jason Mraz
The Conversation – Motion City Soundtrack
Human – Blake Lewis
Make Me Over – Lifehouse
I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
Older – Colbie Caillat

dmickey · May 6, 2012

This is a good idea, I'm always looking for new music to play.

My writing playlist consists of a lot of Damien Rice and Florence and the Machine.

Plus right now:

We are the Tide- Blind Pilot
Ho Hey- The Lumineers
Get on the Road- Tired Pony
Poison and Wine- The Civil Wars
Porcelain- Lucy Schwartz
Give me Love- Ed Sheeran

frankiebrown · May 7, 2012

I have a hard time listening to anything with English lyrics while I write, so I listen to a lot of Explosions in the Sky, Gold Panda, and Sigur Ros. They're very inspiring musicians, by the way, and I highly recommend them for people writing adventure books in particular.

vintagegirl · May 10, 2012

^Sigur Ros are so good. Can't wait for their new album.

I'm messing about with a new idea at the moment and putting together a playlist is such a great inspiration.

1. Ten-Twenty-Ten - The Generationals
2. If You Got the Money - Jamie T.
3. Ghosts - Laura Marling
4. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
5. Show Me the Light - Mystery Jets
6. R U Mine - Arctic Monkeys
7. Sweetness - Pearl and the Beard

A Girl In A Dress · May 11, 2012

If I don't want to hear words, then the Lion King instrumental soundtrack is awesome.

If I DO want to hear words, then it's pretty much whatever pops up on my too-long writing playlist - Taylor Swift (lots of her songs), NEEDTOBREATHE, Lady A, Backstreet Boys (oh yeah), Boston, CSNY, the Shondels, Fleetwood Mac... as long as it isn't screamo, there's a good chance I'll listen to it.

Yeasayer · May 11, 2012

frankiebrown said:
I have a hard time listening to anything with English lyrics while I write, so I listen to a lot of Explosions in the Sky, Gold Panda, and Sigur Ros. They're very inspiring musicians, by the way, and I highly recommend them for people writing adventure books in particular.

This is me. Same bands even!

But I do make playlists while I'm gearing up to write or just want to think about my current WIP.

My current playlist channels the East Village (in my mind, at least):

Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
Destroyer - Chinatown
Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
Real Estate - Green Aisles
Wild Flag (Carrie Brownstein!!) - Future Crimes
Rihana - We Found Love
Bon Iver - Perth
Charli XCX - Stay Away
PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Joanna Newsom - Peach Plum Pear
Fleetwood Mac - Never Going Back Again
The Magnetic Fields - With Whom to Dance
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
Azealia Banks - 212
Yeasayer - I Remember
Robyn - Be Mine (Acoustic)
The Knife - Heartbeats
Fiona Apple - Never Is a Promise

AGragon · May 12, 2012

Had taken these screenshots for another thread, but this one seems more fit for them.

bickazer · Jun 15, 2012

I usually don't make playlists (though I listen to music whenever I write), but for some reason my latest WIP (high fantasy murder mystery!) just demands a playlist, and it's growing bigger every day. So far it looks a bit like this:

Magia - Kalafina
Rinbu Revolution - Masami Okui
Cave - Muse
Sis Puella Magica - Yuki Kajiura
The Last Thing On Your Mind - LIGHTS
You're Not Me - Marty Bags
Monsoon - Tokio Hotel
Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon
Lamento - Kanako Itou
The Key Of Light - Yoko Shimomura
Papercut - Linkin Park
Krwlng - Linkin Park

Yeah, lots of anime soundtrack music because I'm a nerd. uvu

Jehhillenberg · Jun 15, 2012

Love making playlists for my novels and works. Here's the one for my YA contemporary novel.

Making other playlists for my WIPs now.

lisalulu09 · Jun 15, 2012

I have two for Invincible. Here they are at the moment.

Will's:

"Everything Is Alright" - Motion City Soundtrack
"Punk Rock Princess" - Something Corporate
"Must Have Done Something Right" - Relient K
"All I Want" - A Day To Remember
"I Come Alive" - The Used
"Invincible" - Adelitas Way
"Pretty Handsome Awkward" - The Used
"Blood On My Hands" - The Used
"Be My Escape" - Relient K
"I Just Wanna Run" - The Downtown Fiction
"Keeper" - Yellowcard
"Last Stand" - Adelitas Way
"Breathe" - Anberlin

General:

KEY:

W = Will
C = Carlos
R = Ruby

"Umbrella" - All Time Low (Rihanna Cover) (C)
"Invisible" - Clay Aiken (W)
"If It Kills Me" - Jason Mraz (W)
"Kiss Me" - Sixpence None The Richer (R)
"Dirty Little Secret" - All-American Rejects (R)
"Meant To Live" - Switchfoot (W)
"The Middle" - Jimmy Eat World (C)
"Firework" - Glee Cast (R)
"We Are Young" - Glee Cast

As usual, these will be become more like soundtracks as I write.

KillingAurora · Jun 16, 2012

I love writing to music. My work always has a full on soundtrack!

At the moment, my playlist is extensive. My favs to write to are:

Somewhere a Clock is Ticking - Snow Patrol
Honey and the Moon - Joseph Arthur
Roslyn - Bon Iver
Grazed Knees - Snow Patrol
I'll Follow You into the Dark - Death Cab
Same - Snow Patrol
Turning Tables - Adele
Hometown Glory - Adele
Colourblind - Counting Crows
Never Let Me Go - Florence + The Machine
We Never Change - Coldplay
The Scientist - Coldplay
Sparks - Coldplay
My Love - Sia
So Are You To Me - EastMountainSouth
Slumber My Darling - Alison Krauss
Orange Sky - Alexi Murdoch
Cold - Aqualung
Eve, the Apple of My Eye - BellX1
An Olive Grove Facing the Sea - Snow Patrol
Sleep - The Dandy Warhols
Here With Me - Dido
Look After You - The Fray
Grace - Kate Havnevik
Stay - Michelle Featherstone
Lifening - Snow Patrol
Run - Snow Patrol
Same - Snow Patrol
To Be Alone With You - Sufjan Stevens
Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel

... And hundreds more. I would be lost without my playlist! (Which currently has over 55 hours of music on it)

Love this thread!

lisalulu09 · Jun 16, 2012

55 hours? WOW.

Sage · Feb 7, 2015

This isn't the longest thread on soundtracks, but it is the most recent with actual playlists that I could find, so I'm bumping rather than starting a new one. Because I love a good playlist/soundtrack thread

I just got inspired to work on this series again because of the soundtrack, then felt sad it wasn't posted anywhere

Super/Human Soundtrack:

1. No Curtain Call - Maroon 5
2. Worker Bee - Motion City Soundtrack
3. Strange and Beautiful - Aqualung
4. Starry Eyed - Ellie Goulding
5. Everyday Superhero - Smash Mouth
6. Superman - Glee Cast (REM cover)
7. Dirty Little Secret - All-American Rejects
8. One More Night - Maroon 5
9. Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
10. Must Get Out - Maroon 5
11. Do I Wanna Know? - Arctic Monkeys
12. Waiting for Superman - Daughtry
13. Did You Get My Message? - Jason Mraz
14. The Very Thought of You - Natalie Cole
15. Madness - Muse
16. Powerless - Linkin Park
17. Mad Season - Matchbox 20
18. Bitch - Meredith Brooks
19. Army of Two - Olly Murs
20. Heroes - Glee Cast (David Bowie cover)
21. Last Chance - Maroon 5
22. Something I Need - OneRepublic
23. Get Back in my Life - (you guessed it) Maroon 5
24. Brand New Day - Neil Patrick Harris (Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog)

Niiicola · Feb 7, 2015

My WIP playlist is always expanding, but here's what I've got for now:

Claire Guerreso: Hide and Seek
London Grammar: Interlude
London Grammar: Stay Awake
Ben Howard: Esmerelda
James Vincent McMorrow: Wicked Game
Gary Jules: Mad World
Placebo: Meds
Daughter: Amsterdam
Daughter: Winter
Banks: Brain
Broods: Sober
Broods: Medicine
Lana Del Rey: Young & Beautiful
Anathema: A Natural Disaster
The Weeknd: High For This
Flight Facilities: Crave You
Freestylers: Cracks
Blackmill: Let It Be
The Weeknd: The Zone
Storm Corrosion: Ljudet Innan
Angus & Julia Stone: Draw Your Swords
London Grammar: If You Wait
Oh, and a bunch of Tanya Tagaq, who is this amazing Inuit throat singer.

Right now I'm revising a super sad scene and listening to Draw Your Swords on repeat.

Ellaroni · Feb 8, 2015

For my current editing, I'm listening to two albums exclusively:
Highasakite's SILENT TREATMENT and
Ásgeir's IN THE SILENCE de luxe edition (with both the Icelandic and English versions of his songs)

Sage · Feb 8, 2015

The first one in the series, which is what I'm current working on, actually. There's an old version on some soundtrack thread somewhere.

Hero/Villain Soundtrack

1. Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy
2. Keeps Gettin' Better - Christina Aguilera
3. Disappear - Motion City Soundtrack
4. Hero - The Verve Pipe
5. Alright With Me - Kris Allen
6. Alone - Glee Cast (Heart cover)
7. "The Take Over, the Break's Over" - Fall Out Boy
8. Capital H - Motion City Soundtrack
9. Creepin' Up On You - Darren Hayes
10. My Eyes - Neil Patrick Harris & Felicia Day (Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog)
11. Villains - The Verve Pipe
12. Can't Stop - Maroon 5
13. Psycho - Puddle of Mud
14. Almost Sorry - Scissor Sisters
15. Coyotes - Jason Mraz
16. Wrecking Ball - Lifehouse
17. I'm a Super Girl - Shonen Knife
18. Ghost - Indigo Girls
19. Wake Up Call - Maroon 5
20. Still Alive - "GLaDOS" (Portal)

lemonziest · Feb 16, 2015

For me, it depends on what story I'm working on, but I pretty much listen exclusively to soundtrack music. Beasts of the Southern Wild is a favorite of mine, as well as Jane Eyre and The Village. I feel like soundtracks are particularly great because they're written with story arcs in mind.

ash.y · Feb 16, 2015

These playlists are epic! And proof that my compulsion to make a chapter-by-chapter playlist for my books is not so unusual.

The playlist for my current WIP includes a lot of Laura Marling, The Cinematic Orchestra, and guitar/string pieces.

I don't listen to instrumental pieces exclusively, but if a song has lyrics, the lyrics HAVE to fit the story or it creates too much mental dissonance.

aliensglitter · Feb 27, 2015

I love this thread!

I have a bunch of different playlists for a bunch of different projects, but the one I've been listening to (and working on) the most is for what I'm calling my Scott/Dakota project because it's about a pair of brothers named Scott and Dakota.

speeding cars - imogen heap
lay me down - sam smith
collar full - panic! at the disco
i'm not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you - black kids
new romantics - taylor swift
i have friends in holy spaces - panic! at the disco
beautiful disaster (live) - kelly clarkson
the calendar - panic! at the disco
lullaby of resembool - from the fullmetal alchemist:brotherhood ost
this is gospel - panic! at the disco
all you had to do was stay - taylor swift
friends in my heart - from the kingdom hearts soundtrack
no shows - gerard way
folkin around - panic! at the disco
lazy afternoons (twilight town) - from the kingdom hearts soundtrack
tidal - imogen heap
treasured memories - from the kingdom hearts soundtrack
breathe - télépopmusik
jellyfish song - from the dramatical murder soundtrack
i'm not the only one - sam smith
touch me - from the spring awakening on broadway soundtrack
drugstore perfume - gerard way
ribs - lorde
buy mode 1 - from the sims 1 soundtrack
millions - gerard way

The Seanchai · Mar 2, 2015

I don't have any specific songs for my WIP's, but I do have to have SOMETHING on in the background. It can be instrumental or have lyrics, but I can't write in total silence.

ghagler · Mar 2, 2015

I try not to listen to music while I actually write; I tend to think better without music playing. If I need an emotional boost or reminder or mood setter, i'll play it, listen, think and then go back to silence and write.

But when I break down and listen to music anyway (happens more often than not!), it's usually instrumental. I found some fascinating instrumental songs from Japan, actually, that i've come to love. Here are a few more recent ones:

"The Way" - Zack Hemsey
"March Slave, Op. 31" - Tchaikovsky
"Ichiban no Takaramono" - Angel Beats!
"Brave Song" - Angel Beats!
"Usan no Kaori" - Luck Ganriki

snitchcharm · Mar 20, 2015

I like making instrumental soundtracks for my WIP. Makes me feel like it's already a movie. Vitamin String Quartet is great for this.

Sage · Apr 9, 2015

I seem to have gone overboard with this soundtrack and given every moment that happens its own song.

Master/Puppet Soundtrack

1. 3 - Glee cast (Britney Spears cover)
2. In My Remains - Linkin Park
3. Ghost - Ella Henderson
4. I've Got No Strings - L'Orchestra Cinematique (from Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer)
5. Blind - Default
6. Mad World - Adam Lambert (Tears for Fears cover)
7. Coming Back - Dean Ray
8. Until It Breaks - Linkin Park
9. One More Night (Sticky K Remix) - Maroon 5
10. Point of Extinction - Motion City Soundtrack
11. Dangerous - Big Data (feat. Joywave)
12. Say It's So - Seven and the Sun
13. Invisible Monsters - Motion City Soundtrack
14. Lonely Ghosts - O+S
15. Let It Rain - Kris Allen
16. Pompeii - Bastille
17. Afraid - The Neighbourhood
18. Pulp Fiction - Motion City Soundtrack
19. Skin and Bones - Motion City Soundtrack
20. Paper Moon - Natalie Cole
21. My Dark Side - Glee Cast (Kelly Clarkson cover)
22. Mesmerized - Lifehouse
23. Trapped in a Box - No Doubt
24. Better Than I Know Myself - Adam Lambert
25. Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
26. Superheroes - The Script
27. Burn It Down - Linkin Park
28. Break Down Doors - Default
29. Castle of Glass - Linkin Park
30. Don't Know Nothing - Maroon 5
31. Holding Out for a Hero - Glee Cast (Footloose cover)
32. Shackled - Vertical Horizon
33. Dangerous Game - 3 Doors Down
34. Stitch by Stitch - Javier Colon
35. Mirrors (Radio Edit) - Justin Timberlake

inthewritemind · Apr 10, 2015

I usually listen to movie scores when I'm writing. I find something that matches the tone of the scene I'm working on. I find it helps the words flow! Recently I've been very attached to The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game scores.

What's on your playlist?

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someday we'll shine together

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...with fire.

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the dog is a girl named Alfie!

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