Anthology
On the occasion of my first anniversary of working at the Field Museum, a playlist of songs. Fair warning, though: I make no claims to elevated taste or standards. What I listen to at work is mostly intended to help me concentrate by shutting out the world while keeping me from really noticing the music too much.
| Oct08 | Frou Frou – Must Be Dreaming Most of these songs were holdovers from what I was listening to during those last few boring weeks at the hospital. |
| Yelle – A Cause Des Garcons (Tepr Remix) Made friends with a girl at work over this song, right when I started. |
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| The Gaslight Anthem – Old White Lincoln | |
| Ladyhawke – Another Runaway | |
| Nov09 | The Killers – Human Absolutely hooked on this song when it first came out. Listened to it continuously for a couple days, at least. The same with its remix. Unquestionably the soundtrack of my first month at the museum. |
| MIA – Paper Planes | |
| Van She – Sex City | |
| Ingrid Michaelson – Creep | |
| The Sounds – Hurt You Liking this song provided a social entry with certain others that would have otherwise been impossible. Seems silly now in retrospect but was a huge deal at the time. |
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| Dec09 | Thomas Newman – Define Dancing The start of my enduring Wall-E fixation, particularly with EVE. It’s one of the reasons why most everything I make is mostly white with grey and blue accents. |
| Adele – Right as Rain | |
| Jan09 | Miley Cyrus – Breakout Extraordinarily catchy and mindless, perfect for blasting through headphones while concentrating on other things. Left it on for hours while designing BioSync’s website. Sorry, Audrey. |
| Feb09 | Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You See above. |
| Johann Strauss – An der schönen blauen Donau I had a brief obsession with 2001. |
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| Mar09 | Beirut – My Wife, Lost in the Wild Very vivid memories of my hotel room, being lost in DC, the cute brunette, feeling completely overwhelmed professionally, eating questionable Chinatown food. |
| Coldplay – Viva La Vida Needed the cheery optimism to balance out the slow, tumor-like growth of bad vibes. |
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| Apr09 | Andrew Bird – Anonanimal Best Concert of the Year. |
| Culture Beat – Mr. Vain Mostly to annoy Ryan. |
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| May09 | The entire Braid soundtrack. Of the game’s many merits, the music was probably the best. |
| El Ten Eleven – Central Nervous Piston I was pretty obsessed with Helvetica at the time. |
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| Jun09 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero The song of the summer: frisbee lunches, interns galore, league games, my sister’s wedding. |
| Pains of Being Pure at Heart – This Love Is Fucking Right! | |
| Jul09 | Weezer – El Scorcho “I’ll bring home the turkey if you bring home the bacon” remains to this day my favorite lyric ever. |
| Bruce Springsteen – Tunnel of Love Falling back to an old favorite, during what was perhaps the nadir of my work experience so far. |
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| Aug09 | Au Revoir Simone – Anywhere You Looked Went to their show with Matt, on a whim. He and Kim moved away shortly thereafter, but the music stuck with me. |
| Gin Blossoms – Hey Jealousy Described to a new friend how my love for this song was both 100% ironic and 100% earnest. |
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| Sep09 | Kings of Leon – Use Somebody Alone in my room in Paris, late at night, over and over again. |
| Brian Sharpe – She Drives Me Crazy | |
| Oct09 | The Format – The First Single |
| Jason Robert Brown – Stars and the Moon This one’s completely the fault of my brother, the composer/songwriter. |
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