///ANGELF///THINK LESS AND SEE IT GROW!///2009///
http://open.spotify.com/user/angelf/playlist/7HzrYB07ZuD0Ds6T9Uaq3S
i arranged it as so:
1-3: top songs are three phoenix songs that i feel encapsulated 2009 for me perfectly (and they also had the most number of plays overall!!! incredible.);
4-6: and then three songs that don't have any time associations with them (i listened to them in equal parts during the whole year);
7-33: and then the rest of the songs are according to the time period when i listened to them (top of the list around january - bottom of the list december). oh wow, 2009. so incredibly happy and so heartbreakingly sad.
1. phoenix - 1901
i could live forever in 1901. there is a place where guitars chase one another and wouldn't stop, a place where happiness, pure happiness exist. the train to casco viejo and knowing that you're on the other side. falling in love. all of the places that we've been in, and all the places that we will be. i believe.
2. phoenix - lasso
where would you go, where would you go with a lasso? could you run into could you run into could you go and run into me?
3. phoenix - lisztomania
your favorite weekend, when we went to mundaka on a car and found the most beautiful coke beach on earth, a rock concert, residence, and finding foreheads in the rain. electric currents in the air when you don't know what's going to happen next. and then you find out, you're just happy.
4. shout out louds - tonight i have to leave it
5. the radio dept. - pulling our weight
6. the radio dept. - keen on boys
7. cats on fire - higher grounds
8. amiina - rugla
winter in stockholm
9. mgmt - kids
everywhere. control yourself take only what you need from it. dancing in living rooms in germany, dancing in the rain in stockholm, this song follows you everywhere.
10. seabear - libraries
everything starts in libraries.
11. florence valentin - dar jag borde vara
listening to this while writing my IP in deusto's library.
12. jj - my life, my swag
easter in stockholm.
13. chairlift - bruises
bilbao, picnics outside the library. i tried to do handstands for you, but everytime i fell for you. i also think of bilbao's many fruiterias and buying strawberries there. i iced your bruising knees with frozen strawberries. the start, the start.
14. field music - in context
quiet nights in my room in bilbao. watching lord of the rings trilogies and finding light.
15. the shins - australia
follows you everywhere too! ikeas in germany, the subway in stockholm, the summers in bilbao.
16. my bloody valentine - sometimes
electric nights, having a crush and falling asleep to this song. winning tickets to primavera sound in barcelona, thinking of you.
17. the jesus and mary chain - just like honey
always played next to mbv's sometimes.
18. bon iver - skinny love
almost finishing the IP and listening to bon iver outside the library with b. lump sum and finally opening the tea cups, a prize for myself
19. camera obscura - french navy
waking up happy, jumping and dancing to this song. catching the bus to the library. love, i couldn't hold it.
20. kings of convenience - gold in the air of summer
intense, out of mind days and nights in olomouc, until now those days doesn't make sense to me, like a floating dream. maybe we should leave it like that and make it a fuzzy memory. a wink in the doorway when you saw me again, buying sandwiches at the cafe and staying in dorm rooms, take away pizzas, the opera and crying. and then amsterdam, glorious, beautiful amsterdam.
21. bloc party - i still remember
i remember i was about to go to barcelona, we went to a park and just laid on the grass listening to this song.
22. the strokes - barely legal
jukeboxes in olomouc! or was it in bilbao? why do i always think that that jukebox bar was in bilbao?
23. romeo void - never say never
80s parties, last days in bilbao.
24. simon and garfunkel - wednesday morning 3 a.m.
the melancholy of the morning after the 80s party, leaving bilbao.
25. lali puna - faking the books
last days in bilbao with arrate, the beach in plentzia, grasping and remembering memories and struggling to put them all on paper but it was just too much.
26. seabear - arms
our favorite seabear song, manila and thinking of you.
27. wolf parade - fine young cannibals
amsterdam and fryslan. fryslan, the most happiest days ever.
28. alamo race track - happy accidents
empty hotel rooms in prague. amsterdam, the first time.
29. kings of convenience - second to none
stockholm. vienna.
30. beirut - my night with the prostitute from marseilles
vienna.
31. aphex twin - avril 14th
alvik.
32. beach house - norway
oslo.
33. beach house - used to be
the end of the year.
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and songs that are part of the list too, but not on spotify/ forgot to put them in/ too painful/ etc.
the shins - new slang
- of course. from the beginning at that cafeteria in bilbao until the last day in vienna, this song.
andrew bird - anonanimal
-friends, sweden, sofas and lying on the floor.
camera obscura - swans
camera obscura - honey in the sun
erlend oye - like gold
- summer. you and me, we rest unfold, and melt like gold.
erlend oye - black keys work
omd - talking loud and clear
- bilbao, walking around casco viejo with eveline and finding creperias and this song suddenly playing in the background. a placemarker when things started turning better.
vapnet - snart gar du inte sjlav
- almost crying in the library when i realized all of a sudden that i am doing what i like (writing about sweden and almost finishing my IP) and sitting next to a boy i was falling in love with.
british sea power - open the door
- the train from olomouc to prague, thinking of what will happen. walking around amsterdam alone, waiting for b to come, thinking how incredible everything was: love, new doors opening, seeing the world with new eyes.
the national - apartment story
- stockholm, empty rooms and heart break
vanderslice - kookabura
- kth library, martin sending me this song.
shout out louds - normandie
- your favorite song.
the xx - heart skipped a beat (and EVERYTHING from the xx)
- heart break.
mew - no more stories...
- heart break but knowing that something, something, will save you.
the fairways - klm line
- bilbao library, thinking of the time soon when we will all be leaving the city, and how uncertain everything is, but also how beautiful that all this is happening.
billie the vision and the dancers - summercat
- airport good byes. last days in bilbao. me and arrate singing to it and listening to it over and over. flying to the czech republic.
kings of convenience - homesick
- amsterdam, the hobbit. to find home. you and me. i believe.
