A musical interlude.

[orange_crushed]

One of my favorite albums in the world, Sunny Day Real Estate's The Rising Tide, was released ten years (and one month, give or take) ago, and I've pulled out my vinyl copy of it and had it on all afternoon. It's funny to think that a shared love of this record was one of the things that brought Mr. Orange and I together. He and I have an old (but still shiny!) signed poster from the band that we finally got framed today, too, so it's all over my consciousness right now. Coincidentally, it's also an album that inspired a lot of fic, something I used to listen to over and over and over when I was first beginning to write things I wanted to share with other people. It's weirdly nostalgic.

So in lieu of doing that writing meme that's going around, and since my writing process is very boring ("1: Start writing. 2: Do that for a bit. 3: Stop writing."), I thought I'd share some music. The idea is kind of piggybacked from rosa_acicularis's post, since she brings up the writerly habit of needing to dwell in certain music to get into the fiction groove. Under the cut, here's a handful of songs that have made it into my heavy rotation for writing. You're welcome to share any songs that really get the wheels turning for you!




Sunny Day Real Estate - "Rain Song"

When they speak of the open door and the way you've flown, it's fine.
When they show me the evidence and they're talking down your memory;
Never mind the words they waste,
They can't see you're mine.
Waiting here until words run out,
Dreaming of the day when you open your arms in the light of our love.

Mike Doughty - "Rising Sign"

I’ve seen the dangers of your rising sign,
But i swear I’d like
to drink the fuel straight from your lighter.
It’s all inside the wrist, it’s
all inside the way you time it;
I resent the way you make me like myself.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth"

Who - Will get me to a party?
Who - Do I have yet to meet?
You - You look a bit like coffee,
And you taste a bit like me.
How - Can I keep me from moving?
Now - I need a change of scenery.
Just listen to me, I won't pretend to
Understand the movement of the wind
Or the waves out in the ocean or how
Like the hours I change softly, slowly,
Plainly, blindly, oh me oh my!

New Order - "Age of Consent"

I saw you this morning
I thought that you might like to know
I received your message in full a few days ago
I understood every word that it said
And now that I've actually heard it
You're going to regret.

GLAY - "Winter Again"

Beneath the lights of the city
The flurries of snow flutter on my frozen cheeks
If I close my eyes, it'll be just like yesterday
You lived those days intensely
Someday I want the two of us to go
Back to the time when the snow piled up
I want to show you the whiteness of the town where I was born
I want to see you, I'm longing for you
The more I think of you
On those cold nights I can still hear
The ringing of the bell in my heart.

Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On"

Compared to some I've been around
But I really tried so hard
That echo chorus lied to me with its
"Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on"

Paul Westerberg - "We May Be The Ones"

We may well be the ones,
to set this world on its ear.
We may well be the ones-
if not, then why are we here?
Why the hell else are we here?

The Sheila Divine - "Every Year"

Well I've been searching, like a virgin
uninspired by your smoke and lights
and I'm just a man
and you're a fire
that I can't put out by myself

Going places, going nowhere
do I feel lucky?
every year there's a little less here.

Comments

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

Commenting as I'm trying to decide how Neko Case fits in with my Amy/Rory fanmix (I'm all torn because I have a couple of her songs which are HELLO I AM THE TENTH DOCTOR but one of them also would do well for Amy/Rory but I'd feel like a traitor in a weird way), which I'm making primarily because I need it in order to get in the right frame of mind to write them. Music is a huge part of my writing process, and I have various special playlists to inspire me and help me write.

Looking at the rest of your selections, I feel suddenly old and unhip, though.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I would listen to a Rory/Amy fanmix hard. Don't be afraid to use the Neko Case if it fits, I think it'd be awesome. I'm the same way, I need to use music to get into the right place, otherwise nothing will ever come from me staring at the screen. :)

You are not old and unhip! I made this list thinking I was kind of old and unhip, because so much of this music is around ten years old. It's not up-to-the-now-current, but it's what's stuck deep in my head.

[majorenglishesq.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Doughty love <3

I don't end up listening to a lot of music as I write, but these are a couple that have made me function recently.







And I second "Rising Sign," srsly.

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

Hee, Doughty, yeah, Doughty will bring us together, la la la. :D

I have listened to all of these today and I'm loving it; I never really gave the Yeah Yeah Yeahs a chance, but I like her voice. Plus, Mos Def ♥ ♥

[thunderemerald.livejournal.com]

Bookmarking this for later listenings, but for now, one comment:

NEKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

<3

[orange-crushed.livejournal.com]

NEKOOOOOOOOO INDEED.