Laugh hard, Run fast, Be kind

I’m tagging today’s top fans (thanks!) @w3k, @bacchylus, @gloombog, @better-dead-than-smeg and also @aeolianblues who always adds interesting and insightful thoughts!

(You Will) Set The World On Fire - David Bowie

Age of Innocence - Smashing Pumpkins

Talk Like That - The Presets

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey

Down Boy - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Heavy Cross - The Gossip

California - Grimes (I know… I know… )

No Sex For Ben - The Rapture

D.A.N.C.E - Justice

(Finding the “right” playlist to shuffle takes so long because there’s a million…)

Super Furry Animals - Receptacle For The Respectable (What a concept this song. Featuring Paul McCartney as celery chomper on record and Gruff crunching chips live + bonus “pantomime death metal”. Aces)

Gwenno - Eus Keus? (I think the algorithm has found I like Welsh music… this one’s from Gwenno’s Cornish language psychedelic synthpop album and it’s just a song about cheese. Cheese!)

Thanya Iyer - I Forget To Drink Water (chill indie from Montreal. Some of the stuff that slips into my playlists comes from making playlists for radio and I forget about it for a while and then it pops up like this!) (also the next song’s gonna an anime opening my sister listens to isn’t it it’s gonna happen RIP)

Blur - My Terracotta Heart (Canon, Damon is an anime character confirmed, I don’t make the rules) (The Magic Whip is my favourite Blur album though, I’m happy with this!)

Dalek I Love You - Would You Still Love Me (Sometimes I will follow a band purely for their name.)

Gang of Four - Forever Starts Now (Been listening to a LOT of Gang of Four. I miss Andy)

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy (Lmao, I’d forgotten about this song. Gimme that disco lemonade!)

Magazine - The Light Pours Out Of Me (Thanks to this post I’ve finally listened to this song. It’s on Real Life, which is a great album but I never finished it…)

Race Horses - Marged Wedi Blino (I think they split up in 2012. They had a harpist and a twee-looking bassist-singer. I think the song’s name means Marged/Margaret is tired? Good song anyway)

Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Oh, I’m pleased with that! Good way to end!)

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So yeah, I basically ended up doing a mini live-tumblred listen party while getting my ten songs, so cheers for that @pear-pies, I really enjoyed it! (I may also have read “list the first ten songs” as “listen to the first ten songs” but we won’t talk about that)  Honestly, that was so fun I think I’m gonna do this every week anyhow.

(If you’ve seen More Dangerous Songs: And the Banned Played On, you may see a slight pattern that absolutely carries on throughout the rest of the playlist. I’m only disappointed that Glad to be Gay didn’t come up as well).

Fell in Love with a Girl - The White Stripes

Michelle - The Beatles

Cold Cold Cold - Cage the Elephant

You Really Got Me - The Kinks

When the Sun Goes Down- Arctic Monkeys

Setting Sun - Lord Huron

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

Charmless Man - Blur

All Your Dreaming Of - Liam Gallagher

Mull Of Kintyre - Paul McCartney and Wings