#murderbot playlist

Murderbot Season 1 Mood

Freedom - Homecoming Live (Beyoncé)

Planet Zero (Shinedown)

PSYCHO (DREAMDNVR, Boy In Space)

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Miley Cyrus)

Attention Attention (Shinedown)

Asking for It (Shinedown)

Surveillance State (XTREMETEAM)

Message Man (Twenty One Pilots)

Head in the Clouds (NerdOut)

Blinding (Florence + The Machine)

Beautiful Colors - from Kaiju No. 8 (OneRepublic)

Lethal Weapon (ICE-T)

Purple (MandoPony)

Guilty (Gravity Kills)

You Don't Look at Me the Same (Great Good Fine Ok, Yoke Lore)

Fairly Local (Twenty One Pilots)

Raise Hell (Dorothy)

Even If It Kills Me (Papa Roach)

Falling (Cryoshell)

Do Not Panic (Shinedown)

ARTIFICIAL (Daughtry)

Imagine - Remastered 2010 (John Lennon)

Icarus (Christabelle Marbun)

READY (Montaigne)

It's My Life (Bon Jovi)

Putting this playlist together and following Gurathin's story from the beginning reminded me, things do get better. I can also personally attest to that. For the first time in a while, I'm going to bed at night looking forward to waking up in the morning and being where I am. There are still difficulties and things I can't control, but they're mostly just the problems I was already carrying with me or problems I'd be facing under any circumstances. And my environment has changed, I have much better support, and I'm adjusting to the feeling of being safe in a new way.

It took me years of struggling and small steps to get here, but I'm making real progress, and I'm starting to really feel it. I hope that wherever you're at right now, this playlist can help remind you that it's never too late for things to get better, and often it happens in gradual steps and in ways you didn't predict.

Also, if you're looking for some encouragement for trauma or addiction recovery, you might like to follow the blog "Use Your Damn Skills" by Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle. He gives very practical advice that always helps me put things in perspective and focus on what's important.

Tracklist:

Gurathin Mixtape (Murderbot Season 1)

Choker (Twenty One Pilots)

Mad World (Tears for Fears)

INVISIBLE (Duran Duran)

Restless Heart Syndrome (Green Day)

Morph (Twenty One Pilots)

Bad Decisions (Bastille)

Popular Monster (Falling In Reverse)

Heavydirtysoul (Twenty One Pilots)

Gentle With Me (Carla Wehbe)

Footsteps (Pop Evil)

No Air (feat. Chris Brown) (Jordin Sparks, Chris Brown)

Tear in My Heart (Twenty One Pilots)

Jumpsuit (Twenty One Pilots)

Doubt (Twenty One Pilots)

Enemy (with JID) - from the series Arcane League of Legends (Imagine Dragons, JID)

Killing Fields (Shinedown)

Foreign Object (The Mountain Goats)

I Was Wrong (Social Distortion)

Download (WalkJog)

I See You (MISSIO)

Somewhere Safe (Nate Traveller)

1) These playlists are "living documents" and subject to further tweaks. Season 1 obviously isn't finished yet, and regardless, I still edit my "finished" playlists as I discover new songs, find ones that fit better, decide one doesn't actually work well, etc. I also do my best to make them generally enjoyable for most people, but I am but one person with one person's music taste, so take that as you will.

2) Since the plot for 'Murderbot' Season 1 overlaps with the plot for 'All Systems Red,' my TV playlist for Murderbot has most of the same songs as the beginning of my Murderbot Diaries playlist, "Murderbot Mood." (That one is linked in my pinned post if you want to check it out.) However, I've also added and changed a couple songs in both playlists, so there's something new even if you've listened before. Some of the songs are based on things that will probably happen by the end of Season 1 based on All Systems Red, so spoilerish alert?

3) Much of the Gurathin playlist is Twenty One Pilots songs. This is on purpose, and partly because "Jumpsuit" was the song that inspired the playlist. (It has a line in the middle that— well, I'll let you listen and find out *grins evilly*.) It's also partly because when I was getting my latest autoimmune flare under control, there were a few days when I was in too much pain to do anything besides lie in bed and listen to comfortable music, and I ended up listening to Twenty One Pilots' "Blurryface" album on repeat. During that time, I realized their music is punk as hell, I relate to it on a deep level, and a lot of it also sounded like Gurathin and/or Murderbot.

(We could also discuss the fact that I "discovered" most of their music fairly recently, because "Blurryface" came out while I was attending a hyperconservative religious college that severely restricted the music we could listen to (and restricted when women students and teachers were allowed to wear pants). But that's a whole other post about "things I laugh about now because looking back they were kinda fucked up.")

4) I've seen a few fun-looking Murderbot song recs and playlists come across my dashboard which I didn't have the energy to check out at the time (see above autoimmune flare and moving). I'm absolutely open to suggestions and recommendations for my playlists, as long as your feelings won't be hurt if I decide not to include them. I was given really good suggestions which I added to my Murderbot Mood playlist last time, and at least one song on there I discovered through another fan playlist. So feel free to comment on this post if you have any songs you'd like to suggest. You're also more than welcome to add any songs from my playlists to your playlists (this might be a given but I'll say it just to be sure).

Okay, I think that's it! Now for the playlists!

Murderbot Season 1 Mood:

Gurathin Mood: