#[the hills are alive with the sound of music: soundtrack]

[myriadxofxmuses]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨ p.s you don’t have to answer if you don’t wanna!

Happy

Blind

No Rain

Tourniquet

What's Up

[survivalxofxthexfittest]

Tag dump.

[hellishunicorn]

"He's taken them up into the hills." "Like The Sound of Music."

"Yeah, sure."

Okay, now I'm curious.

How well does Eddie know the sound of music?

Does she just know the lyrics 'the hills are alive with the sound of music'? Does she know the plot of the movie and that it ends with them walking over the mountains even though she hasn't seen it? Has she seen the movie? Was it once when it was on tv when she was sick and had nothing else to do? Does she watch the movie regularly? Does she know the soundtrack? How familiar is Eddie with the sound of music?

[codename-adler]

"nothing is going to be okay" sounds like it's gonna hurt... tell me more.

It's meant to hurt. You and me both.

Adler's PiPs ~ Project: Nothing Is Going to Be Okay

Also known as Adler-toys-with-the-Major-Character-Death-tag. This is an exploration of every universe where Kevin, Andrew and/or Neil do not make it out. Sometimes Kevin dies; sometimes it's Andrew; other times it's Neil. Someone always dies. Doesn't matter if it's Kandreil, Andreil, Kandrew, Kevneil. Sometimes it's because of canon going slightly to the left. Sometimes it's because it's a totally different universe. Every variation is always merciless.

The origins of such a fun project? Music. It all stems from my personal playlist of the saddest soundtracks or instrumental pieces i religiously listen to, which i won't share until i finally get to writing this collection of grief. So far i have 96 pieces on that playlist. Will i write the boys dying 96 times? i doubt it, but each piece represents a universe with a specific scene and vision. sometimes if it's a soundtrack, i put the boys in that universe and kill 'em. sometimes it's the title of the piece that awakes something ugly in me. sometimes it's a combination of words and vibes. the possibilities are endless. the grief is infinite, a loop, inescapable. yes i got mental problems. yes i got meds for it. why do u ask.

Why the fun title? Ask Andrew.

"Your parents are dead, you are not fine, and nothing is going to be okay. This is not news to you. But from now until May you are still Neil Josten and I am still the man who said he would keep you alive. I don't care if you use this phone tomorrow. I don't care if you never use it again. But you are going to keep it on you because one day you might need it. On that day you're not going to run. You're going to think about what I promised you and you're going to make the call. Tell me you understand." (TRK)

Now! Some of the wips in the collection:

So This Is Christmas: based on Happy Xmas (War Is Over) by Gabrielle Aplin, i revisit Neil's days at the Nest and add a few more casualties. the boys take their turn kicking the bucket. this one is multi-chaptered.

fun fact: there are only 3 songs in the playlist that have lyrics: one of them is in an Arabic or Persian language that i do not speak/read, the other two are in English (Happy Xmas + my tears ricochet)

i would also like to note that Gabrielle Aplin's Happy Xmas is part of my aftg soundtrack project where i'm trying to imagine the series as a TV show and assemble music for specific scenes in multi-episodes seasons. this one i imagine playing with slow-motion scenes cutting back-and-forth between Neil's torture in the Nest over the holidays and the Foxes celebrating in NYC. my magnum opus if you will. i'm not even kidding. all my self-confidence is in that divine mission.

Andrew's Farewell: Hunger Games AU. a classic. the song? iykyk. the victim? iykyk.

On the Nature of Day(light): based on the piece by Max Richter (all variations and covers, but i do favor the original and the entropy). canon divergence AU where Kevin also intervenes at the end of TKM, when the Foxes win the Championships and there's the Riko-Neil-Andew showdown. establishing then destroying Kandreil.

Tennessee: based on the Hans Zimmer soundtrack for the film Pearl Harbor. i took inspiration from the title and the music, not the movie. totally war-unrelated. excerpt (Andreil, other Baltimore AU):

"We could go... We could go... to Tennessee..." "There's nothing in Tennessee, Abram." "Exactly..." *shaky pained smile*

Thin Orange Line: based on Journey to the Line by Hans Zimmer & Gavin Greenaway, from the film The Thin Red Line. War AU + Kandrew + Soldier Kevin Day carrying injured/unconscious Soldier Andrew Minyard to safety. only one makes it.

Other inspirations come from the soundtracks of The Last of Us (1 + 2 + HBO show), The Haunting of Bly Manor / Hill House, Max Richter, Hannibal (NBC show), House of the Dragon, Dune (Denis Villeneuve/Hans Zimmer), and many other shows, films, video games and original compositions / composers.

this project is my beloved baby. i remember it being the first push to create since a long while. i know it is very very sad, and that MCD is very rarely liked/read. i'm still invested. maybe i'll try out NaNoWriMo for a 3rd time with this project. i'm not giving up!

thank you anon, from the bottom of my heart, for giving me the opportunity to info-dump and for allowing me to see that i actually have much more figured out than i thought. i'm glad the hurt/no comfort vibe bewitched you.

[blackchantilly]

Was tagged by @rivetgoth to list my nine favorite albums right now. This is going to be some amalgamation of all-time favorites and stuff I've revisited lately with newer (i.e. within the last couple of years) fixations -- neither an exhaustive list nor a snapshot of the specific moment. Here are just some albums I like and have been thinking about!

Public Memory - Elegiac Beat: I know I've been annoying about them lately. I've been a fan since their first album, but when I listened to this album for the first time last fall it was one of those love-at-first-listen moments. Like literally the first few notes gave me intense goosebumps and I knew I was in for a major treat. I adore the ultra-spooky downtempo sound and the dub influences, and I love how so many of the songs flow into each other. The result is extremely cohesive and artfully executed. Favorite song: "Tall in My Room"

1000 Eyes - Duality: This is the newest one I've listened to multiple times. More spooky downtempo stuff, which you will learn is a common theme in my favorites. This one leans more ambient and is mostly instrumental. It exists in the same space as Silent Hill music essentially, which makes sense because 1000 Eyes worked on the soundtrack to the game Signalis -- one of my two favorite survival horror games of the last few years. The only problem is that if I'm not careful I will fall asleep listening to this, haha. Favorite song: "Affirmation of Null"

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife: I saw them live a couple of weeks ago and so I've dusted this one off a couple of times recently. I think most industrial fans would say this is TKK's most popular album. It's nearly perfect; there are only a couple of songs on it that I don't love. Favorite songs: "The Days of Swine and Roses," "Waiting for Mommie"

George Clanton - 100% Electronica: I WILL BE seeing him again this weekend, so we're about to listen to a bunch of George Clanton again! If I had to choose a favorite album of his then I guess this would be it, but Slide is a really really close second. Actually it's almost too close to call. Most would classify him as vaporwave, but I think people who aren't fans of the genre would like him because he mostly just makes pop music that sounds like it's from the '80s and '90s. I wore this album out in 2019 after I had worn out Slide and needed to move on to more of the same. Last time I saw him live I got to meet him, and he was wonderfully charming and funny. Favorite songs: "Bleed," "Warmspot," "Never Late Again"

Sacred Skin - The Decline of Pleasure: Sacred Skin is my new Drab Majesty -- I basically proselytize about them to anyone who will listen, lol. Like I imagine how I feel about certain pop-driven darkwave bands is how Christians feel about Jesus. This album has been out for a couple of years, but I still listen to it maybe once a month or so because it's pretty much flawless. I especially recommend them to fans of Tears for Fears and Duran Duran. Favorite songs: "Far Away," "Alive in the Night"

Drab Majesty - The Demonstration: Ah hell, might as well list them too. Here's another flawless album that I still listen to semi-regularly even though it's seven years old now. When I first listened to them (it was actually the song "The Foyer" that hooked me) I couldn't believe how they sounded so much like an amalgamation of my favorite classic gothy bands -- like if the Cure, Depeche Mode, and Cocteau Twins all collaborated. This is a concept album about the Heaven's Gate cult, for added fun! Favorite song: "Dot in the Sky"

Night Sins - Violet Age: I was listening to this obsessively at the same time I was listening to Sacred Skin obsessively. At the time the closest goth event to me was in Tulsa, which is a fucking nightmare of a 2+ hour drive from where I live, so my favorite thing to do on my way home was queue up this album right after the Sacred Skin album. The association lingers. I've waxed poetic about Night Sins recently so there's no need to restate all of that. I just really love their hooks and how unusually swingy a lot of their songs are. Favorite song: "Corium"

Body of Light - Bitter Reflection: I like a lot of songs from their earlier albums, but their newest release is so good and so consistent. It has a beautiful melancholic and atmospheric vibe that sets it apart. I actually preordered this on vinyl on a whim and was so glad that I did when it finally came out. Favorite song: "Never Ever"

Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman: I'd feel stupid if I didn't include it. This album is 30 years old and is generally lauded by gen X former ravers everywhere. I am a millennial and have never technically been to a rave (unless Happyland Music Fest counts), but I also love it very much. I've been listening to this since 2017 and it's still what I put on when I need to do some mindlessly repetitive work or just need to kill an hour and 12 minutes -- both somewhat common occurrences. A few of their albums are notably excellent, but this will probably always be my favorite. Favorite songs: "Dark & Long," "M.E."

As usual, I will not tag anyone specifically, but do it if you want!

[tastygoldentaters]

listening to the la la land soundtrack and 1) jazz makes me glad I'm still alive and 2) how can music transport you to a specific time and place with just sound? witchcraft and 3) I miss gentle hills, bright sun, and cold rivers

[meme-queen-pumpkin]

RP Prompts - Musical Lyrics

To make this, I hit shuffle on my musical soundtracks playlist and took lyrics from each song that played. Starters under the cut since this may get long.

We Both Reached For The Gun (Chicago)

"When d'ya get here?"

"Don't remember"

"Then what happened"

"He stole my heart away!"

"Oh you poor dear"

"Why'd you shoot him?"

"Was he angry?"

"Did you fight him?"

"She knew that she was doing wrong"

"He came towards me, with a pistol!"

"Yet we both reached for the gun"

"It's perfectly understandable"

"Are you sorry?" "Are you kidding?"

What The World Needs (Ride The Cyclone)

"What the world needs is people like me! To keep it all spinning around!"

"No one's gonna keep me down!"

"These folks here, they just pump the gas"

"Fetch me coffee, shine my shoes"

"Some of us are winners, some are born to lose"

"Keep your head down and things will look up"

"This one here, he's raring to fail"

"Do we really need another zero?"

"What we really need is a futhermucking hero!"

"She's a freaky monster!"

"We need a little less of them, a little more of me!"

You're Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile (Annie)

"You both got your style. But brother you're never fully dressed without a smile"

"Who cares what they're wearing on main street?"

"So long for a while"

Ready Set - Reprise (Beetlejuice the musical)

"We're ghosts, damn it, let's...haunt this b**ch"

"Oblivion calls"

"I'm sure we can haunt our own halls"

"We're ready as we'll ever get"

"I gotta get right outside my comfort zone"

"Ready, set, let's go!"

There Are Worse Things I Could Do (Grease)

"There are worse things I could do"

"Make em think they stand a chance then refuse to see it through"

"That's a thing I'd never do"

"I could hurt someone like me...out of spite or jealousy"

"Throw my life away on a dream that won't come true"

"I don't steal and I don't lie"

"I can feel and I can cry"

"To cry in front of you...that's the worst thing I could do"

You Can't Stop The Beat (Hairspray)

"You can't stop an avalanche as it races down a hill"

"You can try to stop my dancing feet but I just cannot stay still"

"The world keeps spinning around and around"

"I was lost 'til I heard the drums and found my way"

"You can wonder if you wanna but I never ask why"

"You can't stop my happiness 'cause I like the way I am"

"If you don't like the way I look, well, I just don't give a damn"

"Yesterday is history"

No Reason (Beetlejuice the musical)

"The universe is more than just space with no end"

"You're on the right track, I got your back!"

"Think positive!"

"Time to take command, you dictate the hand the universe deals"

"Science makes no sense"

"Everything happens for a reason"

"Be a beacon of light in the world"

"Gee...I hate to break it to you"

"The universe is just the contents of time, matter and space"

"The Earth's a small place where good people die"

"The Pacific Islands are sinking but negative thinking is hardly the cause"

"Sounds like terrible things can happen because the universe is random"

Be Safe, Be Good (Ride The Cyclone cut song)

"I planned to stick around and stay alive"

"To my parents I would listen and obey"

"Be safe, they said, be good."

"Things don't happen quite the way they should"

"I tried my best to toe the line"

"You can cross your Ts and dot your I's but steady yourself for the big surprise"

"Sooner or later you'll realise...its not fair"

"All you can do is buckle in and hang on for the ride"

Not While I'm Around (Sweeney Todd)

"There's nothing I wouldn't do for you"

"What you talking about?"

"Nothing's gonna harm you, not while I'm around"

"I'll send 'em howling. I don't care. I got ways."

"No one's gonna hurt you, no one's gonna dare!"

"Others can desert you, not to worry. Whistle. I'll be there."

"I may not be smart but I ain't dumb"

"Not to worry!"

"Being close and being clever ain't like being true"

"I will never hide a thing from you...like some..."

[spider-droid]

Sometimes you just gotta listen to the Sound of Music soundtrack. The hills are alive with it, you know?

[mosaicc-brokenn-heartss]

some of my playlists for u:

good morning 🌞 - wake up, it’s a beautiful morning.

✨u r the protagonist✨ - the key to survival is to live slow, live fast and feel alive.

vacanza italiano - for daydreaming about vacations with my mafia husband

i wanna be the girl you’re singing about - i always wanted to be one of those girls whose name was a the title of a magical song, so this is a celebration of the it girls in music

hanging out with myself - when you're on your own, in your own space, with your own thoughts and alternating between being okay with that and not.

stars hollow soundtrack ✩ - songs that feel like an autumnal day in stars hollow, a cup of coffee at luke's and falling in love over and over again (how it feels to be a gilmore girl)

summer lovin’ - how it feels to be in love with someone in the endless days of heat.

an ode to friendships that feel warm - for when you find people that feel like sunshine

r e s e t & d e t o x - to clear your head, heart, mind and soul. 

in love with my future - for manifesting and holding onto hope for the idealised dream of being independent, happy and stable

green fingers 🌿 - a playlist for gardening, planting and watering... to help my plants grow, feel loved and safe.

wes anderson sounds - (music from: bottle rocket, rushmore, the royal tenenbaums, the life aquatic with steve zissou, the darjeeling limited, fantastic mr. fox, moonrise kingdom, the grand budapest hotel, isle of dogs, the french dispatch)

❁ ghibli ❁ - “Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.”

cottagecore 🍄 - looking for faeries and picking fruit

what if we hold hands and lay in a field of wild flowers? 🌸 - (plural noun): a flower of an uncultivated variety or a flower growing freely without human intervention. // romantic picnic bitch energy

little adventures - for all of life's mini adventures: supermarket trips, museums, getting lost in the countryside, taking detours, walking down quiet streets... climbing, exploring, taking it all in.

young, free and running wild - you'll never be this young again. you are free to be whoever you need to be. you can explore. you're filled with premature nostalgia for the moments you are currently living. you love the things and people around you with all of your being. 

to the seaside - the air is easier to breathe here. 

sunset songs - tunes for when the sun goes down. time to unwind and process the day.

your eyes meet across the room - you've never seen them before and don't know their name but you want to find out every secret they've ever had. you'd spend the rest of the night at their side. the colour of their eyes is your new favourite shade.

rooftop euphoria - let's climb up as high as this city can take us and look down at the world beneath us. let's remember how small we are and find some comfort in it.

the days when the sadness is quiet - it's never gone, not really, but some days your heart feels overwhelmingly lighter, and it's easier to find the light.

classics that make me feel something - songs you can't remember actually learning the lyrics to, that set your soul on fire.

i’m in love with al pacino! - my heart belongs to johnny, sonny, bobby, tony, arthur and michael

burnt out gifted kid energy - i was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere

political angst - make your voice heard. fight with everything you have. don’t let them stop your power.

you + me in the backseat - in the backseat of the car. your soundtrack drowns out anything but your feelings. fire burns inside you.

lullabiezzz - songs to fall asleep to

memory lane - walking hand in hand through the past. for nostalgia and remembering it all too well.

hometown nostalgia - you know every street corner. you remember everything and everyone you loved here.

the end of the world - the sun is rising over the hill for the last time. you don't have enough hands to hold everyone. all of the hate you once had doesn't matter anymore. you cling onto the memories and take a deep breath.

slow mornings with you - warmth seeping through the curtains. knowing you have nowhere to be. before toothpaste. stillness. contentment. being with your person.

oh no, i’m in love - the penny has dropped

stay close to me - for the kind of love you hope stays forever. for the kind of love you never want to put down. 

we’re driving into the sunset and your hand is on my knee - the wind is in your hair. the streets are empty. the radio is too loud. all you know is that you're in love with the person in the seat beside you. 

growing pains - time isn't stopping and we're all getting too old and our youth is slipping away

dissociation station // music to switch off to - wondering how you'll ever have the strength to rejoin the world around you.

slow dancing in the kitchen - barefoot in the kitchen, swaying with hips pressed together, noses brushing, comforted by each other's laughs, soft singing voices and declarations of happiness at being close to the other person.

rainy daze - rainy days and mondays always get me down

longing for escape - take my hand. we’ve been stuck for too long. let's get out of this town. we won't look back.

under the stars ✧ - come sit with me. we'll trace constellations in the sky.

ravenclaw common room - "Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, where those of wit and learning, will always find their kind."

sneaking out to meet you at midnight - the thrill of climbing out the window, making you way to your secret hiding place, and having a person to pour all your romanticism into, waiting for you. 

end of love - you're unsure how or why you got here, but now it's over and you can't stop feeling.

eternal - (adjective: eternal; noun: Eternal): lasting or existing forever; without end.

ethereal goddess shit 🌙 - pov: you are an ethereal goddess and everything you touch and embody is magic.

touch starved <3 - sexy shit...

eiffel for you - a french summer. you drink coffee and eat a pastry at a café. beautiful women and couples in love stroll by. the air is crisp and sweet. 

new city, big dreams - a place just for you. boxes of your past life surround you. a new life awaiting. your look out at the city. it's been waiting for you.

dreamy turner ♡ - pov: you've been in love with alex turner for over a decade

bookstore daze 📚 - bibliophile (noun): a person who collects or has a great love of books.

instrumentals - // for reading and writing and studying // (classical, ghibli, wes anderson, disney, romance, cinema)

let’s feel things 🍷 (a playlist for drinking red wine) - songs for late night wine drunk dancing, tears and feelings. 

i’d do it all over again - a million times over without regret.

witching hour 🕯- for all your witching hour needs.

the last train - for those half-awake train journeys

great space race 🪐 - let's take a rocketship to space.

coffee breath - you can tell a lot about a person from the way they take their coffee.

meloncholia - my sadness is sending me into the abyss (this is a mess but it's all the songs that make me feel sad)

‘isn’t it too dreamy?’ - twin peaks inspired // (mostly for audrey horne, the love of my life, my bisexual awakening)

seething 👿 - when your blood boils

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[brian-in-finance]

Director Kenneth Branagh. Credit: Gareth Cattermole

And so it begins. With less than a month until its UK and Ireland release, Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast has been shortlisted for two Academy Awards.

The mainly black-and-white film, starring Jamie Dornan, Caitriona Balfe and Jude Hill, made the shortlist in two categories — original song, for Van Morrison’s Down to Joy, and sound.

The shortlists for 10 categories were announced on Wednesday.

As well as the two in which Belfast got a nod, the categories include documentary feature, international film, animated, live action, documentary shorts, make-up and hairstyling, score and visual effects.

Academy members will now view the pieces of work before voting on which ones should receive nominations.

Of course, the biggies won’t be announced until February 8, when we’ll find out if the film, its stars and writer/director make the cut.

But that’s not to detract from the first-round contenders. To be shortlisted in sound and original song categories for the Academy Awards is still a huge achievement.

Van Morrison (David Jensen/PA)

Down to Joy, which plays over the opening credits, was written specifically for the movie by Morrison and has already been nominated for a Golden Globe.

The original song shortlist is a tough category though, loaded with big-name stars from the music world.

Morrison is up against the likes of Beyonce (Be Alive), Jay-Z (Guns Go Bang), Ariana Grande (Just Look Up) and U2 (Your Song Saved My Life). Billie Eilish’s Bond theme No Time to Die is also in there and is a shoo-in for an Oscar nod.

But Morrison could still do it. He might have been making headlines this year for branding Health Minister Robin Swann “dangerous”, but he still knows how to write a fine tune or two.

If Morrison is nominated, all eyes will then turn to the February talent nods to see if Branagh, Dornan and Ciaran Hinds get a mention.

There’s a strong possibility that all four Belfast men (Dornan’s from Holywood, but let’s not split hairs) could find themselves in the running for an Academy Award.

Now wouldn’t that be something?

Van Morrison has been shortlisted for an Oscar for the opening song of Sir Kenneth Branagh’s semi-autobiographical film Belfast.

The Belfast-born artist contributed nine songs to the soundtrack and has now been shortlisted in the Best Original Song category for the 94th Academy Awards ceremony next year for the original song Down to Joy.

It will go up against U2’s Your Song Saved My Life from Sing 2, Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die from the James Bond film of the same name, and Beyonce’s Be Alive from King Richard, which are all nominated in the same category.

Judi Dench as Granny, Jude Hill as Buddy and Ciaran Hinds as Pop in director Kenneth Branagh's Belfast

Beyonce, Billie Eilish

The 76-year-old singer has already been nominated for a Golden Globe for the same song.

Branagh previously said that Morrison has an “uncanny feel” for the city of Belfast, which is reflected in the musical score he composed, with electric piano and saxophone to the fore.

“We met a few times and he read the screenplay and was very interesting about it. He seems to recognise much in it,” Branagh told Screen Daily in October.

“It has a very moody, jazzy quality that is behind the haunting music of memory that he seems to provide.

“And he wrote a new song for the film, which is the song that opens the film, called Down to Joy,” he added.

“I found him an artist to his fingertips. You had to say little to him before already he was running with an idea of his own.”

Morrison isn’t the only Northern Irish musician to feature in the film Belfast.

The film also has a song from Ruby Murray, described by Branagh as “our Doris Day” and as the woman who “subsequently gave her name to the slang for [curry]”.

The film, which tells the coming-of-age story of ‘Buddy during the Troubles’, has been met with critical acclaim all over the world, tipped for numerous awards and nominations.

It has already scooped a People’s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival back in September and is currently nominated for seven Golden Globes and is tipped for a nomination for the award of Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards.

Cast members Jamie Dornan, Ciaran Hinds and Caitriona Balfe are also all shortlisted for accolades. Hinds and Dornan play father (Pop) and son (Pa) in the film, partly based on Branagh’s years growing up in Belfast.

Caitriona Balfe, who plays Ma, was nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in the Golden Globes. Belfast is a poignant story of love, laughter and loss in one boy’s childhood, amid the social and political tumult of the late 1960s.

Branagh wrote the script during lockdown as a cinematic ode to the city he left behind as a child, when rising sectarian tensions and economic opportunities prompted his parents to relocate to England.

Belfast is already on release in the US and opens in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on January 21, 2022.

Both No Time To Die and Dune led the field in the first round of films shortlisted for the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, with both films shortlisted for four categories after 10 were announced on Tuesday.

The 94th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 27 and will be televised live on ABC and in more than 200 territories worldwide.

Remember… if Morrison is nominated, all eyes will then turn to the February talent nods to see if Branagh, Dornan and Ciarán Hinds get a mention. There’s a strong possibility that all four Belfast men (Dornan’s from Holywood, but let’s not split hairs) could find themselves in the running for an Academy Award. Now wouldn’t that be something? — Belfast Telegraph

[jaimehwatson]

I made another Snowpiercer playlist!

After posting my Wilford/Audrey playlist a while ago, I added some songs that didn’t quite make the cut to a different playlist, intending to put together another similar one. But rather than focusing on just one ship this time, I also ended up getting really interested in theorizing about what Wilford’s relationship with Melanie might have been like before the Freeze, and exploring the idea that maybe there was something going on there and some kind of love triangle with Audrey.

So here’s my new playlist, full of absolute jams that could apply to any combination of relationships involving Wilford, Audrey, and Melanie, and/or just general Snowpiercer vibes! Read on for more detail about the songs I selected, and as before, content warning for references to canon abuse & self-harm/suicide.

1. “The Tradition” by Halsey

Oh, the loneliеst girl in town Was bought for plenty a price Well, they dress her up in golden crowns His smile hides a lie

She smiles back, but it's a fact That her fear will eat her alive Well, she got the life that she wanted But now all she does is cry

Thanks @onetrainsnowpiercer​ for getting me into this excellent album! I thought it would be fitting to kick off the playlist with one that could suit the earlier days of Wilford’s relationship with Audrey, like my previous playlist was more focused on.

2. “cardigan” by Taylor Swift

'Cause I knew you Steppin' on the last train Marked me like a bloodstain, I

I knew you Tried to change the ending Peter losing Wendy, I

I knew you Leavin' like a father Running like water, I And when you are young, they assume you know nothing

Did you think I would make a Snowpiercer playlist without Taylor Swift on it? Not a chance. I picture this one being more from Melanie’s perspective, reflecting on possibly having had some kind of ill-fated romance with Wilford when she was young and naive.

3. “No Children” by The Mountain Goats

I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow I hope it bleeds all day long Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises We're pretty sure they're all wrong

I hope it stays dark forever I hope the worst isn't over And I hope you blink before I do And I hope I never get sober

The only reason this perennial favourite of mine wasn’t on the first playlist was that I had too many Mountain Goats songs already and wanted to keep things balanced. But this one got all the ones that didn’t make it to the first playlist plus some more I thought about later, so I’m kind of giving up on that balance by now. They just have a lot of great songs about terrible relationships, and I love them all so much.

4. “Gold Guns Girls” by Metric

I remember when we were gambling to win Everybody else said, "Better luck next time." I don't wanna bend like the bad girls bend I just wanna be your friend Is it ever gonna be enough?

This is another one that I can picture being about young Melanie, gradually growing more aware of everything that’s terribly wrong with Wilford and his approach to life, and of how little he cares to try to fix it.

5. “You’ve Haunted Me All My Life” by Death Cab for Cutie

And there's a flaw in my heart's design For I keep trying to make you mine

You've haunted me all my life You've haunted me all my life You are the mistress I can't make a wife And you've haunted me all my life

And this one I can see being Wilford thinking about either one of the women, and his unhealthy attachment to them and inability to keep them around for very long—maybe once he’s finally reunited with them both on some level in season 2, but still can’t fully persuade them both over to his side.

6. “Old College Try” by The Mountain Goats

From the cities to the swamplands From the highways to the hills Our love has never had a leg to stand on From the aspirins to the cross-tops to the Elavils

But I will walk down to the end with you If you will come all the way down with me

Another Mountain Goats classic. If you divorce it from its context of being from a concept album about a horrible marriage, I actually think this song is kind of sweet in the way it describes a couple still committing to try to make things work despite a whole host of problems. But never mind that now, because I’m putting it back in the new context of a whole collection of horrible romantic relationships!

7. “Risk” by Metric

So you're beaten up but you bounce back It’s all part of the pull And the story runs like a soundtrack We repeat 'til we're full Started slow, started late Started strong, then we lost faith Started slow, started to lose control The more we accelerate, the more we accelerate

Half of arranging any playlist I make is just trying to split up the Mountain Goats and Metric songs so that they aren’t always clumped together. Anyway, this one seems especially fitting to me in its imagery of a speeding vehicle of some kind (it’s a train, I’m always picturing a train) alongside its description of a relationship going badly.

8. “Big God” by Florence + The Machine

You know I still like you the most The best of the best and the worst of the worst Well, you can never know The places that I go I still like you the most You'll always be my favourite ghost

I think this one could be any one of the three of them contemplating their complex feelings about the past at some point around season 2.

9. “I Still Do” by The Cranberries

I don't want to leave you Even though I have to I don't want to love you Oh, I still do

There aren’t as many specifics that match the characters going on in the lyrics here, since it’s more of just a general break-up song, but I also really like the creepy way it sounds.

10. “Fault Lines” by The Mountain Goats

But none of the money we spend Seems to do us much good in the end I got a cracked engine block, both of us do

Yeah, the house and the jewels, the Italian racecar They don't make us feel better about who we are I got termites in the framework, so do you

This one feels really fitting for pre-Freeze Wilford, especially the engine imagery!

11. “I Don’t Care” by Fall Out Boy

Say my name and his in the same breath I dare you to say they taste the same Let the leaves fall off in the summer And let December glow in flames

Erase myself and let go Start it over again in Mexico These friends, they don't love you They just love the hotel suites

Another song that is simply a) an absolute jam, and b) generally fitting for my favourite obscenely rich asshole and his terrible relationships

12. “You asked for this” by Halsey

I want my cake on a silver platter I want a fistful in my hands I want a beautiful boy's despondent laughter I wanna ruin all my plans I want a fist around my throat I wanna cry so hard, I choke I want everything I asked for

This one I can picture as Audrey—or maybe Melanie too, but especially Audrey—beginning to regret getting involved with Wilford, but only once she’s in way too deep for leaving to be a safe or easy decision.

13. “my tears ricochet” by Taylor Swift

And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake? Cursing my name, wishing I stayed Look at how my tears ricochet

Much like several other Taylor Swift songs, I just know in my heart that it’s the type of music Wilford listens to in secret, while possibly drunk and definitely singing along very dramatically. This one he dedicates to Melanie once they’ve met up again in season 2.

14. “Speed the Collapse” by Metric

All the way from where we came Built a mansion in a day Distant lightning, thunder claps Watched our neighbor's house collapse Looked the other way

This one has a lot of good apocalyptic imagery that I can imagine scoring Wilford’s life in the last few years before the Freeze, as he makes his plans to save himself and let so many others die.

15. “Ox Baker Triumphant” by The Mountain Goats

I will thank my ride and crawl my way back inside To the guts of the building where my enemies Hide in the dark like roaches And I will signal the camera crew and everyone will do What he's been trained how to do Sweat dripping from my face as my moment approaches

Click your heels, count to three I bet you never expected me A little worse for wear Practically walking on air

I love this song a lot, and listening to it lately makes me imagine Wilford plotting his revenge while on his way to catch up with Snowpiercer before the end of season 1.

16. “Firewood” by Regina Spektor

The piano is not firewood yet But the cold does get cold So it soon might be that I'll take it apart, call up my friends And we'll warm up our hands by the fire

Don't look so shocked Don't judge so harsh You don't know You’re only spying Everyone knows it's going to hurt But at least we'll get hurt trying

This has to be one of my favourite songs of all time. It’s very beautiful, and I love the piano in it. I’ve always personally interpreted it to be at least partially about someone surviving a suicide attempt, and the overall imagery about burning a piano for warmth—and this bit about not judging someone for doing that—reads to me as more of a general statement about the difficult choices people struggling with mental illness and other similar issues have to make to survive. I listened to it recently and I could picture Audrey singing it in the nightcar. I think it suits her well.

17. “Cry for Judas” by The Mountain Goats

But I am just a broken machine And I do things that I don't really mean Long, black night Morning frost I'm still here But all is lost

I think the imagery of this song suits the show a lot in general, but I can also particularly imagine it being Wilford in a rare moment of self-awareness about how much damage he’s caused to the world and the people around him.

18. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide” by David Bowie

Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth You pull on your finger, then another finger, then your cigarette The wall-to-wall is calling, it lingers, then you forget Oh oh, oh, oh, you're a rock 'n' roll suicide

I love Wilford a lot. I don’t want anything bad to happen to him ever. I hope he kills more people, and I hope he gets his train back, and I hope he wins. But if he does eventually die in the show, I hope he’s found in the bathtub with there being some ambiguity about whether he really killed himself or whether one of his victims turned the tables on him, and I hope the climax of this song swells as the camera pans over his dead body. That’s the only Wilford death I will accept, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

19. “Source Decay” by The Mountain Goats

I park in an alley And I read through the postcards you continue to send Where as indirectly as you can, you ask what I remember I like these torture devices from my old best friend Well, I'll tell you what I know, like I swore I always would I don't think it's gonna do you any good I remember the train headed south out of Bangkok Down toward the water

Okay, I promise this is the last Mountain Goats song on the playlist. It’s just—it’s perfect. It has a train in it. And on the podcast “I Only Listen To The Mountain Goats,” John Darnielle commented that there’s barely anywhere you can go south of Bangkok before you hit the water, it’s a train going nowhere, it’s so good. It’s also one of the songs I’ve previously ripped a line off for my fanfiction titles!

20. “Sellers of Flowers” by Regina Spektor

The sellers of flowers Buy up old roses They pull off dead petals Like old heads of lettuce And sell ’em as new ones For cheaper and fairer But they die by the morning So who is the winner? Not the roses Not the buyers Not the sellers Maybe winter

And Regina Spektor closes out the playlist again! This song is another one I picked more on imagery and vibes than anything else. But since it’s about a young child in a world that seems to be moving inexorably toward an all-consuming winter, if it suits any of the characters, maybe it’s an appearance of Alex here at the end!

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy the playlist!

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what kind of music the zls characters listen to

Sakura

-she has a pop playlist that she shares with Ai full of music from when they were alive that they collab on and it’s like 15 hours long

-sis 100% listens to taylor swift and you cannot convince me otherwise

-basically anything she hears on the radio, she dgaf who the artist is as long as it makes dopamine go brrr

-she a lil basic but that’s okay :)

-also she probably loves video game soundtracks just cuz they’re calming

Saki

-really anything as long as it sounds like Bad Bitch music that she can scream to

-all i can say is CORPSE

-she’d be OBSESSED with him

-also she listens to the holy emo trinity

-probably has their entire discographies memorized too smh

-she and tae have a screamo playlist together and they like to S C R E A M

Ai

-she and Sakura share a playlist full of pop from the early 2000s but she doesn’t use it nearly as much as Sakura does

-listened to mcr back in the good old days of mcr and went to a few of their concerts

-an og miku stan

-her music taste is pretty much all over the place but it’s all usually from the time she was alive

-she doesn’t really like newer music a lot but she has exceptions for anything scenecore because once again, scene ai is the best head canon and i will die on that hill

Junko

-pianos

-basically just classical music and really calm stuff

-she found mxmtoon and loves mxmtoon now

-she only has two playlists and one’s just mxmtoon and other really calming stuff and the other is Pianos

-not an avid music listener, she really only listens to yugiri play the shamisen bc yunko

Lily

-she mostly just listens to ariana grande and taylor swift n stuff like that

-she and Sakura definitely go to taylor swift concerts together

-but aside from that???

-baby shark. she literally has a playlist of nothing but baby shark

-she probably has a whole playlist of songs she found from gacha life music videos and honestly so did i back in The Days

Yugiri

-she doesn’t really get the concept of technology but she tries her best

-she has no playlists she just follows junko to listen to her playlists bc she can’t figure out how to make playlists poor bb

-but someone (probably lily) definitely showed her some shamisen tutorial videos on youtube and now she spends hours practicing junko’s favorite songs

-also she likes video game soundtracks and follows Sakura’s video game music playlist

Tae

-death metal

-need i say more?

-she loves to SCREAM to the music

-and also she likes crab rave bc it make brain go brrr :)

-anything with a weird beat and lots of loudness is her vibeeee

Kotaro

-he has no time for music

-except for Franchouchou’s discography

-he has all their songs on spotify and it’s literally the only thing he listens to so he can get the money you make from spotify lmao

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Dale Berning - The Horse Stories - another gorgeous new age/ambient release from Flau Records, this one a reissue of a 2006 soundtrack commissioned by the Hayward Gallery

At the top of a carpeted staircase in a Georgian country home a blue wooden rocking horse stands completely still in front of a closed window with a view out onto the green hills and trees and fields beyond. A child rides a stationary wooden horse and travels to faraway places without ever leaving the security of his room. The movement of a rocking horse is similar to that of a cradle, or a swing, or a lullaby. Its about being quiet, its about balance, its about being at home and thinking of elsewhere. The Horse Stories is a collection of soundtracks by Dale Berning. All tracks were originally compossed for Hiraki Sawa’s film Going Places Titting Down, commissioned by the Hayward Gallery and Bloomberg London, for Waterloo Sunset, the Dan Graham Pavilion at the Hayward in November 2004. It is a piece about make-believe journeys to far-away places (at the tips of your fingers, between the cracks in the floor at your feet, on the edge and behind the door, right here where you are, close-by…). These tracks are released as The Horse Stories on vinyl on Bo’Weavil Recordings in 2006.

For the soundtrack dale used sounds belonging to the country house and garden in which Sawa filmed – water running in the upstairs bathroom; rain water dripping on the stones outside the kitchen door, sparkling water in a glass on the table, the wind-chime and the clock and the record player… And then the sounds of music boxes being played – one elaborate antique music-box with bells the shape of bees and a miniature hollow drum, and other simple music boxes, playing only one tune each, tiny naked metallic combs and drums and handles. At the core of all Dale Berning’s sound work lies a deep interest in ideas of aliveness, of space and the awareness of time passing, of breathing and being still and of listening. And of the possibility of grace.

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snag

i stopped listening to music during the pandemic. i needed to hear voices talking instead, needed to feel as though i were in conversation, as though i weren’t three stories up in a studio apartment, day in, day out, alone.

this list is not very long, but it’s important to me: albums I have loved this past year or so. the sounds that have helped bring me back to life.

Glass Animals - Dreamland 

Liking Glass Animals feels so basic and non-ironic but here I am, loving every single one of their albums and listening to each late into the hot los angeles night.

Ela Minus - Acts of Rebellion

Even though I haven’t been to a club in years, this album reminds me of Mexico City and its pulsing brilliant youth scene. I want to speak Spanish fluently, I want to dance in scuffed shoes at 3am in a secret room.

Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher 

Soundtrack to my Christmastime. I know every word by heart. Phoebe who sings of Los Angeles, who gave voice to my melancholia. I listen to this and allow snippets of memory to surface - the Chinese Garden at the Huntington, the giant agave outside Erica’s AirBnB in Sherman Oaks, the drive through Culver City on the 10 West, looking down at all the strip malls and billboards and busted out cars with the brilliant sky stretching above us to the ocean - 

Waxahatchee - Saint Cloud 

Michelle was right, she does look like me. An eerie thing to watch her sing with my face. Listening to this alone in my studio apartment in lockdown, feeling that within me there is power and poetry. And also I just like that folksy white girl singer songwriter shit.

Aldous Harding - Party 

This album makes me feel like something left behind in a haunted house, and speaks to the creepy broken thing that lives within me, and needs a voice.

Lala Lala - The Lamb 

This will be my first live concert since the culling. I remember listening to this in the car at 11 PM going to pick up my birth control from the 24-hour Kaiser before we left for New York the next day. I remember too the drive to Laguna Beach where I met Nick’s aunt for the first time in her fairytale cottage on the hill, overgrown with flowers and herbs, paint supplies and fancy teas - the two cats climbing up and down the slope.

Doja Cat - Planet Her 

Never doesn’t hit. My first few months in New York. She is just the fucking shit.

Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 

I finally got into this album recently, when Nick was gone for a week and I was a feral creature eating with my hands and speaking to animals. Beware, this album is a drug and you won’t be able to stop living inside of it for a long, long time. It's also fire for a workout.

Caroline Polachek - Pang

This is my favorite album of all time today. Reimagine pop music as poetry. Sing the songs of breaking out, of burrowing. I’ve listened to this so much I feel like I know her, and it’s hard to translate out of it back into my home space.

Tom Odell - monsters 

I was not in the mood for sad boy songs but actually this shit speaks something real and brutal and glorious, and makes the whole world come alive when it is after work and you are walking fast towards the skyscrapers under a late September sunset.