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HH Playlist: “I care, but I don’t care”
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Playlist by Stolley

Spotify HTTP URL: http://open.spotify.com/user/124859612/playlist/34GpoeGyNPBSLASDic4orJ

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  1. Richard Wagner, Die Walküre
    Easily Wagner’s most recognizable orchestral work; some sound to go with the “Artwork of the Future” reading for today.
  2. Hans Zimmer, Dream is Collapsing
    I’m a classically trained musician & I started college as a music major. Hans Zimmer is one of my fav composers today. Very Wagnerian.
  3. Dimmu Borgir, Progenies of the great apocalypse
    Metal is my desert-island music, I think. And I’m nuts for many of its subgenres, including symphonic black metal.
  4. EPMD feat. Redman, Method Man, & Lady Luck, Symphony 2000 As luck would have it, EPMD’s latest album mixes orchestral samples with hip-hop. Bonus points for featuring Redman & Method Man.
  5. LL Cool J, Cheesy Rat Blues
    I love the old-school hip-hop: turntables and MCs over autotune choruses and overproduced rappers.
  6. Beastie Boys, Ok
    From the Beastie Boys’ last album before MCA’s (Adam Yauch) untimely death from cancer. Has an amazing line about cellphone use.
  7. Cake, No Phone
    Here’s a song for Clay Shirky: ditching devices as a personal choice. Musically, I love how Cake’s riff here echoes turntable-based hip-hop.
  8. Devo, Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
    That’s not to say I don’t like electronic music. Devo’s pioneering use of synths and offbeat sense of humor shines on this 1978 track.
  9. Nine Inch Nails, Copy of A
    Trent Reznor has said he worships Devo. This track features an analog synth called the Swarmatron, which TR used in The Social Network.
  10. St Vincent, Digital Witness
    Offbeat meets guitars and synths alike in a song about digitally shared life: “If I can’t show it, you can’t see me.”
  11. The Flaming Lips, Race for the Prize
    No good transition here, other than Wayne Coyne has said that the recording studio is his instrument. And it’s a song about scientists.
  12. Prince, PLECTRUMELECTRUM
    Like Coyne, Prince is a genius. I love his return to killing it with the guitar, backed by an all-female band on Plectrumelectrum...
  13. Led Zeppelin, The Ocean
    ...although the riff on PLECTRUMELECTRUM sounds an awful lot like a song by one of the world’s biggest bands.
  14. Rush, Working Man
    I play just enough electric bass to be dangerous. Geddy Lee is the bass-playing frontman of my favorite band of all time. OF ALL TIME.
  15. Tom Waits, Chicago Tom Waits didn’t fit anywhere else in this list. But he’s in the genius category with Coyne & Prince, but is way, way weirder.
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