In my other novel in progress, the protagonist dies at the beginning of the story but sticks around afterward to narrate.
(Themes of this book include mother-daughter love & struggle; sisterly love & struggle; forgiveness; alternative subculture; being “in the closet” financially; green burial; composting.)
The protagonist has a song playlist that serves her as a memory catalog of her adoloscent years 11-17. It’s actually IRL my playlist, which serves me in that way. Songs that were popular on the radio during those times. It even helps me clarify between if something happened in the fall, summer, winter, or spring of the given year.
Note, it’s not perfect; my memory at some points is foggy. It’s a huge asset though, and it brings me joy to be able to call up old feelings and smells/atmospheres of rooms, and just how certain times felt.
How about any of you? Do you do this too? Or have something similar?
I actually used to have this playlist on Spotify, but it disappeared the way things do sometimes when your old laptop dies and you go for awhile without getting a new (used) one and can’t necessarily access old apps / accounts once you try again.
Anyway, here is the playlist.
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In my other novel in progress, the protagonist dies at the beginning of the story but sticks around afterward to narrate.
(Themes of this book include mother-daughter love & struggle; forgiveness; alternative subculture; being “in the closet” financially; green burial; composting.)
The protagonist has a song playlist that serves her as a memory catalog of her adoloscent years 11-17. It’s actually IRL my playlist, which serves me in that way. Songs that were popular on the radio during those times. It even helps me clarify between if something happened in the fall, summer, winter, or spring of the given year.
Note, it’s not perfect; my memory at some points is foggy. It’s a huge asset though, and it brings me joy to be able to call up old feelings and smells/atmospheres of rooms, and just how certain times felt.
How about any of you? Do you do this too? Or have something similar?
I actually used to have this playlist on Spotify, but it disappeared the way things do sometimes when your old laptop dies and you go for awhile without getting a new (used) one and can’t necessarily access old apps / accounts once you try again.
Anyway, here is the playlist.
11-17 playlist
Horse with no name – America
Ventura Highway – America
We May Never Pass This Way Again – Seals & Crofts
Me and Mrs. Jones – Billy Paul
Midnight at the Oasis – Maria Muldaur
Rollin Me Down the Highway – Jim Croce
Summer Breeze – Seals & Crofts
Jazzman – Carole King
It’s too late – Carole King
I Saw the Light – Todd Rundgren and Carole King
Hello it’s me – Todd Rundgren
Brandi you’re a fine girl – Looking Glass
Time in a bottle – Jim Croce
Fly Robin Fly – Silver Convention
TSOP – MFSB
Corazon – Carole King
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Partridge Family
My Maria – BW Stevenson
Saturday in the Park – Chicago
I’ve Been Searching So Long – Chicago
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
What Is Life? – George Harrison
Don’t let the Sun go down on me – Elton John
It’s too late to turn back now – Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
My love – Paul McCartney and wings
Pillow talk – Sylvia
Saturday in the Park – Chicago
Just You ‘N Me – Chicago
Sunshine of my life – Stevie Wonder
Don’t worry about a thing – Stevie Wonder
Ain’t no woman like the one I’ve got – four tops
Until you come back to me – Aretha Franklin
Listen what the Man Said – Paul McCartney & Wings
Kodachrome – Paul Simon
Band on the run – Paul McCartney
Jet – Paul McCartney & Wings
Fire and Rain – James Taylor
Don’t Rock the Boat – Hues Corporation
Brandy – Looking Glass
Philadelphia freedom – Elton John
Changes – David Bowie
Mandy – Barry Manilow
Fight the power – Isley brothers
Pick up the pieces – Average White Band
Living for the city – Stevie Wonder
Black water – Doobie Brothers
Let it ride – bachman-turner overdrive
School’s out – Alice Cooper
Shinin Star – Earth Wind & Fire
Midnight blue – Melissa Manchester
Take me in your arms (Rock me) – Doobie Brothers
My Love is alive – Gary Wright
Someone saved my life tonight – Elton John
Year of the Cat – Al Stewart
I’ll be good to you – Brothers Johnson
Got to get you into my life – Beatles
Moonlight Feels Right – Starbuck
Love will keep us together – Captain and Tennille
More, more, more – Andrea True Connection
Tear the roof off the – Parliament
Uncle Albert – Paul McCartney and Wings
Let em in – Paul McCartney and Wings
Shower the people – James Taylor
Hypnotized – Bob Welch
You’ll Never Find – Lou Rawls
Young hearts run free – Cady Stanton
Lido Shuffle – Boz Scaggs
I Wish – Stevie Wonder
Still the One – Orleans
Teacher – Jethro Tull
Dazz – Brick
Tonight’s the Night – Rod Stewart
Games People Play – The Spinners
Laughter in the Rain – Neil Sedaka
Magic man – Heart
Song on the Radio – Al Stewart
After the Loving – Englebert Humpledinck
I Wouldn’t Want To be like you – Alan Parsons Project
She’s Gone – Hall & Oates
Love will find a way – Pablo Cruz
I’m in You – Peter Frampton
Easy – Commodores
You make loving fun – Fleetwood Mac
Lucky Man – Emerson Lake & Palmer
Always and Forever – Heat Wave
Groove Line – Heat Wave
Disco Inferno – Trammps
My Baby – Paul McCartney & Wings
I Just Wanna Stop – Gino Vanelli
Ffun – ConFunkShun
You’re in My Heart – Rod Stewart
Sometimes When We Touch – Dan Hill
How Deep Is Your Love – Bee Gees
Ain’t No Stopping Us Now – McFadden & Whitehead
Roundabout – Yes
Reminiscing – Little River Band
Fool if you think it’s over – Chris Rhea
Knowing me, knowing you – Abba
Looks Like We Made It – Barry Manilow
Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow – Fleetwood Mac
Two Tickets to Paradise – Eddie Money
Dark Star – Crosby Stills & Nash
On and on – Stephen Bishop
Copacabana – Barry Manilow
Mama Can’t Buy You Love – Elton John
Bye Bye Love – The Cars
Loving, Touching, Squeezing – Journey
Isn’t it time – The Babys
Shake Your Groove Thing – Peaches & Herb
Pop Muzik – M
Money – Flying Lizards
52 Girls – B-52s
Knock on Wood – Amii Stewart
Gone, Gone, Gone – Bad Company
Promises – Eric Clapton
On the Radio – Donna Summer
Fool in the Rain – Led Zeppelin
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) – Rupert Holmes
White lies – Nils Lofgren
Steal away – Nils Lofgren
Ah! Leah! – Donnie Iris
Getting in Tune – The Who
Steal Away – Robbie Dupree
Hold on Loose – 38 Special