Side A: Retro
Gloria Gaynor - i will surrive (1978)
Oh no, not I, I will survive/Oh, as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive/I've got all my life to live, and I've got all my love to give
The Five Stairsteps - Ooh Child (1970)
Ooh-oo child/Things are gonna get easier/Ooh-oo child/Things'll get brighter
Blue Oyster Cult - Don’t Fear The Reaper (1976)
(We can be like they are) Come on, baby/(Don't fear the Reaper) Baby, take my hand/(Don't fear the Reaper) We'll be able to fly
Tom Waits - Little Trip To Heaven (On The Wings Of Your Love) (1973)
You're my North Star when I'm lost and feeling blue/The sun is breaking through the clouds, don't you, don't you know it's true?/Honey, all the other stars seem dim around you
Boney M - future world (1984)
Get on board and fly with me/To the future world (Future world)/To let our children grow up there in peace/We can live in harmony
The Band of Love - I feel love (Donna Summer cover)
Ooh, it's so good, it's so good/It's so good, it's so good, it's so good/Ooh, heaven knows, heaven knows
Side B: New Music
Josh Ritter - Where the Night Goes (2015)
Only the living go to the graveyard grieving/Still we’re alive and you’re astounding/Feel the pulse of the world pounding
The Front Bottoms - Father (2011)
I have this dream that I am hitting my dad with a baseball bat/And he is screaming and crying for help/And maybe halfway through, it has more to do with me killing him/Than it ever did protecting myself
But you look good tonight, girlfriend/Can I sleep in your bed?/And when I crawl out in the morning/Can I stay inside your head?
Regina Spektor - dance anthem of the 80s (2009)
You are so sweet, so sweet/Dancing and moving to that beat, that beat/There's a meat market down the street/The boys and girls watch each other eat/The boys and the girls watch each other eat/When they really just wanna watch each other
And it's been a long time since before I've been touched/Now I'm getting touched all the time/And it's only a matter of whom/And it's only a matter of when/An addiction to hands and feet
The Mountain Goats - This Year (2005)
My broken house behind me and good things ahead/A girl named Cathy wants a little of my time
Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking/Ahaha! Listen to the engine whine
Dead Man’s Bones - Flowers Grow Out Of My Grave (2009)
When I think about you/Flowers grow out of my grave, grave grave!
The Blow - Parentheses (2006)
And when you're holding me/We make a pair of parentheses
There's plenty space to encase/Whatever weird way my mind goes/I know I'll be safe in these arms
credit for the graphic: poem by Warsan Shire, x, x, x
title from christopher citro “our beautiful life when it’s filled with shriek”