The Weeknd — The Morning

You know how Girl Talk mashes songs into one another? Well I’ve got a great one going on in my head right now: imagine The Weeknd’s “The Morning” leading directly into one of the solos in Pink Floyd’s “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. I’m floating in the stratosphere already.

Three great songs with the same great beat

If I were a disc-jockeying man, I’d so be all over these three tracks.

1. The Rapture — “Come Back to Me“
2. Omar S. — “Day“
3. Daft Punk — “Burnin’“

Man, they are hot. From the accordion-and-percussion-heavy Rapture track, through the mechanized clattering of Omar’s unique vision of Detroit, to the elastic joy of Daft Punk’s take on funky house.

“Let It Come Down”

“And I heard of that Japanese girl, who jumped into the volcano—
Was she trying to make it back,
Back into the womb of the world?”

—Beck, “Volcano”

Well, it’s not quite as dispiriting as the last one. The end of my finals is in sight; summer has arrived; the time has almost come to bid farewell to my university days.

1. Pink Floyd — One of These Days
2. Shy Child — Disconnected
3. Yo La Tengo — Saturday
4. Blur — The Universal
5. Kanye West — Who Will Survive in America
6. TV On The Radio — Love Dog
7. Spoon — Out Go The Lights
8. Cut Copy — Strangers In The Wind
9. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds — Midnight Man
10. J Dilla — Last Donut of the Night
11. Pulp — Sunrise

All wrapped up in a convenient YouTube playlist.

My week as a playlist

“I love the girl,
But god only knows it’s
Getting harder to see the sun coming through.”
—Gorillaz, “Every Planet We Reach is Dead”

1. Explosions in the Sky — Greet Death
2. Hot Chip — One Pure Thought
3. Beck — Send a Message to Her
4. Radiohead — House of Cards
5. Wild Beasts — Plaything
6. Kanye West — All of the Lights
7. Spandau Ballet — Gold
8. Dionne Warwick — You’re Gonna Need Me
9. These New Puritans — Drum Courts—Where Corals Lie (after Richard Garnett)
10. Friendly Fires — Helpless
11. Arcade Fire — My Body is a Cage

Every bit as grim as it sounds.