Motivational music for interviews | 18 songs

Went for an interview yesterday morning, for a job I want.

Asked friends on Facebook to recommend me some motivational music. Here is what they suggested.

State of play, August 2017

This is a document.

Fuck good taste: 5 reasons why Beyoncé’s duet with Dixie Chicks was bostin’

Fuck great expectations.

Song of the day (the old and the new) – 13. The Plan and Miaow

What is excluded from history is more important than what is included.

Shout out to my ex

New music. There is always more new music then anyone can compartmentalise.

My albums. And songs. Of 2016

I sat in a convivial pub the other night as around me convivial sorts chattered and laughed. I could barely hear a word. Every so often, the sound of what appeared to be a band tuning up threatened to break down even that little of my personal space. I do not need, not REQUIRE an excess of noise. I love music but not when it no longer sounds like music. The first few in this list are walk-homes, and have been played in any number of situations – on the train, on the train, in a car, late at night, for comfort, for company, for challenge, for conversation. Sometimes, even my family has heard them. The rest fade into silence, or a default Anticipation Is So Much Better category where my imagining of their sound is always comforting than the sound itself (assuming I have heard it). Some of these are here because I wholeheartedly approve of them. Some are here as a nod to my lost community. Some are even here because they make me happy. If you still require a rating system, then using the one patented by Scott Creney several years back all of these rate One (out of One). I have provided links to where I wrote about the music in question, if applicable.

Biggest disappointment? Easy. Dexys.

the music crit as David-troll (FB)

The last couple of days, bored through inertia, I took to gently trolling my peers on Facebook.

nuw misoc

song of the day 5. beyoncé

If I could own just two records, to span the breadth and solace of popular music, it would be Ramones by Ramones and 4 (The Platinum Edition) by Beyoncé. 

reasons i am not that sort of bowie fan

I am not a racist, but…

song of the day 1. Jenny Hval

The images she dislodges from my mind with this song I am unable to share.

Pop music, as a parent (the second playlist)

Please add your own favourites at the end.

Pop music, as a parent (the first playlist)

This is what it all comes down to. Without this, everything else is meaningless.