#13 No Regrets
Or, how talking with Sarah Moody about music put me in a time machine to young adult yearning and fatalism.
Hello friends/readers/listeners,
This “monthly” project has definitely turned into a “as it happens” project, but this time it’s at least somewhat back on its original intent of being a project related to conversations with artists about music. The following playlist sprouted from emails with New York based artist Sarah Moody.
Sarah is a print and book artist who holds one of the greatest niche pun social media handles out there (@noreglets), and makes incredibly beautiful and smart work. Sarah also shares the experience with me of having a past life in the music industry around the same time period, but within an entirely different wing of independent music. I could have drawn some really interesting lines about how these mutual past lives reflect how we make work today and how our current practices resemble a similarly shaped venn diagram in our shared book worlds. Instead tho, listening to the music we emailed back and forth about, I succumbed to the feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality that music so often produces and so many of the songs I was putting together were love songs or break up songs.
What follows is a playlist that is really heavy on 90’s vibes that reflect the rollercoaster of emotions one feels as a college aged young adult. It ran a path extremely far from anything about Sarah, but it couldn’t have been made without her in a way anything gets made and is a product of conversing with others I guess.
#13 No Regrets
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The Cranberries - Dreams
Amber Arcades - Odd to Even
Lower Dens - Ondine
Big Thief - Mythological Beauty
Dear and the Headlights - Happy In Love
Selena - Dreaming Of You
Annie Lennox - Why
Lowly - Keep Up The Good Work
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Death Cab For Cutie - All Is Full Of Love
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker
Hum - Why I Like The Robins
Slowdive - Sugar For The Pill
Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
Modest Mouse - Paper Thin Walls
Hunx & His Punx - Lovers Lane
Green Day - Redundant
Elliot Smith - Somebody That I Used To Know
The Microphones - The Moon
Songs: Ohio - Just Be Simple
Fleetwood Mac - Songbird
Gregory and the Hawk - Boats & Birds
Fiona Apple - Oh Well
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