Hey Friends! I was torn this morning as to whether or not to keep up with MixTape Mondays or to create a more topical post returning E3 shows today. I opted to keep the series rolling forward and I guess tomorrow I will return to my crappy coverage of E3 events. For those unaware MixTape Mondays is my series where I share a playlist aka the closest thing we have to a real MixTape these days. I was one of those kids who used to create them a lot given I had the magical dual tape cassette deck stereo allowing me to record all the things. Instead of sharing them on a one by one basis, I am sharing them with all of you my readers and internet friends.
Waiting for Now
Sometimes all it really takes is a single song to send the brain off in a specific direction. I love How Soon is Now by the Smiths. There is something so iconic about the guitar vibrato and big train horn chords that I legitimately never get tired of hearing it. Because of this fact I had no clue that the song was actually over six minutes long. What ended up happening as a result was me trying to match the feel of this song occasionally skimming the top of new wave or diving down into goth classics. The end result I think “works” for reason I can’t really fully explain. This has been in my listening rotation an awful lot lately and I have technically had this one finished for almost a month before unleashing it upon the world.
- How Soon is Now? – The Smiths
- Whisper to a Scream – The Icicle Works
- True Faith – New Order
- For Her Light – Fields of Nephilim
- Fascination Street – The Cure
- Under the Milky Way – The Church
- Wasteland – The Mission
- Love Will Tear Us Apart – Joy Division
- Under the God – Tin Machine
- She Sells Sanctuary – The Cult
- Never Let Me Down Again – Depeche Mode
- How Not To Drown – Chvrches feat. Robert Smith
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There you have it folks, my attempt at doing “How Soon Is Now?” some justice in MixTape form. Tomorrow I fully expect to return with a post about the Microsoft and Bethesda E3 show, but for now I wanted to keep the pattern of Monday MixTape releases. I managed to make a post every single day last week and even over the weekend so I am hoping that I have finally reached a place of equilibrium with my life in spite of still going through work hell. For those new to the series there is of course always the archive allowing you to catch up on the series.
I was briefly away when you dropped this on Monday but I’m just listening to it now and it’s great. The drums on the Icicle Works are amazing. They never really got the attention they deserved but for underated bands you can’t find many more deserving of recognition than the Church. Steve Kilbey is a great songwriter and I love his voice. That New Order video doesn’t get any less disturbing, either, but now it looks weirdly prescient with the guy staring at the world through his screen and the sign language lyric translations…