Listening To: Daydreaming Part 2

Way back in April I posted a Daydreaming playlist which received a really wonderful response from listeners. The original Daydreaming was just a small compilation from a much larger (142 tracks) playlist I have on my iTunes. Because you all loved the first installment so much I decided to work on a second, which is meant to pick up where the last playlist left off. Unfortunately three of the integral tracks aren't on Grooveshark and cannot be uploaded so it's not exactly how I wanted it. Regardless, it continues the in the same dreamy and mellow vein as the last playlist did. I started with some quiet pieces that highlighted guitar accompaniment, and then transitioned into songs backed by piano. While Daydreaming 1 was dominated by male vocalists I decided to use Daydreaming 2 to explore some of my favourite songstresses. Fear not: you'll still find some excellent Bon Iver, The National, and Beach House, but you'll also get a taste of Bat for Lashes, Florence and the Machine, Cat Power, Dido, and Neko Case.

I don't always get to give my playlists the individual attention they deserve, but for Daydreaming I go the extra mile. I challenge you not to fall in love.

Listening To: Danse Macabre Playlist

After getting such positive feedback on the last playlist I posted I decided I may as well throw up another one.  "Danse Macabre" is perhaps a little exaggerated, but the tone is decidedly darker than Daydreaming was: it's kind of a love it or hate it type of collection.  Some of the material is fairly well known (Smashing Pumpkins, Interpol, Bat for Lashes) and some may be less familiar (She Wants Revenge, Blonde Redhead, Tomandandy, Bauhaus).  Anyway, if you're in the right mood then give it a shot, this one's much shorter topping out at only sixteen tracks.  I'm sorry to say Grooveshark didn't have the version of The Beginning is the End is the Beginning (you may recognize it from 2007's Watchmen trailer) so I've had to post that as a YouTube video.  Fun fact about Bela Lugosi is Dead: I picked that one up from the incredibly cheesy '80s vampire flick The Hunger (with David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve), which you should definitely watch.