I suppose this is more for me than specifically anyone else, but I figure people might find it interesting. For me, the music I listen to almost betrays my state of mind/what I'm really feeling. It can sometimes be confusing, however, because in some instances, I'll listen to certain songs just because I think they're pretty, not necessarily that I feel like I can relate. (I.E., I really like "break up" songs, but obviously they don't apply. I just think they're pretty and sad.)
So, I've arranged this playlist timeline in tiers of pre-Peru, Peru, and post-Peru. The songs that I include are listed generally because they held some kind of significance (or I just liked how they sounded).
For those of you who care, pay attention to the type of music and how it changes and grows over time (although some tastes overall stay the same). I think it's intriguing.
Pre-Peru
(during the year of preparation leading up to moving on Oct 4, 2008): Paramore (All We Know is Falling;
Riot!), Avril Lavigne (When You’re
Gone; Innocence), Sweeney Todd – The Demon
Barber of Fleet Street Soundtrack, Pussycat Dolls (When I Grow Up), Apocalyptica (Worlds Collide), Cobra Starship (Viva La Cobra!), Evanescence (Fallen), Fall Out Boy (From Under The Cork Tree;
Infinity On High; Folie A Deux), Family
Force 5 (Business Up Front, Party in the Back), Lily Allen (Knock ‘Em Out), Matchbox
Twenty (How Far We’ve Come), Nickelback
(Savin’ Me; Far Away; Photograph; Rockstar; Someday), Skillet (Comatose), 3 Doors
Down (When I’m Gone; Away From the Sun; Here Without You)
Peru (Oct 2008-May 2011): Angels &
Airwaves (Breathe; Sirens; Secret Crowds), Breaking Benjamin (Phobia;
We Are Not Alone; Dear Agony), Christina
Perri (Jar of Hearts), Coldplay
(Parachutes; Viva La Vida; Prospekt’s March; A Rush of Blood to the Head; X
& Y), Copeland (You Are My
Sunshine; In Motion; Beneath Medicine Tree; Eat, Sleep, Repeat), Daughtry (Leave This Town), A Day To Remember (Homesick), Eluvium (Copia; When I Live By The
Garden And Sea; An Accidental Memory In The Case of Death), Enur (Calabria ft. Natasja), Ferraby Lionheart (Ferraby Lionheart –
EP), A Fine Frenzy (Almost Lover), Blue October (Into the Ocean), Flyleaf (Fully Alive; Cassie; There For
You; Perfect; Breathe Today), Future of
Forestry (Twilight; Travel I; Travel II; Travel III), Hans Zimmer (Marry Me (Overture)), Hinder (Better Than Me), Jars
Of Clay (The Eleventh Hour; Furthermore – From the Studio, From the Stage;
Good Monsters; If I Left the Zoo; Jars of Clay; The Long Fall Back to Earth;
Much Afraid; Who We Are Instead; The Shelter), Jem (24), Jen Titus (O
Death), John Mayer (Dreaming With a
Broken Heart; Heartbreak Warfare), John
Foreman (In My Arms), Kelly Clarkson (Beautiful
Disaster), The Killers (Mr.
Brightside), Lifehouse (From Where
You Are), Lily Allen (Smile), Linkin Park (Hybrid Theory; Meteora;
Minutes to Midnight), Mae ((a)fternoon;
(e)vening), Maroon 5 (Won’t Go Home
Without You), Mika (Happy Ending), Mindless Self Indulgence (Mastermind), Moloko (Sing It Back), Murray Gold (Doomsday), Muse (Time Is Running Out), The National (Fake Empire), Never Shout Never (Lovesick), Nickelback (Dark Horse; Into the Night),
OneRepublic (Waking Up), OneRepublic & Sara Bareilles (Come
Home), Papa Roach (Lifeline; Forever;
Getting Away with Murder; Scars), Parachute
(The Mess I Made), Paramore (Brand
New Eyes; The B-Sides; The Summer Tic – EP; Other Unreleased Tracks), A Perfect Circle (Counting Bodies Like Sheep),
Pillar (For the Love of the Game), Rains (Liar), The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (Don’t You Fake It), Regina Spektor (Begin to Hope), Rihanna (Disturbia; Breakin’ Dishes), A Rocket to the Moon (Like We Used To), Secondhand Serenade (Fall For You), Seether ft. Amy Lee (Broken), Shinedown (The Sound of Madness), Sick Puppies (You’re Going Down), Simple Plan (Perfect), Sixx A.M. (Life is Beautiful), Skillet (Awake; Collide), Snow Patrol (Chasing Cars; Open Your
Eyes; You Could Be Happy; Run), Superchick
(We Live; Stand in the Rain), Switchfoot (Oh!
Gravity.; Awakening), Tenth Avenue North (Over
and Underneath), Theory of a Deadman (Scars
and Souvenirs), Three Days Grace (Riot;
Pain; Never Too Late; I Hate Everything About You; Animal I Have Become; Home; Life Starts Now),
Unkle (Burn My Shadow; With You In My
Head), The Used (All That I’ve Got;
The Bird and the Worm; Burning Down the House), Vanessa Carlton (Ordinary Day; A Thousand Miles; Twilight; White
Houses), xi (Death Piano; Midnight), Yiruma (First Love), ZOEgirl (Scream; Dead Serious), 3 Doors Down (Your Arms Feel Like Home),
30 Seconds to Mars (The Kill)
Post-Peru:
Angels Fall (Call On Me), Chevelle (Jars; The Fad; Send the Pain
Below; The Red; I Get it), Copeland (The
Last Time He Saw Dorie; Good Morning Fire Eater; Love Affair; The Day I lost My
Voice (The Suitcase Song); Coffee; Chin Up; Should You Return), Counting Crows (Colorblind), Daughtry (Break the Spell), David Cook (Avalanche; The Last
Goodbye), A Day to Remember (What
Separates Me From You), Disturbed (The
Animal), Cage the Elephant (Shake Me
Down), Coldplay (Mylo Xyloto), Flyleaf (Red Sam), Foster the People (Pumped Up Kicks), Gotye (Somebody That I Used to Know), Jimmy Eat World (Bleed America*), Linkin Park (A Thousand Suns), Mae
(Suspension), Mumford & Sons (The
Cave; White Blank Page; Little Lion Man), Neon
Trees (Animal), The Offspring (You’re
Gonna Go Far Kid), Oh Land (Sun of a
Gun), The Script (Breakeven (Falling
to Pieces); For the First Time), Secondhand
Serenade (Awake), Serianna (Lose
Yourself), Shinedown (45; Simple Man;
I Dare You), Snow Patrol (Crack the
Shutters; Run), Story of the Year (The
Ghost of You And I), These New Puritans (We
Want War), Three Days Grace (Life
Starts Now), The Ting Tings (That’s
Not My Name), Train (Hey, Soul
Sister; Marry Me), Woodkid (Iron), 30 Seconds to Mars (Kings and Queens;
This is War; Closer to the Edge)
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* - From Bleed America, a specific song that really hit me was My Sundown
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Interesting? I hope so.
For some of the artists, I put the entire albums (for example, for Copeland in "Peru" I listed four albums) because pretty much all the songs applied or I loved them all. That can be said for a lot of these artists. However, sometimes albums are named after a song in them, so that makes things a tad troublesome. Oh well. Determine what you will.
You know what would be even more challenging? Picking just one song or album to describe my entire time in Peru, and before and after. Yeesh. To be honest, I'm not even sure that would be possible.
Over and out,
V
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