“Mood Indigo” (1958): Nina Simone Get spring fever. Be overwhelmed. Be sad. Be moody. Be Mood Indigo. “I Think I’ll Call It Morning” (1971): Gil…
Posts tagged as “Playlist”
Minimalist Playlist
By DANIEL XU, DAVID SHENG (Staff Writer) on May 2016
Minimalism (n). Music: a reductive style or school of modern music utilizing only simple sonorities, rhythms, and patterns, with minimal embellishment or orchestrational complexity, and…
Throwback Hits
By BENJAMIN SALOMON on April 2016
When they hear a song from sometime around 2006, people usually say something along the lines of “OMG such a throwback, I haven’t heard this…
Czech This Playlist Out
By DANIEL XU, DAVID SHENG (Staff Writer) on March 2016
Despite the modern-day stigma directed toward younger fans of classical music by their peers—let’s face it, you’re going to be called a nerd—it is our…
British Tunes for American Goons
By AMALIA WALKER, CORINNE HILL-JAMES on March 2016
Are Queen Latifah, the Lovin’ Spoonful, and Guns ‘n’ Roses sounding like a broken record? Are the Eagles, Drake, and Smokey Robinson just too familiar?…
Exercise Playlist
By BRIDGET FETSKO on February 2016
Music is a great addition to any workout. If I am at home, I blast music from speakers; at the gym, I bring headphones. Either…
A Fall ’40s Playlist
By MAX FINK on December 2015
A brief playlist for those crisp and windblown fall evenings; dreaming perhaps of fairer weather, or of the faded 1940s (excellent also for any suiting occasion).
Back to School Playlist
By LUCA GREENSPUN on September 2015
“A Thousand Miles”: Vanessa Carlton Back to school, “faces past … and I miss you”. This song perfectly sums up that back-to-school excitement of seeing…
Chicken Soup for the Angsty Soul: A Playlist
By CLAIRE SALOFF-COSTE on June 2015
“I Can’t Make You Love Me”: Bon Iver
I swear it’ll make you cry.
Hip-Hop Binge Playlist
By JAMES YOON on June 2015
“Duck Down!”: From the start, The Roots’ vigorous beat will hit you in the face.