I was in Urban Outfitters the other day and came across a book called "Music Listography." The premise of said book is that each page (or every page that doesn't have some drawing done by some hipster on it) has the title of a list and some lines. The titles were things such as "Favorite Female Vocalists," "Bands you Wish Hadn't Broken Up," and "Couples Slow Dance Playlist." Now I was simply tickled to find this amidst the skinny jeans and pseudo-vintage jewelry. Because I love lists, and I love music. I also coincidentally love making lists of and about music. What I did not love, however, was the $20 price tag.
So I did some investigative work, and I found said book on Amazon.com. It was being sold for a cheaper price than Urban Outfitters wanted to charge me for it (duh) buuuut I also found the Table of Contents available in a FREE preview right then and there. So I screencapped that shit and now I have a complete list of every list topic in that book, and I didn't pay anything. That's what I call flogging the system.
So because I have nothing I'd rather do, I'm going to pull up one (or perhaps two) of those list prompts and write one out now. Then it's back to reality, maybe. When reality involves scheduling headaches and housing worries and papers on The Hungarian Revolution and Irish Abortions, then reality is not a good place to be.
"List the Saddest Songs in the World" (p. 75)
- Crown of Love-Arcade Fire
- Brick-Ben Folds Five
- The Promise-Tracy Chapman
- I Can't Make You Love Me-Bonnie Raitt
- Hallelujah-Jeff Buckley
- Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones
- Leaving on a Jet Plane-Peter, Paul, and Mary
- Fix You-Coldplay
- Still Fighting It-Ben Folds
- Late-Ben Folds
- I Will Follow you Into the Dark-Death Cab for Cutie (Only for the music video though. It involves bunnies falling in tragic love. Heart-wrenching stuff)
- Lisa Hannigan
- Billie Holiday
- Grace Slick
- The woman who sings backup on "Gimme Shelter" by The Rolling Stones on "Let it Bleed"
- Stevie Nicks
Lisa
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