My oh my that 4th quarter of 2016 was an odd one…!
I think my favorite songs from those pre- and post-election weeks illustrate the atmosphere pretty well: with anti-Trump songs and “wake-up to reality” lyrics and a healthy dashes of sadness and escapism.
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| Cover and song list for the fall 2016 mix, featuring a photo I took in St. Vrain State Park (Colorado) |
1. Welcome To Your Life / Grouplove
2. Are We Ready (Wreck) / Two Door Cinema Club
3. Hold On / Bob Mould
4. We The People…. / A Tribe Called Quest
5. No Heart / 21 Savage & Metro Boomin
6. TrumpMakesMeWannaSmokeCrack / Ledinsky
7. Demagogue / Franz Ferdinand
8. Million Dollar Loan / Death Cab For Cutie
9. Can’t You Tell / Aimee Mann
10. The Moon / Band of Horses
11. Nostalgic Intellect / Peter Bjorn & John
12. Someone to Lose / Wilco
13. Is This What You Wanted [Leonard Cohen cover]
14. Your Best American Girl / Mitski
15. Backwards Blues / Adia Victoria
16. Barbary Coast (Later) / Conor Oberst
17. Easy Wind / Bill Callahan
18. Counting Sheep / Conor Oberst
Videos for a lot of the songs can be found in my Google+ Music Collection.
Listen to all of the songs as a playlist on Spotify.