Mood Music

(Disclaimer: These tunes are not intended to get you laid! (Yeah, not that kind of mood.) That was not my intention when I selected them.)

When making mix tapes, one usually picks songs to inspire happy, upbeat, cheery moments. Well, four years ago, before I graduated from college, I burned three mix CDs that–for lack of better terminology–are rather depressing, and are even titled so. (Who knows what was going on with me at the time!)

No analysis this time; just take them at face value. (If you read between the lines, you can probably guess my state of mind at the time.) And, yes, I tend to reuse tracks, though not quite like I did then.

So, without further adieu, here are three playlists that long for better days:

#40 – Bitchy Mood Music

1. Limp Bizkit – Rearranged
2. Sheryl Crow – Over You
3. Human League – Don’t You Want Me Baby
4. No Doubt – Don’t Speak
5. Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
6. Carly Simon – You’re So Vain
7. Simon and Garfunkel – Overs
8. The Guess Who – The Answer
9. Mamas and the Papas – Look Through My Window
10. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More
11. Rolling Stones – It’s All Over Now
12. Janis Joplin – Move Over
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
14. The Turtles – It Ain’t Me Babe
15. Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
16. Sheryl Crow – It’s Only Love
17. Simon and Garfunkel – Fakin’ It
18. The Beatles – Golden Slumbers
19. The Beatles – Carry That Weight
20. Janis Joplin – Kozmic Blues
21. Bob Dylan – Positively 4^th Street

#41 – Bitchy Mood Music No. 2

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More
2. Johnny Mercer – Suicide is Painless
3. 10,000 Maniacs – Because the Night (unplugged)
4. Limp Bizkit – Rearranged
5. No Doubt – Don’t Speak
6. Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
7. Simon and Garfunkel – Fakin’ It
8. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Yer So Bad
9. Janis Joplin – Kozmic Blues
10. System of a Down – Aerials
11. Bee Gees – To Love Somebody
12. The Monkees – I’m Not Your Steppin’ Stone
13. Amy Studt – Just a Little Girl
14. Janis Joplin – Move Over
15. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Do Me Like That
16. Garbage – Stupid Girl
17. Big Brother and the Holding Company – Flower in the Sun
18. Ray Charles – Georgia on My Mind
19. Sheryl Crow – It’s Only Love
20. David Bowie – New Killer Star

#38 – Mood Music

1. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Don’t Come Around Here No More
2. David Bowie and Queen – Under Pressure
3. Olivia Newton-John – A Little More Love
4. Rolling Stones – Saint of Me
5. The Police – Don’t Stand So Close to Me
6. The Carpenters – Hurting Each Other
7. Collective Soul – Why part 2
8. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Insider
9. System of a Down – Aerials
10. Madonna – Don’t Tell Me
11. Janis Joplin – One Night Stand (live)
12. Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me Babe
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Otherside
14. Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
15. Linda Ronstadt – You’re No Good
16. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Yer So Bad
17. Rolling Stones – Miss You
18. Urge Overkill – Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon
19. Simon and Garfunkel – Fakin’ It
20. Amy Studt – Just a Little Girl

Thanks for reading!
~Tal