03 / CULTURE

Music.

Songs, records and people filed under audio.

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02 / 33⅓ RPM

Always something playing

Apparently happiness has weaker replay value.

Songs that explain me better than this website

Memory, people and emotional damage, filed under audio.

14 TRACKS / SCROLL
  1. 01
    A Day In The Life — Remastered 2009The Beatles
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  2. 02
    Ashes to Ashes — 2017 RemasterDavid Bowie

    Bowie at the exact intersection of beautiful and strange.

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  3. 03
    (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay — MonoOtis Redding

    My father. Since I was a kid. Still number one.

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  4. 04
    Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) — Remastered 2009The Beatles
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  5. 05
    Untitled — 2012 RemasterInterpol
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  6. 06
    Last ExitPearl Jam
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  7. 07
    Beetlebum — 2012 RemasterBlur
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  8. 08
    Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers

    I am sixteen again in about twelve seconds.

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  9. 09
    House of the Rising SunThe Animals
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    Riders on the StormThe Doors
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    Cortez the Killer — 2016 RemasterNeil Young, Crazy Horse
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  12. 12
    Paranoid AndroidRadiohead
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    Dirt — 2005 RemasterThe Stooges
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  14. 14
    La Copa De EuropaLos Planetas
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TRY YOUR LUCK

Pull one item at random from the evidence above.

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NAMES ON REPEAT

David BowieRadioheadMassive AttackInterpolSonic YouthQueens of the Stone AgeLos PlanetasOtis ReddingNeil YoungAphex TwinThe Chemical BrothersUNKLEThom YorkePinkPantheressDyE

WHAT SURVIVES REPLAY

This is memory organised as sound.

The useful distinction here is not genre, decade or critical importance. It is recurrence: songs that have followed me for years, songs tied to people, and songs that can still alter the temperature of a room within seconds.

That is why Otis Redding, Bowie, Interpol, Los Planetas, Radiohead and Aphex Twin can all belong on the same page. The organising principle is personal history, not musical taxonomy.