I dig this song by The National, so we'll spend the first thirty minutes unpacking the references. Hope you have as much fun listening to this as I did putting it together.
Playlist
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Broadcast News Clip by Holly Hunter & Albert Brooks on Broadcast News (20th Century Fox) -
Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen on Various Positions (Columbia) -
Not In Kansas by The National on I Am Easy To Find (4AD) -
Sweetheart Like You by Bob Dylan on Infidels (Columbia) -
Killing Me Softly With His Song by Roberta Flack on Killing Me Softly (Atlantic) -
Begin The Begin by R.E.M. on Life's Rich Pageant (IRS) -
Heartbreak Beat by Psychdelic Furs on Midnight to Midnight (Columbia) -
New York City Cops by The Strokes on Is This It? (RCA) -
Suddenly by French Vanilla on How Am I Not Myself? (Danger Collective) -
The Day The World Turned Day-Glo by X-Ray Spex on Germfree Adolescents (Art-I-Ficial) -
Overtime by Shopping on The Official Body (FatCat) -
Laconism by Com Truise on Persuasion System (Ghostly International) -
Peter by POW! on Shift (Castle Face) -
Try Two Move by The Samps on Breakfast (Gloriette) -
Head Over Heels by Japanese Breakfast on Essentially (W) -
Ashes To Ashes by Tears For Fears on Ruby Trax: The NME's Roaring Forty [Disc 2] (NME) -
Cactus by David Bowie on Heathen (ISO) -
Magician's Success by Vanishing Twin on The Age Of Immunology (Fire Records) -
U.H.F. - MFP by Stereolab on Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Too Pure/American) -
Sundays by Tanukichan on Sundays (Company) -
Despair by Operators on Radiant Dawn (Last Gang) -
Open Hand by Marbled Eye on Beat Session Vol. 8 (Shout Recordings) -
Spiked Flower by Swervedriver on Future Ruins (Dangerbird) -
More (ft Anderson .Paak) by Flying Lotus on Flamagra (Warp) -
RICKY by Denzel Curry on ZUU (Loma Vista) -
Killing Time by Heems on Wild Water Kingdom (Self-Released) -
I Don't Get Invited To Parties Anymore by Alex Lahey on The Best Of Luck Club (Dead Oceans) -
Awful Need by FEELS on Post Earth (Wichita) -
Clean Up by Pedro The Lion on Phoenix (Polyvinyl) -
New Media by Slow Pulp on Big Day (Self Released) -
The Flowers Of Guatemala by R.E.M. on Life's Rich Pageant (IRS)