Before work kicked off this morning, I created a music playlist for the day. To be honest with you, I don’t know what I was thinking when I picked out these songs. I guess I was hyped up because it’s Friday and my birthday’s this weekend. Plus, I took off Monday from work, so I can walk 5-6 miles up hills and through woods as a present to myself.1
One problem with my music selections for the day: I can’t think to write (and my job is to write) when lyrics are going. So, instead of rocking out with my sock out to the playlist below, I listened to ambient soundscapes. I could’ve rolled with instrumental Sonic Youth or Explosions in the Sky, but I didn’t. Which means my Friday music playlist is now my weekend music playlist.
As an aside, one of the bands on this list (Halibut Head) reached out to me recently. They caught wind of a blog post I wrote about them and asked if I’d be interested in reviewing their upcoming EP before it releases. I get first dibs, b!tches. Anyway, check out Halibut Head on your preferred streaming platform of choice.
Without further adieu, here’s my weekend music playlist
- Glory Days – Bruce Springsteen
- Story of My Life – Social Distortion
- Anything, Anything – Halibut Head
- Classics of Love – Common Rider
- Don’t Come Around Here No More – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- Howling At the Moon (Sha-La-La) – Ramones
- Manthem – The Bouncing Souls
- Radio – Rancid
- Big Takeover – Bad Brains
- Me vs. Myself – Shower With Goats
- Downtown Train – Tom Waits
- Revenge – Black Flag
- Break the Glass – The Suicide Machines
- Bastards of Young – The Replacements
- Police On My Back – The Clash
- Dreaming – Blondie
- I’m Your Man – Richard Hell & the Voidoids
- I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
- Stone Free – The Jimi Hendrix Experience
- Gonna Find You – Operation Ivy
- Suburban Home – Descendents
- America – Agent Orange
- We’re Got a Bigger Problem Now – Dead Kennedys
- I Was a Teenage Anarchist – Against Me!
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right – Waylon Jennings
- Dirty Blvd. – Lou Reed
- Punkrocker – Teddybears featuring Iggy Pop
Footnotes
- In the past, I’ve run 12-14 miles on my birthday. But apparently age has caught up because I’m unable to run right now. Both of my feet are F’d at the moment. So a walk it is. I’ll probably end up walking eight miles instead of five because I don’t comprehend moderation. ↩︎