These novels I'll be working on for the next three to four years deserve their own playlist. If you followed me on social media around early 2018, I was starting to play around with having a specific playlist for writing and then another for chores. Those stories eventually became Era Two and started with a Sugababes song. From there, I eventually ended up with Coil's version of Tainted Love being the main song on my playlist.
This time around I am starting with Nine Inch Nails with Starfuckers Incorporated. However, unlike the Sugababes song where it was the lyrics that were inspiring, it is the visuals of the music video. Basically, I will end up with two playlists:
The rules are:
- One for when I'm physically at my laptop writing.
- The other for when I'm out and about or doing chores.
The rules are:
- No Post-Autobahn Kraftwerk. Firstly, that is God-tier and secondly, that is final draft music and has been since university.
- No Placebo. Another God-tier band and they're already on both playlists.
- Songs must be in English, German or Spanish unless you specifically state something like "hey this song is in French but look at the visuals in the official music video".
- Avoid because they're already on the writing list: Siouxsie and the Banshees (really shitty music videos though) and I'll likely be reintroducing Coil. (Also no more Backstreet Boys and Judas Priest, the point of the playlist is to break up how often I hear their songs because I'm not a fan of either.)
- I am not a big fan of metal. No I don't need to 'just check it out'. That's why I don't like metal to begin with. It has been forced on me a lot in my life. I understand people get excited about the things they like, but a very small selection of metal fans take it too far.
- No Depeche Mode because they dominated my last writing and chores playlist (especially Some Great Reward or songs from that album including Master and Servant and People are People).
- Suggesting something will not make it 'our song'.
- Your song may not end up on the playlist but it may influence or lead me to something that will.
And here's Coil's Tainted Love for the sake of it. (If I hear anything related to "Soft Cell/Marc Almond original" or "The original came out in the 1950s" it didn't, it came out in the 1960s, I will have to document your behaviour. You aren't special, clever or impressive. However, if that behaviour fills part of a larger pattern, you will be reported to the relevant authorities.) Yes, this version was released about two years after the Soft Cell version and I believe it was by the same record label as well. Yes, that is Marc Almond.
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