{"id":11045,"date":"2022-03-11T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11045"},"modified":"2022-03-12T11:54:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T16:54:12","slug":"playlist-for-times-of-war-and-tumult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11045","title":{"rendered":"Playlist for times of war and tumult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, while playing one of the computer games from the renowned Fallout series (to those unfamiliar with it: the games are set in an alternate retrofuturistic world, centuries after the apocalypse of the Great War of 2077 that ended civilization &#8212; in-game radio stations, however, play music mostly from the Golden Age of American radio, from the 1930s to the 1950s, including the iconic <em>I don&#8217;t want to set the world on fire<\/em> by The Ink Spots) I put together a &#8220;doomsday&#8221; playlist of songs I want to listen to while I await the fateful flash. (Here in Ottawa Lowertown, chances are that we will see the flash but won&#8217;t live long enough to hear the kaboom.)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1em;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s4VlruVG81w\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Unfortunately I have no public links: the MP3 files reside on my computer along with the playlist itself. But I thought I&#8217;d share the list nonetheless, as most of the songs are easy to find. In any case, I think the titles alone tell a story.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>I don&#8217;t want to set the world on fire<\/em> \u2013 The Ink Spots<\/li>\n<li><em>Bad Moon Rising<\/em> \u2013 Creedence Clearwater Revival<\/li>\n<li><em>Is That All There Is<\/em> \u2013 Peggy Lee<\/li>\n<li><em>Yesterday<\/em> \u2013 The Beatles<\/li>\n<li><em>C&#8217;est la vie<\/em> \u2013 Emerson, Lake and Palmer<\/li>\n<li><em>Non, je ne regrette rien<\/em> \u2013 Edith Piaf<\/li>\n<li><em>I did it my way<\/em> \u2013 Frank Sinatra<\/li>\n<li><em>99 Luftballons<\/em> \u2013 Nena<\/li>\n<li><em>Here is the news &#8211; 21st century man<\/em> \u2013 Electric Light Orchestra<\/li>\n<li><em>Mother &#8211; In the flesh<\/em> \u2013 Pink Floyd<\/li>\n<li><em>Rejoice in the Sun<\/em> \u2013 Joan Baez<\/li>\n<li><em>Adios Nonino<\/em> \u2013 Astor Piazzolla<\/li>\n<li><em>Blondie &#8211; Philip Glass remix<\/em> \u2013 Daft Beatles<\/li>\n<li><em>November<\/em> \u2013 Tom Waits<\/li>\n<li><em>Brazil<\/em> \u2013 Geoff Muldaur<\/li>\n<li><em>Strange fruit<\/em> \u2013 Billie Holiday<\/li>\n<li><em>Sway (from Dark City)<\/em> \u2013 Anita Kelsey<\/li>\n<li><em>Kurt Weill&#8217;s Ballad of the soldier&#8217;s wife<\/em> \u2013 P. J. Harvey<\/li>\n<li><em>Sweet Dreams<\/em> \u2013 Eurythmics<\/li>\n<li><em>Round midnight<\/em> \u2013 Thelonious Monk<\/li>\n<li><em>We&#8217;ll meet again<\/em> \u2013 Vera Lynn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you have it.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11045' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, while playing one of the computer games from the renowned Fallout series (to those unfamiliar with it: the games are set in an alternate retrofuturistic world, centuries after the apocalypse of the Great War of 2077 that ended civilization &#8212; in-game radio stations, however, play music mostly from the Golden Age of <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=11045' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-politics","category-25-id","category-4-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11045"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11054,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11045\/revisions\/11054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}