"Waiting" - The Playlist

[deleteuser_184321]

This thread is heavily inspired by a thread from last application season, but I thought I'd give re-birth to the idea of using music to obsess about cope with the waiting period.

I'll start with a combination of songs from last application season and a few of my personal additions:

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing - Jack Johnson

This is The Day - The The

Are We the Waiting - Green Day

Survivor - Destiny's Child

Stronger - Kelly Clarkson

Under Pressure - Queen

Don't Stop Believin' - Journey

Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson

Everything's Alright - Jesus Christ Superstar

There is Life Outside Your Apartment - Avenue Q The Musical

I'm Calm - Jack Gilford

Take a Chance on Me - Abba

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day

Maneater - Daryl Hall

I'm a Believer - The Monkees

This is Your Life - Dropkick Murphys

Don't Stop Me Now - Queen

You Make My Dreams - Daryl Hall

[bellefast]

Ah, good choices. I have been stuck on Mary Jane-Rick James for some reason

[litjust]

Oh, the waiting! My playlist is a montage of metaphors in three parts:

1) The first tracks are "acceptance wishes"

I Want You (She's So Heavy) - The Beatles

River of Life/The Yes Song - Mia Doi Todd

Come Together - The Beatles

Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest

Waiting for You - Ben Harper

Possibly Maybe - Bjork

Dreamland - Bob Marley and The Wailers

She Talks to Angels - The Black Crows

2) The next tracks are the "letdown blues"

Alone - Ben Harper

Brain Stew - Green Day

Worthy - Ani DiFranco

Creep - Radiohead

Sailing to Nowhere - Broken Bells

Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana

Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be) - Sly & The Family Stone

Machine Gun - Jimi Hendrix

Heartbeats - Jose Gonzalez

Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Union Forever - The White Stripes

3) The last tracks are my confidence boosters

Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - Digable Planets

Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) - Maxwell

You Are the Best Thing - Ray LaMontagne

Carnival - Natalie Merchant

Black Velveteen - Lenny Kravitz

32 Flavors - Ani DiFranco

Definition - Blackstar

You Got Me - The Roots

So Fresh, So Clean - Outkast

We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes

[lslavic12]

Love this topic! Good way to kill time, get new tunes, and dwell in a bit of self-pity!

In no particular fashion… so basically totally random… scattered like my brain right now in this period of agonizing WAIT

Waiting Around to Die- The Lemonheads

The Right Profile- The Clash

Waiting- Little Red

Harold T. Wilkins, or How to Wait for a Very Long Time- Fanfarlo

Little More Time- Zox

Time On Your Side- Emily Jane White

Like the Wheel- The Tallest Man on Earth

Wait- The Beatles

Don’t Stop (Color on the Walls)- Foster the People

You Lost My Mind- Sam Phillips

Nowhere Fast- The Smiths

Waiting For My Chance to Come- Noah and the Whale

To Rise Above- Gogol Bordello

I Say A Little Prayer- Dionne Warwick

Take Me Somewhere- Cape Dory

L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N.- Noah and the Whale

Sounds Like Hallelujah- The Head and the Heart

I Want You- Bob Dylan

Countdown- Phoenix

[OnceAndFutureGrad]

Hello from the metal and punk side! Here are my songs of joy:

Ensiferum - Victory Song

Flogging Molly - Back of a Broken Dream

Korpiklaani - Journeyman ("Narrow road behind me/I never look back")

And of despair:

Tiger Army - Under Saturn's Shadow

Turisas - The Bosphorus Freezes Over ("I felt betrayed and disappointed/Was that really it?")

Solefald - Crater of the Valkyries ("Here I lie/like a dead man...Here I am as nobody")

Einherjer - Ironbound ("The torture never stops!")

The Sword - Winter's Wolves

Tyr - Sand in the Wind ("Like grains of sand in the winter wind/So is all existence")

And to get me excited about grad school things:

Bad Religion - You've Got a Chance

Authority Zero - Find Your Way

Turisas - The Great Escape ("Tilt the galley over/For no emperor nor chain will stand in my way!")

As you can see I'm better at consoling myself than celebrating

[logik36]

I've only recently gotten into dubstep, so trying to pass the time with a crash course in the genre.

Tonne of late nights finishing up my last undergrad term, and well, stressing out about my graduate school applications, so 'Niraya - Symphony of the Night' has been playing a lot.

[lexicana]

My favorite song has been Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa). I listen to it when I work out and always feel super inspired by the words. I found it very inspiring last year (when I was waitlisted at 3 of the 4 places, never making it off the waitlist) and have found it even more inspiring round two. As I work out I listen to the words and think about how great it will feel when I finally get accepted. I have to warn you though that I listen to the Spanish version and find that it is much better than the English version.

[PrescribedBurn]

Last year when my sister was applying, I made her a CD after she got in that was supposed to represent the grad school process. Some of them were specific to her research interests and location, but here's a selection:

I Wish I Could Go Back to College (from Avenue Q)

It'll All Work Out- Tom Petty

Woo Hoo-The 5.6.7.8.s

Dancing in the Street-Martha and the Vandellas

Be True to Your School-Beach Boys

Science is Real- They Might Be Giants

Put it to the Test- They Might Be Giants

and then there were just a bunch of songs about California, because that's where her school is. Sorry, not a lot of waiting songs, I know. But the Tom Petty one is a great one.

[gellert]

accepted playlist:

Defying Gravity - Wicked OST

Dog Days Are Over - Florence + The Machine

Weightless - All Time Low

rejected playlist:

Perfect - Glee Cast Version

Someone Like You - Adele

Loser Like Me - Glee Cast Version

The Show Must Go On - Queen

It Doesn't Hurt - Katie Thompson

waiting playlist:

Misery - Glee Cast Version

SuperBass - Nicki Minaj

Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine

Sleep the Clock Around - Belle and Sebastian

The Edge of Glory - Lady GaGa

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

The Dark of the Matinee - Franz Ferdinand

...You can tell what I'm most concerned with at the moment (and which playlists I've barely bothered to create because I think I'll never have the need to listen to them).

[LinguisticMystic]

I'm a bit obsessed with Porcupine Tree, so here is my all-Porcupine Tree playlist:

What Happens Now?

The Sleep of No Dreaming

A Smart Kid

Waiting (Phases 1 & 2)

The Start of Something Beautiful

Arriving Somewhere but Not Here

This Long Silence

Cure for Optimism

Access Denied

Idiot Prayer

Stupid Dream

Great Expectations

[coonskee]

YES to The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want.

Haven't really bothered creating a playlist - the only things I've been listening to recently are podcasts on the areas of biology in which I'm interested

[LLajax]

Hall and Oates- You Make My Dreams ("what I got, you want, it might be hard to handle") That's also my major pump up song (walking to exams snapping my fingers like I'm a member of the Sharks/Jets on my way to a dance fight).

I second Abba- Take A Chance on Me!

[LLajax]

These are all great suggestions! I've combined most of the songs so far and made a playlist on sharemyplaylists.com that can be opened on spotify (a free and legal music software program). Unfortunately, because of licensing, all of the Beatles tracks and some of the White Stripes and Adele tracks are not available. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/zteBMP

Genius! Mad props to Allport!

[litjust]

These are all great suggestions! I've combined most of the songs so far and made a playlist on sharemyplaylists.com that can be opened on spotify (a free and legal music software program). Unfortunately, because of licensing, all of the Beatles tracks and some of the White Stripes and Adele tracks are not available. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/zteBMP

AWESOME!!!

[che psyra psyra]

"Big Sur" by Mason Jennings has been pretty much been on repeat. That guy just chills me out, and I dig on the line "future is as future does". Okay, Mason, I'll dial back the crazy for a minute.

[bdon19]

So some of these are really only tangentially related to waiting...

"Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken" -- Camera Obscura (just insert any school name for Lloyd)

"Cheer Up You Miserable Fuck" -- David Ford

"Saturn's Light" -- Deb Talan (songs about looking for love seem to be particularly appropriate...)

"Helplessness Blues" -- Fleet Foxes

"When Your Mind's Made Up" -- Once OST (if they reject me, well, there's nothing I can do!)

"Lost in My Mind" -- The Head and the Heart

"I Want to Belong to You" -- Katie Herzig (sense a trend here?)

"Racing Like a Pro" -- The National

"Slow Descent into Alcoholism" -- The New Pornographers (so true, so true)

"Pictures of Success" -- Rilo Kiley

"I Don't Wanna Wait" -- Rosi Golan

"Call Me Back" -- The Strokes

"Hope Tomorrow" -- The Weepies

"Lighting Candles" -- The Weepies ("Trying not to hope too hard for what I want / Trying not to go too far with all the dreaming." Enough said.)

And there's one song I've refused to play until I've gotten at least one acceptance (or rejections from every school): "Not Your Year" by the Weepies. It's too foreboding right now.

[socihealth]

Accepted:

Its raining men - The Weather Girls

Top of the world - The Carpenters

Waiting:

Super Bass - Nicki Minaj

Rejected:

Bruises - Chairlift

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckely Version

[Athenrein]

I'm a bit obsessed with Porcupine Tree, so here is my all-Porcupine Tree playlist:

Heh, I've got an all-Porcupine Tree playlist too. Must be a linguistics thing.

Other current favorites: Spock's Beard (Skeletons at the Feast), Herbie Hancock (the Future 2 Future album), Janelle Monae (Cold War & Many Moons), and Amanda Palmer (Leeds United). Also, the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog soundtrack.

[wlkwih2]

While refreshing my inbox:

Simon & Garfunkel - Why Don't You Write Me

[Ameonna]

My interview prep playlist (to keep my confidence up):

Muse - Knights of Cydonia

Miss Kittin - Kittin is High

Queen - We Will Rock You

DJ Tiesto - Walking on Clouds

Kerli - Walking on Air

Dan Bern - Tiger Woods

La Roux - Bulletproof

La Roux - In for the Kill (Let's Get Ravey Remix)

Origa - Rise

Then, if I end up actually doing well, it's gonna be Queen - We Are the Champions.

Edited January 19, 2012 by Ameonna

[Jane_Eyre]

I definitely need to start listening to some of the above-listed songs, but for the sake of comedic relief I would like to add a little gem my aunt sent me last night. Guess she knew I needed a good laugh. http://pbskids.org/rogers/songLyricsLetsThinkOfSomethingToDo.html Enjoy!

[mallorn]

Sorry to bump this but I can't believe no one has mentioned The Final Countdown by Europe. The perfect waiting song, surely!

Others:

The Beatles- You Never Give Me Your Money

Queen and Davie Bowie- Under Pressure

Audioslave- Like a Stone

Abba- Take a Chance on Me

Florence + the Machine- Shake it Out

Overall general positive song: Queen- Don't Stop Me Now

[cunninlynguist]

I'll only use tracks released within the last year or so to retain some connection to the application process.

Accepted:

Victory Laps - MF DOOM & Ghostface Killah

Eyes in the Sky - Immortal Technique

Who Da Neighbors - Juicy J

Victorious People - Zion I & The Grouch

Waiting:

4Eva and a Day - Big K.R.I.T.

The Grand Illusion - Pharoahe Monch

Check to Check - Apathy

The Only One - Blu & Exile

Rejected:

So Cold - Future

Get Ignorant - Cunninlynguists

What The Hell - Gucci Mane

Check My Resume - 2 Chainz

[wlkwih2]

Sorry to bump this but I can't believe no one has mentioned The Final Countdown by Europe. The perfect waiting song, surely!

Totally! Just posted that one on FB. It's just a matter of days, and it's killing me.

[GreenePony]

I definitely need to start listening to some of the above-listed songs, but for the sake of comedic relief I would like to add a little gem my aunt sent me last night. Guess she knew I needed a good laugh. http://pbskids.org/r...ethingToDo.html Enjoy!

I sent this to my friend who is also waiting. It's perfect!

For those in the manic/neurotic phase of waiting, I would recommend some Django Rheinhart. If I can't sit still, I might as well as listen to music that really won't let me (Devil in the Deep Blue Sea, Django's Tiger, and Minor Swing especially)

Edited January 27, 2012 by GreenePony