Drive Fast: a Chuck and Blair season one fanmix
It's been a good four years since I posted anything on here and I'm not entirely sure anybody still even really goes on LiveJournal at all anymore, but I made this mix to post on Tumblr and I figured I'd post it here as well.
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So this baby started out as a little EP for all of my Chuck/Blair feels as of late. It slowly progressed into an 18-track monster centered entirely on season one; I thought I would do a short mix for each season, but the way things are going, it may take me until season 6 is done to be finished. But! It does feel nice to be fangirling again: I've always loved fanmixes. They combine three of my favorite things; fandoms, music, and art.
A lot of these songs go along with specific scenes in my mind, but a fair few of them don't, instead going with the general timeline of the season. They chronicle their (unplatonic) relationship which starts with intrigue, slowly building to obsession and denial to angst, and finally reaching a happy reconciliation at the end (I pretended that the end of 1.18 didn't happen for the purposes of this mix).
Anyway, without further ado:
01. THE VIEW FROM THE AFTERNOON | arctic monkeys (beginning of 1.07 Victor, Victrola ; Chuck )
anticipation has a habit to set you up
for disappointment in evening entertainment, but
tonight there'll be some love
tonight there'll be a ruckus yeah regardless of what's gone before
i want to see all of the things that we've already seen
the lairy girls hung out the window of the limousine
02. DIET MOUNTAIN DEW | lana del rey (1.07 Victor, Victrola ; POV: Blair )
you're no good for me, but baby i want you, i want you
diet mountain dew, baby, new york city
never was there ever a girl so pretty...
baby put on heart shaped sunglasses, 'cause we gonna take a ride
i'm not gonna listen to what the past says, i've been waiting up all night
take another drag turn me to ashes, ready for another lie?
says he's gonna teach me just what fast is, say it's gonna be all right
03. VARIATIONS | josh pyke (1.07 Victor, Victrola ; both Chuck and Blair)
well it won't hurt nobody if they don't know
no, it won't hurt nobody if they don't know
we could see it burning in the rear view mirror
but we can't stop now, we turned the radio on
and in later conversations we'll never mention car rides...
if it's all a matter of timing, we're not always happy to find out
we're all variations of one another
04. OUT OF LINE | the bravery (beginning of 1.08 Seventeen Candles ; Chuck)
hey sweet eliza, remember me?
i'm a liar, but not a cheat, no
i think it's safe to say that i get carried away
and liars aren't fooling anyone
forgive me if i'm out of line
i can't control myself sometimes
i think i'm sick but i might be well
i think i'm wrong but it's hard to tell
i think i feel like i've never felt for you
05. WICKED BLOOD | sea wolf (1.08 Seventeen Candles ; POV: Chuck)
i'd wait in the dark, balanced on a thread
and under the church-light, you’re standing there
with your wicked blood and your curls
yeah, under the church-light
you’re standing there in your fur and your pearls
these lines were here long before we came around
yeah, these lines were here
and there's an ember in the rafters and it's going to bring this whole thing down...
your silken skin, my fingers rough
in the midnight dim, we went home and touched
06. TRACE A LINE | au revoir simone (end of 1.08 Seventeen Candles ; Blair)
no one's here and nothing's new
trace a line from me to you...
getting drunk in taxi cabs
and writing names on backs of hands
figuring how to get to you
we're making room for alibis
when something tells me telling lies
is only out of trying to be true
will we never ever learn
that things can go from bad to worse
and worst of all we'd love it if they did
knowing what you said to me
beneath your breast so plain to me
be careful now, we're camping in a corner of the room
you'll be the end of me
07. CAPE COD KWASSA KWASSA | vampire weekend (beginning of 1.10 Hi, Society ; Chuck)
as a young girl, louis vuitton
with your mother, on the sandy lawn
as a sophomore, with reggaeton
and the linens you're sittin' on
is your bed made?
is your sweater on?
do you want to fuck?
like you know i do
like you know i do
08. NOT ABOUT DEBRA | lucky boys confusion (during the debutante ball in 1.10 Hi, Society ; Chuck)
she only comes my way when no one's looking
the dance hall's packed again
move through your body, move to the music
a drink and smoke in hand
with anticipation for innovation
she says she feels the words
through them she's venting, unrelenting
guilt trips come in slurs driving her into the floor...
am i the only one to see
she sleeps with him and thinks about me
09. GET DRUNK | lizzy grant (lana del rey) (end of 1.10 Hi, Society ; Blair)
i am sleeping with your best friend
how do you like me now?
how do you like me now?
come on, get drunk, you know you wanna
i am, you can, won't tell no one bout it...
will i ever get to heaven?
it's not looking good now
10. OKAY I BELIEVE YOU, BUT MY TOMMY GUN DON'T | brand new (Chuck's jealousy after 1.10)
i am heaven sent, don't you dare forget
i am all you've ever wanted, what all the other boys all promised
sorry i told, i just needed you to know
i think in decimals and dollars
i am the cause to all your problems
shelter from cold, we are never alone
coordinate brain and mouth
then ask me what it’s like to have myself so figured out...
we're concentrating on falling apart
we were contenders, we're throwing the fight
but i just wanna believe, i just wanna believe
i just wanna believe in us
11. A STONE | okkervil river (Chuck's thoughts on Nate and Blair after 1.10)
hot breath, rough skin, warm laughs and smiling
the loveliest words whispered and meant
you like all these things
but, though you like all these things, you love a stone…
and you'd love most to be told that it's all your own…
and i'm found too fast, called too fond of flames
and then i'm phoning my friends
and then i'm shouldering the blame
while you're picking pebbles out of the drain, miles ago
you're out singing songs and i'm down shouting names
at the flickerless screen, going fucking insane
am i losing my cool, overstating my case?
well, baby what can I say?…
and i think i believe that if stones could dream
they'd dream of being laid side-by-side, piece-by-piece
and turned into a castle for some towering queen they're unable to know
and when that queen's daughter came of age
i think she'd be lovely and stubborn and brave
and suitors would journey from kingdoms away
just to make themselves known
and i think that i know the bitter dismay
of a lover who brought fresh bouquets every day
when she turned him away to remember some knave
who once gave just one rose, one day, years ago
12. NOBODY LISTENS TO SILENCE | ryan adams (1.13 The Thin Line Between Chuck & Nate ; Chuck)
you lose your spot in your long line of losses
oh, no second chances
you dream your sweaty brow into the pocket
and the pit becomes something with no bottom under it
while she fucks him like a fucking machine
greased to the bolts till the bolts come up and her dress goes limp
torn from her leg to the seam
from the seam to her leg, listening to her saying his name and beg
nobody listens to silence like your girl
nobody listens to silence like your girl
with your ears to the door and eyes to the keyhole …
and you got to school you're broken up
your signal went static, your killer confessed
and your soda went flat, your arm went numb
you smoked until your voice went old, stinking with rum and bugs in the kitchen
so fuck between the lines, looking for highlights
she loves him like her man
smoking cigarettes with him on the edge of the bed
13. DIRTY BUSINESS | the dresden dolls (1.13 The Thin Line Between Chuck & Nate ; Blair)
queen takes jack
you got me this time, but i'll get you back
so pick a number…
she's the kind of girl who looks for love in all the lonely places
the kind who comes to poker, pockets stuffed with kings and aces
she's the kind of girl who only asks you over when it’s raining
just to make you lie there catching water dripping from the ceiling…
to all the ones that hated me the most, a toast
you really had me going for a second i was nervous
boy am i the poster girl for some suburban sickness?
better keep a healthy distance
now it's up to you, know what to do
it's pretty dirty business
14. FLATHEAD | the fratellis (general Chuck thoughts on Blair)
well, just because she feeds me well
and she made me talk dirty in a pink hotel
doesn't mean she's got eyes for me
she might just want my bones, you see
hey, flathead, don't you get mean
she's the second best killer that i ever have seen
they don't come much more sick than you
i could go on if you want me to…
everybody knows you're the one to call
when the girls get ugly at the back of the wall
15. BATHWATER | no doubt (general Blair thoughts on Chuck)
you and your museum of lovers
the precious collection you've housed in your covers...
I know I'm diving into my own destruction…
why do the good girls always want the bad boys?
16. WHISTLE FOR THE CHOIR | the fratellis (1.18 Much "I Do" About Nothing ; Chuck)
well it's a big, big city and it's always the same
can never be too pretty, tell me your name
is it out of line if i was to be bold and say "would you be mine"?
because i may be a beggar and you may be the queen
i know i may be on a downer i'm still ready to dream
though it's three o'clock, the time is just the time it takes for you to talk
so if you're lonely, why'd you say you're not lonely
oh you're a silly girl i know i hurt it so
it's just like you to come and go…
a girl like you's just irresistible
well it's a big, big city and the lights are all out
but it's as much as i can do you know to figure you out
and i must confess, my heart's in broken pieces and my head's a mess
17. FALLING IS LIKE THIS | ani difranco (1.18 Much "I Do" About Nothing ; Blair)
feels like reckless driving when we're talking
it's fun while it lasts, and it's faster than walking
but no one's going to sympathize when we crash
they'll say "you hit what you head for, you get what you ask"
and we'll say we didn't know, we didn't even try
one minute there was road beneath us, the next just sky…
we can't fight gravity on a planet that insists
that love is like falling
and falling is like this
18. WE'RE ON OUR WAY | radical face (1.18 Much "I Do" About Nothing ; both Chuck and Blair)
well, oh, it seems you're a lot like me
you dug yourself into places
you never thought you would be…
yeah, tomorrow i might wake up nice and clean
and i might believe the things i said i didn't mean
and this might turn and wind up just the way we'd dreamed
and i might become the things i swore I'd always be
well, we're always on our way
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