i completely blame the
template_rpg chat for this. :|
why yes, this is the more or less complete list of B songs in my various playlists to date. alphabetical order by song, 'cause that's how itunes had it set up.
All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
The Apocalypse Song - St. Vincent
Baby Doll - Cat Power
Bad News - Eels
Barrel Of A Gun - Depeche Mode
Battle for the Sun - Placebo
Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse
Celebrity Skin - Hole
Citizen Erased - Muse
Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits
Creep - Radiohead
A Cure - Blonde Redhead
Deep Red - Apoptygma Berzerk
Deep Red Bells - Neko Case
Dirty Knife - Neko Case
Falling Man - Blonde Redhead
Firecracker - Voxtrot
Firestarter - The Prodigy
The Great Beyond - Aimee Mann
Hate This And I'll Love You - Muse
Heart And Soul - Joy Division
Help I'm Alive - Metric
Hi - Psapp
How's It Gonna End - Tom Waits
I Have Not Been to Oxford Town - David Bowie
I Seen What I Saw - 16 Horsepower
I've Seen Enough - Cold War Kids
Infra-Red - Placebo
Jump They Say - David Bowie
Knife Chase - Tom Waits
Leave It Open - Kate Bush
Low Estate - 16 Horsepower
"M" Is For Morphine - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
Machine in the Ghost - The Faint
Marche Funebre - Soap&Skin
Megalomania - Muse
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Messenger - Blonde Redhead [w/David Sylvian]
Missing Pieces - Voxtrot
More Than I Can - Jane Jensen
New Born - Muse
No One Knows I'm Gone - Scarlett Johansson [Tom Waits]
Red Right Hand - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
A Red So Deep - Cursive
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Search And Destroy - The Stooges
Set the Wood on Fire - Art in Manila
Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists
Showbiz - Muse
Siamese Twins - The Cure
Snail Song - A Particularly Vicious Rumor
Space Dementia - Muse
A Strange Day - The Cure
Sugarless - Autolux
The Sweat Descends - Art In Manila
Talk Show Host - Radiohead
Tin Finger - Woven Hand
Twilight Galaxy - Metric
Use Once & Destroy - Hole
We Know Where You Sleep - The Paper Chase
Where You'll Find Me Now - Neutral Milk Hotel
White Chalk - PJ Harvey
Winning - Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
Wire - U2
With A Good Criminal Heart - The World/Inferno Friendship Society
The Woodlands National Anthem - The Arcade Fire
[last updated 2 July 2009]
i'm also open to suggestions. &hearts
part two, wherein i ramble at length about my top five quintessential B songs, can be found
here.