Bandom Big Bang Mix Notes
My notes for the mix I did for romanticalgirl's 'Butch and Sundance.'
Story and music are here.
Track: So Hard Done By/The Tragically Hip
Quote: “I want it noted that I’m going under protest… And I hate you.”
Lyrics: Yeah, that’s awful close but that’s not why/I’m so hard done by
Notes: Poor, poor put-upon Patrick.
Track: I Can’t Decide/Scissor Sisters
Quote: His eyes hurt and his back hurts and he has a document on his computer now named “ways2killpete.doc” and a spreadsheet labeled “gabewillsufferohyes.xls”.
Lyrics: I can’t decide whether you should live or die/ oh you’ll probably go to heaven/ please don’t hang your head and cry…
Notes: I liked this song for both Patrick at the airport, and the scenes of Gabe’s wild driving, because Patrick’s trying to hang on to his grumpiness, but I felt like even arriving in Uruguay started to change his attitude, like there was a lighter note to the story.
Track: Lazy Days/Robbie Williams
Quote: He’s also relaxing, which is part of what this hiatus is for, at least in theory. Gabe takes him places - nightclubs and beaches and private family parties. He gets his picture taken like a normal person, not by half-crazed paparazzi thinking he’s someone worth telling the world about.
Lyrics: Now you can be sure love is the cure/ what we're searching for/ is to have a jolly good time
Notes: I really wanted to get some Robbie Williams in this mix, because I think there’s a parallel between his kind of music, and Gabe’s - very tongue in cheek, very pop, very much not taking itself to seriously, but when you listen to it, there’s substance.
Track: Qué Onda Guero/Beck
Quote: Patrick keeps trying to leave the sombrero behind, but Gabe either sees it and snags it and slaps it back on his head or he hears a faint, pardon, senor, and someone’s handing it back to him.
Lyrics: See the vegetable man/ in the vegetable van/ with a horn that's honking/ like a mariachi band
Notes: Qué Onda Guero means, to the best of my internet searching capabilities, ‘what’s up white boy?’ The whole scene of Gabe dragging Patrick around taking humiliating pictures just cried out for this song to me. Plus I love the rhythm of it.
Track: Los Angeles Waltz/Razorlight
Quote: “Even worse, I let myself be used, and so I kind of hate myself too, and I hate Saporta and it’s a damn good thing we’re on hiatus because I don’t know that I want to hang around with you right now…”
Lyrics: And I know it's not easy/ when you don't get what you deserve
Notes: I chose this song for the title, and the sort of wistful tone. It has that post-vacation let-down, melancholy air to it. Plus it starts the underlying connection of several of the songs in this mix with references to L.A.
Track: Come Around/Counting Crows
Quote: The problem is that Los Angeles is…Los Angeles. It’s filled with people he doesn’t want to see doing things he doesn’t want to do. He spends a lot of his time at Pete and Ashlee’s place…
Lyrics: Have you seen the little pieces/of the people we have been/ little pieces blowing gently on the wind/they have flown down California/ they have landed in L.A./ little pieces slowly settling on the waves
Notes: I liked the idea that Patrick was scattered, and also that a big cause of that was that he’d left a piece of himself with Gabe. This song is one of my favorites off Counting Crow’s latest album, and of course, references Los Angeles.
Track: California English/Vampire Weekend
Quote: Patrick’s in hell. Not just any hell either. It’s a special type of Hollywood hell that he’s pretty sure even Dante couldn’t have dreamed up.
Lyrics: Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say/ living like the French Connection, but we'll die in LA
Notes: What I love about this song is that it sounds like I feel when I’m at a party I’m uncomfortable with, like little snippets of conversation going on around you that you can barely understand, like everyone’s speaking another language, when maybe in fact it’s just California English. Also, if the song disconnects your brain like it does mine, the lyrics are here.
Track: Who Do You Love/Bo Diddley
Quote: “Patrick Stump. You have a fucking girlfriend and you don’t fucking tell me? What? Do I embarrass you? Because she’s not much of a girlfriend if she’s unaware that I come part and parcel with you, dude.”
Lyrics: I walk 47 miles of barbed wire/ I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
Notes: I wanted to add some more soulful, blues-y numbers in honor of Patrick, and how could I resist one that references cobras?
Track: A Boy Like That/Selena
Quote: Seeing Cobra Starship in all its glory is a little overwhelming. No. Seeing Gabe is overwhelming.
Lyrics: A boy like that will give you sorrow/ You'll meet another boy tomorrow/ One of your own kind/ Stick to your own kind!
Notes: More Spanish - I think I used every song in my library that had any Spanish in it. Plus I needed to keep up my (second) annual tradition of shoe-horning a song from West Side Story into all BBB playlists. I also felt like at this point in the story, Patrick sees Gabe as out of his league, which isn’t exactly what this song means by ‘stick to your own kind,’ but I chose to interpret it that way.
Track: Unrequited / Ani DiFranco
Quote: There’s no chance that anyone can hear them over the rest of the party, but she drops her voice anyway. “How long have you had a thing for Gabe?”
Heat flares inside him and Patrick shakes his head, even though it’s clear from Ashlee’s face that she’s not buying it. “I don’t know what you mean.”
Lyrics: But all the theories/ that he recited/ played like the song/ of the unrequited
Notes: I picked this song mostly for the title, although I think it parallels the story in that the reason for the unrequited love is talking yourself out of trying. Also, up until the point I’d picked A Boy Like That, I’d intended for this to be an all-male-vocalist playlist, so I was pleased to add another female vocalist to add symmetry.
Track: Jealousy / Queen
Quote: “What about your someone?” He doesn’t actually wait for an answer, just pushes off with his feet, turning the bike and wobbling away.
Lyrics: I wasn’t man enough/ to let you hurt my pride/ now I’m only left with my own jealousy
Notes: Okay, this is my all-time favorite Queen song. I’ve loved it since I was five, and it’s super fun to sing along with. It was the first song to be added to the playlist, since as soon as I read the scene it popped right into my head.
Track: Might Tell You Tonight / Scissor Sisters
Quote: “I don’t know, man.” Gabe casts a quick glance at him, and Patrick has to duck his head to hide his smile. “She thought you were pretty cute.”
Lyrics: And I just might say it tonight/ and I just might tell you tonight that I love you/ and you should stay all my life
Notes: Okay, okay, I know - two Scissor Sisters songs in the same mix, and from the same album even! I couldn’t help myself! I put this in here, because in this scene I felt there was a hopeful moment, where they started talking again, and I thought they might be about to clear the air, right before everything went to hell.
Track: I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / The Smiths
Quote: “Gabe. Wait. That’s not…” He stops, not bothering to finish his thought to the empty air. He spins around and kicks the wall hard, whimpering beneath his breath as pain shoots through his ankle. “Fuck.”
Lyrics: Typical me, typical me, typical me/ I started something/ and now I’m not too sure
Notes: And then everything went to hell. That’s the sole purpose of The Smiths - the soundtrack to your heartbreak.
Track: Low Rising / The Swell Season
Quote: Patrick blows out a breath and tosses the last part of his cone in the trash. “Yeah. Yeah, there is. But it’s not really…lunch conversation. Or public conversation or…possibly not even conversation that we should have, but I need to have it, so…”
Lyrics: I want sit you down and talk/ I wanna pull back the veils/ and find out what is I’ve done wrong
Notes: I actually just got this album, and I was going through it for this playlist because I like the male vocalist’s voice (Glen Hansard, he’s the guy from Once, and The Frames). Now I’m totally in love with this song.
Track: Dreamboat 730 / Ringside
Quote: Patrick’s fairly certain that Gabe dances like he fucks, and he can’t help thinking about what it would like to be on the floor with him, on the receiving end of all that attention. In public.
Lyrics: This one’s not about the lyrics, it’s all about the way you grind the rhythm!
Notes: I have to confess, I think this is one of the sexiest songs to dance to, so when I read the dancing scene, it was my first thought. It’s just fun to move to!
Track: These Days Without You / Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Quote: Gabe laughs, his voice raw and throaty. “You mean I’m not going to be your kept man? Damn. Guess I’m going to have to earn my living.”
“I guess so.” Patrick pauses, uncertain of what to say. “Call me tomorrow?”
Lyrics: These days have got me down upon my knees/ Amazed at what I never thought I'd need
Notes: In this song, I liked the sort of mellow, wistful tone of missing someone, and thinking about what you’d do if you could be together again.
Track: If I Was Your Girlfriend / Prince
Quote: “Yeah.” Gabe’s fingers trace Patrick’s jaw. “You’re not going to laugh if I kiss you, are you?”
Lyrics: Could I make you breakfast sometime/ or then, could we just hang out, I mean
Notes: Ok, another shout-out to Patrick! I couldn’t do a playlist for a Patrick/anyone story and not put a Prince song in it! I like this one because it’s about wanting to be your significant other’s best friend, and I thought it had a certain dichotomy for the story, which is about discovering you want to be your friend’s significant other.
Story and music are here.
Track: So Hard Done By/The Tragically Hip
Quote: “I want it noted that I’m going under protest… And I hate you.”
Lyrics: Yeah, that’s awful close but that’s not why/I’m so hard done by
Notes: Poor, poor put-upon Patrick.
Track: I Can’t Decide/Scissor Sisters
Quote: His eyes hurt and his back hurts and he has a document on his computer now named “ways2killpete.doc” and a spreadsheet labeled “gabewillsufferohyes.xls”.
Lyrics: I can’t decide whether you should live or die/ oh you’ll probably go to heaven/ please don’t hang your head and cry…
Notes: I liked this song for both Patrick at the airport, and the scenes of Gabe’s wild driving, because Patrick’s trying to hang on to his grumpiness, but I felt like even arriving in Uruguay started to change his attitude, like there was a lighter note to the story.
Track: Lazy Days/Robbie Williams
Quote: He’s also relaxing, which is part of what this hiatus is for, at least in theory. Gabe takes him places - nightclubs and beaches and private family parties. He gets his picture taken like a normal person, not by half-crazed paparazzi thinking he’s someone worth telling the world about.
Lyrics: Now you can be sure love is the cure/ what we're searching for/ is to have a jolly good time
Notes: I really wanted to get some Robbie Williams in this mix, because I think there’s a parallel between his kind of music, and Gabe’s - very tongue in cheek, very pop, very much not taking itself to seriously, but when you listen to it, there’s substance.
Track: Qué Onda Guero/Beck
Quote: Patrick keeps trying to leave the sombrero behind, but Gabe either sees it and snags it and slaps it back on his head or he hears a faint, pardon, senor, and someone’s handing it back to him.
Lyrics: See the vegetable man/ in the vegetable van/ with a horn that's honking/ like a mariachi band
Notes: Qué Onda Guero means, to the best of my internet searching capabilities, ‘what’s up white boy?’ The whole scene of Gabe dragging Patrick around taking humiliating pictures just cried out for this song to me. Plus I love the rhythm of it.
Track: Los Angeles Waltz/Razorlight
Quote: “Even worse, I let myself be used, and so I kind of hate myself too, and I hate Saporta and it’s a damn good thing we’re on hiatus because I don’t know that I want to hang around with you right now…”
Lyrics: And I know it's not easy/ when you don't get what you deserve
Notes: I chose this song for the title, and the sort of wistful tone. It has that post-vacation let-down, melancholy air to it. Plus it starts the underlying connection of several of the songs in this mix with references to L.A.
Track: Come Around/Counting Crows
Quote: The problem is that Los Angeles is…Los Angeles. It’s filled with people he doesn’t want to see doing things he doesn’t want to do. He spends a lot of his time at Pete and Ashlee’s place…
Lyrics: Have you seen the little pieces/of the people we have been/ little pieces blowing gently on the wind/they have flown down California/ they have landed in L.A./ little pieces slowly settling on the waves
Notes: I liked the idea that Patrick was scattered, and also that a big cause of that was that he’d left a piece of himself with Gabe. This song is one of my favorites off Counting Crow’s latest album, and of course, references Los Angeles.
Track: California English/Vampire Weekend
Quote: Patrick’s in hell. Not just any hell either. It’s a special type of Hollywood hell that he’s pretty sure even Dante couldn’t have dreamed up.
Lyrics: Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say/ living like the French Connection, but we'll die in LA
Notes: What I love about this song is that it sounds like I feel when I’m at a party I’m uncomfortable with, like little snippets of conversation going on around you that you can barely understand, like everyone’s speaking another language, when maybe in fact it’s just California English. Also, if the song disconnects your brain like it does mine, the lyrics are here.
Track: Who Do You Love/Bo Diddley
Quote: “Patrick Stump. You have a fucking girlfriend and you don’t fucking tell me? What? Do I embarrass you? Because she’s not much of a girlfriend if she’s unaware that I come part and parcel with you, dude.”
Lyrics: I walk 47 miles of barbed wire/ I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
Notes: I wanted to add some more soulful, blues-y numbers in honor of Patrick, and how could I resist one that references cobras?
Track: A Boy Like That/Selena
Quote: Seeing Cobra Starship in all its glory is a little overwhelming. No. Seeing Gabe is overwhelming.
Lyrics: A boy like that will give you sorrow/ You'll meet another boy tomorrow/ One of your own kind/ Stick to your own kind!
Notes: More Spanish - I think I used every song in my library that had any Spanish in it. Plus I needed to keep up my (second) annual tradition of shoe-horning a song from West Side Story into all BBB playlists. I also felt like at this point in the story, Patrick sees Gabe as out of his league, which isn’t exactly what this song means by ‘stick to your own kind,’ but I chose to interpret it that way.
Track: Unrequited / Ani DiFranco
Quote: There’s no chance that anyone can hear them over the rest of the party, but she drops her voice anyway. “How long have you had a thing for Gabe?”
Heat flares inside him and Patrick shakes his head, even though it’s clear from Ashlee’s face that she’s not buying it. “I don’t know what you mean.”
Lyrics: But all the theories/ that he recited/ played like the song/ of the unrequited
Notes: I picked this song mostly for the title, although I think it parallels the story in that the reason for the unrequited love is talking yourself out of trying. Also, up until the point I’d picked A Boy Like That, I’d intended for this to be an all-male-vocalist playlist, so I was pleased to add another female vocalist to add symmetry.
Track: Jealousy / Queen
Quote: “What about your someone?” He doesn’t actually wait for an answer, just pushes off with his feet, turning the bike and wobbling away.
Lyrics: I wasn’t man enough/ to let you hurt my pride/ now I’m only left with my own jealousy
Notes: Okay, this is my all-time favorite Queen song. I’ve loved it since I was five, and it’s super fun to sing along with. It was the first song to be added to the playlist, since as soon as I read the scene it popped right into my head.
Track: Might Tell You Tonight / Scissor Sisters
Quote: “I don’t know, man.” Gabe casts a quick glance at him, and Patrick has to duck his head to hide his smile. “She thought you were pretty cute.”
Lyrics: And I just might say it tonight/ and I just might tell you tonight that I love you/ and you should stay all my life
Notes: Okay, okay, I know - two Scissor Sisters songs in the same mix, and from the same album even! I couldn’t help myself! I put this in here, because in this scene I felt there was a hopeful moment, where they started talking again, and I thought they might be about to clear the air, right before everything went to hell.
Track: I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish / The Smiths
Quote: “Gabe. Wait. That’s not…” He stops, not bothering to finish his thought to the empty air. He spins around and kicks the wall hard, whimpering beneath his breath as pain shoots through his ankle. “Fuck.”
Lyrics: Typical me, typical me, typical me/ I started something/ and now I’m not too sure
Notes: And then everything went to hell. That’s the sole purpose of The Smiths - the soundtrack to your heartbreak.
Track: Low Rising / The Swell Season
Quote: Patrick blows out a breath and tosses the last part of his cone in the trash. “Yeah. Yeah, there is. But it’s not really…lunch conversation. Or public conversation or…possibly not even conversation that we should have, but I need to have it, so…”
Lyrics: I want sit you down and talk/ I wanna pull back the veils/ and find out what is I’ve done wrong
Notes: I actually just got this album, and I was going through it for this playlist because I like the male vocalist’s voice (Glen Hansard, he’s the guy from Once, and The Frames). Now I’m totally in love with this song.
Track: Dreamboat 730 / Ringside
Quote: Patrick’s fairly certain that Gabe dances like he fucks, and he can’t help thinking about what it would like to be on the floor with him, on the receiving end of all that attention. In public.
Lyrics: This one’s not about the lyrics, it’s all about the way you grind the rhythm!
Notes: I have to confess, I think this is one of the sexiest songs to dance to, so when I read the dancing scene, it was my first thought. It’s just fun to move to!
Track: These Days Without You / Big Head Todd & the Monsters
Quote: Gabe laughs, his voice raw and throaty. “You mean I’m not going to be your kept man? Damn. Guess I’m going to have to earn my living.”
“I guess so.” Patrick pauses, uncertain of what to say. “Call me tomorrow?”
Lyrics: These days have got me down upon my knees/ Amazed at what I never thought I'd need
Notes: In this song, I liked the sort of mellow, wistful tone of missing someone, and thinking about what you’d do if you could be together again.
Track: If I Was Your Girlfriend / Prince
Quote: “Yeah.” Gabe’s fingers trace Patrick’s jaw. “You’re not going to laugh if I kiss you, are you?”
Lyrics: Could I make you breakfast sometime/ or then, could we just hang out, I mean
Notes: Ok, another shout-out to Patrick! I couldn’t do a playlist for a Patrick/anyone story and not put a Prince song in it! I like this one because it’s about wanting to be your significant other’s best friend, and I thought it had a certain dichotomy for the story, which is about discovering you want to be your friend’s significant other.