The SBC Community Mixtape #19

[HawkbitAlpha]

Good morning, world, and all who inhabit it! [falls down stairs]

...okay, ow. Anyway, welcome back to the SBC Community Mixtape, where we bring together only the best musics our members have to offer. I've woken up this morning feeling oddly nostalgic for a fairly recent point in time for music, and that's led me to finally decide on our next theme. At the risk of jinxing things, I've decided that, this time, we'll be recapturing the mood of:

QUARANTINE BLUES

No matter who you are, I think we can all agree that this time 4 years ago was some degree of exceptionally miserable. For that exact reason, one of the earlier Community Mixtapes was all about music we used to keep our stress levels down. This is a similar idea, but more specific: I want to get an idea of what all of y'all were listening to in order to preserve your sanity during the suffering that was the lockdown spring/summer of 2020. Whether it was new songs from the time, or older ones that you found yourself revisiting more than usual, our idea here is to make a bit of a time capsule. Let's have at it!

The rules:

• There's no set length limits per submission, but try not to go too overboard.
• Try to post your submissions using a Spotify playlist. If this is not possible for you, at least make sure that all of your submissions are available on Spotify.
• Joke/troll entries can and most likely will be excluded.
• No repeat entries (can't submit the same thing as somebody else).

The deadline for submissions will be next Saturday, August 3rd. Until then, I need to file a lawsuit against Pfizer for not giving me the 5G receptors that anti-vaxxers promised me.

Spoiler

HawkbitAlpha:
Chris Stapleton - Might As Well Get Stoned
Sturgill Simpson - All Around You
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
Linkin Park, Kiiara - Heavy (feat. Kiiara)
Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande - Rain On Me (with Ariana Grande)
Dream Theater - Take the Time

Steel Sponge:
Taylor Swift - ‘tis the damn season
The Killers - Caution
Charli xcx - i finally understand
Foals - Exits
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Linkin Park - Iridescent
Coldplay - Violet Hill
Joji - Run

Jjs Goodman:
The Naked And Famous - Young Blood
The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved
Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven
The Killers - Dying Breed

SBManiac:
They Might Be Giants - I Lost Thursday
Dexys Midnight Runners - Tell Me When My Light Turns Green - 2000 Remaster
Prince - In A Large Room With No Light - 2020 Remaster
Car Seat Headrest - Something Soon
Eglass beach - bedroom community
Morfonica - Daylight -デイライト-
SOPHIE - JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE

4EverGreen:
Heart - What About Love?
Heart - Never
Heart - Alone
Michael McDonald, Patti LaBelle - On My Own
Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
The Doobie Brothers, James Taylor - Takin' It to the Streets
Aerosmith - Livin' On The Edge
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
Culture Club - Time (Clock of the Heart)
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?

Fred:
Matchbox Twenty - Bright Lights
ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man - 2008 Remaster
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Avril Lavigne - Complicated
The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It

 

[Steel Sponge]

Some of my "quarantine cope songs" were some of the same songs that I submitted for the 15th mixtape ("The Bones," "Hypersonic Missiles," "Lovers in Japan"), so I already knew that I would have to go over my own music listening archives (i.e. my RYM ratings or Spotify adds from that year) for this:

(Viva la Vida was pretty much my definitive lockdown album)

[Jjs Goodman]

 

[SBManiac]

Yeah…I kinda struggled with this one as well since I didn’t really keep tabs on what I was listening to that year, and it just so happened to be the one year I had a smartphone that wasn’t from Apple, so nothing was saved to my iCloud, obvi. Because of all that, the timeline for this one is going to be roughly 2019-2021. It’s still stuff that I listened to back then but with a fuzzier chronology behind it lel. Also, this was around the time I first started to reckon with me being a trans woman, so there may be more queer artists on my mixtape contribution than usual lel. Finally, the Bang Dream song, which I did listen to at the time, just kicks ass, tbh. Enjoy, and get vaccinated, peeps!

 

[4EverGreen]

Here's my playlist choices. /

1. "What About Love?" Heart. 2. "Never" Heart. 3. "Alone" Heart. 4. "On My Own" Michael McDonald and Patti LaBelle. 5. "Sweet Freedom" Michael McDonald. 6. "Taking It To The Streets" The Doobie Brothers. 7. "Living On The Edge" Aerosmith. 8. "Wake Me Up When September Ends" Green Day. 9. "Time (Clock Of The Heart)" Culture Club. /

I hope you enjoy this list as much as I did coming up with it!

[Slippin' Freddy]

 

[HawkbitAlpha]

Vaccinate me, baby!