Ich erstelle sehr gerne Playlists und bei manchen Büchern fallen mir beim Lesen unglaublich viele Songs ein, die einen super Soundtrack dazu abgeben würden. So ging’s mir jetzt auch mit Anna K. vom Jenny Lee, und ich habe das ganze mal auf 10 Songs herunter gebrochen. Warum die meiner Meinung nach gut passen, erkläre ich im weiteren, aber Achtung! Es sind Spoiler in den Erklärungen.
Schlagwort: mixtape
[Mixtape] YER NOTHING
“What a sad thing men are. Can’t do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can’t build something without tearing it down.
It ain’t the Spackle that drove us to the end.
It was ourselves.”
― Patrick Ness: Monsters of Men
Die Chaos Walking Reihe hat mich mehr mitgerissen als ich erwartet hätte. Von Band zu Band steigert sich die Geschichte, die Ereignisse überschlagen sich und es werden so viele interessante Thematiken angeschnitten… von allen dystopischen Reihen im Jugendbuchbereich, die ich bisher gelesen habe, hat mich diese am meisten mitgenommen. Beim Lesen von The Ask and the Answer und Monsters of Men sind mir immer wieder Lieder eingefallen, die für mich so gut zur Geschichte gepasst haben, dass ich sie nebenbei einfach hören musste – aus diesen Liedern setzt sich dieses Mixtape zusammen.
- Bullet For My Valentine: You Want A Battle? (Here’s A War)
»Here’s a war!
Here’s a war!«
Der Krieg zwischen verschiedenen Parteien zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch die gesamte Chaos Walking Reihe… - Emilie Autumn: Dead Is The New Alive (Manipulator Mix By Dope Stars Inc)
»What is day without a blessed night?
And what is peace without a blessed fight?«
Die Logik von David Prentiss und Nicola Coyle. - Thirty Seconds To Mars: The Fantasy
»Say it, say it, say what you believe«
(I AM THE CIRCLE AND THE CIRCLE IS ME) - Radiohead: Idioteque
»I’ll laugh until my head comes off, I swallow till I burst«
Idioteque wird dem dritten Band vorweg gestellt, und passt sehr gut zu den Geschehnissen – besonders während der Kampfszenen! - Pocahontas Soundtrack: Savages , Part 1
»They’re not like you and me which means they must be evil
We must sound the drums of war!« - Bullet For My Valentine: Army Of Noise
»We will not fall / Brothers in arms / We will deploy our army, an army of noise« - Patrick Wolf: Oblivion
»(I hear you…but I’m not afraid of you)«
Todd/David und Viola/Nicola - Roby Fayer ft. Tom Genfen: Ready To Fight
»I’ve been there before, hoping and trying to make things right, but now I don’t know«
Todd und Viola, die auf zwei unterschiedlichen Seiten für das selbe Ziel kämpfen - All Good Things: Love And War
»I was just a boy«
„You went up a girl and came down a woman.” – Patrick Ness: Monsters of Men - Woodkid: Run Boy Run (Instrumental)
Das Lied, welches die ganze Reihe wiederspiegelt. - Alpines: Empire
»I’m building an empire, so little time and so much to do«
David Prentiss und Nicola Coyle sind die Gegenstücke zu Todd und Viola, beide mit eigenen Zielen und Vorstellungen, wie New World organisiert sein sollte. - Placebo: Fuck U
»Can’t believe you were once just like anyone else, then you grew and became like the devil himself«
Die Beziehung zwischen Todd und David Prentiss ist unheimlich vielschichtig und kompliziert… und springt zwischen vielen Extremen hin und her. - Mumford & Sons: Little Lion Man
»I really fucked it up this time
Didn’t I, my dear?« - Marina And The Diamonds: Savages
»Murder lives forever and so does war […] I’m not afraid of God, I am afraid of Man!« - Florence + The Machine: Shake It Out (Acoustic)
„It’s always darkest before the dawn, Todd.“ – Patrick Ness: Monsters of Men - Poets of the Fall: War
»When I thought that I fought this war alone, you were there by my side on the frontline / When I thought that I fought without a cause, you gave me a reason to try«
[Todd] - Death Cab For Cutie: What Sarah Said
»But I’m thinking of what Sarah said that „Love is watching someone die“… so who’s going to watch you die?«
Ein traurig-hoffnungsvolles Lied, dass für so viele Charaktere in den Büchern passt ♥
[mixtape] a mix for the girl who made herself forget
“Remember me. But do it the right way. Remember it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I’d rather be forgotten than remembered the wrong way.”
A mix for the girl who made herself forget, Skylar Gardner, from Kate Karyus Quinn’s novel »(Don’t You Forget) About Me« –– the nineteen songs from the mixtapes as well as nine songs which came to my mind while reading her story.
- Journey – Don’t Stop Believin‘
just a small town girl livin’ in a lonely world
she took the midnight train goin’ anywheretechnically the last song – literally – but as Sky wants it to be the first thing for Wills to hear on the tapes it also comes first in the mix
this year - Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
and I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever
and if you only hold me tight, we’ll be holding on forever
and we’ll only be making it right ‚cause we’ll never be wrong togetherfor me it describes the relationship between Skylar and Piper very well – Piper is glorified by Sky who can’t let go off her sister and the memories of her but it’s also very fitting for Piper falling in love and wanting a life of her own
4 years ago - Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
well now, I get low and I get high, and if I can’t get either, I really try. […] life goin’ nowhere… somebody help me, somebody help me, yeah.Sky’s addiction to the pills and the side effects fit the lyrics but the titel reflects the goal of Piper: surviving the reformatory
10 years ago - Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
“I know I could have saved a love that night if I’d known what to say”reflecting the change after Piper falls in love with Elton in the sister’s relationship
4 years ago - The Doors – People Are Strange
“when you’re strange no one remembers your name“ an episode from the girl’s childhood: Piper’s „invisibility” to everyone who isn’t close to her is demonstrated
9 years ago - Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
“welcome to your life; there’s no turning back”the girls destroy the Lachman statue and the dark side of their father is shown
5 years ago - Patrick Swayze – She’s Like the Wind
“she’s taken my heart but she doesn’t know what she’s done”Piper’s obsession of running with the train before the parade
4 years ago - Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City
“you treat it like a capitol crime, everybody’ doin’ their time
take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty – oh, won’t you please take me home?”Skylar wondering whether there is no happy end to their story as they already are from a magical place and have nowhere else really to turn to
8 years ago - Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
“every day is like survival”Piper gets collected by Sky after her stay at the reformatory
6 years ago - Grease – We Go Together
“we go together, like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong, remembered forever as shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom chang chang changitty chang shoobop that’s the way it should be”“See that? We’re one and the same.”
7 years ago - Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach
“what I need right now is some good advice, please”Skylar starts recording the tapes and telling their story
12 years ago - Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It For the Boy
“‘cause every time he pulls me near I just wanna cheer”Piper starts talking to Ozzy because of strategy as he works in the reformatory; he later “helps” Sky
4 years ago - Culture Club – Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
“give me time to realize my crime”the girls have a picknick in the woods and Piper tricks Sky into eating the dirt from the reformatory for the first time
7 years ago - Irene Cara – Flashdance… What a Feeling
“I can have it all (I can really have it all)”the fairy lights incident
8 years ago - Grease – Hopelessly Devoted to You
“I’m out of my head, hopelessly devoted to you”Sky realizing it was a suicide plan all along and how she was afraid to be left behind
4 years ago - The Smiths – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
“for once in my life let me get what I want”getting Piper back into existence after the fairy lights incident
8 years ago - OMD – If You Leave
“I touch you once I touch you twice, I won’t let go at any price”Piper trying to talk Sky into leaving Gardnerville – who can’t let go4 years ago - Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
“will you recognize me? call my name or walk on by”Piper’s recording
4 years ago - A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
“I just ran, I ran all night and day, I couldn’t get away”Skylar realizing the truth about herself:
“I started taking the forget-me-nots to forget that I’d forgotten”
4 years ago––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– - David Bowie – Heroes
“we can be Heroes, just for one day”fits Piper’s vision of changing Gardnerville by bringing the reformatory done - Fools Garden – Lemon Tree
“I feel so lonely, I’m waiting for you
but nothing ever happens and I wonder“ Skylar’s isolation through her pill abuse and the grief for her sister - Eagles – Hotel California
„and I was thinking to myself: this could be heaven or this could be hell”
people coming to Gardnerville believing it to be paradise and how it couldn’t be left behind by Lachman after he realized its powers - Starship – We Built This City
“say you don’t know me or recognize my face,
say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place”a song which fits an awful lot of characters very well - Green Day – Misery
“and she screams why oh why, I said I don’t know”perfect song for Skylar as well as all the inhabitants who left their old lives behind due to misery - The Pierces – Secret
“got a secret, can you keep it?”
all about Skylar’s ability - Emilie Autumn – Mad Girl
“mad girl, can you believe what they’ve done to you?”Skylar realizing the pill abuse as well as the reason behind Piper and what her father did - Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
“you’ll say, the world has come between us –
our lives have come between us”
the estrangement of the sisters - Judy Garland – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
“somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby
somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,
and the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true”a song from the movie which pretty much defined Skylar’s childhood; “there’s no place like home”
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