Let’s allow The Bobby Hughes Experience start things off for us today with a little writing music that will evoke the James Bond-like style and swank of the 4th of July parties we’ll all be enjoying this weekend. Shall we? We shall.
The Bobby Hughes Experience – Seasons
I’ve been a huge fan of The Go! Team for a few years now, and in addition to having an awesome band name, they put out some amazing music to write by. Some of their stuff has a more laid back ’60s vibe, and then there are tunes like Junior Kickstart. If I was running the show over at NBC, I would have thrown money hand over fist at these guys until they were forced to sell-out and let me use this very song to put together the greatest commercial for the summer Olympics of all time. For now, it suffices as a caffeine-free pick-me-up for the 3pm sleepies.
The Go! Team’s modern-day, live-action Mrs. Pacman video for Junior Kickstart will blow your mind with its mute humor. Truly, truly inspired stuff. It might be an overstatement to call it “the greatest thing ever,” but it basically is.
The Go! Team – Junior Kickstart, from their debut 2004 album Thunder, Lightning, Strike
No sooner had Wall-e’s credits started to roll then I was online trying to find the film’s soundtrack. It was a professional and personal necessity that it occupy both my iPod and my mental landscape. The magnificient score was created by Thomas Newman (with a bit of help from Peter Gabriel). No surprise then, that many of the tracks would immediately join Paper Writing Music, a playlist largely built on the foundation of the Newman’s soundtrack for American Beauty. Hit it boys!
Thomas Newman & Peter Gabriel – Define Dancing
Thomas Newman – First Date
There are times when the gloves come off, the headphones go on and the only words you need filling your head are your own. And like rainy days and Mondays, these times call for a well-crafted playlist. Enter Paper Writing Music, my personal archive of super-focused, late night playlist to end all playlists for your favorite copywriter. The qualifications to gain entrance into this esteemed group are as follows:
1) Track must be full-on instrumental
OR
2) include only lyrics in a foreign language
OR
3) contain lyrics that are inconsequential to the overall effect (see Mylo – In My Arms)
(bonus points for being loud enough to drown out any surrounding noise and peppy enough to ward of sleep and/or boredom)
As with any quality playlist in this digital age, it’s work in progress. Here’s the latest track to gain entre into the playlist: from the Amelie Soundtrack (and on the recommendation of MeFi via This American Life) J’y suis jamais alle by Yann Tiersen.