Author Archives: Rachel

I decided to choose 10 songs because I’ve always been a great lover of music and since I was a child, I realized the necessity of how music expresses the way people feel and shapes people’s lives. Underneath each song is a short sentence or two explaining why I chose it and how it relates to me. Enjoy.

Rachel’s Playlist

1) Bandwitch – Broken Social Scene
This song is mostly instrumental and I think it’s an appropriate feel-good song to start off the playlist with.

2) Voxtrot – Start of Something New
This song has been my ringtone for nearly two years, it’s one of my favorites. It expresses the anticipation, excitement, and anxiousness of people when they enter new situations (in this case, it relates to myself and everyone else entering college).

3) Freely – Devendra Banhart
This song expresses the way I want to live my life and my general outlook of life. It’s all about living and enjoying in a way that makes you feel, in essence, free and happy.

4) Holocene – Bon Iver
This is also one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s all about being humble, reflecting on the past, and looking forward to the future. The lyric “and I could see for miles, miles miles” reminds me of one of my favorite lines in a poem by Robert Frost, “And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep“.

5) Sunshine – Atmosphere
Who says hip-hop music has to be angry and aggressive all the time? One of my favorite music artists created a song about making the best out of a bad situation and having an epiphany about the positives of life.

6) Vesuvius – Sufjan Stevens
This song is about making difficult decisions when you mature and grow up. Sufjan usually writes his songs with a religious undertone, which expresses me because I tend to be a very spiritual and religious person as well.

7) 5 Years Time – Noah and The Whale
This song is about predicting the future, whether it’s good or it’s bad, and being okay with it. Who knows where all of us would end up in 5 years time?

8) Lotus Flower – Radiohead
I find it so interesting how music can transcend decades and generations. Radiohead, formed in 1985, is still popular today. Their music style shows how music itself is eternal.

9) Blood – The Middle East
This song is my number 1 favorite song of all time, so I had to include it in a playlist which purpose is to describe myself.

10) Living/Breathing – Mesita
I love nature and for me, this song portrays that feeling of sitting under a tree outside in a nice breezy day, a good ending song for this entire playlist.