You know the end of a movie, where the character has been through everything, transformed, and come out with everything being OK after all? These are the songs for those moments: the feel-good music between the climax and the credits.
Illustration by Minna
Hello, you. June’s theme will be LONGING. Unlike more-acute forms of desire like desperation or need, longing is a sweet ache—more pining for something than dying for it. It’s nostalgia, homesickness, boredom, a persistent feeling of lack, dreaming of escape/the future. It’s summer: summer homes & cottages, stuffy summer bedrooms, sun-bleached memories of summers past. The shadow of September that hangs over June. It’s secret hangouts, crushes, unrequited love. Send what you’ve got here, and thanks. ♥
Rookies reads my mind, I just saw the Hunger Games, needed this.
Log in to replythis playlist is perfect!!:)
Log in to replyThe song list is so pretty, Minna!
Log in to replyELLE THIS PLAYLIST IS PERFECT AAHHHHH
love like a sunset and lorelei and pictures of you and killing moon and omgomgomgomgomg
Log in to replyooh this is lovely! I am simultaneously working on a screenplay for a tv show and a playlist for said show, so this is great inspiration.
Log in to replyGod, I remember being maybe a junior in high school and laying on my floor just heartbroken out of my mind and listening to “She’s Gone” in tears. (The Brian Jonestown Massacre song, not the Hall & Oates one. Though I’ve done that too.) What a song when you’re depressed.
Log in to replyRookie should make a how-to-be-eleanor guide. ASAPPPPPP
Log in to replythis is the best rookie playlist yet <3
Log in to replyAAAAHHH! SO. MUCH. GOODNESS.
Log in to replyAwesome! I really want to grow up to be someone who decides what songs are played on the soundtracks for movies.
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Log in to replyBest movie ending song ever? Interview with a Vampire! Axl Rose should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ;D
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Log in to replyWOW THIS PLAYLIST. I’m pretty sure it was sent from the Gods.
Log in to replyeleanor this is my favorite we’ve doneeeee
Log in to replyeeeeeeee <3 thank you!!!!
Log in to replyI’m partially pleased by the fact that many of my very favorite bands are present (and that films are the central theme), but I also feel a hint of resentment because The Brian Jonestown Massacre was always that band other people didn’t know about and their music sounded as if they composed it just for me and I would play it over my library of prospective films, in the psychological theatre of my mind, and YOU JUST DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH THEY MEAN TO ME.
Log in to replyThis is a GREAT playlist!
Log in to replySO PERFECT!
Log in to replyCeremony is my FAVORITE song of all times! Everyday that I listen to that song my day is BEAUTIFUL AND PERFECT WITH DAISIES AND CHERRIES ON TOP!
this is my favourite playlist ever. it is great. utterly GREAT.
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Log in to replyAwesome list! (Someone loves the 80s and/or watches lots of Sofia Coppola movies, it seems.) “The Killing Moon,” however, always reminds me of the tension-overloaded opening scene of Donnie Darko.
Log in to replyThis was a great mix! I just spent over an hour listening through the entire thing; it created a very lovely and tranquil aura around me and my desk. :) The songs flowed so well into one another. Thank you!
Log in to replyAhhhhhhhh Ceremony and Love like a sunset?! This is too good
Log in to replywhenever i want to pretend my life is a movie, i play ceremony. excellent choice and excellent playlist!
Log in to replyI wish this playlist was the soundtrack to my life.
Log in to replyOh man pleaaaase someone make a comprehensive list of all the films these songs are from? It is killaaaang me!
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Log in to replyWell, the choice of songs was just inspired by that kind of cinematic climatic mood, and not all of them are in any specific films that I know of. I like to make up movie soundtracks in my head heh…
However the following are in films that I know and love: Just like Honey is in Lost in Translation, Love Like a Sunset is in Somewhere, Ceremony is in Marie Antoinette, The Killing Moon is in Donnie Darko and Sing is in Trainspotting…
(yes, lots and lots of love for Sofia Coppola’s soundtracks!!)
Hope that helps xx
Log in to replyThank you Eleanor!
I assumed as they were such cinematic choices someone had already made the movies to match. Clearly you are an undiscovered auteur ;).
This is no longer killaaaaang me.
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Log in to replyThis is an artful mix, so lovely. I’ve always liked Joy Division, but never really gave New Order a try — checking them out now because of this.
The only other song I could suggest in the theme of this mix would be The Stone Roses’ “This Is The One”, which if I recall correctly is played at the end of Eagle vs Shark.
Log in to replyPerfect mix. First heard “Anyway that you want me” in “Me & You & Everyone we know”, perfect movie as well.
Log in to replyWhat a good idea for a playlist! Since I’ve been getting into screenwriting, I grinned madly when I saw the title of it.
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Log in to replyGreat mix! Probably my favorite one so far on here.
Log in to replyListening to this makes me feel like I’m in a movie. Sometimes I have these moments after I’ve gone through a tough time or reached a milestone and I just sit there smiling because the “climax” of that moment is coming to a close. This playlist just captures that PERFECTLY. :)
Log in to replyIm sitting here drawing with this music playing. It is making things feel like the time is slipping through my fingers like some sort of liquid substance, Im having such a grand time. It is the perfect pace for me to draw to, cause I can just chill and I dont get that scrabbly fast paced drawing pace going when I have upbeat stuff playing in the background. I also have been able to disregard the big ink splot I threw down where it wasnt supposed to be, the good music has made up for it.
Log in to replyThanks.