The Returning Home at Three in the Morning Playlist

As always, folks, I’m here to bring you unique mixes of music to suit all and every event in your life. Today I bring you the Returning Home at Three in the Morning Playlist:

Addled, buzzing with music, and crashing into things and hollering with laughter even if you’re perfectly darn sober, it’s a very special sensation to be returning home at three in the morning. Now, this playlist is about a GOOD return home – the kind where you shout “BYE! BYE! BYE!” and wave both your hands around your head to whoever dropped you off or to whoever you’re dropping off, the kind where you go to sleep still laughing and with your eyeliner still on. This isn’t the kind of three in the morning return after a party that’s gone on too long, and, as we’ve discussed in our last playlist, at which all remaining guests have become melancholy and have begun to share frighteningly personal information, often with crescendoing degrees of awfullness as each tries to top the next. No, no – this is a happy Returning Home at Three in the Morning Playlist; it’s the soundtrack to whatever crazy, flashing dreams you have after collapsing into bed smiling.

The Returning Home at Three in the Morning Playlist

1. ‘Must Be Dreaming’ by Frou Frou

2. ‘Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse’ by Of Montreal (More about this at the end of the post.)

3. ‘Follow You, Follow Me’ by Genesis

4. ‘Leave Me Breathless’ by The Corrs

5. ‘You and Me and the Moon’ by The Magnetic Fields

6. ‘Safety Dance’ by Men Without Hats (This is one of my absolute favorite songs EVER. Seriously, EVER. I’ll include it in another post, probably; some repetition, I hope you agree, is acceptable. This song just makes me want to do that dance where you whirl your arms, fists balled, around each other and shift your feet around and sort of tilt your head and raise a shoulder … you know, it’s surprisingly hard to describe dances without sounding like you’re detailing a weird ritual or a kind of arcane street fighting technique; I’ll bet some clever reader can glean a thesis paper about pop dance culture from this observation.)

7. ‘Heaven’ by DJ Sammy & Yanou featuring Do (This is originally a Bryan Adams tune, as I’m sure all you Gen X-ers know, but DJ Sammy’s was the popular version for Gen Y-ers like ME!)

8. ‘Nothing in This World’ by Paris Hilton (I refuse to apologize for putting this song on here; her voice is so manipulated by studio professionals to make is sound like she can sing that I don’t really even think of this as a Paris Hilton song so much as a robot song, and I LOVE IT. Besides, if Stephin Merritt can be open about his ABBA love, then, gosh darn it, I can like ‘Nothing in This World’!)

9. ‘Goodnight and Go’ by Imogen Heap (the vocalist from Frou Frou)

All right; so, those of you who live in a cave and are not aware of ‘Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse’ need to become aware of it RIGHT NOW, not only because it’s a great song, but because its music video was directed by the Brothers Chaps, the geniuses behind Homestarrunner.com. I’m trying to restrain my desire to compare it to Wes Anderson (a chum of mine once noted that whenever I really like something I compare it to Wes Anderson, and as a matter of fact I had just a moment before she spoke said that the great sandwich I was eating made me think of ‘Rushmore’) but for real – take a look at it. It’s funny in precisely the same way as the Chapmans’ site, and stands multiple viewings:

Ha ha ha ha, the ghost in the audience.

I don’t own this video. I got it here.