Here's some of the music I'm listening to while reading this weekend

I've never really discussed it much here, but music is very important to me.  I listen to it during nearly hour-long commutes, when I go running on the streets or treadmill (but never when trail running, as there is natural music there for me to take in), or when I'm reading late at night.  I listen to a wide variety of 20th/21st century music.  Sometimes I listen to Bob Dylan for weeks on end.  Maybe 70s hard rock another time.  Lately, it's been 80s post-punk/darkwave music.  This music is both familiar and fresh to me, as I was a preteen for much of this time, so I might have at best heard snippets while growing up (I started college in 1992 when a different yet also fascinating form of alt-rock was exploding, so my interests then were in then-current music), but it was never overplayed for me then.

Here are some of these songs, taken from a playlist I created yesterday.  Not all of these are "classics," but the overall mood fits mine and it seems to be driving me to read more than I have in recent months:

Clan of Xymox, "A Day"

Death in June, "The Calling (Mk II)"

Big Black, "Kerosene"

Love and Rockets, "Rain Bird"

Revolting Cocks, "Crackin' Up"

Bauhaus, "The Spy in the Cab"

Siouxsie & The Banshees, "Spellbound"

The Church, "Under the Milky Way"

The Jesus and Mary Chain, "The Living End"

Theatre of Hate, "Do you Believe in the Westerworld"

The Cure, "World in My Eyes"

Front Line Assembly, "Provision"

Bauhaus, "Ziggy Stardust"

Screams for Tina, "Eleven Eleven"

The Sisters of Mercy, "Detonation Boulevard"

The Teardrop Explodes, "Treason"


If there are songs in a similar vein that you think I might enjoy, please list them below.

A little something for Easter

It's by far my favorite Easter hymn. Happy Easter for those who observe it, happy day for those who don't. Either way, just have a happy day, okay?

Warren Zevon

Warren Zevon is one of those singers that I wished I would have discovered earlier than my late 20s, as I didn't become aware of his often brilliant songwriter until he was in the last stages of his battle with cancer in 2003. Out of his songs, "My Shit's Fucked Up" has haunted me for a long time, with its combination of lyrics, emotion, and guitar work. Sometimes, I find myself trying to think of what book would go best with Zevon's music and I thought I'd ask any out there who've listened to Zevon if there are any particular types of books that they'd read with his music, in hopes that my memory might be jogged, as I seem to recall thinking years ago of a certain book that fit perfectly with this song in particular.

Suggestions?