Music for Checking Your Watch

AKA - THE WAITING PLAYLIST

(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay - The Staple Singers
When Will My Life Begin? (From "Tangled") - Mandy Moore
I Need a Hero -Bonnie Tyler
Wouldn't It Be Nice - The Beach Boys
The Future Soon - Jonathan Coulton
Fly Like an Eagle - Seal
Are We There Yet - Ingrid Michaelson
Your Call's Very Important to Us, Please Hold - Sparks
The Girl from Ipanema - Amy Winehouse
Folsom Prison Blues - Brandi Carlile
Anxiety Attack - Jeffrey Lewis
Soon - Squirrel Nut Zippers
Patience - Bossa N' Roses
Almost There (from "The Princess and the Frog") - Anika Noni Rose
Here Comes the Sun - The Runaways

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Music for Getting a Load of Those Gams

AKA- THE PIN-UP GIRL PLAYLIST

Calendar Girl- Neil Sadaka
Yellow Polka Dot Bikini- Brian Hyland
Centerfold- J. Giles Band
Girls! Girls! Girls!-Elvis Presley
Dream Girl- Jesse and Marvin
Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home- Beverly Jones
Mudflap Baby- Hillbilly Hellcats
A Dear John Letter- Skeeter Davis and Bobby Bare
Betty Grable- Johnny Outlaw
Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad-Wanda Davis
Chick Habit- April March
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree- Cocktail Angst
Cold Shower- Royal Crown Revue
21st Century Bettie Page- Jack Rabbit Slim
If You Can't Sleep- She & Him

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Music for Partying 'Till It Hurts

AKA- THE GREAT GATSBY PLAYLIST

Ain't We Got Fun- Al Jolson
This Town- Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise- Rufus Wainwright
Rabbits Don't Ever Get Married- Hank Perry
Stay on the Right Side of the Road- Norridge Mayhams and the Blue Chips
Material Girl- Richard Cheese
Honky Tonkin'- Audrey Williams
Jeepers Creepers- The Puppini Sisters
Candy Shop- Andrew Bird
I Wanna Be Loved by You- Helen Kane
Nobody's Dirty Business- The Devil Makes Three
Good Little Bad Little You- Cliff Edwards
Oops I Did it Again- Max Raabe
House Where Nobody Lives- Tom Waits
The Best Things in Life Are Free- The Ink Spots

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Music to Double Cross By

 

AKA- THE FILM NOIR PLAYLIST

Dark City Sky- Fatboy

Ruby Red Lips- Judith Owen

Nine Lives- The Gas House Gorillas

Smoking Gun- Duke Danger

One Hundred Cigarettes- Molly Johnson

Hit By a Brick- The Atomic Fireballs

Chinatown- Asylum Street Spankers

Framed- The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Bad Man's World- Jenny Lewis

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap- Lesley Gore

Silhouettes- The Nylons

Streetwalking Queen- The Pietasters

I Will Survive- The Puppini Sisters

Blackmail- The Runaways

Why Don't You Do Right- (The one and only) Jessica Rabbit

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Music to Set Sail By

AKA - THE SEA PLAYLIST

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean- Freefall
The Irish Rover- The Pogues
Ship Wreck- Jars of Clay
Siren- Crystal Monee Hall
Sailor Song- Regina Spektor
The Mermaid- Great Big Sea
Shark- Gabriela Kulka
Pirate Jenny- Nina Simone
Stormy Waters- Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver
Surfer Girl- The Beach Boys
Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)- Looking Glass
Shiver Me Timbers- Tom Waits
Tidal Wave- Dick Dale and His Del-Tones
Into the Ocean- Blue October
Rock the Boat- Hues Corporation

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Music for Pondering, Weak and Weary

AKA - THE EDGAR ALLAN POE PLAYLIST

Funeral March of a Marionette - Mannheim Steamroller
Masquerade - Company ("Phantom of the Opera")
Can't Get you Out of My Head - Kylie Minogue
Unwell - Matchbox Twenty
Black Wings -Ray Wylie Hubbard
Bonnie Broom - The Glengarry Bhoys
I Remember Larry - Weird Al Yankovic
Six Foot Deep - Creature Feature
Buried Alive - Black Lips
I Hold Your Hand in Mine - Tom Lehrer
Watching the Detectives - Elvis Costello
River of No Return - Tennessee Ernie Ford
I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross
Heartbeat - Wire
The Sea - Carbon Leaf

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