I'm incredibly sleep-deprived, so I'm asking for music suggestions!

[cupcake_goth]

I pretty much worked from home for most of December. This meant that my sleep schedule slid back to it's natural setting: falling asleep around 3AM (or later), getting up around 11AM. So this week of catching the bus to the office? Very very tiring. I hope my ability to fall asleep at a "reasonable" time improves VERY SOON.

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It should come as no surprise to anyone that I have a playlist in iTunes named "Children of the Night", and that it's filled with songs that I somehow associate with vampires. But that playlist could use expanding, so hey, suggest some songs to me! (I'll put the playlist under this handy cut-tag, so you can see what I've already got.)


Love Song For A Vampire - Annie Lennox
Ravens Land - Voltaire
Graveyard Picnic - Voltaire
Pretty When You Cry - Vast
Serve Me - Unto Ashes
I Cover You With Blood - Unto Ashes
Black No. 1 - Type O Negative
Raining Blood - Tori Amos
Mr. Zebra - Tori Amos
Blood Roses - Tori Amos
Burning Skies - Tones on Tail
You, The Night, And The Music - Tones on Tail
Within You - David Bowie
As The World Falls Down - David Bowie
To The Shock Of Miss Louise - Instrumental from The Lost Boys soundtrack
Blood Makes Noise - Suzanne Vega
Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
Marian - Sisters of Mercy
Face To Face - Siouxsie
I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Sinéad O'Connor
Only Thing That Shines - Shriekback
Stay - Shakespear's Sister
Possession - Sarah McLachlan
Faith Healer - Recoil
Transylvanian Concubine - Rasputina
Gonna Get Close To You - Queensryche
Simon's Sleeping - Pretty Balanced
Love Will Tear You Apart/She Wants Originality - A plus D mashup of She Wants Revenge + Joy Division + Bauhaus
Never Drown A Cat - Plaid-Tongued Devils
Sticks And Stones - The Pierces
Secret - The Pierces
Insanity - Boingo
Bury My Lovely - October Project
The Perfect Drug - Nine Inch Nails
Le Monster - My Favorite
Vampires Will Never Hurt You - My Chemical Romance
Beauty Has Her Way - Mummy Calls
Threat Of Love - Marc Almond and Siouxsie Sioux
Skin & Lye - Malign
Beast Of Blood - Malice Mizer
Frozen - Madonna
Charlotte Anne - Julian Cope
Paris 1919 - John Cale
The Fine Art Of Poisoning - Jill Tracy
The Vampire Waltz - Hannah Fury
Cry Little Sister - Theme from The Lost Boys
Hollow Hills - Bauhaus
She's In Parties - Bauhaus
Bela Lugosi's Dead - Bauhaus
In Dreams Of Mine - Faith and the Muse
Zombie King - Emerald Rain Productions
People Are Strange - Echo and the Bunnymen
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
The Chauffeur - Duran Duran
King Of The Rooks - Deathwatch Beetle Repairman
The Song of Sibyl - Dead Can Dance
Whistling For His Love - Danielle Dax
The Blood - The Cure
Lullaby - The Cure
Burn - The Cure
Bloodletting - Concrete Blonde
Obsession - Collide
11:59 P.M. October 30th - The Changelings
The Awful Truth - Carol King
Witchcraft - Book of Love
Cabaret Fortune Teller - Audra
What Your Eyes Had Seen - Audra



Yes, I know. That's a lot of songs. And yes, while some of them may make the rest of you tilt your head quizzically to the side and say "Vampires? You associate this song with vampires somehow? Oooohh-kaaaay, Jilli ...", but what can I say? My brain works in strange ways. Anyway, please feel free to give me music recommendations!

Comments

[poh.livejournal.com]

"Burning Skies - Tones on Tail"

But not "Christian Says?"

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

ARgh. I've been meaning to put that on the playlist for ages now. Thank you for reminding me.

[schwarze-krahe.livejournal.com]

Not sure if you like any if these bands but...
Loves secret domain- coil
Siren- pink dots
Song of the siren- this mortal coil
Day of swine and roses- thrill kill

If I think of anymore I will let you know.

Ps twilight makes me laugh all day.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Song Of The Siren and Days Of Swine And Roses just don't ... feel like vampire music to me. (I can't explain it.) But oh, why don't I have Love's Secret Domain on there?

[lylassandra.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you feel about folk music, but "The Unquiet Grave" is a good one-- my favorite version is by Cairde na Gael.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I like some folk music, so I will check that out. Thank you!

"In Your Room" by Depeche Mode?

[tolkiencub.livejournal.com]

To me, that's entirely a V:TM song. The mental "play" that appears when it's playing is vivid and clear.

But...maybe not for you. :)

Re: "In Your Room" by Depeche Mode?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'll have to listen to it again, but maybe.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

Concrete Blonde, "Bloodletting," although it's probably too obvious. no, you already listed that.

"The Sharpest Lives" feels vampire-ish to me.

"Pleasure Victim," Berlin

"Fade to Grey," Visage

I'll probably think of others.

[sarcasticcinder.livejournal.com]

I've been stalkingreading your journal for awhile and always meant to say hi.

As for songs, I've always associated In Your Room by Depeche Mode with vampires for some reason. Thanks for posting your list, there are a lot of songs on there that I've forgotten about.

*off to listen*

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Hi lurker!

You're the second person to suggest In Your Room by Depeche Mode. I'm going to have to give it another listen.

ymmv

[trystbat.livejournal.com]

Not strictly vampires, but they seem vampiric to me & aren't on your list...

Skin - Oingo Boingo
Possession - Sisters of Mercy
Wasteland - the Mission
Love Me to Death - the Mission
We Hunger - Siouxie
The Kiss - the Cure
Charlotte Sometimes - the Cure
Hammer Horror - Kate Bush
Waiting for the Night - Depeche Mode
Halo - Depeche Mode
Darklands - Jesus & Mary Chain
Strange Kind of Love - Peter Murphy
Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil

This is all kind of random. Of course, now I want to make a spooky playlist. Currently, I have songs tagged by genre & hit 'shuffle' :-)

Re: ymmv

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, good list!

I do the genre shuffle too. But my vampire playlist is different in tone than the Spooky! playlist. Because I'm odd that way. :-)

[ungelic-is-us.livejournal.com]

I don't know if these will work for you, but they're my vampire songs...

"My Medea" by Vienna Teng
"Mein Teil" by Rammstein
"Wish I had an Angel" by Nightwish
"Dans På Rusakula" and "Heiemo og Nykkjen" by Helene Bøksle

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I've never heard any of those! (Well, I might have heard the Rammstein song, but I'm not sure.) Thank you for the suggestions.

[ex-fashioni.livejournal.com]

Dunno how you feel about Linkin Park, but "Shadow of the Day", "Numb" (not the mash up, but the original release), and "My December" always put me in mind of vampires.

And despite the weirdness of it, I always associated 3 Doors Down "Kryptonite" with Angel, so ergo, it has a vampire connotation for me.

Yeah, yeah, I know, but clearly, my mind works in a weird way too.

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I have a knee-jerk eye-rolly response to Linkin Park, but I actually haven't heard much by them. (And my knee-jerk response is kinda silly, considering I listen to Fall Out Boy, for goodness sake!)

[torreybird.livejournal.com]

It never occurred to me to think of any song as particularly vampiresque...

... but then, it's only the happy accident of our modern schedules that you and I are even *awake* at the same hours. Thank you for posting the list! Funny how many of these play on my pandora stations...

[arinye.livejournal.com]

Five songs I can't believe you don't have on there:
'Bloodsucker' - Paralysed Age
'Vampire Romance' - Blutengel
'Children of the Night' - Blutengel
'Creature of Night' - Zombie Girl
'We Are The Ones' - Zombie Girl

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

... I don't have them because I don't own anything by those bands? But I think the pet DJ has them, so I will ask him to make me a compilation.

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling pretty tired myself so I can sympathize. Also I tried crocheting on the bus again this morning and I'm feeling the car sick after effects of that (slight headache & dizziness). I keep trying in hopes I might eventually get past the issue, but I digress.

I can't explain some of these - they just are. There are likely more but this is what I could come up with for now:

Kill with me tonight - The Devlins
The Hand That Feeds - NIN
Slither Thing - Collide
Children of the Night - Juno Reactor
Silence - Delerium
Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
Room a Thousand Years Wide - Soundgarden
Haunted By The Thought Of YOu - Jilly Tracy

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

Ooh, those are some good suggestions. Thank you!

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

Coming out of stalkerdom lurkdom because I can't resist after at least two others have mentioned Depeche Mode's 'In Your Room' as a possibility. I'm with them! :) While I don't exactly have a vampire playlist on my iTunes, I do have one I call 'October' and listen to it throughout the autumn. In fact, it's mostly from a mixed tape I made back in 1988 (and now I feel old) and kept adding to it year after year.

I don't know that any of them are what you're looking for--I understand when you say that a track might not feel like vampire music to you. There are a lot of songs out there that one would think I'd've added to my playlist, but they don't evoke the right mood or frame of mind the other songs do. It's sort of like, I'll know the right song when I hear it. (I've also managed to take it a step further because the songs have to be in a specific order, too!)

My playlist as it stands at the moment:

1. Libera Me - Interview With a Vampire ST
2. Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
3. Fascination Street [Extended Mix] - The Cure
4. Fabienne - The Mission
5. Lucretia, My Reflection - Sister of Mercy
6. Blind Sublime - Peter Murphy
7. Afterhours - Sisters of Mercy
8. Moonchild [longevity] - Fields of the Nephilim
9. If I Was Your Vampire - Marilyn Manson
10. Cold - Static X from the Queen of the Damned ST
11. Bloodletting (The Vampire Song) - Concrete Blond
12. Dragula - Rob Zombie
13. Toccata & Fugue in D Minor - Bach (I know! I know! Don't EVEN laugh at how trite/cliche that is.)
14. Bela Lugosi's Dead (9:34 version) - Bauhaus
15. Scare Crow - Ministry
16. In Your Room - Depeche Mode
17. Burn - The Cure from The Crow ST
18. Last Exit For the Lost - Fields of the Nephilim

The fact that there are only three repeats with your list and mine leads me to believe these aren't quite what you're looking for, but, if for any reason you'd like any of these songs and don't have access to them, I'd be happy to upload them for you.

(Wow, I've certainly made up for being a lurker. Long comment is loooong!)

[aka-paloma.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Make that four repeats. Counting is hard.

[spitecandy.livejournal.com]

Hemoglobin - Beborn Beton

too on the nose?

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

You know, I don't think I've ever heard that. I'll check it out.

[mina5643.livejournal.com]

... There are so many songs on this playlist that I adore. /random

I am a vampire - Vast (it's off of his April album)
Anything by Voltaire about vampires I also like, because it's often cheeky ;]

Apocalyptica - Bittersweet, because Ville Valo's guest singing is very pretty, deep, and vampiric in the song (I don't usually like his stuff).

Anything slightly campy but lovely like Malice Mizer - Klaha era.

I really blanked out otherwise, but there are -so many- songs ...

[amy37.livejournal.com]

Transylvania Concubine, Rasputina

Awakening, The Damning Well

Suicide Note, Johnette Napolitano

Temptation Waits, Garbage

Any or all of which I can send you, if you like.

[javagoth.livejournal.com]

I think I may have to mine this post for my own play list creation. Now that I have iTunes on the Mac I really need to play with it more!

[sparrowpunk.livejournal.com]

Teenage Vampire, by Killing Miranda?

[oldhalloween.livejournal.com]

I don't have anything to contribute but did want to thank you for helping me spend my itunes gift card. Dusting off a pile of CD's too. :0 )

[poetry-lady.livejournal.com]

"Until the Night" by Billy Joel. It always makes me think of Nick & Nat on "Forever Knight."

gothy vampire-y ideas

[tkil.livejournal.com]

Pretty much anything off Handful of Snowdrops' Mort En Direct

Brian Eno - Cool World Soundtrack - "Under"

Dead Can Dance does a version of "I Am Stretched On Your Grave" that's quite nice. I think it's off Towards The Within

Far too much by Faith and the Muse. Most particularly off Evidence of Heaven, but it's an obvious theme. (Well, "gother than thou" is probably a more accurate reading of their theme, but hey...)

Maybe not vampiresque, but distantly related undead... Kristen Hersh (with Michael Stipe), "Your Ghost".

There's got to be something (or many somethings) by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds that fits. "The Weeping Song" is close, but not quite.

While I agree that This Mortal Coil's "Song to the Siren" doesn't particularly resonate with vampires with me, I do suggest: "Inch Blue" / "I Want To Live" off filigree & shadow, and the title track off blood.

Alphaville ... ok, quit laughing already... "For A Million" off The Breathtaking Blue

I'll always associate P. J. Harvey's "Down By The Water" (off To Bring You My Love) with the movie version of Interview with the Vampire.

The antagonist in the movie City of Children is essentially a vampire of dreams; the soundtrack reflects this (and it's more yummy stuff by Angelo Badalamenti (sp?)).

A few of the tracks by Belly might almost fit: "Angel", "Someone to Die for", "Low Red Moon" (all off Star); "Silverfish", "Now They'll Sleep" (both off King).

Black Tape for a Blue Girl. I'm sure they have something appropriate, but I really don't have the patience for them anymore. If you want to wade through 15 hours of swirly navel-gazing ethereal goth doom... (Although Audra does has a droll track "Knock Three Times" on the Halo Star supergroup / compilation album, under the BTfaBG name.)

There's a lovely version of (deep breath) "In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated" (whew!) by Chandeen; not directly vampiric, but it's a lovely and moody song done exceptionally well. (Originally by Dead Can Dance, if the pretentiousness of the title didn't give it away.)

"Under the Milky Way" and "Reptile" off Starfish by The Church. Not sure I can really pass these off as vampiric, but again, excellent mood setters.

More mood setters: Clan of Xymox's Medusa. Either of the two albums by Tarnation (yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as "goth country").

Ok, enough for now. Let me know if any of these are on-target. Quite a few have samples on Amazon; if you can't find them elsewhere, let me know -- almost everything I mentioned above is in my collection.

Vampire songs, yay!

[smu.livejournal.com]

I can upload any of these to sendspace if you'd like. :D I LOVE sharing music.

Bloody Sunrise - Neil Gaiman (it's written by him, it's got a female singer, very Tori Amos)
Vampires - The Umbrellas
You Bleed Me (909th Dry Mix) - Suspiria
The Wrong Way - Abney Park
Fever - Grey Ghost
Pretty People Never Lie, Vampires Never Really Die - I Am Ghost
Days of the Pheonix - AFI
Sacrifice Theory - AFI
Silver and Cold - AFI
Love Like Winter - AFI
Date With A Vampire - The Screaming Tribesmen
Lights - The Editors (always reminds me of a very penitent Louis-esque vampire)
Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave - Morphine
The Happy Goth - The Divine Comedy
On My Tongue - Frank the Baptist
Laughing Bloody Murder - Cinema Strange
Knock Three Times - Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge
Red Flags and Long Nights - She Wants Revenge
Ghost Under Rocks - Ra Ra Riot
I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters

I can probably think of a whole hell of a lot more, but this is a whole lot. Didn't mean to go overboard. :D

Re: Vampire songs, yay!

[cupcake-goth.livejournal.com]

I have NONE of those, and would be interested in hearing all of them. If you could zip them and put 'em up on Sendspace, that would be fantastic!

[nil8r.livejournal.com]

I'm going to bookmark this post for inspiration!

When I was a kid, I always associated "Hot in the City" by Billy Idol with vampires.

I'd echo Depeche Mode with either "In your Room" or "Waiting for the Night"

Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegroove from Dead Can Dance
Moon Over Bourbon Street by Sting
The Passenger by Michael Hutchence (INXS)

My shot at vampire music (don't laugh)

[dykestar.livejournal.com]

Nick Cave- Lovely Creature (I'm sure there are more, I am not the world's biggest Nick Cave fan)

PJ Harvey- My Beautiful Leah, The Garden, Catherine, and Electric Light (just to name a few, really her entire "Is This Desire" album is dark and rather creepy)

Smashing Pumpkins- Eye and Ava Adore

Alanis Morissette- Uninvited

Joydrop- Beautiful Like Me (maybe?)

The Pixies- Is She Weird and maybe even Cactus

Snake River Conspiracy- Lovesong (their cover is way creepier than the original, although they may be too much industrial for this mix)

If you want to go the instrumental route there's a few more I could recommend, but so far it looks like all your songs have lyrics so...


*disclaimer! I R NOT GOTH!

Re: My shot at vampire music (don't laugh)

[tkil.livejournal.com]

The Pixies- Is She Weird and maybe even Cactus

Heh. Not "Subbacultcha"?

I was lookin' handsome
She was looking like an erotic vulture

It Might've Been Mentioned Already, But I Didn't See It

[wire-mother.livejournal.com]

"Burn the Flames" by Roky Erickson, and probably just about everything else he did, too.