Parsons Playlists: Warm Evenings

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Mia (class of 2026) and celebrates the impending warmer months.

Warm Evenings

Colorful picnic evening gathering

The theme of this playlist is inspired by the warmer months to come where the grass has grown back, and it is over 60° every day. I hope to play this during a barbeque surrounded by all my friends and family.

Steve Miller Band – “The Joker”

Steely Dan – “Dirty Work”

Grand Funk Railroad – “Some Kind of Wonderful”

Dire Straits – “Sultans of Swing”

The Police – “Canary in a Coalmine”

Talking Heads – “Pulled Up”

Steve Miller Band – “Rock’n Me”

Pete Townshend – “Let My Love Open the Door”

Creedence Clearwater Revival – “Up Around the Bend”

Fleetwood Mac – “Don’t Stop”

Eric Clapton – “Lay Down Sally”

The Doobie Brothers – “Listen to the Music”

The Marshall Tucker Band – “Can’t You See”

The Eagles – “Take It Easy”

Fleetwood Mac – “Gypsy”

The Rolling Stones – “Beast of Burden”

Stealers Wheel – “Stuck in the Middle”

Talking Heads – “This Must Be the Place”

Led Zeppelin – “Ramble On”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube:

Parsons Playlists: Halloween 2020

Welcome to the third installment of Parsons Playlists, back after a hiatus and featuring a Halloween playlist from Music Library Associate, Melanie Armstrong.

Halloween 2020

Melanie says: “Since Halloween 2020 is going to be a bit … different, I – your friendly neighborhood Music Library Associate – made a playlist in that vein.
I’ve left out some of the more obvious Halloween playlist picks (like “Thriller“, or “Spooky“, or “Ghostbusters“), and hope you’ll enjoy this idiosyncratic selection! I’ve included some songs for the Halloween blue moon (the first Halloween blue moon since 1944) among other things.”

Otis Redding – “Trick or Treat”

Billie Eilish – “Bury A Friend”

billie eilish

The Cramps – “I Was A Teenage Werewolf”

Missy Elliott – “Get Ur Freak On”

Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On

The Marcels – “Blue Moon”

(This doo-wop version is arguably the most famous version of “Blue Moon”, but it was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934!)

King Harvest – “Dancing in the Moonlight”

blue moon

Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”

Squirrel Nut Zippers – “Hell”

Vintage Halloween Dance

Van Halen – “Runnin’ With The Devil”
(in tribute to Eddie Van Halen who passed away this month)

Talking Heads – “Psycho Killer”

The Police – “Murder By Numbers”

Halloween dogs

The White Stripes – “Little Ghost”

Louis Armstrong – “The Skeleton in the Closet”

Le Squellette Joyeux

The Divine Comedy – “The Happy Goth”

They Might Be Giants – “Dead”

Groovie Ghoulies – “(She’s My) Vampire Girl”

Black Cat and Jack O'Lantern

Yoko Ono – “Yes, I’m A Witch”

Eels – “My Beloved Monster”

Buffy the Vampire Slayer stake

Billy Joel – “The Stranger”
(a song about masks feels EXTRA appropriate at the moment … plus fun with metaphors!)

R.E.M. – “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”

And here it all is as a Spotify playlist for you:

Plus here’s a bonus (not available on Spotify) cheese-tacular Halloween artifact from the 1980s featuring the inimitable Tim Curry:

We sincerely hope that everyone has a safe & fun Halloween (despite the particular weirdness of 2020).

jack o lantern

YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57Zew8nvrzDii5yoNOsWmj69_s