I listen to music while I write and I made a CD of songs that would make amusing performances at kareoke. Well, you’ve got to pass the time somehow and god forbid you should do it actually writing.
These include:
He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss) by Hole. It was originally by the Crystals and that’s good too, but I like early Hole:
Beetles by Aphex Twin
Waiting for the Man by the Velvet Underground
Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday (otherwise known as the Hungarian suicide song):
Picadilly Palare by Morrissey
Scream thy Last Scream by Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd
Put me in a movie by Lana Del Rey
Old Fashioned Morphine by Jolie Holland
I am the Walrus by the Beatles
Dead Dogs Two by Clouddead and Boards of Canada:
Poisoning pigeons in the park by Tom Lehrer
Madeleine Swann 