Playlist: So You Had A Bad Day

Sep 17, 2011

It is a truth universally acknowledged that some days are just shitty. Through no fault of your own, but because of a bunch of shitty out-of-your-control events that all seem to happen in the same 12 hours, everything makes you mad and nothing seems to go right. I believe Hyperbole and a Half accurately described this feeling once.

It’s an uncontrollable frustrating murderous rage! Don’t worry, everybody has those days. In fact, I had one of those days just the other day. So I made a playlist for you. It comes in two parts because if you’re like me then you hold your rage in all day and it takes a long time to unwind.

Part One is for when you come home from work/school/the doctor’s/your great aunt’s birthday party and you’re all worked up because of all the things and you’re like “I HATE EVERYONE”/WHY. For that I have included “I Hate Everyone” by Get Set Go which might actually be the underlying theme of this playlist. But it gets better! I promise. #itgetsbetter. That’s that Part Two is all about. Tomorrow will be better, I swear.

So You Had A Bad Day

Part One:

Runaway – Kanye West
Better Already – Northern State
Evident Utensil – Chairlift
Right As Rain – Adele
Good To Sea – Pinback
I Fought The Law – The Clash
Baby, I’m An Anarchist – Against Me!
I Hate Everyone – Get Set Go
Camp Out – An Horse
LG FUAD – Motion City Soundtrack
Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect – The Decemberists
Don’t Give A Damn – Chairlift

STREAM THE PLAYLIST HERE

Part Two:

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths
Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying – Belle & Sebastian
I Know I Know I Know – Tegan And Sara
Better – Regina Spektor
L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N – Noah And The Whale
Monday Monday Monday – Tegan And Sara
Surf Wax America – Weezer
This Year – The Mountain Goats
Float On – Modest Mouse
Today Will Be Better, I Swear! – Stars
Stay Young, Go Dancing – Death Cab For Cutie
Let It Be – The Beatles

STREAM THE PLAYLIST HERE

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Want to suggest a playlist theme? Hit Crystal up on Formspring and someone on the team will make it for you.

Emily

Emily Choo started as an intern with Autostraddle when she was 18 years old. She’s now 10 years older and lives in Toronto with her partner and cat. The defining moment of her career was when Riese said this about her: ” I think Emily Choo is a very bright, ‘poetically inclined’ girl who pays attention to everything and knows almost everything (the point of stuff, how to read, how beautiful things feel, how scary things feel, etc.) but doesn’t believe/accept/realize yet that she knows almost everything.” She still doesn’t believe she knows anything, so, thank you, Riese, for that.