Soundtrack of my semester
Celia Rose Smith – Assistant Editor-In-Chief
My semester can be summed up as a messy collage of personal struggles—snippets of puffy eyes, mental breakdowns, an inability to properly function, poems so emo they leave my class silent and a Spotify playlist entitled “chaotic affliction.” Instead of attempting to reflect on the complex suffering and overall melancholy that these past few months have contained, I’ve compiled a list of tracks that speak to me—a mixtape of my mind and a soundtrack of my semester.
Side A:
1. The Hotelier: “Discomfort Revisited”
2. The Hotelier: “Your Deep Rest”
3. The Story So Far: “Navy Blue”
4. Mom Jeans: “Death Cup”
5. The Hotelier: “The Scope of All of This”
6. Dashboard Confessional: “The Secret’s In The Telling”
7. The Hotelier: “Title Track”
8. Modern Baseball: “Pothole”
9. Sorority Noise: “Using”
10. Pinegrove: “Old Friends”
11. The Cardboard Swords: “Cardigan”
12. The Hotelier: “In Framing”
13. Neck Deep: “A Part of Me (ft. Laura Whiteside)”
14. Modern Baseball: “Your Graduation”
15. Box Car Racer: “There Is”
16. The National: “Sorrow”
17. Dashboard Confessional: “This Old Wound”
18. The Hotelier: “An Introduction To The Album”
19. The Front Bottoms: “12 Feet Deep”
20. The Offspring: “Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?”
21. Dashboard Confessional: “The Best Deceptions”
22. Pinegrove: “Rings”
23. Frankie Cosmos: “Too Dark”
24. The Hotelier: “Dendron”
25. Dashboard Confessional: “Saints and Sailors”
26. Tigers Jaw: “Never Saw It Coming”
27. Turnover: “I Would Hate You If I Could”
28. Dashboard Confessional: “Ghost of A Good Thing”
29. Joyce Manor: “Constant Headache”
30. Brand New: “Mix Tape”
Side B:
31. American Football: “Never Meant”
32. Say Anything: “It’s a Metaphor, Fool”
33. Dashboard Confessional: “Screaming Infidelities”
34. Slaughter Beach, Dog: “Acolyte”
35. Jamaican Queens: “Caitlin”
36. Modern Baseball: “Rock Bottom”
37. Death Cab for Cutie: “What Sarah Said”
38. Taking Back Sunday: “MakeDa**Sure”
39. The Cardboard Swords: “Flannel”
40. The Spill Canvas: “Self-Conclusion”
41. The Hotelier: “Fear of Good”
42. Turnover: “Dizzy On the Comedown”
43. Real Friends: “I’ve Given Up on You”
44. Sorority Noise: “Art School Wannabe”
45. Sufjan Stevens: “The Predatory Wasp of The Palisades
Is Out To Get Us”
46. Brand New: “Jesus Christ”
47. Modern Baseball: “Fine, Great”
48. It Looks Sad.: “Creature”
49. Real Friends: “Late Nights in My Car”
50. Failure: “Stuck On You”
51. Sufjan Stevens: “Should Have Known Better”
52. The Front Bottoms: “Flashlight”
53. Cage The Elephant: “Cigarette Daydreams”
54. Tarkio: “Keeping Me Awake”
55. The Smiths: “Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I
Want This Time”
56. Fiona Apple: “Never is a Promise”
57. The Story So Far: “Clairvoyant”
58. Mom Jeans.: “Scott Pilgrim V. My GPA”
59. Pearl Jam: “Better Man”
60. Real Friends: “Late Nights in My Car”
Celia Smith, a senior, studies English and Studio Art. She is the Assistant Editor-In-Chief of Le Provocateur.
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