"A Lot of Time For Listening" - a fanmix of favorite music of Twilight characters

[flowrs4ophelia]

For a while I've been thinking about doing a multi-disc Harry Potter mix picking a few characters and doing a selection of songs they would have on their iPods according to my "personal canon"...you know, if a lot of Wizards and Witches actually had mp3 players. But ever since I've gotten into Twilight it has seemed like a much funner mix idea for a series with so many characters who have actually been around for almost the entire history of recorded music and could justifiably be thought to listen to anything. Plus the books/lexicon tell us a little about what some characters like so a lot of my choices are totally canon.

The title of this mix comes from how Stephenie Meyer has said "Edward likes a wide range of music (he has a lot of time on his hands for listening)." In addition to two of my favorite vampires I did playlists for Bella and Jacob, who may not be immortals who never sleep but do live in the Forks area, which gives you not much to do and plenty of spare time for just sitting around with some headphones on.

I wasn't deliberately trying to find songs with lyrics that fit the characters at all, but I did find some songs by artists I wanted to use anyway that were just too perfect not to choose, as I think you'll see. :)


( disc 1 )
iEdward
music for driving at night.


This mix is the most varied and the most supported by canon, although with Edward I think I could have taken even more liberty with deciding what music he would like than I did. He claims to prefer 50's music to 60's and 70's, yet none of the genres of music Steph has said he likes really encompass "oldies" as he's listening to in that scene, and she says he listens to punk rock, which started and was at its prime in the mid-70's. So basically, he's all over the place and I could have justified using just about anything, and at one point I had some non-jazz 50's music on his playlist. But I decided to keep this mix with a more cohesive focus.


untitled 01 interpol
midnight sun 02 ella fitzgerald
maid with the flaxen hair 03 claude debussy
stinkfist 04 tool
love burns 05 black rebel motorcycle club
mood indigo 06 duke ellington
enigma variations: nimrod 07 edward elgar
packt like sardines in a crushd tin box 08 radiohead
customer 09 the replacements
my funny valentine 10 chet baker
change (in the house of flies) [acoustic version] 11 deftones
romeo and juliet fantasy overture: love theme 12 tchaikovsky
say it ain't so 13 weezer
bulletproof (radiohead cover) 14 christopher o'riley
company calls 15 death cab for cutie
a love supreme pt. 1 16 john coltrane
take.







( disc 2 )
iBella
music for relaxing outside with a book.


There are a few random things we know from canon Bella likes listening to (Chopin, Debussy, the CD she got from Phil which Steph has identified as Linkin Park). She seems to me like someone who is never really in the know as far as what's going on in popular music and doesn't even listen to music every day but could like a lot of different things if she actually tried them. So for her mix more than anyone's, I ended up picking songs with more of a mood that I think seems to fit her than with a specific genre.


cross bones style 01 cat power
twilight 02 elliott smith
session 03 linkin park
adagio for strings 04 samuel barber
next time around 05 emiliana torrini
black balloon 06 the goo goo dolls
pretty good year 07 tori amos
the secret life of daydreams 08 dario marianelli
undertow 09 ivy
blackbird 10 the beatles
the promise 11 michael nyman
isobel 12 dido
it's been a while 13 staind
time to say goodbye 14 david abel & orchestra
high speed 15 coldplay
spring haze 16 tori amos
take.







( disc 3 )
iJacob
music to rock your face off.


There is absolutely no evidence in the books of what kind of music Jacob would listen to, but the idea of what I think he would like came kind of naturally to me when I considered how he and Edward are complete opposites in basically all ways. Therefore, his favorite music is everything not classy. Far from art-snobby and sophisticated, with ballsy guitar solos and whatnot.
I think this one's my favorite, perhaps not surprisingly. XD


peaches 01 the presidents of the united states of america
moby dick 02 led zeppelin
my name is mud 03 primus
crazy 04 gnarls barkley
one big mob 05 the red hot chili peppers
bitch 06 the rolling stones
woman 07 wolfmother
evolve 08 insight
maria 09 rage against the machine
wish you were here 10 incubus
back in the u.s.s.r. 11 the beatles
happy valentine's day 12 outkast
the wanton song 13 led zeppelin
futterman's rule 14 the beastie boys
crossroads 15 cream
take.







( disc 4 )
iAlice
music for chilling at a party.


The choices for Alice's disc are also just about purely speculative. We have the scene in her car in Eclipse when she is blasting something with a loud female singer (why hasn't anyone asked Steph who that's supposed to be??), and from that you get the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Breeders. Everything else is just drawn from my own idea of her personality.


6 underground 01 the sneaker pimps
way out 02 the yeah yeah yeahs
suffragette city 03 david bowie
debaser 04 the pixies
unemployed in summertime 05 emiliana torrini
the witch 06 the cult
scream team 07 deerhoof
search and destroy 08 iggy and the stooges
love is here 09 luscious jackson
natural's not in it 10 gang of four
king's lead hat 11 brian eno
cannonball 12 the breeders
pedestal 13 portishead
white girl 14 x
today 15 poe
raw ramp 16 t. rex
take.

Comments

[exorcise.livejournal.com]

I AGREE WITH THIS COMMENT SO MUCH ♥

[poetrytoprose.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh. OH. Edward's was automatically perfect by the fact that it includes Interpol. And then Radiohead! BUT THE REST IS EQUALLY MAGNIFICENT.

I'll probably snag all of them -- but definitely Edward's. Thank you!

ETA: I had to come back and give you MAJOR props for putting this together. It's so refreshing from many of the other fanmixes I've seen and it's WONDERFUL.

[exorcise.livejournal.com]

This is great :D and I think you go Jacob perfect.

[antisocial47.livejournal.com]

This looks beyond awesome. FYI. Awesome music choices!!!

[xmisachan.livejournal.com]

Whooo~ Thanks a lot. ^__^

I'm taking them all, but am REALLY looking forward to Jacob's mix. That boy's music (that you picked >.<) is pure love. *___*

♥

[kinderlijk.livejournal.com]

i'm running on about an hour of sleep (diaf, college) so i'm just going to say this is beautiful and perfect and keep it at that. i've snagged everything, thank you.

[wheezysgal.livejournal.com]

Ooo! These are great. Snatching Edward, Bella, Alice.

[caitlinsici.livejournal.com]

Taking everything except Alice... I might end up taking Alice's if my computer doesn't eat me.

Thanks! :D :D

[sportsfan25.livejournal.com]

What a cool idea! I like music on all of te mixes and I'm always looking for something new to listen to. I'm downloading all of the above. Great job!

[insidethe-lie.livejournal.com]

this is very clever. haha. I like it a lot, I'll have to come back and steal. :]

[glamorous-sky.livejournal.com]

WOW. I'm stealing some! Thanks xD

[sensations.livejournal.com]

music to rock your face off.

That made me giggle randomly, so thanks.

And I adore all of the choices, seriously, they all work so well.

[romanitas.livejournal.com]

These are fabulous. Snagging all four ♥

[angel423.livejournal.com]

This is amazing!

Taking them ALL :D

[kotorjedi-amaya.livejournal.com]

These are so far ranging! And a lot of the music is stuff I have wanted.

THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU ARE AMAZING.

[14shadesofgrey.livejournal.com]

you included Staind...that made my day...

good choices :D

[starlet-19.livejournal.com]

Omg...thanks for putting in The Secret Life of Daydreams! Anything from the Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack = AMAZING!!!

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

It's a gorgeous soundtrack, isn't it? :) You know, it didn't even occur to me until now how fitting it is to use something from that since the first book has so many references to Pride and Prejudice, LOL.

[hardcoreninja11.livejournal.com]

Wow, each album has so much variety in music and most of it is stuff I love, love, love. Especially Deftones! Edward's tracklist is, by far, the best. I'm absolutely addicted to the song "Change". The combination of the music arrangement and Chino's voice is, my God ... powerful. My hormones literally go insane. Something about that song is so seductive.

AHEM -- Queen of the Damned, anyone? For example.

Anywho, back to the point. Much appreciation for the stuff you've uploaded here. I took everything and will cherish it like crack. LOL!

[deviousgeke.livejournal.com]

Word.

[unicornhime.livejournal.com]

These are so made of awesome. Taking Bella's and Edward's, and I'm excited. :)

[ilonga.livejournal.com]

I have the same Jacob's music taste :p
love those songs, so I'm definitively taking that :]

[lincolnimp.livejournal.com]

this looks amazing! i'm taking edward's, bella's and alice's :)

[nooty-monkey.livejournal.com]

Interpol? Death Cab? Yeah Yeah Yeahs? Radiohead?

Oh man! Your vision of the Cullens is amazing! ~*~

[flowrs4ophelia.livejournal.com]

Haha, how perfect your icon is. And thank you. :)

[wearystrong-one.livejournal.com]

This is such a good idea. I'm downloading all of them right now, I can't wait to listen! Thanks you so much.

[vnfan.livejournal.com]

Woooowwww! Spot on, I think! Really well thought out choices.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

I love all of these! What a delightful smorgasbord.