Tuesday 8 Track: Songs for Contemplatively Gazing Out the Bus Window On Your Ride Home

By Jake Moore on November 23rd, 2010

Thanksgiving travel means nostalgia, which is the worst. Nostalgia means misguided perceptions of what’s fun, beautiful, or comforting; it guarantees Ben Gibbard unlimited access to your heartstrings/tearducts and leads you to believe that your performance as Puck in a high school production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream really was, as a breathless school newspaper theater critic put it, “a passionate triumph truly worthy of comendation [sic]“.

But sometimes it’s healthy to embrace it–i.e., when you’re headed back to your hometown and about to plunge into a surreal quasi-high school mode anyway. This week’s Tuesday 8 Track is all about easing you into a numb state of sadness-tinged nostalgia, as if you’re being slowly lowered into a cryogenic pool of the essence of the year 2006.

Best enjoyed while gazing out the bus window, measured tragic sighs fogging up the glass to obscure the view of the streets you used to ride your Razor scooter down, kicking up bits of gravel like so many quaint forgotten dreams.



One Comment

  • Jake Moore
    November 23, 2010

    1. title and registration — death cab
    2. over and over (lost and found) — clap your hands say yeah
    3. all the trees of the field will clap their hands — soofy steves
    4. new slang — natalie portman
    5. photograph — nickelback
    6. lost cause — beck
    7. such great heights (postal service cover) — iron & wine
    8. wild horses (sticky fingers outtake) — rolling stones

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