Parsons Playlists: Coming-of-Age Movie Soundtrack

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Nicole (class of 2024) and features

Coming-of-Age Movie Soundtrack

With Commencement coming up and only a couple of months until Summer, one can’t help but ponder on how far they’ve come and think about how uncertain the future is. Here is a playlist with songs to help you romanticize academic life and think of it as if you were the main character of a coming-of-age film!

BØRNS – “Electric Love”

Florence + The Machine – “Dogs Days Are Over”

GROUPLOVE – “Tongue Tied”

Harry Styles – “Keep Driving”

Harry Styles – “Matilda”

Indigo De Souza – “Younger & Dumber”

Keane – “Somewhere Only We Know”

MGMT – “Time to Pretend”

Of Monsters and Men – “Little Talks”

Royel Otis – “Oysters in My Pocket”

Tame Impala – “Yes I’m Changing”

Taylor Swift – “You’re On Your Own, Kid”

Tears for Fears – “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”

The 1975 – “Robbers”

The Script – “For the First Time”

The Strokes – “Hard to Explain”

Vacations – “No Place Like Home”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57ZezPBKdTCZPVYTGk1TkN7DeZ&si=YIkZOpxp2ukj5kY9

Parsons Playlists: Best Album Art

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student manager Brianna (class of 2023) and features some music from albums with cool cover art.

Best Album Art

In keeping with my last playlist, here is a collection of my favorite songs from albums with some of my favorite album art, as well as some albums whose covers have become iconic! Enjoy.

Tame Impala – “Borderline”

Palace – “Live Well”

blink-182 – “All The Small Things”

Harry Styles – “Late Night Talking”

My Chemical Romance – “Welcome To The Black Parade”

Green Day – “Basket Case”

Childish Gambino – “Redbone”

Weezer – “Say It Ain’t So”

Collective Soul – “Run”

Nirvana – “Come As You Are”

Gorillaz – “Feel Good Inc.”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57Zeybnb59dYL0axiA4iCUAB4B

Parsons Playlists: Brain Scratch

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Marissa (class of 2025). It’s called “Brain Scratch.”

Brain Scratch

Ever listen to a song that scratches a certain itch in your brain? Or, in other words, a song that no matter how many times you listen to it, you can’t seem to get tired of it? I like to refer to those as “brain scratch songs”. This playlist describes that feeling for me, and I hope it will for you as well.

brain scratch

Justin Timberlake – “Mirrors (Radio Edit)”

Tame Impala – “Borderline”

Declan McKenna – “Brazil”

Kelly Clarkson – “Breakaway”

Edison Lighthouse – “Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)”

Ariana Grande – “poy”

Hoobastank – “The Reason”

SZA – “Kill Bill”

New West – “Those Eyes”

Ariana Grande – “Honeymoon Avenue”

Ritt Momney – “Put Your Records On”

Engelbert Humperdink – “A Man Without Love”

Grouplove – “Tongue Tied”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEPpzeK8v3s1PzCpE2q1X7ErR5A16lFok

Parsons Playlists: “Mid Day Car Rides”

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student manger Brianna (class of 2023) and features songs to enjoy on a mid day car ride.

Mid Day Car Rides

These are my favorite songs to play when I am on the way home from a long day.
P.S. This playlist is even better if the windows are rolled down.

Music for Mid Day Car Rides

Young Mister – “Anybody Out There”

Your Neighbors – “Chicken”

snny – “Better To Leave It”

Between Friends – “Suburban Wonderland”

Tommy Newport – “Tongue & Cheek”

Sarah and the Sundays – “Take Your Time”

Tame Impala – “Patience”

French Cassettes – “City Kitty”

Magic City Hippies – “Champagne on the Rider”

Djo – “Personal Lies”

Laundry Day – “Jane”

Hippo Campus – “Ashtray”

OK Houston – “Slowly Spinning Room”

Goth Babe – “Weekend Friend”

Here’s a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57Zez6coNtI_6VZ3egjiCG8yPI

Parsons Playlists: “Very Peri”

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist is curated by Music Library student assistant Amy (class of 2025) and features a playlist inspired by Pantone’s 2022 color of the year.

Very Peri Playlist

Songs that I associate with Pantone’s color of the year for 2022, Very Peri!

Very Peri - Pantone Color of the Year 2022

Lana Del Ray – “California”

Gracie Abrams – “Long Sleeves”

Taylor Swift – “Wonderland”

Tame Impala – “Eventually”

Conan Gray – “Astronomy”

Taylor Swift – “august”

Lana Del Ray – “Watercolor Eyes”

Phoebe Bridgers – “Friday I’m In Love”

Phoebe Bridgers – “Garden Song”

Mitski – “First Love/Late Spring”

The Neighbourhood – “The Beach”

Salvia Palth – “I Was All Over Her”

The Smiths – “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSwAwMtTLDwhUUa5MDIWAzH5pyakXPRsm

Parsons Playlists: My Chemical Reaction

Welcome back to Parsons Playlists! Today’s playlist features music to accompany an organic chemistry lab as curated by Music Library student assistant Kiran (class of 2024).

My Chemical Reaction

Chemistry and Music

Part 1: The Beginning of the Lab

Florence + The Machine – “Hunger”
Usually I get to lab and I’m hungry so I try to distract myself with some hype music.

The Strokes – “The Adults Are Talking”
Usually my professor gives a small lecture before we get started if needed.

Twenty-One Pilots – “Shy Away”
I start to work with tunnel vision and tune out the other groups in lab.

Part 2: Focus Mode

Conan Gray – “Overdrive”

Salt-N-Pepa – “Push It”

MARINA – “Oh No!”
This is usually where something goes wrong in the reaction or I spill a chemical.

Gorillaz feat. Daley – “Doncamatic”

Majestic + Boney M. – “Rasputin”

Various Artists – “Punjabi Mashup”
Adding some culture to the mix, helps me feel energized if lab is going really slowly.

Mac Miller – “The Spins”

MGMT – “Electric Feel”

Part 3: Did it work?

Gorillaz – “Revolving Doors”
This is the part where the reaction usually needs time to sit and we have other work to do.

Lil Peep & ILoveMakonnen feat. Fall Out Boy – “I’ve Been Waiting”

Crystal Castles – “Vanished”
Our reaction worked! Now we have to analyze it with spectroscopy.

Tame Impala – “Is It True”
Now we have to see how pure the product is using our data.

Drake – “Over”

Here is a link to the whole playlist on YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU94rco57Zey5UNqlVtbkpRx5n_g01OsT