07 May 2012

Linguistics 401 Summer Playlist

Rajesh Bhatt writes:

In the last class of the semester before the summer, I asked the wonderful students of the Spring 2012 Linguist 401 [Introduction to Syntax] class for listening suggestions for the summer. This is what came in with the finals.

List BA
Midnight City - M83
Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
Dancing Behind My Eyelids - Mum

List DM
The next time around - Little Joy
Attaboy - Yo Yo Ma & Stuart Duncan
Love is all - The Tallest Man on Earth
Ziggy Stardust - Seu Jorge
The Breeze - Dr. Dog
40 Day Dream - Edward Sharpe
Sam Huff's Flying Raging Machine - Lettuce
Jackie wants a black eye - Dr. Dog
Dancefloors - My Morning Jacket
Slippin' and Slidin' - Justin Townes Earle
A La Longue - Noir Desir
Magic Marker - Monsters of Folk
Oliver James - Fleet Foxes

List FC
Guy who got a headache and accidentally saves the world - The Flaming Lips
Spitting Blood - WU LYF
In her drawer - RX Bandits
Randy described Eternity - Built to Spill
Building Steam with a Grain of Salt - DJ Shadow
A More Perfect Union - Titus Andronicus
Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest
A Tender History In Rust - Do Make Say Think
Black History Month - Death From Above 1979
Cross the Breeze - Sonic Youth

List GURH
Stand and Deliver - Adam Ant
Sound and Vision - David Bowie
Blame it on Cain - Elvis Costello
You're the voice - John Farnham
We are Golden - Mika
Birdhouse in your soul - They Might Be Giants
Bicycle - Pink Floyd
That'll be the day - Buddy Holly
Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Running up that hill - Kate Bush
Marty Groves - Fairport Convention
Sorrow - David Bowie

List MS
Turn to Stone - Electric Light Orchestra
Super Rad - The Aquabats!
Tamacun - Rodrigo y Gabriela
Take the long way home - Supertramp
Opera Singer - Cake
Cousins - Vampire Weekend
Ballroom Blitz - Sweet
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard - Paul Simon
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - The White Stripes
Somewhere in the Between - Streetlight Manifesto