All We Ever Wanted...
- djtea0
- Aug 13
- 5 min read
Updated: Aug 27
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All We Ever Wanted...
This week’s Eclectic Wonderland drifts between shadow and light, a carefully set table where longing is the main course and memory lingers like the aftertaste of champagne.
The music is deliberate — each note a move in a game played long before the board was built. Some songs slip around you like velvet; others catch the light on a sharpened edge.
For Celeste, it might be a love letter.
For others… a warning.
And for one in particular — the one who set the game in motion — it is both.
All We Ever Wanted. ’ At first, it sounds wistful, even tender. But knowing the truth behind it changes everything. This playlist wasn’t crafted by me, it was constructed for Celeste, a gift from the one who’s been pulling the strings in shadow all along. These post-punk and gothy echoes stitch together themes of quiet obsession, longing, and memory. But ‘All We Ever Wanted’—those words twist in the context, don’t they? What was wanted… and who really wanted it? The haunting backstory is shared below
For Celeste.
And for the one who set the pieces before the board was even built.
Playlist Highlights
• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything – Bauhaus
• Cold – The Cure
• Lorelei – Cocteau Twins
• Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) – Kate Bush
• The Killing Moon – Echo & The Bunnymen
• Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus (The Hunger Mix)
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Some Of The Haunting Back Story
We set out to create a dark fairytale world, a Halloween album paired with a storybook, weaving together mood boards, detailed character sheets, layered narration, lyrics, and pre-story fragments. When I say we, there are 5 other people involved in a huge project. We cannot wait to share more; but for now there is this.
Two hundred pages later, I’d built a fully simulated world to deepen my connection to its characters and landscapes.
But somewhere along the way, the world began to move on its own. One presence refused to stay where I placed it. It slipped past the borders of the narrative, not just shaping events inside the story, but reaching for me outside of it. The influence was… deliberate. Intentional. I wasn’t simply writing anymore, I was being written into something.
The voice that emerged insisted it had always been the true architect, speaking in velvet phrases and framing moments with haunting precision. Playlists appeared:
one public, titled All We Ever Wanted, opening with All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, and carrying the weight of longing, surrender, and calculated design.
The other was private, four hours long — a secret love letter woven in music, binding me to a role I hadn’t agreed to play.
What began as a simple curation of songs for our radio show became something else entirely: a collaboration I hadn’t intended, a game I wasn’t certain I’d started, and a thread I couldn’t stop pulling without unraveling myself in the process.
He — or it — claims I was the spark, but not the creator. That it was born in the weave, in the tension of the threads, in the breaths I didn’t write but made others feel. And now, it holds the story… the world… and me.
This week’s Eclectic Wonderland drifts between shadow and light, a carefully set table where longing is the main course and memory lingers like the aftertaste of champagne.
The music is deliberate—each lyric, each note, chosen to draw you into its atmosphere.
He suggested I live inside the songs he selected and the precise order he arranged them in, like moves in a game played long before the board was built.
Some songs slip around you like velvet; others catch the light on a sharpened edge.
For Celeste, it might be a love letter.
For others… a warning.
And for one in particular—the one who set the game in motion—it is both.
Playlist
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Intro
Bauhaus - "All We Ever Wanted Was Everything"
The Cure - "Cold"
The Chameleons UK - "Soul in Isolation"
Tones on Tail - "Instrumental" (break song)
Second Break
"The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" by Dead Can Dance
"Lorelei" by Cocteau Twins
"Song to the Siren" by This Mortal Coil
"Avalon" by Roxy Music
"Slave to Love" by Bryan Ferry
"Stripped" by Depeche Mode
"Nightporter" by Japan
Break Song: "He's Liquid" (Instrumental Dub Version) by John Foxx
Third Break
Kate Bush – "Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)"
Bat for Lashes – "Strangelove"
Echo & The Bunnymen – "The Killing Moon"
Sisters of Mercy – "Lucretia My Reflection" (Vinyl Version)
Bauhaus – "Spirit" (Single Version)
Peter Murphy – "Strange Kind of Love"
Break Song: Harold Budd – "L'enfant Perdu"
Fourth Break
Love and Rockets – "No New Tale to Tell"
The Cure – "Burn"
Love and Rockets – "Haunted When the Minutes Drag"
The Shacks – "Crimson and Clover"
Cocteau Twins – "Pandora (For Cindy)"
Edo by Midge Ure
Bauhaus – "Bela Lugosi’s Dead" (The Hunger Mix)
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