Baby's On Fire!
- djtea0
- Mar 13, 2024
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 2
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🔥 Babes on Fire 🔥
March 13, 2024
I often have music playing in my head. My brain just catalogs stuff—it doesn’t matter if I heard it once, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… it will get lodged in there, mix with something else, and live rent-free in my subconscious forever.
That’s exactly what happened with this playlist.
I had a dream within a dream (super Inception-style) where I was making a mix. I woke up in the dream to write it down, only to realize I had no device or paper—pure chaos! Then, when I really woke up, “Baby’s On Fire” was playing in my head, over and over, like the theme song of my day. It kept looping. I think that’s when my Brian Eno binge began.
The result? A Better Than K-Tel Mix—which means this is mostly Indie goodness, sprinkled with delightful randomness. It’s a mix that probably only makes sense in a dream… or to someone who listens to too much music. Either way, here’s the playlist!
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🎶 First Set: Dreamy Garage Rock & Cosmic Synths
🚀 Automatic – New Beginning
This song makes you feel like you’re starting a new chapter in life—except you forgot what the last chapter was.
💥 POW! – Dream Decay
Exactly what happens when you fall asleep to a sci-fi movie and wake up thinking you’re a robot.
👁️ Surfbort – Open Your Eyes
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The moment you realize you’ve been staring at your phone for hours, but your brain is off.
☁️ Evan Blum & Michelle Raitzin – Endless Sky
The sound of floating through space while having an existential crisis—but in a cute way.
🛸 Second Set: Remixes & Synth Magic
🏙️ Automatic – Skyscraper (GUM & Ginoli Remix)
This feels like a slow-motion scene in a neon-lit city where everything is cooler than reality.
🌙 Automatic – Venus Hour (Peanut Butter Wolf Remix)
This song is proof that Peanut Butter Wolf exists in an alternate universe where disco never ended.
✂️ POW! – Scissors
The soundtrack to every chaotic haircut you’ve ever given yourself at 3 AM.
👨🎤 POW! – Peter
It sounds like someone just hit the “glitch” button on an 80s video game soundtrack.
💄 Ariel Pink – Lipstick
That one shade you buy, wear once, and then forget at the bottom of your purse for three years.
🤖 Geneva Jacuzzi – Technophelia
The official anthem for when you fall in love with your Roomba.
🔧 Raymond Scott – Lightworks (Instrumental)
If your brain had a factory inside, this would be its theme song.
🔥 Third Set: The Eno Spiral & Other Oddities
🔥 Brian Eno – Baby’s On Fire (2004 Remaster)
The moment you realize your brain has been playing the same song on repeat, and you just accept it.
💀 Brian Eno – Dead Finks Don’t Talk (2004 Remaster)
What happens when a funeral procession accidentally turns into a dance party.
🌸 Lou Reed – Perfect Day
A song so beautiful, it makes you suspicious.
🎭 Os Mutantes – Panis Et Circenses
If a Brazilian carnival and a psychedelic fever dream had a baby.
💫 Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie
The perfect song for staring at a lava lamp and contemplating life.
🌙 Raymond Scott – NIGHT AND DAY
If a vintage jazz robot gained sentience and started composing.
⏳ Fourth Set: The Existential Spiral
🕰️ David J & Tim Newman – The Clock Becomes an Impersonator of Torture
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When time is just an illusion, but deadlines are very real.
🎭 Love and Rockets – Here Come the Comedown (Rough Mix)
That moment of clarity after a weird night out.
🩹 Kilbey Kennedy – That’s Gotta Hurt
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Like stepping on a Lego but in song form.
🎙️ Kilbey Kennedy – The Demo
The rare moment when the demo is the song.
👻 The Church – A Strange Past
When an old song triggers memories from a past life you’re not sure you had.
🐦 Raymond Scott – Twilight In Turkey (Electronic)
The sound of a mechanical bird leading a parade of confused humans.
🎸 Fifth Set: Strange, Beautiful, & Unexpected
🌊 The Mommyheads – Soul’s Aquarium
If your soul was a fish tank, what kind of fish would be in there?
🃏 Johnny Society – Trust
This song is exactly what it feels like to trust someone, and immediately regret it.
🔥 Beirut – A Candle’s Fire
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That moment when you light a candle and suddenly your whole apartment feels mystical.
🍋 The Wiyos – Pink Lemonade
Refreshing. Unexpected. A little weird, but in the best way.
💃 Langhorne Slim & The Law – The Way We Move
The dance floor anthem for people who can’t actually dance.
😢 Russ Irwin – I Miss Being Lonely (feat. Steven Tyler)
When loneliness was actually better than whatever relationship disaster just happened.
📖 A.C. Newman – Encyclopedia of Classic Takedowns
The musical version of throwing shade, but with elegance.
☀️ Church of Betty – Wake Up
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The sound of a morning alarm that actually makes you want to wake up.
🔪 Mr. Forky – Revenge
Plotting revenge has never sounded so charming.
👤 Kaizuu – Shadow Man
Like the theme song for a mysterious figure in a noir film.
💭 People Like Us – Till the End of Time
A dreamy, slightly unsettling lullaby for adults.
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