My Favorite Songs and the Stories they tell
Music has always been such an important part of my life and I wanted to collect all my favorite songs in one place. Most of them are tied to special memories that would be worth blog posts of their own. As I would not enjoy the process of trying to rate the importance of memories, I decided to stay short in the description and randomized the order in which you see the songs now. I also created a Spotify playlist for it.
Love & Relationships
The Neighborhood – Wires
‘Our song’ of me and my favorite ex-boyfriend
Lord Huron – The Night We Met
The soundtrack to a love story of mine that never actually happened
Radical Face – Welcome Home, Son
‘Our song’ of me and an ex-boyfriend that I have no contact with anymore
Wir sind Helden – Ein Elefant für Dich
A song that speaks for my first (honestly a bit co-dependent) long relationship
Wincent Weiss – Hier mit Dir
‘Our song’ of me and a non-ex of mine
Roy Orbinson – I Drove All Night
A song that’s symbolic of the connection with a special person
Cigarettes After Sex – Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby
A song that I play very often after having had sex
Breakups & Heartache
Blaue Blume – Lovable
A song that taught me to overcome the trauma of a somewhat toxic relationship
RHODES – You and I
A song that made me cry after a non-breakup of mine
Keaton Hanson – Sweetheart, What Have You Done To Us
A song that made me cry after a mess-up
Karpatenhund – Notfalls werde ich für immer warten
A song that in many ways describes how my very first ‘boyfriend’ and I didn’t understand each other
Troye Sivan – could cry just thinkin about you
A song that made a non-ex of mine cry
Patrick Wolf – Time of my Life
A song that made me feel less alone after leaving a 7-year relationship
Friendship
Fever Ray – When I Grow Up
A song that reminds me of my one-month Interrail trip with my former best friend
Casper – Michael X
A song that reminds me of someone who died way too young
Taylor Swift – Invisible String
‘Our song’ of me and my best Berlin friend
David Guetta x Afrojack x Charlie XCX x French Montana – Dirty Sexy Money
‘Our song’ of me and my best Graz’ friend
Party & Downtime
Kartoffelsuppe – Grossstadtgeflüster
A song that reminds me of one of my most important and life-changing days ever
Tourist – Kin
The song I always play when the police arrives to bust a party
Alanis Morisette – Ironic
The first song I ever sang at Karaoke
Michael Gray – Weekend
The first ‘techno’ song I remember falling in love with as a child
Röyksopp x Trentemøller – What Else is There
My favorite electronic song I often play when I DJ
The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
The song being played during our nude performance at Tuntenball Graz
Growth
Josef Salvat – Human
A song that, when I needed it, reminded me of how I am not responsible for anyone else
Josef Salvat – Hustler
A song that speaks to me on more levels than I could even try to describe
Grimes – Delete Forever
A song I was obsessed with when it came out and then learned to play on the guitar
Portishead – The Rip
My overall favorite song that touches me deeply whenever I listen to it
Linkin Park – Somewhere I Belong
An important song that helped me get through high school by my favorite band Linkin Park
Jennifer Rostock – Schlaflos Pt. 1, 2 and 3
Incredibly beautiful stories that go deep under the skin
Early Memories
Placebo – Black-Eyed
My favorite song from one of my favorite bands that reminded me I didn’t have it so bad
Slut – If I had a Heart
One of the first songs I found that perfectly fits into the kind of dark beauty I enjoy so much
Idlewild – No Emotion
A song I was obsessed with as a child and still am
Björk – Hidden Place
A song that inspired lots of my teenage artwork
Evanescence – My Immortal
A song that not only reminds me of my teenage Emo phase but also about being bullied at the time
Dave Gahan – Kingdom
A song that inspired one of the few songs I ever recorded myself and later recut and used for my short film Fractures
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