Shifting Perspectives: A Music From Fringe Mixtape

“Mostly it amazes me. Music helps you shift perspective, to see things differently if you need to” - Walter Bishop (Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11)

Side A

01 Seven Suns (Rising) by Violet Sedan Chair (Novation)

If the seven suns are rising in front of me / and the seventh one stamps out the only sea

02 Crazy by Patsy Cline (The Box)

Wondering what in the world did I do? / Crazy for thinking that my love could hold you 

03 Is There a Ghost by Band of Horses (Northwest Passage)

I could sleep

04 Love and Happiness by Al Green (Inner child)

Wait a minute let me tell you about the power / The power of love, power, power / Make you do right…love will make you do wrong.

05 For Once in My Life by Stevie Wonder (Brown Betty)

For once, I can say, this is mine, you can’t take it / As long as I know I have love, I can make it

06 Give A Little Bit by Supertramp (Stowaway)

There’s so much that we need to share / Send a smile and show you care

07 Only You by Yazzo (Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11)

All I needed was the love you gave / All I needed for another day / And all I ever knew, only you

08 California Stars by Billy Bragg & Wilco (Welcome to Westfield)

I’d love to feel your hand touching mine / And tell me why I must keep working on 

Side B

09 The Ghost Who Walks by Karen Elson (A Better Human Being)

She looked at him with pleading eyes / he softly spoke: “my dear the love has died”

10 Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues (In Absentia)

Some try to tell me thoughts they cannot defend / Just what you want to be you will be in the end

11 Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic (Night of Desirable Objects)

Please don’t be sad if it was a straight mind you had / We wouldn’t have known you all these years

12 Pale Blue Eyes by The Velvet Underground (6B)

Baby, you just make me mad / Linger on, your pale blue eye

13 California Dreamin’ by The Mamas & The Papas (Neither Here Nor There)

Stopped in to a church I passed along the way / Well I got down on my knees (got down on my knees) / And I pretend to pray

14 Strange Brew by Cream (Os)

Strange brew — killin’ what’s inside of you

15 White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane (A Short Story About Love)

One pill makes you larger / And one pill makes you small

16 The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie (Five-Twenty-Ten)

Oh no, not me, I never lost control / You’re face to face with the man who sold the world

17 Riders On The Storm by The Doors (The Last Sam Weiss)

Girl ya gotta love your man / Take him by the hand / Make him understand / The world on you depends / Our life will never end 

Fringe is ending in a couple of weeks time and I thought I would celebrate some of the great music used during the last five seasons of the show.  Walter Bishop having consumed many drugs throughout the 60s and 70s has one hell of a record collection.

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Emotion Through Sound: A Soundtrack Mixtape

01 Clint Mansell - The Last Man (From The Fountain)

02 Richard Wells - A Wonderful Thing (From Being Human S1)

03 Ramin Djawadi - When The Sun Rises In The West (From GOT S1)

04 Max Richter - Luminous (From Perfect Sense) 

05 Serge Besset - Nuit De Chat (From A Cat In Paris)

06 Bear McCreary - Someone To Trust (From Battlestar Galactica S3)

07 Michael Giacchino - Parting Words (From Lost S1)

08 David Arnold and Michael Price - One More Miracle (From Sherlock S2) 

09 Michael Convertino - Main Title (From We Don’t Live Here Anymore) 

10 Greg Edmonson - The Funeral (From Firefly) 

11 Chris Tilton - Olivia’s Theme (From Fringe)

12 Tim Jones - A Question And An Answer (From Chuck)

13 Daniel Licht - Blood Theme (From Dexter)

14 Murray Gold - The Life And Death Of Amy Pond (From Doctor Who S5)

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I listen to a lot of soundtracks from films and TV shows. Here are some of my favourite scores of recent years, all very beautiful and perfect for the films and shows they are used in.