# Inspirational Music Playlist

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**Created:** [June 5, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149 "2018-06-05T02:03:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![nFlourish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/nflourish/32/93_2.png) [@nFlourish](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/nFlourish)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/1 "2018-06-05T02:03:59Z")

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Inspired by the first thoughts post summit that @elb put on Medium, and the request for a recovery kit at Town Hall…

What ideas do we have for music that one can put on as a pick-me-up when feeling a bit overwhelmed by the scope of the CfA endeavor? What gets you FIRED UP to go fight for a better tomorrow?

Just post your suggestions as lists of…  
[artist] - [album] - [track name || #] - [curse words?] - [opt. comment]

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**Author:** ![ninakin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/ninakin/32/33_2.png) [@ninakin](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/ninakin)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/2 "2018-06-05T20:46:32Z")

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I’m always on the lookout for more great music! I have one set of music that’s for **firing up** and another set for **slowing down** , depending on whether I’m trying to pump out work or to focus on self-healing.

On a tangential note… our LA County Arts Commission and City of LA Dept of Cultural Affairs held their 2nd annual joint Datathon earlier this year. They had a track - **[Music as Collections](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTNj7KrdXgICOomIRCfDwpfX22UK4tHKvDHUcCc6UJg/edit)** - invited participants to develop a metadata framework for music discovery.

**Feeling Fired Up!**  
Daft Punk/Specimen A - [Soundcloud](https://soundcloud.com/specimena/daft-punk-aerodynamic-refix) - Aerodynamic (Specimen A & James D’ley Re-fix) - no  
Yoko Kanno/Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop - Tank! || 1 - no

@nFlourish Did I do that right? 😆

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**Author:** ![tdooner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/tdooner/32/3_2.png) [@tdooner](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/tdooner)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2018, 12:05am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/3 "2018-06-06T00:05:37Z")

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My go-to is Hans Zimmer. Never seen this movie, but love this song:

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**Author:** ![nFlourish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/nflourish/32/93_2.png) [@nFlourish](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/nFlourish)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:18am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/4 "2018-06-07T04:18:45Z")

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Stuff that I’ve been listening to lately, or that comes to mind:

[Gogol Bordello] - [Pura Vida Conspiracy] - [We Rise Again] - [No] - [“With a fist full of heart, and relics of future!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Pura Vida Conspiracy] - [Dig Deep Enough] - [No] - [“We who seek long enough, Dig deep enough, Find diamonds in the rough, One day…”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Pura Vida Conspiracy] - [It Is The Way You Name Your Ship] - [No] - [“It is the way you name your ship, that’s the way its going to row!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Super Taranta!] - [Forces of Victory] - [No] - [“If you’ll remember those before, And the ones that yet to come, Above suffer of it all, Triumphs the union of souls!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Trans-Continental Hustle] - [Raise The Knowledge] - [No] - [“Revolution is internal…  
Help yourself at any time!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Trans-Continental Hustle] - [Last One Goes The Hope] - [No] - [“Unvisible barbed wire all along, Around the neck of my song, Hey Romale, I’m beat up, but going strong!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Trans-Continental Hustle] - [To Rise Above] - [No] - [“To frontiers, my kind is following the spark, To build lighthouse for those who scared of dark…”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Live From Axis Mundi] - [You Gave Up] - [No] - [“You Gave Up And Said Well That’s Life, But No No No No No, My Friend, Is Death!”]  
[Gogol Bordello] - [Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike] - [Undestructable] - [No] - [“The savage love is undestructable!”]  
[Jamiroquai] - [Emergency on Planet Earth] - [When You Gonna Learn] - [No] - [not enough room to quote the whole song here…]  
[Jamiroquai] - [Emergency on Planet Earth] - [Emergency on Planet Earth] - [No] - [not enough room to quote the whole song here…]  
[Jamiroquai] - [Emergency on Planet Earth] - [Revolution 1993] - [No] - [1993 could be any date in the modern era]  
[Jamiroquai] - [Dynamite] - [(Don’t) Give Hate a Chance] - [No] - []  
[Bjork] - [Post] - [Army of Me] - [No] - [“If you complain once more, you’ll meet an army of me…”]

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**Author:** ![nFlourish](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/nflourish/32/93_2.png) [@nFlourish](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/nFlourish)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2018, 4:19am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/5 "2018-06-07T04:19:45Z")

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Also @ninakin +1 for the Cowboy Bebop Tank track idea… nice…

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**Author:** ![Mari](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discourse.codeforamerica.org/mari/32/992_2.png) [@Mari](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/u/Mari)\
**Post date:** [July 1, 2023, 7:09am UTC](https://discourse.codeforamerica.org/t/inspirational-music-playlist/149/6 "2023-07-01T07:09:04Z")

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