Yet another cry for help

[stillsostrange]

Of the musical variety, that is.

I have a particular character's playlist that I just can't get to gel. I have thematically appropriate songs, but they have yet to fit together into a euphonious and resonant whole. Which means I'm searching for new music in hopes of making it click.

On the list already:

Gary Numan - "Dark"

Don't let the dark into me
We killed the angels that warned us of you
Don't let the dark into me
We raised the tower of Babel for you
...
Don't let the light shine on me
I am the poison that feeds life to you
Don't let the light shine on me
I am the demon that waits inside you

Tool - "Forty Six & 2"

See my shadow changing,
Stretching up and over me.
Soften this old armor.
Hoping I can clear the way
By stepping through my shadow,
Coming out the other side.
Step into the shadow.
Forty six and two are just ahead of me.

A Perfect Circle - "Weak and Powerless"

Tilling my own grave to keep me level
Jam another dragon down the hole
Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren
One that pushes me along and leaves me so
Desperate and Ravenous
I'm so weak and powerless over you

Silversun Pickups - "Panic Switch"

When you see yourself in a crowded room
Do your fingers itch, are you pistol-whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch
Can you fall asleep with a panic switch

Tears For Fears - "Mad World" (I might have to switch to the Gary Jules version, which pains me.)

And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
That the dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had

Maybes, not-quite-rights, and also-rans:

The Cure - "Open" & "Labyrinth"
The Joy Formidable - "The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie"
Bush - "Little Things"
Marilyn Manson - "Long Hard Road Out of Hell"
Garbage - "As Heaven Is Wide"
Amanda Palmer - "Runs In The Family"
Ladytron - "Destroy Everything You Touch"
Combichrist - "Today I Woke To a Rain of Blood"
Depeche Mode - "A Pain That I'm Used To"
David Bowie - "We Prick You"
Metallica - "Until It Sleeps" (Lyrically so very right, musically so wrong)
New Order - "True Faith"

Anyone have any song suggestions that seem appropriate?

Comments

[lanerobins.livejournal.com]

So music that's driven, desperate, and a little paranoid? I don't think I listen to the same style you do, but given those parameters. Um, Iron & Wine's Evening on the Ground? Nick Cave? Tom Waits?

Can you tell I have no idea at all? I usually just throw all the songs I think of as possibilities into a playlist, work on the relevant story and anything that jars me gets tossed. Anything that makes me sit up and go oh hell yeah gets moved to another playlist.

[hareguizer.livejournal.com]

Gary Jules' version of 'Mad World' makes me sad, I wonder where the feeling went. Have you heard Alex Parks' version? It should be available on iTunes (it is in the UK store) and it always gives me chills.

I have a feeling these might be lyrically or musically wrong or both, but I'll throw them up here anyway
Black Lab - This Night
Gary Numan - Dead Sun Rising
Icon of Coil - You Just Died
The Cure - Prayers For Rain, Disintegration
Hole - Northern Star