Spotify Playlist: Apple (Skin to the Core)
Inspired by the many music references in Apple (Skin to the Core), we asked author Eric Gansworth to share a playlist for fans of his memoir in verse. Here is what he sent us. Eric assured us the playlist is meant to be enjoyed in sequential order.
He explains:
1-18 and 36-52 are mirrors (thus in reverse sequence from one another) and the middle section has its own arc.
Some of the songs on Eric’s list — two from the incredible band Ulali one from The Beatles — are such deep cuts that we couldn’t find them on Spotify. We highly recommend checking out Ulali on YouTube.
With songs like “Leaving Home Ain’t Easy” by Queen and “When It’s Time” from Green Day, you’ll keep turning the pages for a distinctive ride.
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APPLE PLAYLIST by Eric Gansworth
1 Ulali “Museum Cases” (Listen on YouTube)
2 Link Wray “Rumble”
3 Keith Secola “NDN Cars”
4 Red Thunder “Sacred Ground”
5 The Beatles “I’ve Got a Feeling”
6 Ringo Starr “Photograph”
7 George Harrison “Apple Scruffs”
8 The Decemberists “Once in My Life”
9 Vance Joy “Riptide”
10 Tears For Fears “Size of Sorrow”
11 The Monkees “Love Is Only Sleeping”
12 Queen “Leaving Home Ain’t Easy”
13 The Tragically Hip “It’s a Good Life if You Don’t Weaken”
14 David Bowie “Life on Mars”
15 Peter Murphy “I’ll Fall With Your Knife”
16 Jason Isbell “24 Frames”
17 Lowest of the Low “Letter from Bilbao”
18 Green Day “Last Night on Earth”
19 Flaming Lips “Do You Realize?”
20 Judybats “Down in the Shacks Where the Satellite Dishes Grow”
21 R.E.M. “Nightswimming”
22 Bronski Beat “Smalltown Boy”
23 Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here”
24 The Motels “Only the Lonely”
25 Tim Curry “S.O.S.”
26 Iron & Wine “Call It Dreaming”
27 Laurie Anderson “Ramon”
28 Old 97’s “Weightless”
29 Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit “Last of My Kind”
30 The Pretenders “My City Was Gone”
31 Meatloaf “For Crying Out Loud”
32 Prince “Nothing Compares 2 U”
33 Father John Misty “I Love You, Honeybear”
34 The Cowsills “Some Good Years”
35 Rush “The Garden”
36 Green Day “When It’s Time”
37 Lowest of the Low “Under the Carlaw Bridge”
38 Jason Isbell “If We Were Vampires”
39 Peter Murphy “A Strange Kind of Love”
40 David Bowie “Golden Years”
41 The Tragically Hip “Ahead By a Century”
42 Queen “Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)”
43 The Monkees “As We Go Along”
44 Tears for Fears “Good Night Song”
45 Vance Joy “My Kind of Man”
46 The Decemberists “Sons & Daughters”
47 John Lennon “Out the Blue”
48 Paul McCartney “Early Days”
49 The Beatles “Golden Slumbers, Carry that Weight, The End” (medly)
50 Red Thunder “Medicine Woman”
51 Ulali “All My Relations” (listen on YouTube)
52 Link Wray “Batman Theme”
53 Wild Band of Indians “When I’m Far Away”
