new york city – Auditory Dérive

heaven’s dreaming thoughtless thoughts, my friend
we know we’ll be ghosts again

Depeche Mode – Ghosts Again (Memento Mori, 2023)

here’s a little agit for the never-believer (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
here’s a little ghost for the offering (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
here’s a truck stop instead of st peter’s (yeah yeah yeah yeah)
mister andy kaufman’s gone wrestling (yeah yeah yeah yeah)

R.E.M. – Man on the Moon (Automatic for the People, 1992)

who are you, out there? (i wanna know…)

SOPHIE – Infatuation (Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides, 2018)

here’s the tiny piece of you i saved
maybe tomorrow
in another city where they don’t know our name

Burial, Four Tet, and Thom Yorke – His Rope (Her Revolution, His Rope, 2020)

[instrumental]

Burial — Beachfires (Subtemple / Beachfires, 2017)

yeah, the night’s not over, you’re not trying hard enough
our lives are changing lanes, you ran me off the road

The Strokes — Reptilia (Room on Fire, 2004)

glitter on the west streets, silver over everything
the river’s all wet, you’re all chrome

Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Heads Will Roll (It’s Blitz!, 2009)

well he’s a friend and we’re so proud of you
your famous friend, well i blew him before ya, oh yeah!

Franz Ferdinand — Do You Want To (You Could Have It So Much Better, 2005)

never you mind, death professor
your structure’s fine, my dust is better
your victim flies so high
all to catch a bird’s eye view of who’s next

TV on the Radio — DLZ (Dear Science, 2008)

wanna pack your bags, something small
take what you need and we disappear
without a trace, we’ll be gone, gone
the moon and the stars can follow the car

Dave Matthews Band — You and Me (Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King, 2009)