Welcome to a new feature here at Wake the Deaf. We have long been making mixtapes, but have found that the loose themes of seasons/covers songs are not fruitful enough to post regularly. Variations on a Theme will be a monthly post where we make a list of songs that fit a specific topic. We hope to get creative with the themes, so expect a wide range of weird and wonderful subjects explored through songs.
The second, and most important part of this feature is reader participation. We want to hear the songs that we have missed or forgotten, so yell at us on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr, send us an email, write us a letter! We’ll share the suggestions, and if we get enough we might even make a Readers Mix to go along with our own.
Our first theme is Noah’s Ark. An overarching storyline? Check! Good triumphing over evil? Check! An excuse to use songs that have animals in their name? Check! Seriously though, we’ve had great fun putting this together. Hopefully you can follow the story through the tracks. The fall of man, the arrival of animals, the storm, the flood and finally, the new world.
We’d really like to hear your suggestions. Have we missed a classic or a personal favourite? The more varied the suggestions the better, so tweet us, reblog and include your suggestions or post on our page on Facebook.
Tracklist
1. Psalm 5 – Date Palms
2. Here’s Your Future – The Thermals
3. Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.) – Monsters of Folk
4. When We Fell – David Bazan
5. Pairs – Daphni
6. Animal Life – Shearwater
7. Jungle Lullaby – C.W. Stoneking
8. Lost At Sea – The Frozen Ocean
9. Cattle & the Creeping Things – The Hold Steady
10. Storm Comin’ On – Jesu
11. And Then It Rained – Bing and Ruth
12. God Put Us All In the Swimming Pool – Ricky Eat Acid
13. The Salt Water Solution – McClusky
14. Last Land – John Talabot
15. Flood Poems – Inventions
16. Didn’t It Rain – Songs:Ohia
17. Rained the Whole Time – Shlomo
18. Deep Water – The Middle East
19. On and On Submerged Arks – Trouble Books
20. Ships In the Rain – Lanterns on the Lake
21. An Arc of Doves – Brian Eno and Harold Budd
22. Two Doves – The Dirty Projectors
23. The Rainbow – Talk Talk
24. Lemar – Dang
25. To Build A Home – The Cinematic Orchestra