I write to music a good share of the time, and so I always put my playlists in the back of each book so you can see which artists/songs I listened to during the writing. Here’s the playlist for Crimson Veil:
AC/DC: “Back in Black”
Adam Lambert: “Mad World”
Adele: “Rumour Has It”
Agnes Obel: “Close Watch”
Air: “Napalm Love,” “Moon Fever,” “Playground Love”
AJ Roach: “Devil May Dance”
Alice Cooper: “Go to Hell,” “I’m the Coolest”
Amanda Blank: “Something Bigger,” “Something Better,” “Shame on Me”
Android Lust: “Saint Over,” “Here and Now,” “When the Rains Came,” “Dragonfly”
Arcade Fire: “Abraham’s Daughter”
Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The: “Out of Frequency,” “Sunshine Coolin’,” “The Sun Ain’t Shining No More,” “Bad Fever”
Awolnation: “Sail”
Bangles, The: “Walk Like an Egyptian”
Black Angels, The: “You on the Run,” “Manipulation,” “Vikings,” “Indigo Meadow,” “Twisted Light,” “Phosphene Dream,” “Haunting at 1300 McKinley”
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club: “Shuffle Your Feet”
Blondie: “I Know but I Don’t Know”
Bravery, The: “Believe”
Bret Michaels: “Love Sucks”
Broken Bells: “October,” “The High Road,” “The Ghost Inside”
Buffalo Springfield: “For What It’s Worth”
Cat Power: “I Don’t Blame You”
Chris Isaak: “Wicked Game”
Commodores: “Brick House”
Crazy Town: “Butterfly”
Cul de Sac: “The Invisible Worm”
Cure, The: “Charlotte Sometimes,” “The Hanging Garden”
David Bowie: “I’m Afraid of Americans,” “Without You,” “Let’s Dance,” “Sister Midnight,” “Rebel Rebel,” “Golden Years”
Depeche Mode: “Blasphemous Rumours”
Eagles: “Life in the Fast Lane”
Eastern Sun: “Beautiful Being”
Fatboy Slim: “Praise You”
Feeling, The: “Sewn”
Foster the People: “Pumped Up Kicks”
Garbage: “Queer,” “I Think I’m Paranoid,” “Bleed Like Me,” “Sex Is Not the Enemy,” “Blood for Poppies,” “I Hate Love”
Gary Numan: “Down in the Park,” “Are Friends Electric,” “I, Assassin,” “Metal,” “Stories,” “War Songs,” “My Shadow in Vain,” “My Breathing”
Gotye: “Hearts a Mess”
Julian Cope: “Charlotte Anne”
King Black Acid: “Rolling Under,” “One and Only”
Kinks, The: “Destroyer”
Kraftwerk: “Pocket Calculator”
Kyuss: “Thong Song,” “Thumb”
Lady Gaga: “Poker Face,” “I Like It Rough”
Ladytron: “Predict the Day,” “Black Cat”
Larry Tee & Princess Superstar: “Licky (Vandalism Remix)”
Low: “Half Light”
Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Saturday Night Special”
Mark Lanegan: “Bleeding Muddy Water,” “Phantasmagoria Blues,” “Miracle,” “Pentacostal” (with Duke Garwood)
Men Without Hats: “Safety Dance”
Oingo Boingo: “Weird Science”
People in Planes: “Vampire”
Screaming Trees: “Gospel Plow,” “Where the Twain Shall Meet,” “Dime Western”
Scorpions: “The Zoo,” “Send Me an Angel”
Shriekback: “New Man,” “Dust and a Shadow”
Stone Temple Pilots: “No Way Out,” “Glide”
Talking Heads: “I Zimbra,” “Slippery People”
Thomas Dolby: “She Blinded Me with Science”
Thompson Twins: “Watching,” “Love on Your Side”
3 Doors Down: “Loser”
Wang Chung: “Everybody Have Fun Tonight”
Verve, The: “Bittersweet Symphony”
Yoko Kanno: “Lithium Flower”
Zero 7: “In the Waiting Line”