Playlist:
OMD / The Misunderstanding (1980) / YouTube

This song isn't one of their hits and it absolutely should be...

Playlist:
B-52's / Song for a Future Generation (1983) / YouTube

Playlist:
Joy Division / Walked in Line (1979) / YouTube

Playlist:
Boards of Canada / Peacock Tail (2005) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Metric / Dead Disco (2003) / Bandcamp

And that's it for Part 4! Part 5 starts next week.

Playlist:
Architecture in Helsinki / Maybe You Can Owe Me (2005) / YouTube

Playlist:
Golden Boy with Miss Kittin / Rippin Kittin (2002) / YouTube

There was a good long time where it was near-impossible to get a taxi to drive to an outer borough, especially far into one. You were far less likely to be rejected if you'd managed to get in the car and have the driver start in the right direction before "updating" the destination to something farther away. It wasn't an aversion to the long drive; the driver was not going to have someone hail a return trip from a residential neighborhood in the middle of the night so they'd just have to go back to Manhattan.

Playlist:
Gossip / Standing in the Way of Control (2005) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Bloc Party / Banquet (2004) / YouTube

By some miracle I still have the reference images I pulled the first time I did this section (2005 was the height of photoblogs of club nights); the group scene features almost-real outfits from a night called Trash! which was held Fridays at a place called Rififi/Cinema Classics on 11th Street in the East Village. 

Playlist:
Tears for Fears / Pale Shelter (1983) / YouTube

Playlist:
My Favorite / The Happiest Days of My Life (2003) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Pylon / Crazy (1983) / Bandcamp

I did Hourly Comics Day; you can see my rather uneventful day here. In all seriousness though, it's nice to have a quiet day once in a while and not have to do a ton of stuff when it's super cold out.

Playlist:
Bright Eyes / Lover I Don't Have to Love (2002) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Franz Ferdinand / You Could Have it So Much Better (2005) / YouTube

Playlist:
Black Box Recorder / Start As You Mean To Go On (2001) / YouTube

Playlist:
Cranes / Jewel (1993) / YouTube

Andrew's extremely into 80s and 90s 4AD and Creation Records, which we really only learn from his shirts.

Playlist:
Sleater-Kinney / Entertain (2005) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Wolf Parade / Shine a Light (2005) / YouTube

Another track from this band on this album is currently everywhere due to a certain sports-romance show (and for the record I think the music choices in that are fantastic), but this is the one I can put on repeat (almost) forever.

Playlist:
Garbage / Boys Wanna Fight (2005) / YouTube

Playlist:
Stars / Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (2004) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Ladytron / Cease2xist (2002) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
The Feelies / Loveless Love (1980) / Bandcamp

I like making these 12-panel, no text pages (there are a couple others). They take forever to color* though.

*yes yes, it's black and white. 

Playlist:
Matt Pond PA / Several Arrows Later (2005) / Bandcamp

The birds are Chimney Swifts, aka "flying cigars." Most would have headed south by this time of year but with Sara's proximity to the cemetery I figured this wasn't too weird (eBird even has a couple November Chimney Swift sightings in Green-Wood).

Playlist:
The Faint / I Disappear (2004) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Cocteau Twins / Blue Bell Knoll (1988) / YouTube

And that's for Part 3! Part 4 starts next week. It looks like there was a hiccup with the cache; if you're seeing a bunch of updates at once... oops. 

Playlist:
The Walkmen / Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me is Gone (2002) / YouTube

Playlist:
The Sounds / Hit Me! (2003) / YouTube

A very on-the-nose (on-the-cheek?) pick, I know...

Playlist:
The Mountain Goats / Lion's Teeth (2005) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
The New Pornographers / Execution Day (2003) / YouTube

Playlist:
Silver Jews / Punks in the Beerlight (2005) / Bandcamp

This scene takes place a couple days before Halloween; Tanglewood Numbers, the album this song is on, was released October 18, 2005, so here's a rare instance of me picking a song that just came out.

Playlist:
Chameleons / In Shreds (1982) / YouTube

There's a remastered version of this that I just found out about but I'm linking the 12" version so you can enjoy the wonderfully strange artwork by one of the band's guitar players, Reg Smithies. (Though I wish it wasn't cropped; here's the original.) I went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking this one up and thought about trying to get the single, but it's both expensive and only for sale from other countries (with hefty shipping costs). Ah well! 

Playlist:
Wipers / Tragedy (1980) / Bandcamp

The first Wipers song I remember hearing is from this album and I wouldn't have guessed it was released in 1980; it's just ridiculously good. 

Playlist:
Stereolab / Light That Will Cease to Fail (1992) / Bandcamp

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Playlist:
Vaselines / Son of a Gun (1992) / YouTube

Son of a Gun was famously covered by Nirvana (who covered several Vaselines songs). Less famously, the Vaselines covered Divine's You Think You're a Man in 1987 and if you've never encountered it you should definitely check out Divine's 1984 original.

Playlist:
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah / Is This Home On Ice (2005) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Doves / There Goes the Fear (2002) / YouTube

Playlist:
Boards of Canada / Alpha and Omega (2002) / Bandcamp

I put all the playlist songs in one spot: voidscomic.com/playlist

I could put this all in a big YouTube list but whenever I can I link to Bandcamp instead (please buy music, especially on Bandcamp Fridays).

Playlist:
The Smithereens / House We Used to Live In (1988) / YouTube

(The Smithereens are a New Jersey band from Carteret; you may think you're not familiar with them but you've probably at least heard Only a Memory...)

Playlist:
Les Savy Fav / Reformat (1999) / YouTube

Page 50! I guess that's sort of a milestone.

Playlist:
Pernice Brothers / How to Live Alone (2003) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
The Wrens / Everyone Chooses Sides (2003) / Bandcamp

Yes, I linked a different Wrens song in the last section; repeat bands are definitely going to happen.

Playlist:
Interpol / Length of Love (2004) / YouTube

Playlist:
Lush / Single Girl (1996) / Bandcamp

This one's a 2023 remaster; the whole album's excellent. Miki Berenyi Trio stuff's awesome too. If you've never listened to Lush, go listen to this WFMU interview with her on Mona's show (also highly recommended in general).

Playlist:
Xiu Xiu / Crank Heart (2004) / Bandcamp

I should note, since it's nearing the end of the month, that email subscribers are now getting two pages early. I only send out one email per month, so if you're not an RSS user or checking one of the comic listing sites it's an option!

Playlist:
Secret Stars / Can U Feel It? (1998) / YouTube

Playlist:
Radio Berlin / Gauze (2003) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Ms. John Soda / Go Check (2002) / Bandcamp

That's it for Part 2; Part 3 starts next week. Thanks for reading!

Playlist:
TV On the Radio / Staring at the Sun (2004) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
The Mountain Goats / Palmcorder Yanja (2004) / Bandcamp

Playlist:
Ride / Time Machine (1992) / Bandcamp (reissue)

I only learned Ride's Going Blank Again had been reissued when I was looking for a link for this song; it's definitely worth a listen (or many).