THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORLD OF PROFESSOR B

the academic mise en scène of bishop harber

Lists of Things: Playlists

Sounds of a Semester

During the semester, I ask students to share with me the name of a song that is either their current “earworm” (that song they play over and over again and can’t seem to get enough) or the song that feels like it describes their life in the present moment. It’s something I will continue to do going forward as well. I typically share my own current playlist with them in return. 

In alphabetical order by artist/band name. 
— indicates explicit lyrics.

 

2024 Fall — Students

  1. Strong — Anne Wilson
  2. Living Water — Anne Wilson
  3. Pretty Slowly — Benson Boone
  4. Gratitude — Brandon Lake
  5. Red Dirt Road — Brooks & Dunn
  6. live more & love more — Cat Burns
  7. ‘Til You Can’t — Cody Johnson
  8. One Last Breath — Creed
  9. Goodbye Yesterday — Elevation Rhythm & Gracie Binion
  10. I Apologize — Five Finger Death Punch
  11. Come Downstairs and Say Hello — Guster
  12. Altars of Apostasy — Heaven Pierce Her
  13. Living In the Moment — Jason Mraz
  14. break up with me — Jessica Baio
  15. Imagine — John Lennon
  16. God, Turn It Around — Jon Reddick
  17. Rollercoaster — Jonas Brothers
  18. Buy Dirt — Jordan Davis
  19. The Prodigal — Josiah Queen
  20. Garden in Manhattan — Josiah Queen
  21. Things That Matter — Josiah Queen
  22. Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
  23. Good Life — Kanye West (feat. T-Pain)
  24. Everything I Am — Kanye West (feat. DJ Premier)
  25. Cowboys Cry Too — Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan
  26. Get Along — Kenny Chesney
  27. It’s Been A Long, Long Time — Kitty Kallen
  28. Breaking the Habit — Linkin Park
  29. Ribs — Lorde
  30. Does to Me — Luke Combs (feat. Eric Church)
  31. Break My Stride — Matthew Wilder
  32. Lies Lies Lies — Morgan Wallen
  33. School — Nirvana
  34. Where Did You Sleep Last Night — Nirvana
  35. You’re Gonna Go Far — Noah Kahan
  36. I Had Some Help — Post Malone (feat. Morgan Wallen)
  37. How to Disappear Completely — Radiohead
  38. Love Galore — SZA (feat. Travis Scott)
  39. august — Taylor Swift
  40. it’s time to go (bonus track) — Taylor Swift
  41. You’re On Your Own, Kid — Taylor Swift
  42. Anti-Hero — Taylor Swift
  43. It Almost Worked — TV Girl
  44. Snap Back — twenty one pilots
  45. Hey Driver — Zach Bryan (feat. The War and Treaty)

2024 Spring — Students

  1. Pizzazz — Akintoye
  2. Joga — Björk
  3. Can You Feel My Heart — Bring Me The Horizontal
  4. Fear and Friday’s (Poem) — Zach Bryan
  5. Firm Foundation — Cody Carnes
  6. Mockingbird — Eminem
  7. In Color — Jamey Johnson
  8. This Is What Space Feels Like — JVKE
  9. All My Love — Noah Kahan
  10. You’re Gonna Go Far — Noah Kahan
  11. That’s No Fun — Steve Lacy
  12. Brandy — Looking Glass
  13. Humble and Kind — Tim McGraw
  14. American Pie — Don McLean
  15. Friends Like That — John Morgan
  16. TRUST — NF
  17. Vienna — Gretta Ray
  18. Younger — Ruel
  19. Home — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
  20. You Should Be Here — Cole Swindell
  21. Mind Over Matter — Young the Giant

2023 Fall — Students

  1. Broken Pieces — 5 Seconds of Summer
  2. Easy On Me — Adele
  3. Nutshell — Alice In Chains
  4. Religiously — Bailey Zimmerman
  5. In Tenderness — Citizens
  6. The Painter — Cody Johnson
  7. Something’s Gonna Kill Me — Corey Kent
  8. On The Radar Freestyle — Drake and Central Cee
  9. Blessings — Florida Georgia Band
  10. Girls’ Rib Cages — Gilanares
  11. Show Me — Joey Bada$$
  12. Next Thing You Know — Jordan Davis
  13. Sometimes — Juice WRLD
  14. Perfect Places — Lorde
  15. Do I — Luke Bryan
  16. Ophelia — Lumineers
  17. Beat It — Michael Jackson
  18. Ode to Fury — Miracle Of Sound
  19. Wasted On You — Morgan Wallen
  20. Rich Men North of Richmond — Oliver Anthony
  21. Dogs — Pink Floyd
  22. Never Enough — Rex Orange County
  23. Stay — Rihanna
  24. Monster — Skillet 
  25. Until I Found You — Stephen Sanchez
  26. Captured by the Moment — Steve Perry 
  27. Tokai — Taeko Onuki
  28. Clean — Taylor Swift
  29. Invisible String — Taylor Swift
  30. Lover — Taylor Swift
  31. Sparks Fly — Taylor Swift
  32. This Is Me Trying — Taylor Swift
  33. Säkkijärven Polkka — Traditional
  34. Burn, Burn, Burn — Zach Bryan
  35. Smaller Acts — Zach Bryan
  36. Spotless — Zach Bryan (feat. The Lumineers)
  37. Tourniquet — Zach Bryan

2023 Spring — Students

  1. You Make Me Sick! — Ashnikko
  2. Soft Spot — Claud
  3. Viva La Vida — Coldplay
  4. The Exit — Conan Gray
  5. Sold Out — Hardy
  6. Matilda — Harry Styles
  7. All We Ever Knew — The Head and the Heart
  8. Dream Small — Josh Wilson
  9. Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
  10. Coaster — Khalid
  11. Way Maker — Leeland
  12. Everything’s Not Awesome — LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
  13. My Ordinary Life — The Living Tombstone
  14. Come Back to Earth — Mac Miller
  15. Right Back Where We Started From — Maxine Nightingale
  16. Had It — Morgan Wallen
  17. Last Night — Morgan Wallen
  18. Good Time — Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen
  19. Hey Mister — Poor Man’s Poison
  20. Two Birds — Regina Spektor
  21. Freestyle — Rod Wave
  22. Belovedness — Sarah Kroger
  23. Unstoppable — The Score
  24. Feels Like We Only Go Backwards — Tame Impala
  25. This Is Me Trying — Taylor Swift
  26. Stressed Out — twenty one pilots
  27. I Came Thru — YoungBoy

2022 Fall — Students

  1. Karma — AJR
  2. Runaway — AURORA
  3. Complicated — Avril Lavigne
  4. Declined — Britton
  5. People Watching — Conan Gray
  6. A Different Age — Current Joys
  7. Son Of A — Dillon Carmichael
  8. Raised Up Right — Drew Parker
  9. Life Is Good — Future (feat. Drake)
  10. She — Green Day
  11. Matilda — Harry Styles
  12. Feel Like This — Ingrid Andress
  13. Happiest Year — Jaymes Young
  14. The Heart of Life — John Mayer
  15. All I Want — Kodaline
  16. Coming Undone — Korn
  17. American Dream — MKTO
  18. Life Is Still Going On — NCT DREAM
  19. Afraid — The Neighbourhood
  20. Let Me Go — NF
  21. Happy (From “Despicable Me 2”) — Pharrell Williams
  22. Happiness — Rex Orange County
  23. Love on the Brain — Rihanna
  24. The Boxer — Simon & Garfunkel
  25. Mad World — Tears for Fears
  26. Life Changes — Thomas Rhett
  27. Control — Zoe Wees

2024 Fall — Bishop

  1. No Smoke Without a Fire — Bad Company
  2. Learn to Walk Again — Bad Wolves
  3. Songs of Love and Death — Beyond The Black
  4. Lost in Forever — Beyond The Black
  5. Down — Cult To Follow
  6. Caught in Suspension — Dream Demon
  7. Weakness in Your Eyes — Elysion
  8. Uncomfortably Numb — Everrest
  9. Devil — Fight The Fade
  10. Wash It All Away — Five Finger Death Punch
  11. Start a Fire — Framing Hanley
  12. All Along You Knew — Honeymoon Suite
  13. Always — Kingdom Collapse
  14. Don’t Keep Me In the Dark — Loverboy
  15. Wake Up — No Resolve
  16. Beautiful Monster — OTHERWISE
  17. Why Is Love So Hard — Peyton Parrish (feat. Adam Gontier) 
  18. Torn to Pieces — Pop Evil
  19. Halo — Savage Hands
  20. Your Own Hell — Savage Hands
  21. Hell and Back — Self Deception
  22. MONSTERS — Shinedown
  23. Bleed Me Dry — The Murder of My Sweet
  24. Prevail — Through Fire
  25. The Poem — Visions of Atlantis
  26. A New Way to Hate — Wake Up Hate
  27. Memories — Within Temptation

Playlist for Sum of All My Fears, a work in progress on the side in my “other life” as a novelist.

2024 Spring — Bishop

  1. Torn Down — Art of Dying
  2. Blood On My Hands — Beyond Unbroken
  3. Empire — Breathing Theory
  4. Self Worth — Danger Silent (feat. DGPM)
  5. I Can’t Breathe— Dead By April
  6. Caught in Suspension — Dream Demon
  7. Within My Heart — Ends With A Bullet
  8. Uncomfortably Numb — Everrest
  9. Downpour — Flight Paths
  10. Fading Away — From Fall to Spring
  11. Echoes — Ignite the Fire
  12. Through the Night — Kill the Lights
  13. Forever — Late Night Savior
  14. Peace Sells — Megadeath
  15. Scars — No name faces
  16. Crossfire — Otherwise
  17. Live Forever — Project Vela
  18. Face the Truth — Sight Unscene
  19. Fragile Minds — Silent Theory
  20. Living Not Alive — The Veer Union
  21. Over the Edge — Wake Up Hate

2023 Fall — Bishop

  1. Perfect Weapon — 070 Shake
  2. Beautiful — 10 Years
  3. Posion — Alice Cooper
  4. Stay Downtown — Cole Swindell 
  5. You Should Be Here — Cole Swindell
  6. Burn — The Cure
  7. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) — Daughtry (feat. Lizzy Hale)
  8. Can’t Have Mine (Find You A Girl) — Dylan Scott
  9. Hate Me Too — From Ashes to New
  10. Lilith (Diablo IV Anthem) — Halsey (feat. SUGA of BTS)
  11. Sahara — House of Lords
  12. If I Didn’t Love You — Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
  13. You, Me, And Whiskey — Justin Moore & Priscilla Block
  14. Last Night — Morgan Wallen
  15. Masterpiece — Motionless in White
  16. Werewolf — Motionless in White
  17. Come What May — Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
  18. Hostage — Normandie
  19. Power of Love — Rick Springfield
  20. Possession — Sarah McLachlan
  21. So What I Lied — Sick Puppies
  22. Whispers in the Dark — Skillet
  23. Granite — Sleep Token
  24. A Friend Like You —Smash Into Pieces
  25. Forever Alone —Smash Into Pieces
  26. Higher — Smash Into Pieces
  27. In Love With Love — Smash Into Pieces
  28. Merry Go Round — Smash Into Pieces
  29. My Wildest Dream — Smash Into Pieces
  30. The Rain — Smash Into Pieces
  31. Save it for the Living — Smash Into Pieces
  32. Stay — Smash Into Pieces
  33. Turn it Down — Smash Into Pieces
  34. What Do I Have To Do? — Stabbing Westward
  35. Wings of Time — Tame Impala
  36. A Scar Is Born — Three Days Grace
  37. Shot in the Dark — Without Temptation

2023 Spring — Bishop

  1. Enter Sandman — Alessia Cara & The Warning
  2. Remember When — Bad Wolves
  3. No Time To Die — Billie Eilish
  4. The Host of Seraphim — Dead Can Dance
  5. Bad Habits — Ed Sheeran
  6. Broken Pieces Shine — Evanescence
  7. Wrong Side of Heaven — Five Finger Death Punch
  8. Footprints on the Moon — Gabby Barrett
  9. A Crooked Melody — Holding Absence
  10. Salvation — Hollywood Undead
  11. Black Thunder — The Hu (feat. Serj Tankian & Daniel Laskiewicz)
  12. Love Bites — ICE NINE KILLS (feat. Chelsea Talmadge)
  13. Drown — Kim Dracula
  14. Lost — LINKIN PARK
  15. What She Wants Tonight — Luke Bryan
  16. Unafraid — Mikaela Coco
  17. White Flag — Normandie
  18. The Show Must Go On — Queen
  19. Another Rainy Night (Without You) — Queensrÿche
  20. I Don’t Believe In Love — Queensrÿche
  21. Gone — Red
  22. Not Alone — Red
  23. Sever — Red
  24. The Shape of Water — Siamese (feat. ten56.)
  25. Honest — Siamese
  26. Numb — Siamese
  27. Craving You — Thomas Rhett (feat. Maren Morris)

2022 Fall — Bishop

  1. Obsession — Animotion
  2. Not Strong Enough — Apocalyptica 
  3. Heat of the Moment — Asia
  4. Kings & Queens — Ava Max
  5. Angel of the Dark — Aviators
  6. Follow You Down — Aviators
  7. Talking to the Moon — Bruno Mars
  8. High Enough — Damn Yankees
  9. Silence the World — Demon Hunter
  10. Second Horizon — Fight the Fade
  11. Life Eternal — Ghost
  12. Freedom was a Highway — Jimmie Allen 
  13. Falling like the Fahrenheit — Kamelot
  14. Under Grey Skies — Kamelot
  15. Shatter Me — Lindsey Stirling (with Lizzy Hale)
  16. Between Fear & Desire — Maggie’s Dream
  17. Beautiful Mistakes — Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion
  18. Porn Star Dancing — My Darkest Days
  19. Torn to Pieces — Pop Evil
  20. Operation: Mindcrime — Queensryche
  21. Walk in the Shadows — Queensryche
  22. Dangerous — Shaman’s Harvest
  23. Life is Beautiful — Sixx A.M. 
  24. Killpop — Slipknot
  25. Rule The World — Take That
  26. Christian Woman — Type O Negative
  27. Owner of a Lonely Heart — Yes

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