THE PSYCHOLOGICAL WORLD OF PROFESSOR B
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
- Strong — Anne Wilson
- Living Water — Anne Wilson
- Pretty Slowly — Benson Boone
- Gratitude — Brandon Lake
- Red Dirt Road — Brooks & Dunn
- live more & love more — Cat Burns
- ‘Til You Can’t — Cody Johnson
- One Last Breath — Creed
- Goodbye Yesterday — Elevation Rhythm & Gracie Binion
- I Apologize — Five Finger Death Punch
- Come Downstairs and Say Hello — Guster
- Altars of Apostasy — Heaven Pierce Her
- Living In the Moment — Jason Mraz
- break up with me — Jessica Baio
- Imagine — John Lennon
- God, Turn It Around — Jon Reddick
- Rollercoaster — Jonas Brothers
- Buy Dirt — Jordan Davis
- The Prodigal — Josiah Queen
- Garden in Manhattan — Josiah Queen
- Things That Matter — Josiah Queen
- Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
- Good Life — Kanye West (feat. T-Pain)
- Everything I Am — Kanye West (feat. DJ Premier)
- Cowboys Cry Too — Kelsea Ballerini & Noah Kahan
- Get Along — Kenny Chesney
- It’s Been A Long, Long Time — Kitty Kallen
- Breaking the Habit — Linkin Park
- Ribs — Lorde
- Does to Me — Luke Combs (feat. Eric Church)
- Break My Stride — Matthew Wilder
- Lies Lies Lies — Morgan Wallen
- School — Nirvana
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night — Nirvana
- You’re Gonna Go Far — Noah Kahan
- I Had Some Help — Post Malone (feat. Morgan Wallen)
- How to Disappear Completely — Radiohead
- Love Galore — SZA (feat. Travis Scott)
- august — Taylor Swift
- it’s time to go (bonus track) — Taylor Swift
- You’re On Your Own, Kid — Taylor Swift
- Anti-Hero — Taylor Swift
- It Almost Worked — TV Girl
- Snap Back — twenty one pilots
- Hey Driver — Zach Bryan (feat. The War and Treaty)
2024 Spring — Students
- Pizzazz — Akintoye
- Joga — Björk
- Can You Feel My Heart — Bring Me The Horizontal
- Fear and Friday’s (Poem) — Zach Bryan
- Firm Foundation — Cody Carnes
- Mockingbird — Eminem
- In Color — Jamey Johnson
- This Is What Space Feels Like — JVKE
- All My Love — Noah Kahan
- You’re Gonna Go Far — Noah Kahan
- That’s No Fun — Steve Lacy
- Brandy — Looking Glass
- Humble and Kind — Tim McGraw
- American Pie — Don McLean
- Friends Like That — John Morgan
- TRUST — NF
- Vienna — Gretta Ray
- Younger — Ruel
- Home — Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
- You Should Be Here — Cole Swindell
- Mind Over Matter — Young the Giant
2023 Fall — Students
- Broken Pieces — 5 Seconds of Summer
- Easy On Me — Adele
- Nutshell — Alice In Chains
- Religiously — Bailey Zimmerman
- In Tenderness — Citizens
- The Painter — Cody Johnson
- Something’s Gonna Kill Me — Corey Kent
- On The Radar Freestyle — Drake and Central Cee
- Blessings — Florida Georgia Band
- Girls’ Rib Cages — Gilanares
- Show Me — Joey Bada$$
- Next Thing You Know — Jordan Davis
- Sometimes — Juice WRLD
- Perfect Places — Lorde
- Do I — Luke Bryan
- Ophelia — Lumineers
- Beat It — Michael Jackson
- Ode to Fury — Miracle Of Sound
- Wasted On You — Morgan Wallen
- Rich Men North of Richmond — Oliver Anthony
- Dogs — Pink Floyd
- Never Enough — Rex Orange County
- Stay — Rihanna
- Monster — Skillet
- Until I Found You — Stephen Sanchez
- Captured by the Moment — Steve Perry
- Tokai — Taeko Onuki
- Clean — Taylor Swift
- Invisible String — Taylor Swift
- Lover — Taylor Swift
- Sparks Fly — Taylor Swift
- This Is Me Trying — Taylor Swift
- Säkkijärven Polkka — Traditional
- Burn, Burn, Burn — Zach Bryan
- Smaller Acts — Zach Bryan
- Spotless — Zach Bryan (feat. The Lumineers)
- Tourniquet — Zach Bryan
2023 Spring — Students
- You Make Me Sick! — Ashnikko
- Soft Spot — Claud
- Viva La Vida — Coldplay
- The Exit — Conan Gray
- Sold Out — Hardy
- Matilda — Harry Styles
- All We Ever Knew — The Head and the Heart
- Dream Small — Josh Wilson
- Don’t Stop Believin’ — Journey
- Coaster — Khalid
- Way Maker — Leeland
- Everything’s Not Awesome — LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part
- My Ordinary Life — The Living Tombstone
- Come Back to Earth — Mac Miller
- Right Back Where We Started From — Maxine Nightingale
- Had It — Morgan Wallen
- Last Night — Morgan Wallen
- Good Time — Owl City & Carly Rae Jepsen
- Hey Mister — Poor Man’s Poison
- Two Birds — Regina Spektor
- Freestyle — Rod Wave
- Belovedness — Sarah Kroger
- Unstoppable — The Score
- Feels Like We Only Go Backwards — Tame Impala
- This Is Me Trying — Taylor Swift
- Stressed Out — twenty one pilots
- I Came Thru — YoungBoy
2022 Fall — Students
- Karma — AJR
- Runaway — AURORA
- Complicated — Avril Lavigne
- Declined — Britton
- People Watching — Conan Gray
- A Different Age — Current Joys
- Son Of A — Dillon Carmichael
- Raised Up Right — Drew Parker
- Life Is Good — Future (feat. Drake)
- She — Green Day
- Matilda — Harry Styles
- Feel Like This — Ingrid Andress
- Happiest Year — Jaymes Young
- The Heart of Life — John Mayer
- All I Want — Kodaline
- Coming Undone — Korn
- American Dream — MKTO
- Life Is Still Going On — NCT DREAM
- Afraid — The Neighbourhood
- Let Me Go — NF
- Happy (From “Despicable Me 2”) — Pharrell Williams
- Happiness — Rex Orange County
- Love on the Brain — Rihanna
- The Boxer — Simon & Garfunkel
- Mad World — Tears for Fears
- Life Changes — Thomas Rhett
- Control — Zoe Wees
2024 Fall — Bishop
- No Smoke Without a Fire — Bad Company
- Learn to Walk Again — Bad Wolves
- Songs of Love and Death — Beyond The Black
- Lost in Forever — Beyond The Black
- Down — Cult To Follow
- Caught in Suspension — Dream Demon
- Weakness in Your Eyes — Elysion
- Uncomfortably Numb — Everrest
- Devil — Fight The Fade
- Wash It All Away — Five Finger Death Punch
- Start a Fire — Framing Hanley
- All Along You Knew — Honeymoon Suite
- Always — Kingdom Collapse
- Don’t Keep Me In the Dark — Loverboy
- Wake Up — No Resolve
- Beautiful Monster — OTHERWISE
- Why Is Love So Hard — Peyton Parrish (feat. Adam Gontier)
- Torn to Pieces — Pop Evil
- Halo — Savage Hands
- Your Own Hell — Savage Hands
- Hell and Back — Self Deception
- MONSTERS — Shinedown
- Bleed Me Dry — The Murder of My Sweet
- Prevail — Through Fire
- The Poem — Visions of Atlantis
- A New Way to Hate — Wake Up Hate
- 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
- Torn Down — Art of Dying
- Blood On My Hands — Beyond Unbroken
- Empire — Breathing Theory
- Self Worth — Danger Silent (feat. DGPM)
- I Can’t Breathe— Dead By April
- Caught in Suspension — Dream Demon
- Within My Heart — Ends With A Bullet
- Uncomfortably Numb — Everrest
- Downpour — Flight Paths
- Fading Away — From Fall to Spring
- Echoes — Ignite the Fire
- Through the Night — Kill the Lights
- Forever — Late Night Savior
- Peace Sells — Megadeath
- Scars — No name faces
- Crossfire — Otherwise
- Live Forever — Project Vela
- Face the Truth — Sight Unscene
- Fragile Minds — Silent Theory
- Living Not Alive — The Veer Union
- Over the Edge — Wake Up Hate
2023 Fall — Bishop
- Perfect Weapon — 070 Shake
- Beautiful — 10 Years
- Posion — Alice Cooper
- Stay Downtown — Cole Swindell
- You Should Be Here — Cole Swindell
- Burn — The Cure
- Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) — Daughtry (feat. Lizzy Hale)
- Can’t Have Mine (Find You A Girl) — Dylan Scott
- Hate Me Too — From Ashes to New
- Lilith (Diablo IV Anthem) — Halsey (feat. SUGA of BTS)
- Sahara — House of Lords
- If I Didn’t Love You — Jason Aldean & Carrie Underwood
- You, Me, And Whiskey — Justin Moore & Priscilla Block
- Last Night — Morgan Wallen
- Masterpiece — Motionless in White
- Werewolf — Motionless in White
- Come What May — Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor
- Hostage — Normandie
- Power of Love — Rick Springfield
- Possession — Sarah McLachlan
- So What I Lied — Sick Puppies
- Whispers in the Dark — Skillet
- Granite — Sleep Token
- A Friend Like You —Smash Into Pieces
- Forever Alone —Smash Into Pieces
- Higher — Smash Into Pieces
- In Love With Love — Smash Into Pieces
- Merry Go Round — Smash Into Pieces
- My Wildest Dream — Smash Into Pieces
- The Rain — Smash Into Pieces
- Save it for the Living — Smash Into Pieces
- Stay — Smash Into Pieces
- Turn it Down — Smash Into Pieces
- What Do I Have To Do? — Stabbing Westward
- Wings of Time — Tame Impala
- A Scar Is Born — Three Days Grace
- Shot in the Dark — Without Temptation
2023 Spring — Bishop
- Enter Sandman — Alessia Cara & The Warning
- Remember When — Bad Wolves
- No Time To Die — Billie Eilish
- The Host of Seraphim — Dead Can Dance
- Bad Habits — Ed Sheeran
- Broken Pieces Shine — Evanescence
- Wrong Side of Heaven — Five Finger Death Punch
- Footprints on the Moon — Gabby Barrett
- A Crooked Melody — Holding Absence
- Salvation — Hollywood Undead
- Black Thunder — The Hu (feat. Serj Tankian & Daniel Laskiewicz)
- Love Bites — ICE NINE KILLS (feat. Chelsea Talmadge)
- Drown — Kim Dracula
- Lost — LINKIN PARK
- What She Wants Tonight — Luke Bryan
- Unafraid — Mikaela Coco
- White Flag — Normandie
- The Show Must Go On — Queen
- Another Rainy Night (Without You) — Queensrÿche
- I Don’t Believe In Love — Queensrÿche
- Gone — Red
- Not Alone — Red
- Sever — Red
- The Shape of Water — Siamese (feat. ten56.)
- Honest — Siamese
- Numb — Siamese
- Craving You — Thomas Rhett (feat. Maren Morris)
2022 Fall — Bishop
- Obsession — Animotion
- Not Strong Enough — Apocalyptica
- Heat of the Moment — Asia
- Kings & Queens — Ava Max
- Angel of the Dark — Aviators
- Follow You Down — Aviators
- Talking to the Moon — Bruno Mars
- High Enough — Damn Yankees
- Silence the World — Demon Hunter
- Second Horizon — Fight the Fade
- Life Eternal — Ghost
- Freedom was a Highway — Jimmie Allen
- Falling like the Fahrenheit — Kamelot
- Under Grey Skies — Kamelot
- Shatter Me — Lindsey Stirling (with Lizzy Hale)
- Between Fear & Desire — Maggie’s Dream
- Beautiful Mistakes — Maroon 5 & Megan Thee Stallion
- Porn Star Dancing — My Darkest Days
- Torn to Pieces — Pop Evil
- Operation: Mindcrime — Queensryche
- Walk in the Shadows — Queensryche
- Dangerous — Shaman’s Harvest
- Life is Beautiful — Sixx A.M.
- Killpop — Slipknot
- Rule The World — Take That
- Christian Woman — Type O Negative
- Owner of a Lonely Heart — Yes
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