Playlists

Here's a collection of playlists I've made so far, along with some lines from choice songs that really factor in to their place on these lists. These are ever-changing beasts as I find new music, get excited about it, and then decide it's not the right vibe six months later. So this page will probably change relatively frequently.

You can go over to the music page to see more about songs and music artists I connect to Devilman in general, as well as other general thoughts about music in relation to the franchise.

Something to keep in mind for this page: The reason these playlists evolved so much over the years is because my pattern is to make the playlist, and then listen to it at random points throughout my day when I'm looking for a certain music feeling. Because of this, there are some songs on here that have stayed on almost exclusively for that purpose. I plan to go through and filter out some things that I don't think really fit the point of the playlists later. For now, here they are in the forms they currently are on my Deezer.

To help with this, I notated which ones I feel strongest about having on each playlist, and gave my thoughts about those ones specifically. Plenty of these songs don't have thoughts next to them, and probably will be taken off the list at some point. But we'll see.

Crybaby

This playlist was the one I started when I first started getting into Devilman; specifically after watching Crybaby for the first time. At this point, it's evolved to really encompass the general vibe of this project, not just Crybaby vibes. I just never bothered changing the name.

Honestly I don't feel the need to. One thing I did like about Crybaby was that emphasis - the way it put a lot of work into presenting Akira as empathetic, emotional, and able to touch a lot of hearts in that regard. The way they did it felt a bit clumsy sometimes, but I think that's a really important piece to the larger picture. (I go into my thoughts on that a bit more on Akira's character meta page.)

List (in no particular order):

Free by Mother Mother
333AM by Kent Osborne
Dangerous (feat. Joywave) by Big Data

Understand I got a plan for us

I bet you didn't know that I was dangerous

It must be fate I found a place for us

I bet you didn't know someone could love you this much
Emotional Masochist by Kent Osborne
Them Changes by Thundercat
Church Outfit by Poppy

Life is a commercial for death

Anger is something I work to manifest

...

It's my confession and my testament

Don't need your weapons I've got my own

And you said I couldn't commit

This is my church outfit
My Demons by Tears For Fears
Worms by Ashnikko
So Human of You by Shireen

It was a cold, cold day when things fell apart

It was a sad, sad thing, this ice on my heart

You think a person needs to be broken,

So that's what you do

You think it's alright to be cruel

It's so human of you
Hawatari Nioku Centi by Maximum The Hormone
Paranoid by Madkid
Confession (feat. Zand) by Kent Osborne

I'm just being honest

Ask me for my revelation, I don't think you want it

Corpses in the cupboard

Cadavers in the closet

Can't handle my confession, but you asked, and now you got it

I'm just being honest
Year Zero by Ghost
In Crowd by Miyavi
Little Dark Age by MGMT

I grieve in stereo, the stereo sounds strange

I know that if you hide, it doesn't go away

If you get out of bed and find me standing

All alone, open-eyed

Burn the page, my little dark age
Animal by Missio
Werewolf Gimmick by The Mountain Goats

Half the city sound asleep and safe inside their beds

Get lost inside my thoughts and nearly tear his face to shreds

...

Nameless bodies in unremembered rooms

The pure at heart go putrid when the wolfbane blooms
Smells Blood by Kensuke Ushio
Religion by Zand
Favorite Color Is Blue by Robert DeLong

I'm outta control, living a fictional prose

I took an oath, it's killing me though

'Cause I don't believe in the things that I do

And now my favorite color is blue
Reckless Battery Burns by Ghost and Pals
Levitate by Twenty One Pilots

Danger in the fabric of this thing I made

I probably shouldn't show you, but it's way too late

My heart is with you hiding, but my mind's not made

Now they know it like we both knew for some time I'd say
Shout by Tears For Fears
Here Comes A Savior by The Living Tombstone

You know what's wrong with you?

A lethal case of deja vu

...

I found a sense of agency

A good excuse to cut loose

All my thoughts are burning

And I like how warm the fire can be
Jumpsuit by Twenty One Pilots
Something In The Way by Nirvana
Dead Moon by Brick + Mortar

The roof caved in and the drugs wore out

And then God came down and he kissed my mouth

He said "it's all my fault," and he began to shout

Save me, save me, save me
Choke by Poppy
Animal Impulses by IAMX

I'm tired of this human duet

No civilizing hides our animal impulses

Shine razor eyes in delight
Until It Doesn't Hurt by Mother Mother
You Want It Darker by Leonard Cohen

There's a lover in the story, but the story's still the same

There's a lullaby for suffering and a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures and it's not some idle claim

You want it darker

We kill the flame
Man Human (Instrumental) by Denki Groove
Deliverance by Zand
The Foundations of Decay by My Chemical Romance

And as you stumble through your last crusade

Will you welcome your extinction in the morning rays?

And as the swarm, it calls, we lay in the foundations
Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People
Exhale Inhale by Aurora

Crawl beneath the earth to feel the hunger and the thirst

If you could fly and be the bird, then you would see the forest burn

My dear, come near

Do you understand what is happening?
V.A.N by Bad Omens
Misfit by Kent Osborne
Chainsaw Blood by Vaundy
I Disagree by Poppy

We'll be safe and sound

When it all burns down

I disagree with the way you continue to pressure me

I disagree with the way you are failing to pleasure me
Control by Halsey
Luci by Zand
Devil's Night by Johnny Hollow

Well I called my buddy Billy Blake, and he told me just what to do

To be your own man, he said, you gotta be a monster too

Don't chase them away, God knows it don't work

Invite them all in for a nefarious circle jerk
The Mirror-Blue Night by Spring Awakening

Tender Possession, So Human

This one is more focused on Akira and Ryo's relationship. Ryo's concept of love and way of loving has been so warped, everyone (including himself) was under the impression it was long gone.

To me, Akira and Ryo loving one another is two things: acts of rebellion, and ruinous to them both. I'll go more in depth with that in both their character pages.

Title came from the idea of only knowing how to love someone in a way that is damaging; in a way that is viewing them as something that belongs to you, and only viewing them through the lens of how they make you feel.

There is something incredibly tender about their love, in that way. But it wasn't enough to save them. They cannot separate their love from who they are, and what they'll do.

List (in no particular order):

In the Woods Somewhere by Hozier

Dear, in the chase, there as I flew

Forgot all prayers of joining you

I clutched my life and wished it kept

My dearest love, I'm not done yet

How many years? I know I'll bear

I found something in the woods somewhere
My Love Mine All Mine by Mitski
The Record Player Song by Daisy the Great

I need a dictionary

Someone look me up and define me

Please remind me who I'm supposed to be around you

So you will do what I want you to
Hands On The Water by Skyhill
That Unwanted Animal by The Amazing Devil

I'm the papercut that kills you

And the priest that you ignored

I'm the touch you crave, I'm the plans that you made

But fuck all your plans I'm bored

And can't you hear that scratching?

I ask your eyes
Clementine by Halsey
Touch Me by Spring Awakening
Running Up That Hill by Placebo
I Come With Knives by IAMX

I never promised you an open heart or a charity

I never wanted to abuse your imagination

I come with knives

I come with knives

And agony

To love you
Hot Gum by Sofia Isella
The Judge by Twenty One Pilots
The Fruits by Paris Paloma

And now in your arms, you're faithless for you pitched me

Against your holy father, and it seems that I am winning

But I don't feel your hands grabbing my throat

As you say

My love, are you the devil?
Me and the Devil by Soap&Skin
If I Had a Heart by Fever Ray

This will never end 'cause I want more

More, give me more, give me more

If I had a heart, I could love you

If I had a voice, I would sing
Arsonist's Lullaby by Hozier
Atlantis by Seafret
Ghosts Again by Depeche Mode

Faith is sleeping

Lovers, in the end

Whisper we'll be ghosts again

Heaven's dreaming

Thoughtless thoughts, my friends

We know we'll be ghosts again
Eat Your Young by Hozier
Duet by Tatsuya Kato
SpecialZ by King Gnu

"Get lost in me"

自分を庇う言葉ばかりを

いつまで言い聞かせるの？

"Get lost in me"

生き様を悔いるなんて

そんなの御免だわ

応答してよ其体温感じたいの

低体温のフローが点けた青い炎

ロマンティックに誤魔化さないで単刀直入に切り裂いて

熱っぽいラブソングには酔えないよもう

I love you, baby
Mama's Gun by Glass Animals
The Truth by 36 Questions

What's true for you doesn't have to be true forever

And sometimes the truth isn't always for the better

It's something that we aspire to

Or maybe that's something we say

Until it gets in the way

And you're just putting words on a feeling
Achilles Come Down by Gang Of Youths
Talk by Hozier
Blood In The Wine by Aurora

I was given a heart before I was given a mind

A thirst for pleasure and war, and hunger we keep inside

We fell from the sky with grace

And life gave us a sweeter taste

You can drink, you can feast

There's beauty in your beast
Dinner & Diatribes by Hozier
NFWMB by Hozier
All I Wanted by Paramore

I could follow you to the beginning

Just to relive the start

Maybe then we'd remember to slow down

At all of our favorite parts

All I wanted was you
Just Tonight by The Pretty Reckless
This Is Love by Air Traffic Controller
From Eden by Hozier

There's something wretched about this

Something so precious about this

Where to begin?

There's something broken about this

But I might be hoping about this

Oh, what a sin

Unnamed

This one was just an experiment in (mostly) 70s rock that I think fit Ryo's vibe. It's also fun to imagine these are songs Ryo and Akira would listen to over the years together - and in that way, maybe this would be in a timeline where the peak of their Devilman shenanigans happen in 1977 or so.

I don't know, they're just bangers and it's fun to think about.

1964: You Really Got Me by The Kinks
1965: (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
1966: Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
1968: Sympathy For The Devil by The Rolling Stones
1969: Come Together by The Beatles
1970: Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin
1970: The Man Who Sold the World by David Bowie
1971: Life on Mars? by David Bowie
1972: You Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce
1975: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
1976: (Don't Fear) The Reaper by Blue Öyster Cult
1976: Carry on Wayward Son by Kansas
1977: Barracuda by Heart
1977: Psycho Killer by Talking Heads
1977: The Chain by Fleetwood Mac
1977: Cocaine by Eric Clapton
1978: Don't Stop Me Now by Queen
1978: I Wanna Be Sedated by Ramones
1979: Don't Bring Me Down by Electric Light Orchestra
1979: I Fought the Law by The Clash
1979: Heartbreaker by Pat Benatar
1979: Highway to Hell by AC/DC
1980: Bad Reputation by Joan Jett
1980: Divine Wind by Blue Öyster Cult
1982: Should I Stay or Should I Go by The Clash