August 19, 2020, by Issy

The soundtrack to your degree!

I’ve had quite a lot of time on my hands during the last few months… and I can’t lie, I don’t think I made the most of the time I had in terms of productivity. I’ve eaten too much, slept too much, exercised too little. However, there is one thing that I have developed my skills in to quite an extreme extent… the art of playlisting. And, as we welcome a new set of freshers over the next couple months, I thought, hey, I have an idea… let’s make a themed playlist for some of the courses at Nottingham. Here goes.

Medicine/ Nursing/ Midwifery

• Total Eclipse of the Heart – Bonnie Tyler
• Burn – Phillipa Soo, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton
• Hurts like Heaven – Coldplay
• Bad Blood – Bastille
• The Drugs Don’t Work – The Verve
• Recovery – Frank Turner
• Scar Tissue – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Paracetamol – Declan McKenna
• Human – Rag’n’Bone Man
• Baby One More Time – Britney Spears

History

• December, 1963 – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
• Victoria – The Fall
• King for a King – Will Varley
• Man on the Moon – R.E.M
• Civil War – Guns N’ Roses
• Enola Gay – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – They Might Be Giants
• January 28, 1986 – Owl City
• Pompeii – Bastille
• Yorktown – Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton

American and Canadian Studies

• America – Razorlight
• American Pie – Don McLean
• Michigan Left – Arkells
• Vancouver – Anamanaguchi
• Quebec – Leif Vollebekk
• Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers
• President Heartbeat – Everything Everything
• NYC (Sing it Loud) – The Sherlocks
• State Lines – Novo Amor
• Canada – Tayz, Alessia Cara

Geography

• Mountains – Biffy Clyro
• Hurricane – Panic! At the Disco
• Waterfalls – TLC
• What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
• Go West – Pet Shop Boys
• Heaven is a Place on Earth – Belinda Carlisle
• Fairly Local – Twenty One Pilots
• Riptide – Vance Joy
• Globalisolation – Twin Atlantic
• The Tourist – Lucy Spraggan

Architecture

• We Built This City – Starship
• Building the Barricade – Les Miserables Cast
• Old Yellow Bricks – Arctic Monkeys
• Goodbye Yellow Brick Road – Elton John
• A Design for Life – Manic Street Preachers
• Our House – Madness
• Skyscraper – Demi Lovato
• The Fence – Tim Minchin
• Material Girl – Madonna
• Fall Down – will.i.am, Miley Cyrus

Economics/ Business/ Accountancy

• M.O.N.E.Y. – The 1975
• Bills – LunchMoney Lewis
• Money, Money, Money – ABBA
• Business Dinners – Sigrid
• Rich Girl – Lake Street Dive
• Economy – Fundiform
• Stock – Palmbomen
• Crash – Matt Willis
• Canary Wharf – Roundrobin
• Accountancy Shanty – Monty Python

Honestly, I don’t have the energy to come up with any more song names loosely based on subjects but I hope this makes you think of your own to create for your own course, or add to any of mine. Who knows, there may be a Part 2…!

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