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Sylvia Plath's Playlist?

While Plath Profiles 4 is being put together - and it is, indeed, in the process of being put together - I needed a bit of an escape, hence this post.

If Sylvia Plath had an iPod or a mp3 player, what do you think would be on her playlist? Here are a list of some possibilities, that for some reason or another, seem Plathian to me:

Haemoglobin - Placebo
Pounding - Doves
Sabotage - The Beastie Boys
Cold Hard Bitch - Jet
Itsumo - Feeder
Head On - The Jesus and Mary Chain
My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson
Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
My Little Empire - Manic Street Preachers
66 - The Afghan Whigs
I Believe in the Thing Called Love - The Darkness
Plainsong - The Cure
Ghost - The Indigo Girls
Beautiful - Christina Aguilera
Walk on the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket
Closer - Nine Inch Nails
Scattered Black and Whites - Elbow
Bees - Belly
Found Out About You - Gin Blossoms
Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead
Round Here - Counting Crows
Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses - U2
Say Goodbye - Dave Matthews Band
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys

Thanks for this digression... I am still very interested in discussing my post from the 1st of this month, on Plath and Lowell and nostalgia...

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