L★S Playlist — Love You Down To Your Star Stuff

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Songs in conversation with “Love You Down To Your Star Stuff” — cosmic, reclamatory, tender, and true. A companion to stimpunks.org/star-stuff.

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L★S Playlist

Songs in conversation with “Love You Down To Your Star Stuff” — cosmic, reclamatory, tender, and true.

David Bowie — The Whole Career Is LYDTYSS

Cosmic / Alien

Space Oddity

David Bowie · 1969

Alienation and the cosmos as both loss and liberation. The feeling of being untethered from Earth as a way of being free.

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Alien Message / Hope

Starman

David Bowie · 1972

An alien who loves you, waiting in the sky. A message of hope for the kids who don’t fit. “He’d like to come and meet us / but he thinks he’d blow our minds.”

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Stardust as Identity

Ziggy Stardust

David Bowie · 1972

Stardust as persona, as identity, as something you carry in your name. Bowie’s whole career is an argument that difference is not deficit.

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Stellar Transformation

★ (Blackstar)

David Bowie · 2016

Bowie’s final album, recorded while dying. “I’m a blackstar” — not the bright burning kind. The collapsed kind. Still massive, still present.

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Cosmic Origin

Countercultural Lineage

Woodstock

Joni Mitchell · 1970

“We are stardust, we are golden.” Predates Sagan’s popularisation. Countercultural, cosmic, a call to return to the garden — and to each other.

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We Are All Made of Stars

Moby · 2002

The title says it directly. Moby as an astronaut-outsider observing the world. Continuous with the Sagan tradition, set to electronica.

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Interbeing / Cosmic Surrender

Across the Universe

The Beatles · 1970

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns.” Sanskrit mantra. NASA beamed it into deep space in 2008.

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Emergence / Patience

Here Comes the Sun

The Beatles · 1969

Written as relief from a long dark period. Tenderness after endurance. Cosmically patient. “It’s alright.”

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Cosmic Belonging / Visionary

Saturn

Stevie Wonder · 1976

Explicit cosmic belonging — wonder at existence, longing for a world that matches the soul. “You’ve seen my descent / now watch my rise.”

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Brain Damage / Eclipse

The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd · 1973

An album about the pressures that make people mad, the moon as darkness and light at once, and the heartbeat that begins and ends it. “All that you touch and all that you see / is all your life will ever be.”

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Tender / Belonging / Ethereal

Longing / Return

Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World

Israel Kamakawiwoʻole · 1993

Longing for a place where you fit, rendered with extraordinary gentleness. Over 1.8 billion views. Longing and gratitude at the same time.

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Dream / Fall Back Into Place

Space Song

Beach House · 2015

“Fall back into place” as a belonging signal. Dreamy, cosmic, intimate. The LYSS register in music.

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Wandering / Longing

Wandering Star

Portishead · 1994

Heavy, searching, unmoored. The wandering star as someone who doesn’t know where they belong. Feels like the feeling before LYDTYSS arrives.

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Ethereal / Cosmic Love

Cosmic Love

Florence + the Machine · 2009

“The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out.” Love as a cosmological event — total, consuming, reordering.

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Dream Pop / Stellar

Fade Into You

Mazzy Star · 1993

“Fading into you like a supernova in the night sky.” Dissolution as love. The self becoming continuous with something larger.

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Ethereal / Dream Pop

Heaven or Las Vegas

Cocteau Twins · 1990

Elizabeth Fraser’s vocals as a language beyond language — speaking directly to the part of you that can’t be named. The feeling of being made of something ancient and shimmering.