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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.
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Stardust as Identity
Ziggy Stardust
David Bowie · 1972
Stardust as persona, as identity, as something you carry in your name. Difference is not deficit.
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Stellar Transformation
★ (Blackstar)
David Bowie · 2016
Bowie’s final album, recorded while dying. 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. A call to return to the garden — and to each other.
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We Are All Made of Stars
We Are All Made of Stars
Moby · 2002
The title says it directly. Moby as astronaut-outsider. 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.” 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.
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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. 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. Florence takes the light from her chest and releases it into the air.
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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. Slow, hypnotic, inevitable.
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Ethereal / Dream Pop
Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins · 1990
Elizabeth Fraser’s vocals as a language beyond language. The feeling of being made of something ancient and shimmering.
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Reclamatory / Affirming
Queer / Neurodivergent Affirmation
Born This Way
Lady Gaga · 2011
Explicit affirmation with cosmological framing. Unconditional love as a starting point, not a reward. LYDTYSS adjacent.
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Comic / Genuinely Cosmological
Galaxy Song (feat. Stephen Hawking)
Monty Python · 2015
The joke is that the universe is vast and you are small, but the effect is exhilarating. Hawking knocks Brian Cox over and sings it himself.
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Full Playlist — Quick Reference
For building your Spotify and YouTube playlists manually. David Bowie
Space Oddity
1969
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Starman
1972
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Ziggy Stardust
1972
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★ (Blackstar)
2016
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Lazarus
2016
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Cosmic Origin
Woodstock
Joni Mitchell · 1970
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We Are All Made of Stars
Moby · 2002
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Across the Universe
The Beatles · 1970
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Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles · 1969
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Saturn
Stevie Wonder · 1976
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The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd · 1973
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Shooting Star
Bob Dylan · 1989
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Tender / Belonging / Ethereal
Somewhere Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole · 1993
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Space Song
Beach House · 2015
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Wandering Star
Portishead · 1994
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Cosmic Love
Florence + the Machine · 2009
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Fade Into You
Mazzy Star · 1993
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Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins · 1990
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Under Stars
Brian Eno · 1983
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On the Nature of Daylight
Max Richter
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Light From a Dead Star
Lush · 1994
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Little Fluffy Clouds
The Orb · 1990
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Reclamatory / Affirming
Born This Way
Lady Gaga · 2011
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Galaxy Song (feat. Stephen Hawking)
Monty Python · 2015
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Different Drum
Stone Poneys · 1967
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No One Is Alone
Sondheim · Into the Woods
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A playlist in conversation with “Love You Down To Your Star Stuff”
Stimpunks Foundation · stimpunks.org/star-stuff