Tune in Tuesdays (5) Murakami’s Playlist

Tune in Tuesdays is hosted by Ginger over at GReads where we share the music we love, old and new.

At the moment, I am reading two books by Haruki Murakami and so of course I am listening to my Murakami playlist which contains many pieces of music and artists that he has mentioned in his books. If you haven’t read a Murakami (why not?) then you should know that music is quite important to him and he mentions quite a few artists and tracks throughout his books. I’ve got into the (quite expensive) habit of buying this music and sticking it on my MP3 player so I can listen whilst reading. I usually read and listen to music at the same time and usually try to match music to book if I can, but Murakami does make it much easier!

I’m going to share – not actually the music mentioned in the books I’m reading at the moment, but just a couple that are on my playlist which I’d count as personal favourites.

Five Spot After Dark comes from After Dark and started me off on this Murakami playlist because this piece of music to me epitomises what his books sound like. I never actually liked jazz or blues music of any kind before reading Murakami, but when listening to this whilst reading Murakami something just clicked for me. When I listen to this type of music nowadays, it makes me ‘feel’ Murakami.

Also on my playlist is Bob Dylan, which I downloaded for Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and I came to love Bob Dylan. My favourite of his is Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.