The Firstpost Playlist: Tune in to some country music, Hans Zimmer and Tupac

Want to hear something fun to get rid of your appraisal worries? Or would you prefer to listen to something haunting instead? Maybe pay tribute to Tupac Shakur. Whatever your mood this weekend, The Firstpost Playlist has something for you.

Take this Job and Shove it by Johnny Paycheck

If you hate your job, this is the best song to sing just before you resign. But, even if you don’t hate your job, this song surely will become an earworm. Just give the shoving number a chance to impress you. The song tells a story of a man who has worked long and hard but hasn’t seen much as far as rewards and recognition go. With appraisal results right round the corner, you never know, you might just have a chance to sing it in real time to your boss. Or, hopefully not.

Enough said, now go ahead and listen to it.

- Bindisha Sarang

Lost but Won by Hans Zimmer

When a filmmaker tells a great story, he/she requires a soundtrack which is just as good, if not better. Rush, a movie that tells the story of Formula One racers Niki Lauda and James Hunt, is powered by Hans Zimmer’s soundtracks. Lost but Won is one of those gems which has been playing on loop since its discovery. It was not stumbled upon. It was hunted for.

The video that accompanies this song here is 1/10th of the magic that it creates when heard and looked at in a theatre. You probably will have to get your hands on the DVD to see how filmmaker Ron Howard has blended it in his edit and style of storytelling.

The other songs in the soundtrack list of this movie include renditions from artistes like David Bowie, Dave Edmunds and Steve Winwud among others.

Have a listen folks, for, this song is one of those, which is not only motivational, but also contains rage of some sort in its DNA.

- Siddharth Aalambayan

Dimman by Vildhjarta

Dimman or The Fog is a really interesting instrumental track by Swedish progressive metal band Vildhjarta (which means wild heart, always found the name really cool). Most of the track involves acoustic guitar tunes and you would expect an acoustic sound to be mellow or even romantic, but this sound is, for lack of a more accurate word, creepy. The atmosphere it establishes looms like a cloudy mist of unsettling sound. The breakdown at the end is like a fog lifting to reveal the deluge it was meant to unravel, shifting from creepy to downright vicious. I feel like I’ve never heard a track like this before; it manages to have a savage, visceral quality that many other metal tracks only hope to imbibe.

- Siddhi Desai

Ambitionz Az A Ridah by Tupac Shakur

In the time before star rappers began writing solely about bling, you could look forward to lyrics that were social commentary of the most compelling kind. With the trailer for All Eyez On Me, the upcoming Tupac Shakur biopic, being released on 16 June (which would have been the slain rapper’s 45th birthday), it seems like a good occasion to revisit one of his best-known hits, Ambitionz Az A Ridah. “So many battlefield scars while driven in plush cars/ This life as a rap star is nothin without heart,” Tupac says, even as the track’s super-hypnotic riff sucks you in. Welcome to the thug life.

- Rohini Nair