"Jesus He Knows Me" - Genesis
"Peace of Mind" - Boston
"Song of the Blacksmith" -Gustov Holst
"Fantasia on the Dargason" - Gustov Holst
I chose the three songs at the top of the playlist honestly by putting my Ipod on shuffle and pressing skip until I found a song that I thought would fit. The only one that surprised me once I remembered that it was on my Ipod was "Jesus He Knows Me". But after listening to the lyrics, if you pretend that the televangelist is Big Brother or the party then it fits perfectly. "Peace of Mind" is actually my favorite song by Boston and when it came up on shuffle I had a 'duh' moment and gladly included it in my playlist. People are so content to think that the world is really a great place and to seek an alternative answer would compromise that belief. It isn't really the point of the song, but some of the lyrics fit and the title certainly does. "Waiting on the World to Change" was another 'duh' moment for me as my favorite line from that song made me think of how the party and pigs control the information so they can "bend it all they want". (Perhaps 2 and 2 will make 5 someday, or even worse 6) The final two songs on the list are on there because we are playing the Holst suite in band which includes those two tunes. Immediately they both made me think of Animal Farm.
Artwork: In both 1984 and Animal Farm the rulers convince their people or animals to trust them using circular logic, or in newspeak, doublethink. You can believe two things contradictory to each other if you use circular reasoning. The rations are lowered but the leaders say that conditions are better than they were when Jones or the capitalists were in charge, therefore it must be true.
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