The B List: Bastardette’s Adoption Playlist

Writer Suzanne Gilbert (Tapioca Fire)  posted her  playlist of adoption  search and reunion songs on Facebook today and asked if anyone else had their own.  Looking around tonight for something to write about, I thought I’d glom off her idea. My  songs, though, aren’t particularly about search and reunion but about adoption in general–how I’ve thought about and reacted to adoption over the last four decades. What affected me once, doesn’t necessarily affect me now, but when I hear it I think: a-ha adoption!

Here we go:

• She’s Leaving Home, The Beatles.
• Policy of Truth, Depeche Mode
• Clean, Depeche Mode
• Mother and Child Reunion, Paul Simon
• Hurt, Nine Inch Nails
• Ballad of a Thin Man, Bob Dylan
• Forest, System of a Down
• The Do-Rights, William Burroughs
• Wasteland, Per Ubu
• The Foundling (entire CD), Mary Gauthier

Now, here are some musical inspirations. They can be about adoption if I want them to be:

• Home Invasion – Body Count/Ice T –  The entire CD. I listened to this and virtually nothing else in the 6 months I was organizing Bastard Nation’s 1999 shut down of The National Council for Adoption.  Ice T will always inspire me and I go to him frequently.

For obvious reasons:

• Bastard Nation, Bastard Nation
• Bastard Nation, Overkill
• Bastard Nation Repined, Satrycon

and, of course,

We’re All Going to Hell,the Bastard Fairies