Trick's Picks

I have recreated my old "Trick's Picks" playlist on YouTube, and updated it for the 2020 reunion arc. This is a list of the favorite songs of Patricia "Trick" Tillinghast, my drummer/dancer/fencer/champion character from "Grey Angels," a Buffy/Angel RPG campaign. It's still very much a work in progress. (For additional context, see my past blog posts about Trick--particularly here and here.)

As of the time of this posting, the playlist includes (in no particular order):

Meredith Brooks - Bitch
P!nk - F**king Perfect
P!nk - Try
P!nk - Just Like Fire
P!nk - Raise Your Glass
Queen - Somebody to Love
Queen - We Are the Champions
The Bangles - Eternal Flame
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)
Sara Bareilles - Brave
Colbie Caillat - Bubbly
Colbie Caillat - Fallin’ For You
Taylor Swift- Shake It Off
Taylor Swift - Delicate
Rachel Platten - Fight Song
The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz
Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya, Pink - Lady Marmalade
Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
Des’ree - You Gotta Be
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Walk the Moon - Shut Up and Dance
Lady Gaga - The Edge of Glory
Rush [Neil Peart solo] - Der Trommler

And yes, that's a lot of P!nk tracks! Patricia's romantic history has been a soap opera roller coaster, so P!nk's repertoire strikes a very deep chord with her, but I've strictly limited myself to a few of her more positive songs for this list. Trick is a hopeless romantic, but she's becoming more careful and deliberate about her relationships. What worked during her high school and college years is no longer cutting it now that she's hit her 30's and has a much better sense of who she is and what she actually wants out of life. Of course, her list of favorites still heavily features tracks chosen simply because they're fun.

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UPDATE 4/30/2020: The following tracks have been added to the playlist since the original list above was created:

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice
The B-52’s - Love Shack
Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still
Sia - Cheap Thrills
Sia - Unstoppable
David Guetta, ft. Sia - Titanium
Pharrell Williams - Happy
The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
Shania Twain - Man! I Feel Like a Woman
WAR*HALL - All This Power [theme song for Grey Angels Season 4]
Rachel Platten - Stand By You
HAIM - Little of Your Love

Smash Mouth - All Star

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UPDATE 6/9/2020: More new tracks since the last update:

Alicia Keys - Girl on Fire
k.d. lang - Constant Craving
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
ABBA - Dancing Queen
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Lenny Kravitz- Are You Gonna Go My Way
Colbie Caillat - Brighter Than the Sun
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Hayley Kiyoko - Girls Like Girls
The Greatest Showman Cast - This Is Me
Mary Lambert - She Keeps Me Warm
The Veronicas - Take Me On the Floor
Tegan and Sara - Closer
Savage Garden - I Want You
The Hu (feat. Lzzy Hale) - Song of Women
Sixpence None the Richer - There She Goes

Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me

Sara Bareilles - I Choose You

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UPDATE 8/11/2020: More new tracks since the last update (which brings the total to 70):

Sia - Alive

Journey - Any Way You Want It

Heart - Crazy on You

Janelle Monae - Make Me Feel

Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be

Ed Sheeran - Shape of You

Calvin Harris (feat. Rihanna) - This is What You Came For

Zara Larsson, MNEK - Never Forget You

Bruno Mars - Locked Out of Heaven

Lady Gaga - You and I

Evanescence - My Heart is Broken

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UPDATE 8/20/2020: This is a much longer update than most, because I found an older version of my "Trick's Picks" playlist, so have now added most of those songs here. Now up to 106!

Backstreet Boys - Larger Than Life

Taylor Swift - Blank Space

Adam Lambert - Better Than I Know Myself

Angel & The MamboKats - Black Mambo (Mambero Mix)

Blue Man Group - Drumbone

Christina Aguilera - Genie in a Bottle

Donna Summer - Hot Stuff (12" Version)

ES Posthumus - Unstoppable

Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing

Franka Potente - Believe

George Michael - Faith

Hadouken! - Levitate

INXS - Need You Tonight

Jefferson Airplane - Somebody to Love

Jessie J - Domino

John Legend - All of Me

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

The Pussycat Dolls (feat. Snoop Dogg) - Buttons

Ricky Martin - She Bangs

Roisin Murphy - Ramalama (Bang Bang)

Roisin Murphy - Night of the Dancing Flame

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U

Sting - If I Ever Lose My Faith in You

They Might Be Giants - S-E-X-X-Y

Trinket - Boom

The Troggs - Wild Thing

Anna Kendrick - Cups

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger

The Wallflowers - Heroes

Eurythmics (feat. Aretha Franklin) - Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves

The Who - Who Are You

The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again

Natalie Cole - Wild Women Do

Bjork - Hunter

Sophie P. Hawkins - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover

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UPDATE 2/12/2021: A new version of the playlist has been posted here, and will be updated there going forward.