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Long Day's Journey Into Night Playlist
20 tracks
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Oct 8, 2026
A shifting soundtrack for the Tyrone family’s long day: intimate piano and chamber music evoke the fog-bound Connecticut house, while jazz and spare film-score textures trace the tension between memory, resentment, and fragile tenderness. The vocal half turns toward the play’s particular wounds—Mary’s morphine dependence, James’s failed theatrical ambitions, and the sons’ struggle to escape the family’s inherited grief.
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20 songs
1
Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 3 No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Inside Tracks: The Mix Tape
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2
Träumerei, Op. 15 No. 7
Robert Schumann · The Lyrical Clarinet, Vol. 3
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3
Blue In Green
Miles Davis · The Jazz Masters - 27 Classic Performances From The Columbia Masterpieces Series
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4
Peace Piece
Bill Evans · Everybody Digs Bill Evans
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5
The Departure
Max Richter · The Leftovers: Season 1 (Music from the HBO Series)
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6
First Breath After Coma
Explosions In The Sky · The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
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7
Ambre
Nils Frahm · Wintermusik
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Gnossienne No. 1
Erik Satie · Gnossienne No. 1
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Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Sergei Rachmaninoff · Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op.45; Intermezzo "Aleko"; Vocalise, Op.34
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10
The Drugs Don't Work
The Verve · Urban Hymns (Super Deluxe / Remastered 2016)
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11
Mother - Remastered 2010
John Lennon · Plastic Ono Band
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12
The Living Years
Mike + The Mechanics · Living Years
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13
Cat's in the Cradle
Harry Chapin · Verities & Balderdash
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14
I Can't Make You Love Me
Bonnie Raitt · Luck Of The Draw
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15
The River
Bruce Springsteen · The River
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16
Whiskey Lullaby
Alison Krauss · A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection
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17
Desperado - 2013 Remaster
Eagles · Desperado (2013 Remaster)
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18
Mad World
Tears For Fears · The Hurting
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19
Famous Last Words
My Chemical Romance · The Black Parade
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