The Will of the Many

Book Playlist

The Will of the Many Playlist

by James Islington

20 tracks

balanced

Sep 20, 2026

5 mixes for this book

This playlist tracks Vis Telimus’s double-life and the book’s central tension between public obedience and private truth. Instrumentals build a guarded, scholarly sense of fate and hierarchy, while the lyrical songs mirror identity, betrayal, ambition, and the slow turning toward defiance in a world built to leech “Will” from the young.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Open Eye Signal

Jon Hopkins · Open Eye Signal (Remixes)

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2

A Walk

Tycho · Dive

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3

O Fortuna

Marc Benjamin · O Fortuna

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4

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

Neil Young · After the Gold Rush (2009 Remaster)

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5

The Mother We Share

CHVRCHES · The Bones Of What You Believe

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6

Ho Hey

The Lumineers · The Lumineers

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7

Dirty Paws

Of Monsters and Men · My Head Is An Animal

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8

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine · The Shepherd's Dog

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9

The Reason

Hoobastank · The Reason (20th Anniversary)

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10

American Idiot

Green Day · American Idiot

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11

Ain't No Rest For The Wicked

Cage The Elephant · Cage The Elephant

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12

The Night We Met

Lord Huron · Strange Trails

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13

We Are the Champions

Queen · News Of The World

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14

Pictures at an Exhibition: No. 10, The Great Gate of Kiev

Modest Mussorgsky · Classics for the People, Vol. 2

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15

Riptide

Vance Joy · Dream Your Life Away (Deluxe Edition)

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16

Time After Time

Cyndi Lauper · She's So Unusual

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17

Let It Go

James Bay · Chaos And The Calm

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18

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman

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19

The Great Escape

BOYS LIKE GIRLS · Boys Like Girls

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20

Human

Rag'n'Bone Man · Human (Deluxe)

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