Gravity's Rainbow

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Gravity's Rainbow Playlist

by Thomas Pynchon

21 tracks

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Aug 7, 2026

This playlist captures the complex, dense, and often surreal atmosphere of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," blending electronic and ambient instrumentals with eclectic vocal tracks. The instrumentals reflect the novel's blend of wartime tension, scientific inquiry, and cosmic mystery, while the vocal tracks evoke its characters' fragmented psyches and the chaotic post-war world.

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Track List

21 songs

1

Clouds

Hiroshi Yoshimura · Music for Nine Post Cards

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2

A Real Hero

College · A Real Hero EP

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3

disintegration

Ryuichi Sakamoto · async

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4

Endless Falls

Loscil · Endless Falls

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5

Silent Flight, Sleeping Dawn

MONO · Holy Ground: NYC Live with the Wordless Music Orchestra

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6

Glassworks, Opening No. 1

Philip Glass · Glass: Solo Piano Music

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7

Chukhung

Biosphere · Substrata + Man with a Movie Camera

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8

Emerald and Stone

Brian Eno · Ambient & Downtempo by RE:VERSAL

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9

Waves

Dimitris Nikolopoulos · Waves

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10

The Host of Seraphim

Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time

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11

Rocket Man

Kate Bush · Best Of The Other Sides

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12

Doomed User

Deftones · Gore

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13

White Ferrari

Frank Ocean · Blonde

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14

Roads

Portishead · Cooking At Home - Dance Edition

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15

Venus as a Boy

Ásgerður Júníusdóttir · Langt fyrir utan ystu skóga

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16

Eve Of Destruction

Barry McGuire · Cooking & Drinking

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17

Automatic

The Pointer Sisters · The Very Best Of The Pointer Sisters & The Weather Girls

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18

Tinseltown in the Rain

The Blue Nile · A Walk Across the Rooftops

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19

The Rip

Portishead · Non-Stop Pop Vol 3

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20

Once In a Lifetime

Talking Heads · Pop Rock Classics

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21

Too Many Monsters in My Closet

Luminary Flux · Too Many Monsters in My Closet

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