Book Playlist

Queen Playlist

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 25, 2026

Because the book’s setting, characters, and plot are not established by the available details, this playlist avoids assigning it an invented story. Its instrumental half moves between unease, spaciousness, and restrained intensity; the vocal half includes several deliberate echoes of the title’s queen imagery alongside songs with dark or unsettled moods.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Queen

Perfume Genius · Too Bright

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2

Queen

Loren Gray · Queen

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3

Queen

Jessie J · R.O.S.E. (Sex)

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4

Become Ocean

John Luther Adams · John Luther Adams: The Become Trilogy

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5

Black Refraction

Tim Hecker · Virgins

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6

Caecilia

Fennesz · Endless Summer

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7

Elegia

New Order · Live at Bestival 2012

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8

Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008: IV. Sarabande

Johann Sebastian Bach · Bach: Unaccompanied Cello Suites (Remastered)

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9

A Song for Our Fathers - Remastered

Explosions In The Sky · How Strange, Innocence (Anniversary Edition)

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10

The Light

The Album Leaf · Into the Blue Again

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11

Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 1

Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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12

Killer Queen

Queen · Sheer Heart Attack

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13

The Queen Is Dead - 2011 Remaster

The Smiths · The Queen Is Dead

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14

The Queen And The Soldier

Suzanne Vega · Suzanne Vega

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15

Ain't No Grave

Johnny Cash · American VI: Ain't No Grave

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16

The Killing Kind

Marianas Trench · Phantoms

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17

The Bug Collector

Haley Heynderickx · I Need to Start a Garden

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18

Queen of the Rodeo

Orville Peck · Pony

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19

1/1 - Remastered 2004

Brian Eno · Ambient 1: Music For Airports (Remastered 2004)

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20

Atmosphères

György Ligeti · Ligeti: Violin Concerto, Lontano, Atmosphères & San Francisco Polyphony

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Instrumental request 50%

Environment balanced

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