A Sense of Doubt blog post #4144 - Voodoo In My Blood - Music Monday Mix Tape - SoD Reprint of 636 from 2017

A Sense of Doubt blog post #4144 - Voodoo In My Blood - Music Monday Mix Tape - SoD Reprint of 636 from 2017

As I have mentioned before, one of the benefits of doing reprints is my ability to edit and "fix" old posts, especially music mixes with broken videos.

In the early days of Music Monday (originally Musical Monday until I realized people might think I was posting about theatrical musicals, NOT), I posted each video in the mix one by one. This mix was one of the earliest Music Monday mixes made in my last year and last semester at WMU while studying for Calculus and some coding class (Java?).

I found "Voodoo in my Blood" by Massive Attack and this AMAZING video with Rosamund Pike and built a mix around it.

Now, the original and this reprint posts the original music mix track list and the revised because I dropped a song.

My mixes are only partially thematic. It would take too much time to really make a truly thematic mix unless it's all one artist. So there's always random elements. This one became, in part but not in whole, focused on women in music, but there are still weird songs that do not quite fit that theme or don't at all, like the Ed Sheeran song, which at least features a woman. The Young Fathers songs came up when playing this Massive Attack song and so are related in that way.

A mix like this happened as You Tube shared songs in my feed, and so I put them up on the monitor in the study room, and if I liked at least something about them, then I added them to the mix or at least a queue for future mixes.

So far this mix is stable, no "unavailable videos."

Thanks for tuning in.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.

BLOG VACATION #1 - 2026 - Taking a blog vacation for a couple of weeks, until at least June 26th, 2026. Mostly reprints. A few simple shares (not that simple shares are out of the norm) and THAT ONE THING. Need time for other things.

Link to the original post I am reprinting below:

Monday, April 3, 2017

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #636 - Voodoo In My Blood - Musical Monday for 1704.03

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #636 - Voodoo In My Blood - Musical Monday for 1704.03

Blog post edited for unavailable videos on 2606.19.

This one is for Jane who I disbelieve has seen even all my music posts let alone all my posts, so though I am reprinting this one June 22, 2026, it may be the first time she's seen it. Let's see if she sees this note.

ORIGINAL POST

Hi Mom,

Welcome to another edition of things you would not really care about but would pretend to care about because I care about them, and you love me, Mom.

This is another in a series of playlists built while I hang out in the Star Trek rooms in Sangren and study Calculus, mainly, but also do various work things.

This one started with the startling eponymous track "Voodoo In My Blood" by trip hop pioneers Massive Attack and the hottest band in Scotland, if not the world, Young Fathers.

This video is amazing and very cinematic. It plays like a short film.

It's based on Andrzej Żuławski's 1981 film Posession, which was banned in the UK until 1999. I will share a video clip of the inspiring scene as well as a link to the entire film at the end of today's blog entry.

The video is chilling. I included several stills and one GIF from it. Wow.

Also, this edition of Musical Monday and its playlist was built mainly with the Google Algorithm that suggests other videos based on the viewing habits of other people who watched "Voodoo In My Blood." Pretty much all the music is new to me, but I did dump in some other tunes, such as Gabriel's "Rhythm of the Heat." There's a little incongruity here (Ed Sheeran), but I like it.

I kept to 13 videos, though I was trying to keep to 10. That's so tough.

I am still on my Sevdaliza kick, expect that to continue.

So multiples with Sevdaliza, Massive Attack, and Young Fathers.

I think it's a good set.

Feeling rather possessed this days as I try to cope, like the rest of you, with the State of the Hate Nation.

White men suck. I know. I am one.

I will let the music do the rest of my talking for me.

VOODOO IN MY BLOOD PLAYLIST ON YOU TUBE

POD PLAYER FOR PLAYLIST

PLAYLIST TO ALL MUSICAL MONDAYS MUSIC

http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/30051/1/the-cult-inspirations-behind-massive-attack-s-new-video

http://pitchfork.com/news/63707-massive-attack-and-young-fathers-share-sinister-voodoo-in-my-blood-video-starring-rosamund-pike/

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/massive-attack-recruit-rosamund-pike-for-haunting-new-video-20160223

MASSIVE ATTACK & YOUNG FATHERS - "Voodoo In My Blood"

DOPE LEMON - "Honey Bones"



FKA TWIGS - "Water Me"



SEVDALIZA - That Other Girl"



PETER GABRIEL - The Rhythm of the Heat"



ED SHEERAN - Thinking Out Loud"



MASSIVE ATTACK - "The Spoils" featuring Hope Sandoval



MASSIVE ATTACK & AZEKEL - "Ritual Spirit"



THIS MORTAL COIL - "Song to the Siren"



CHVRCHES - "Clearest Blue"



SEVDALIZA - "Marilyn Monroe"



YOUNG FATHERS - "Shame"



YOUNG FATHERS - "Low"

JOY DIVISION - "She's Lost Control"




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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
- Days ago = 638 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1704.03
NOTE on time: When I post late, I had been posting at 7:10 a.m. because Google is on Pacific Time, and so this is really 10:10 EDT. However, it still shows up on the blog in Pacific time. So, I am going to start posting at 10:10 a.m. Pacific time, intending this to be 10:10 Eastern time. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. But I am not going back and changing all the 7:10 a.m. times. But I will run this note for a while. Mom, you know that I am posting at 10:10 a.m. often because this is the time of your death.

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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2606.22 - 10:10

- Days ago: MOM = 4008 days ago & DAD = 662 days ago

- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.