you're inside hopper paintings (playlist)

timestamps / (author/s) 00:00 intermezzo (charlie spivak) 04:28 charmaine (mantovani) 08:35 melody of love (wayne king) 11:46 auld lang syne (guy lombardo) 15:15 body and soul (coleman hawkins) 18:54 poinciana 'song of the tree' (david rose) 22:48 do you believe in dreams (francis craig) 26:56 twilight time (three suns) 30:31 intermezzo aka 'souvenir de vienne' (wayne king) 34:39 orchids in the moonlight (enric madriguera) 39:12 warsaw concerto (freddy martin/jack fina) 43:24 deep in my heart dear (troubadours) 48:00 dancing in the dark (artie shaw) all songs are slowed w/ reverb

This is giving me low-key the caretakers vibe

This sound is so calming. Whoever read this comment I wish you peace of mind, health and relaxation.

Edward Hopper's works are my favorite. It captures the perfect feeling of solitude no other artist can imitate.

this playlist reminds me of my childhood: I spent most of it in my grandparent’s home, watching 1930s/1940s movies and listening to their favourite songs. my grandfather died last year and it seemed like the silver screen dreams were taken away from me. the reality was too brutal for my grandparents, so they loitered inside their juvenile memories. but it’s all gone now, gone with the wind.

I'm listening to this while writing down my thoughts — that's what I do to relieve my stress. it may sound arrogant, but I'm slowly developing empathy — and I'm very proud of it. I'm learning not to be the horrible person I was anymore, and I'm getting better at make friends and interact with people. I have a lot of trauma because I always have lived alone, and overcoming this is making me, finally, happy again.

I'm at the Museum of Modern art in NYC and remembered this playlist when I stumbled across a Hopper and made sure to put in my earbuds to accentuate the experience. Thank you for this

Morning sun has this indescribable feeling attached to it. I see it as a sort of melancholy feeling. The person in the painting seems to be worried or sad, as if they dislike waking up in the world Hopper created. It seems to me as if the brighter colors in the painting are a hoax; they are a lie. The world is hypnotized under some mad happiness, and the person in the painting knows it. Furthermore, because of the use of neutral colors within the persons room, and the contrast it has with the outside world, the person could also be feeling excluded, or as if the brightness of the world cannot brighten up their dull life.

Each painting has this beautiful eerie or haunting yet romantic aura around it and the music is so perfectly chosen, it just adds to the atmosphere. Overall this is a fantastic playlist! Thank you so much ❤

I listen to these types of playlists for work, have been for about a year or two now. This one’s slowly becoming my favorite

A lot of these remind of the Gold room in 'The Shining'....eerie.

I was introduced to Hopper's work (other than Nighthawks, though I was not aware he was the painter behind it) through the anime Texhnolyze, an extremely bleak but beautiful show which took very obvious inspiration from his paintings, and seeing these paintings now puts me back into the melancholia - if that's the right word - which I felt when I finished the show. The show had filled me with this sense of somberness and simultaneous deep appreciation that one feels when beholding that more beautiful breed of darkness; it evoked those feelings in a way that hit harder than other occasions where I had felt similarly. Having suffered from the ugliness of depression for nearly my entire life, it's nice to have that feeling again here, as in a way I find that melancholia actually more meaningful and powerful than the more usual, "generic" sort of joy. It's like a brief redemption of that depression - it's transformed, if only for a little while, into something more than just a hideous tormentor.

this is feel like living a peacful but boring life a middle of plain and small town you know everybody, there are no suprises just you and your monotonic life and you wanna change it a little bit you talk with your friends and family, tell them about your shy dreams about traveling "hey mom, maybe should I try to be a writer in chicago?" she laughts and said "don't be silly, dear. you and chicago? this town is too big and dangerous for you." so you give up but still dreaming

In this world full of stupidity, trash and superficiality, timeless beauty seems to be so valuable. Thank you for this heart moving playlist and art

My grandpa grew up in the 30s and 40s(he was born in 1936). This is absolutely amazing. Really captures the aesthetic he described. I really love your work, thank you

This is perfect selecting. If it wasnt for the internet, music like this would be lost and forgotten. All these musicians will be long dead now. But adding the imagery gives it a whole new perspective. thanks for compiling .

The way each song perfectly matched the mood of each painting was so nice. I liked sun in an empty room a lot, it reminded me of the music for the score of The Last Unicorn.

Well, this fine pairing of paintings to these somewhat 'moodified' tunes is a new favorite of mine, thank you! Now, won't someone please bring me a martini? Dirty, with 3 olives. 🍸🍸🍸

if you want a director greatly inspired by Hopper, look into Wim Wenders, one of the directors of New German Cinema movement who has a great sense of geography and the expanse. The soundtrack for Paris, Texas (my all time favorite film) is astounding, Ry Cooder kills it.

I'm getting strong "The Shining" vibes from the playlist. It makes me think the characters in the paintings have been there, have always been there.