Playlist:
Regina Spektor: Ghost of Corporate Future – Just as the rocket in the painting seems so sudden and out of place, the song conveys the message that everyone should live as if every day was the last because you never know when an unexpected event, such as the painting shows, could happen and put your planning to an end.
Europe: The Final Countdown – The song chronicles counting down to something that has an unsure ending, just as the figure in the painting is viewing the untimely demise of a rocket and the people inside it and while the song has a humorous tone and the painting could be a simple but beautiful landscape, it has a more serious undertone.
Requiem for a Dream: Marion Barfs – The song is a beautiful arrangement for the violin but the violin is playing something that has a more sinister connotation, just as the painting of a possibly beautiful landscape is shrouded in blackness because of the falling rocket.
At the Drive-In: One Armed Scissor – This song has the feel that something has gone terribly wrong just as the painting has the feel of, almost giving the viewer a sense that Whistler was painting an ordinary landscape when a rocket suddenly fell from the sky and burst into flames.
The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby – Just as Requiem for a Dream’s song is beautiful in a somewhat disturbing way, the Beatles have taken a beautiful melody and set it to unsettling lyrics; Whistler did the same by placing the dark and depressing rocket into an ordinary landscape.
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