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What songs remind you of the book?


After reading the book a second time a couple weeks ago and now on it a third time I feel like so many songs are reminding me of Call Me By Your Name. Does anyone have any that would fit this book/movie? I figure at this point I may as well make a playlist.

Obviously Love My Way by The Psychedlic Furs since it's actually in the film.

I heard a song on the radio last week from Niall Horan that made me think of it. It's called "This Town."

Others:

Summertime Sadness - Lana Del Rey
Dark Paradise - Lana Del Rey
If You Go Away - Emiliana Torrini
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
The Ghost In You - Psychedlic Furs
Pictures of You - The Cure
Peaches - In The Valley Below
My Sweet Prince - Placebo



Any suggestions?




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Young and Beautiful by Lana de Rey strongly reminds me of the book because the song is about a woman recollecting her version of her summer love, a paradise lost which echoes what Elio is doing in the first part of the book. The lines:

Hot summer nights, mid July
When you and I were forever wild
The crazy days, city lights
The way you'd play with me like a child


perfectly encasulates Elio and Oliver's summer in the Italian Riviera and their last moments in the City of Rome. The chorus and bridge pretty much reflects how Elio was pining over Oliver through those years - wondering what Oliver will do if they see each other again.

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You're right actually. The song crossed my mind but I always associate it with The Great Gatsby so I didn't give it much thought. I hadn't listened to it in a while. Listened to it now and it's very fitting.

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I checked the songs in my phone and here are some addition:

Catch the Wind by Oliver Daldry.
Candles by Daughter
I Apologise by Moss
Wild is the Wind by Cat Power
Hello by Adele
Darkness by Oliver Daldry
Wish that you were here by Florence and the Machine
When we were young by Adele
Tomorrow by Daughter


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The two Adele songs are great additions. Same with Florence and the Machine. I can't associate "I Apologise" with anything but the movie "Boys."

I have some more:

Heartbeats - José González
I Go To Sleep - The Pretenders
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Misery - The Moffats

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