Playlists

Voyeurism never gets dull. Tabloids have us reveling in celebrity mishaps, but an emptiness always follows. We want to know what really moves the people we admire. Take our über-compilation of song lists to elevate the dialogue at your next salon. I mean, who knew that Neil Diamond digs the Kings of Leon? Or that Beck loves Serge Gainsbourg? You do... now.

CHRIS MARTIN
1. I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry / Floyd Cramer
2. Fans / Kings of Leon
3. Gotta Eat / Lupe Fiasco
4. Tower of Song (Live in London) / Leonard Cohen
5. Moon and Moon / Bat for Lashes
6. Highway Patrolman / Bruce Springsteen

SHERYL CROW
1. Chasing Pavements / Adele
2. Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked / Cage the Elephant
3. The Fear / Lily Allen
4. Here Comes Goodbye / Rascal Flatts
5. Everything Is Everything / Phoenix
6. Beautiful Sorta / Ryan Adams

BECK
1. Dreamland / Joni Mitchell
2. Là-bas C’est Naturel / Serge Gainsbourg
3. Tudo Tudo Tudo / Caetano Veloso
4. That Sounds Like a Pony / Adam Green
5. Gravedigger Blues / Beat Happening
6. Smash a Kangaroo / Diplo

SEAL
1. Paranoid / Kanye West
2. Feet-Like Fins / Cocteau Twins
3. Appetite / Prefab Sprout
4. Somewhere in Between / Kate Bush
5. After the Love Has Gone / Earth, Wind & Fire
6. Unknown Caller / U2

GILBERTO CEREZO
1. Focker / Late of the Pier
2. When I Grow Up / Fever Ray
3. Epilepsy Is Dancing / Antony & the Johnsons
4. Para Que Regreses / El Chapo de Sinaloa
5. Bang / Rye Rye, featuring M.I.A.
6. Well Now / Jesse Rose

MICHAEL CAINE
1. Viva La Vida / Coldplay
2. One Day Like This / Elbow
3. No Ordinary Morning / Chicane
4. Summertime / Wass, featuring Earl T
5. My Way / Frank Sinatra
6. I’m Still Standing / Elton John

EZRA KOENIG from VAMPIRE WEEKEND
1. Fancy Footwork (Toy Selectah Raverton remix) / Chromeo
2. B-Boy Bouillabaisse / The Beastie Boys
3. Eres Para Mi / Julieta Venegas
4. Useful Chamber / Dirty Projectors
5. New Country / The Walkmen
6. First We Take Manhattan / Leonard Cohen

JAMES MERCER of THE SHINS
1. Rolling Sea / Vetiver
2. The Youth / MGMT
3. One Fine Day / David Byrne and Brian Eno
4. The Tenure Itch / The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
5. The Atlantic Ocean / Richard Swift
6. New Doomsday / Mimicking Birds

MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA
1. Reach Out (I’ll Be There) / The Four Tops
2. Mas Que Nada / Sergio Mendes, featuring the Black Eyed Peas
3. Living for the City / Stevie Wonder
4. Shining Star / Earth, Wind & Fire
5. Land of a Thousand Dances / Thee Midniters
6. A Dios le Pido / Juanes

DAMIEN RICE
1. Ne Me Quitte Pas / Jacques Brel
2. Famous Blue Raincoat / Leonard Cohen
3. Pyramid Song / Radiohead
4. HoppÍpolla / Sigur Rós
5. Lille / Lisa Hannigan
6. Self Portrait / David Whyte

CAMERON DIAZ
1. U.R.A. Fever / The Kills
2. Creator / Santigold vs. Switch and FreQ Nasty
3. Lost Desire / The Roots, featuring Malik B & Talib Kweli
4. Lumdi / Camp Lo
5. Cobrastyle / Robyn
6. Soldier / Erykah Badu

MARK RONSON
1. London / The Rumble Strips
2. Brandy of the Damned (Mark Ronson Remix) / Nickel Eye, featuring Wale
3. Ce N’est Pas Bon / Amadou & Miriam
4. Mayor / Pac Div
5. In for the Kill (Skream Remix) / La Roux
6. Telephone Song / Patrick Cleandenim

NEIL DIAMOND
1. Feels Like Home / Randy Newman
2. Sit Down, You’re Rocking the Boat / Guys and Dolls cast recording
3. The Boy in the Bubble / Paul Simon
4. Sex on Fire / Kings of Leon
5. The Very Best of Neil Diamond / Super Furry Animals
6. That’s Life / Frank Sinatra

JIMMY IOVINE
1. Idiot Wind / Bob Dylan
2. Everybody Knows / Leonard Cohen
3. Positively 4th Street / Bob Dylan
4. Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen
5. Tangled Up in Blue / Bob Dylan
6. I’m Your Man / Leonard Cohen

PETE YORN
1. Sister I’m a Poet / Morrissey
2. Head over Heels / Tears for Fears
3. Agua de Beber / Astrud Gilberto
4. Please Mr. Postman / The Marvelettes
5. The Lazy Sunbathers / Morrissey
6. I’m Not Sorry / Morrissey

WIL-DOG from OZOMATLI
1. One Day Like This / Elbow
2. El Corrido del Katch / El Compa Chuy
3. My Stunning Mystery COMPANION / Jackson Browne
4. T.I.A. / K’naan
5. El Ultimo Beso / Vicente Fernandez
6. S.O.S. / Soulico, featuring Pigeon John & Ceci Bastida

JENNY LEWIS
1. Waiting for an Invitation / Benji Hughes
2. No Dope / Whispertown 2000
3. Look at Miss Ohio / Gillian Welch
4. The Killing Moon / Pavement
5. Starting Over / The Black Lips
6. Eagle on a Pole / Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band

THE BOXMASTERS
1. In the Turning Away / Pink Floyd
2. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down / The Band
3. Hey Garland, I Dig That Tweed Coat / Captain Beefheart
4. Let’s Make The Water Turn Black / The Mothers of Invention
5. What’s New Pussycat? / Tom Jones
6. Hippie Girl / Unknown Hinson