Emo & Finnish music

Alright, I won't be choosing music that I consider good or bad or even tolerable to listen to, just anything that goes with the themes you mentioned.

Dystopia/judgement day: Project Pitchfork - In the Year 2525 (Laibach has the prettier version but the harsh sound fits better I think)

Emo/depression/living in the 2000's/Jesus complex: KMFDM - Stray Bullet (also known as the Jokela amok run song)

More emo: Jimmy Eat World - Cautioners

Also, I notice a lack of Finnish music. First of all the indie rap artists:

Steen1 - Sinisiä rappuja ja punaisia hintalappuja (featured in the movie Paha maa)
Notkea Rotta - Maailma on rotta (this is hjuumor - but note the intertextuality to Pelle Miljoona)

Then the classics you couldn't avoid in the 80's..

Dingo - Lähetyssaarnaaja
Pelle Miljoona - Moottoritie on kuuma
Hassisen kone - Jeesus tulee
Sielun veljet - Tällä tiellä
Leevi and the Leavings - Teuvo, maanteiden kuningas (edit: Poika nimeltä Päivi is probably more relevant..)
Hector - Sudenkorento (a David Bowie cover!)
Juice Leskinen - Paperitähdet
Eppu Normaali - Vuonna 85

The few religion themed Finnish songs I could think of right away:

Freud Marx Engels & Jung - Monenkirjava tilkkutakki
Pekka Ruuska - Rafaelin enkeli

Jesus/religion songs

Oomph! - Gott ist ein Popstar

More great songs

Here's a real load of music you should check out. And this is just a summary walkthrough through my collection. Do inquire about any artist you find intriguing, as what i posted here are just rather most easily accessible songs by that artist. Many have their real gems hidden way below their pop charts...

Theme:

1) Sex
- Vanessa Daou: Becoming a Nun (also fits religion theme... This is a kinky tune to be sure! Be-CUMMING a nunnn...mmmm.)
- Shivaree: Goodnight Moon (also "My Little Black Black Mess". That's a classic Casablanca sex oozing voice.)
- Afghan Whigs: "66" and the song "Something Hot". (Also fits 90's theme)
- Bettye Lavette: He Made a Woman Outta Me ("I guess I teased too hard, one day it all happened, right on my on backyard. Joe Henry had his way, and then set me free, Lord i'm here to tell everybody that a man made a woman outta me.")
- Fiona Apple: Shadowboxer ("I've been a bad, bad girl, I've been careless with a delicate man.")
- Jamie Foxx: Unpredictable (""Regular" ain't in my vocabulary, and when it comes to lovemaking, neither is 'missionary'.")

2) Dating (I had to scrap most of the candidates here, since there were just too many of 'em to keep this list realistic.)
- Aimee Mann: Save Me ("You look like a perfect friend / for a girl in need of a tourniquet.")
- Badly Drawn Boy: What is it Now? ("Now that life'll never be the same, we have to face the thought of loneliness again")
- Bebo & Cigala: Lagrimas negras (what a painful voice the spaniard has!)
- Belle and Sebastian: Blues are Still Blue ("I left my lady in the launderette, you can put some money on it, you can place a little bet, that when i see my lady, then white'll be black, and the black'll be white. But the Blues are still blue!")
- A Fine Frenzy: Happier (Best breakup song ever. No kidding. Bittersweet to tears.)
- Elliott Smith: Waltz no.2 (shall be my wedding waltz. "I'm never gonna know you now, but I will love you anyhow.")
- Glenn Hansard and Marketa Irglova: If You Want Me (plenty cheesy, but done with plenty of emotion.)
- Jeanne Cherhal: Parfait Inconnu (I don't know any French, but it still rocks.)
- Nick Drake: Things Behind the Sun (Look out. This is one of the most depressing songs ever. The poor man couldn't even have anyone else in the studio, and committed suicide shortly after. This is his last gasp at optimism, which makes it all the sadder..)
- Robyn Hitchcock: I'm Falling (Whatta bass/baritone in the chorus!)

3) Punk and underground. (sorry, don't know much actual punk, but these are as close as i can get.)
- Asian Dub Foundation: Fortress Europe (also growing up in 2000s)
- Ska-P: A La Mierda (Spanish Ska about xenophobia)
- Emir Kusturica and the No-Smoking Band: Unza Unza Time (Balkanian craziness, best served with a stout bottle of vodka)
- Future of the Left: The Hope that House Built, and Throwing Rocks at Trains. ("Above the trash, above the tracks, there is no mercy, there is no fear")
- Kimya Dawson: Loose Lips (No way near conventional punk, but in it's minimalism, it's minimalist punk in my ears.)

3) Religion and Jesus
- Arcade Fire: Intervention (holy church organ, Batman!)
- Fall Out Boy: Hum Hallelujah (references Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah, which is nice. Also OK Go's song "Let It Rain" does that.)
- Jeff Buckley: Corpus Christi Carol and Eternal Life (Last Goodbye and Hallelujah round out one of the best records of our age).
- Sharon Stone & the Dap Kings: Answer Me ("Answer me, sweet Jesus, answer me now, I need ya now")

4) Graffiti
- Don Johnson Big Band: Helsinki Cadenza (
- Paleface: Ultimate Jedi Mind Trick: Episode IV ("

5) Corruption:
- Paleface: Maximize the Profit ("I huff it, and i puff, it and i maximize the prophet, and I'll blow yo house down")
- Flaming Lips: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song ("If you could make everybody poor, just so you could be rich, would you do it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!")

A couple of songs

Growing up in the 80's

-All the cheesy italo disco tunes. Artist like My Mine, Kano, Danuta, Savage...even Boys Boys Boys by Sabrina

Identity/Graffiti

-I grew up listening to rap music. One of my favourite albums was then (and still is) the indie-rap classic "Funcrusherplus" by Company Flow. It's kind of dark and chaotic rap music with lo-fi production and the lyrics have many references to graffiti. They even have song called "Lune Tns" which only about dropping names of graffiti artists. In "8 Steps to perfection" the rappers brag about organized graffiti, that society can't controll. Other works of El-P, the mastermind behind Company flow are interesting as well.

-One of the favourite rap groups of my teenage days was also Swedish underground/indie group called LoopTroop. Many of their songs are about graffiti. Just to mention "Ambush In the Night" and "Spraycan Stories", which as much about stealing spraycans as painting graffiti. To an adult their lyrics sound naive, but case of a 16-year-old boy was completely different.

Both Compaly Flow and LoopTroop had the "fuck the society"-attitude and anarchistic political message.

Corrupt local politics/Identity

There is a ton of rap songs about corrupted/racistic/violent police departments. Maybe the "Fuck the Police" by N.W.A is official anti-police anthem. Yeah, I took a lot of influences from that song as well, when I was searching my identity.

Dubstep

I first posted this one to wrong place. I'm sorry for that. Feel free to delete my first post.

Anyway...

When it comes to living in the 2000's, dubstep is probably the most significant new music genre. The sound of dubstep is hard to describe, but in a nutshell it's deep, dark and often very bass-heavy electronic music originating from London.

The genre is not album-oriented and the easiest way to get stuff is just to google "dubstep mix mp3" and get a mix to download. Mixes differ from each other - just like the whole thing. There is danceable (but still deep, dark and gloomy) "party" music and there is non dance-oriented music.

The dubstep album, that I would recommend is "Untrue" by Burial, that someone has described being "the soundtrack of rainy and empty city of London at night". The album contains only very few vocals (all sampled) and it's more about electronic sound walls about feeling of being desperate and alone in urban environment and looking for love and friendship.

Me and Pink Floyd

When I left home for studies and become independent, there were a couple of bands that made (and still make) the soundtrack of my life. For you I recommend Pink Floyd; especially High Hopes from Division Bell. That would fall probably into the emo category.

Comply

I have a process some what like this when writing. When I'm listening to a song I find a chapter in my book that relates to it and just start writing.

I like to listen to just about anything from Tool. I think they fit under identity/roleplaying/changing.
Preferable songs: H., Jimmy, Lateralus, Thrid Eye and Push it.

Living in 2000 could be Slipknot.
Preferable songs: Wait and Bleed, Vermilion & Part 2, The Nameless and The Virus of Life.

Will name others if you have more genres in mind.

Melancholy to add to the mix

If you want to have some slow pace moodiness in the book, look no further than Elliott Smith, Nick Drake and Jeff Buckley.

For example, Elliott's song Waltz No. 2 on the album XO is a masterpiece in melancholy songwriting. "I'm never gonna know you, now, but i'm gonna love you anyhow", sings he with appropriate passion.

Drake's pre-suicide album Pink Moon is about the saddest thing i've ever heard.

And Buckley's only album 'Grace' has unlimited power to it. Songs 'Last Goodbye' and the famous Cohen cover 'Hallelujah' should show you the way to this way-too-early-departed genious.

Few albums and songs

growing up in the 80s: David Bowie - Young Americans; Judas Priest - Breaking the Law (actually the whole Painkiller-album), Billy Idol - Cyberpunk-album; Kauko Röyhkä - Disko-Datsun.

living in the 2000s: Rammstein - Amerika

identity/roleplaying/changing: Mr. Bungle - Vanity Fair

gothic/emo/guys with make-up: Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar -album

Jesus/religion: Laibach's album "Jesus Christ Superstar" is all about Jesus and christian religion.

playboy/pick-up artist: There I would suggest definitively: Scissor Sisters: Ta-Dah.

corrupt local politics: Shitter Limited's music in general.

Songs that make ideas flow

"The River" Nick Kershaw
"Pussy Willow" Jethro Tull
"The Anvil of Crom" Basil Poledouris
Anything by Holst
Anything by Carl Orff